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Dream Quest One
Genres: Poetry
The Dream Quest One Poetry Contest is an international competition aimed at encouraging writers and poets to showcase their original works. The contest is open to all, regardless of experience, and accepts entries in various styles and themes. The mission is to inspire creativity and support literary talents.
Top Prize:
$250
Additional prizes:
Second Place: $250 Third Place: $100 Winners may also have their work published online.
💰 Entry fee: $5
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
Hammond House Publishing
Genres: Poetry, Script Writing, and Short Story
The 2024 International Literary Prize invites writers to submit entries in four categories: Short Stories, Poetry, Scriptwriting, and Songwriting. The contest emphasizes anonymity in submissions and offers cash prizes, publication opportunities, and feedback options.
Top Prize:
1st prize for Short Story and Poetry: £1000 1st prize for Scriptwriting: £500 1st prize for Song writing: £250
Additional prizes:
2nd and 3rd prizes for all categories: £100 and £50 respectively, along with publication for all shortlisted entries.
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
Lascuax Review
Genres: Essay and Non-fiction
Creative nonfiction may include memoirs, chronicles, personal essays, humorous perspectives, literary journalism—anything the author has witnessed, experienced, or discovered. Pieces may be previously published or unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. Winner receives $1,000, a bronze medallion, and publication in The Lascaux Review.
Top Prize:
$1,000
💰 Entry fee: $15
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival
Genres: Poetry
The TWFest Poetry Contest is designed for emerging writers, focusing on original, unpublished poetry. The contest includes a grand prize and finalists' recognition.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
VIP All-Access Pass ($600 value), public reading at the festival, publication in French Quarter Journal, photo and bio on the website for a year. Top finalists will receive a LitPass ($100 value) to the Festival.
💰 Entry fee: $15
📅 Deadline: October 15, 2024
Unleash Press
Genres: Fiction, Novel, Novella, Poetry, and Short Story
The 2025 Book Prize awards a winning manuscript with a $1,000 advance and a standard contract from Unleash Press. Accepts novels, poetry collections, short story collections, and creative nonfiction. The competition is open now until December 1, 2024.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Standard publishing contract for the winner. Finalists will be considered for publication.
💰 Entry fee: $35
📅 Deadline: December 02, 2024
Anthology Magazine
Genres: Poetry
Established to recognise and encourage excellence in the craft of poetry writing and to provide a platform for publication, the Anthology Poetry Competition is open to original and previously unpublished poems in the English language. Entries are invited from poets of all nationalities, living anywhere in the world. There is no restriction on theme or style. Poems submitted should not exceed 40 lines. There is no limit to entries per person. Each submission will require a separate entry form and is subject to a separate entry fee.
Top Prize:
€1000
Additional prizes:
2nd: €500 | 3rd: €250
💰 Entry fee: $18
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2024
Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival
Genres: Fiction and Short Story
The TWFest Very Short Fiction Contest invites emerging writers to submit original short stories up to 1,000 words. The contest promotes new work and is open to writers who have not published a book of fiction.
Top Prize:
$500
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: October 01, 2024
University of Southern Indiana
Genres: Poetry
The Michael Waters Poetry Prize awards a $6,000 prize and publication by SIR Press for a collection of poetry written in English. Entries are considered annually, with the next deadline on February 3, 2025, and judged by Monica Youn. The contest aims to honor Michael Waters’ contributions to American arts and letters.
Top Prize:
$6,000
Additional prizes:
Publication by SIR Press.
💰 Entry fee: $3
📅 Deadline: February 03, 2025
The Bath Novel Awards
Genres: Children's, Fiction, and Young Adult
The Bath Children's Novel Award is an international writing prize for unagented emerging writers. It seeks novels for children or teens, chapter books, and picture book texts. The winner receives £5,000, a trophy, and feedback for listees.
Top Prize:
£5,000
Additional prizes:
A place on the 'Edit Your Novel the Professional Way' course worth £1,980 for one longlisted writer. Minerva trophy and feedback from an editorial director.
💰 Entry fee: $30
📅 Deadline: November 30, 2024
Alice Lutyens, literary agent at Curtis Brown
Genres: Fiction, Novel, and Young Adult
The Caledonia Novel Award aims to support unpublished and self-published novelists across all genres for adults and young adults. The 2025 competition encourages diverse submissions, offering significant prizes to help cultivate new talent.
Top Prize:
$1,500
Additional prizes:
Exclusive framed award designed by Edinburgh artist Lucy Roscoe. Highly Commended prize: £500 Special prize: a free place on a writing course at Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre
💰 Entry fee: $28
📅 Deadline: October 15, 2024
Munster Literature Centre
Genres: Poetry
Each entrant for their €24 entry fee will receive a complementary postage-free, one-year subscription to Southword. Poems will be read and judged anonymously. Poems must be previously unpublished. The winning poet will have their three poems published in Southword.
Top Prize:
€1000
Additional prizes:
The winning poet will have their three poems published in Southword.
💰 Entry fee: $24
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
Principal Foundation
Genres: Fiction and Short Story
Principal Foundation has launched the second edition of its national short story contest, Money Chronicles: A Story Initiative. Hosted in collaboration with The Center for Fiction and Short Édition, the contest invites adults ages 18 and up to submit imaginative short stories that reflect lived experiences with money now through October 2, 2024.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Up to 20 finalists will receive $150.
💰 Entry fee: $0
📅 Deadline: October 02, 2024
Anthology Magazine
Genres: Non-fiction
The Anthology Nature Writing Competition is part of the Anthology Creative Awards, which encourages and promotes emerging writers. The winner will have their entry published in Anthology magazine.
Top Prize:
€500
Additional prizes:
Winning entry published in Anthology magazine
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
The Tusculum Review
Genres: Essay and Non-fiction
The Tusculum Review Nonfiction Chapbook Prize is an annual contest that highlights nonfiction essays. In 2024, the prize was awarded to Mirela Musić for her essay 'The Nature of Alaska: An Introduction to Familiar Plants, Animals & Outstanding Natural Attractions.' The winning work will be published in the 20th Anniversary Issue of _The Tusculum Review_ in November 2024.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication of the winning essay and a limited edition chapbook with original art. Honorable mentions may also be recognized.
💰 Entry fee: $20
📅 Deadline: June 01, 2025
Munster Literature Centre
Genres: Poetry
The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition is an annual prize open to original, unpublished poems in English of up to 40 lines. It celebrates poetry and offers substantial prizes while encouraging international participation.
Top Prize:
$2,000
Additional prizes:
2nd Place: €500 3rd Place: €250 10 runners up: €50 Featured reading at the Cork International Poetry Festival with hotel stay, publication in Southword, and featured on the Southword Poetry Podcast.
💰 Entry fee: $7
📅 Deadline: November 30, 2024
The Letter Review
Genres: Poetry
The Letter Review Prize for Poetry is awarded every three months, open to poems of up to 70 lines. The competition is blind-judged and all entries are considered for publication and further anthologies.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Total prize pool of $1000 USD for winners. Publication by The Letter Review.
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
Reed Magazine
Genres: Essay and Non-fiction
The contest recognizes outstanding works of nonfiction, awarding $1,333 for creative nonfiction entries, such as personal essays. Submissions must be stand-alone essays, not previously published, and limited to 5,000 words.
Top Prize:
$1,333
Additional prizes:
All contest entrants receive a free copy of the latest edition of Reed Magazine.
💰 Entry fee: $20
📅 Deadline: November 01, 2024
Winning Writers
Genres: Poetry
Welcome to the 20th annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Submit published or unpublished work. $3,000 for a poem in any style or genre. $3,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style.
Top Prize:
$3,000
Additional prizes:
$200 for 10 honorable mentions
💰 Entry fee: $20
📅 Deadline: October 01, 2024
One Page Poetry
Genres: Poetry
One Page Poetry is dedicated to the art of expressing a poetic theme on a single page, whether your poem is four lines or forty, whether yours is a love poem, inspirational poem, philosophical poem, or just one that is fun or whimsical. We welcome any and all poetic forms, as long as they fit on a single page.
Top Prize:
$2,000
Additional prizes:
2nd: $1000 | 3rd: $500
💰 Entry fee: $25
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
Christopher Fielden
Genres: Fiction, Humor, Non-fiction, and Short Story
July 2022 saw the launch of the 8th To Hull And Back Short Story Competition, a biennial short story contest with a humorous twist that celebrates the most imaginative and amazing short stories from writers all over the world.
Top Prize:
£1,200
Additional prizes:
2nd Prize: £600 | 3rd Prize: £300 | 3 x Highly Commended: £150 | 14 x Shortlisted: £75
💰 Entry fee: $16
📅 Deadline: June 30, 2025
Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival
Genres: Fiction
The TWFest Fiction Contest aims to showcase new works by emerging writers. It invites original, unpublished short stories up to 7,000 words. The contest provides a platform for creative expression and awards significant prizes to winners.
Top Prize:
$1,500
Additional prizes:
Runner ups will receive a LitPass ($100 value) for the Festival. Domestic airfare (up to $500) & French Quarter accommodations for the Festival, All-Access Festival pass ($600 value), public reading, publication & interview in French Quarter Journal
💰 Entry fee: $25
📅 Deadline: October 01, 2024
Dream Quest One
Genres: Fiction and Short Story
Write a short story, 5 pages maximum length, on any subject or theme, fiction, non-fiction, creative nonfiction (including essay compositions, diary, journal entries, short stage plays, screenplays, and screenwriting). All entries must be either typed or legibly hand printed. Multiple and simultaneous poetry and short story entries are accepted.
Top Prize:
$250
Additional prizes:
2nd: $125 | 3rd: $50
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
F(r)iction
Genres: Flash Fiction
We seek work that actively pushes boundaries, that forces us to question traditions and tastes. If your work takes risks, we want to read it. We like strong narratives that make us feel something and stories we haven’t seen before. We accept work, written in English, from anywhere in the world—regardless of genre, style, or origin—and welcome speculative writing and experimental literature. Strange is good. Strange with a strong character arc is even better. Keep it weird, folks.
Top Prize:
$300
Additional prizes:
Up to five finalists will also be considered for publication.
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: November 01, 2024
National Youth Foundation
Genres: Poetry
The I Matter Contest is a national poetry and art competition initiated by Isabella Hanson. It allows students to express their feelings about racial injustice, specifically the Black Lives Matter movement. Entries are published in an annual book donated to underserved communities.
Top Prize:
$500
Additional prizes:
Winning entries are featured on social media and published in an annual book.
💰 Entry fee: $0
📅 Deadline: July 23, 2025
Pulp Literature Press
Genres: Fiction
This contest is for previously unpublished short fiction between 250 and 2500 words in length. Multiple entries welcome. Total entries limited to 300. Show us your most scintillating treasures in the form of short fiction up to 2500 words in length and you could be the one bringing home $300 CAD to line your nest!
Top Prize:
$230
Additional prizes:
Publication in Pulp Literature
💰 Entry fee: $15
📅 Deadline: October 15, 2024
F(r)iction
Genres: Poetry
The F(r)iction Poetry Contest invites submissions of poetry that are narrative-driven with strong imagery and a coherent structure. It encourages experimental and nontraditional works.
Top Prize:
$300
Additional prizes:
Up to five finalists will also be considered for publication.
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: November 01, 2024
The Independent Author Network
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Humor, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Novel, Novella, Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction, Science Writing, Thriller, Young Adult, Crime, and Short Story
The 11th Annual IAN Book of the Year Awards is an international contest open to all authors, featuring 75 categories across fiction and non-fiction. Winners receive cash prizes and recognition.
Top Prize:
$2,500
Additional prizes:
Prizes for runners-up include cash awards of $1,000 for first place in each category, $500 for second, and $250 for third. Winners receive various awards, including digital seals and membership upgrades.
💰 Entry fee: $49
📅 Deadline: August 16, 2026
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Non-fiction and Short Story
Share a true story about your life. Write about any event that happened in your life that you would like to share. Cash prize to the winner.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: December 15, 2024
The Letter Review
Genres: Essay, Memoir, Non-fiction, Crime, Humor, and Science Writing
The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction is an award for nonfiction submissions up to 5000 words. It seeks to recognize and publish quality writing and offers a total prize pool of $1000 USD.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
2-4 winners are announced who share in the prize money. Publication by The Letter Review
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
The Bedford Competition
Genres: Poetry and Short Story
The Bedford Competition runs annual international short story and poetry competitions open to anyone over 17 years. Winning entries are published in an anthology. The 2024 competition opens on May 1st and closes on October 31st.
Top Prize:
$1,500
Additional prizes:
2nd Prize £300, 3rd Prize £200, Cygnature Prizes £200, Bedford Prizes £100
💰 Entry fee: $9
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2024
So To Speak
Genres: Essay, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ, Non-fiction, and Poetry
So to Speak is a feminist literary journal seeking diverse voices, focusing on intersectional feminism. They publish twice a year, accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual art, with a particular emphasis on marginalized perspectives.
Top Prize:
$100
Additional prizes:
All accepted contributions will receive a $100 prize.
💰 Entry fee: $4
📅 Deadline: November 15, 2024
Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop (NOWW)
Genres: Essay, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Short Story
The 26th Annual Writing Contest is currently closed. The next contest will open on January 1, 2025. Categories and further details will be announced later.
Top Prize:
$150
Additional prizes:
2nd place: $100 3rd place: $50
💰 Entry fee: $7
📅 Deadline: January 01, 2025
The Letter Review
Genres: Crime, Essay, Fantasy, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Horror, Humor, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Novel, Novella, Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction, Science Writing, Short Story, Thriller, and Young Adult
The contest is aimed at unpublished works including novels, novellas, poetry collections, and nonfiction books. It is judged blind and winners can choose to publish an extract. The prize is awarded every three months with a total prize pool of $4,000 USD.
Top Prize:
$500
Additional prizes:
Optional publication of excerpt + letter of recommendation
💰 Entry fee: $0
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
Sunspot Literary Journal
Genres: Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Novel, Novella, Poetry, and Short Story
The Rigel 2024 writing contest invites submissions in various formats, including prose, poetry, art, and graphic novels, with a focus on creative expression across genres. The contest aims to support diverse voices and original works.
Top Prize:
$500
Additional prizes:
Runners-up and finalists are offered publication
💰 Entry fee: $12
📅 Deadline: October 01, 2024
Red Hen Press
Genres: Poetry
Established in 1998, this award honors poet Benjamin Saltman and is for previously unpublished original poetry collections. The competition is open to all poets.
Top Prize:
$3,000
Additional prizes:
Book publication by Red Hen Press
💰 Entry fee: $25
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2024
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