Discover the finest writing contests of 2018 for fiction and non-fiction authors of short stories, poetry, essays and more. Updated weekly, these contests are vetted by Reedsy to weed out the scammers and time-wasters. Manage a contest? Submit it here
All stories in English no more than 8,000 words are eligible for submission of the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction. $1000 and publication in Eckleburg to first place winner; publication to second and third place winners; listing of titles and names for finalists.
The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
π Deadline June 01, 2019 β π° Entry Fee: $2
Genres: Fiction, Short Story,
$1,000
Publication in The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion AwardΓ© is committed to discovering new writers, as well as superlative books by established authors and, upon discovery, sharing those writers and their works with new readers. There are a large number of both fiction and non-fiction categories you can enter.
π Deadline June 01, 2019 β π° Entry Fee: FREE
Genres: Crime, Essay, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Novel, Poetry, Science Fiction, Script Writing, Short Story, Thriller, Thriller,
$250
The theme of the 2017 C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis Writing Contest is Memories, Dreams, Sensualities. Maximum essay length is 3,500 words.
The C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis
π Deadline May 01, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: $1
Genres: Essay, Fiction, Non-fiction,
$1,000
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Winetourismspain explores the possible relationship between wine and extraterrestrial life
How would aliens react to wine? Would wine play a role in the way that aliens perceive Earth?
Maximum word limit is set to 500 words. The stories must be published in a blog.
π Deadline April 30, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: FREE
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Short Story,
700 $Amazon Voucher
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The Exeter Story Prize is for an unpublished story of up to 10,000 words in any theme. Winners will receive Β£500 and a trophy.
π Deadline April 30, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: $1
Genres: Fiction, Humor, Non-fiction, Poetry, Short Story,
$500
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The Irene Adler Prize offers a $1,000 US scholarship to a woman pursuing a degree in journalism, creative writing, or literature at a recognized post-secondary institution in the U.S. or Canada, based on an essay competition.
π Deadline April 30, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: FREE
Genres: Essay,
$1,000
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Imagine this. You are walking in the woods and there is a scream in the distance. What would you do? What would your character do? That is the challenge for the ΓWhat IfΓ contest.
π Deadline April 30, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: $10
Genres: Fiction, Short Story,
$100
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The Stringybark Seven Deadly Sins Award is our second celebration of Pope Gregory I's attempt at categorising human frailties. He reckoned there were seven major sins: wrath, gluttony, lust, greed, pride, jealousy and sloth. Stringybark invites you to write a short story of up to 1500 words that addresses one (or more) of these sins in your story.
π Deadline April 23, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: $9
Genres: Short Story,
$340
Paperbacks, ebooks, publication
In conjunction with the ASU Frankenstein Bicentennial Project, Creative Nonfiction magazine is daring writers (as Mary Shelley was dared in Geneva) to write original and groundbreaking stories in the spirit of FrankensteinΒbut nonfiction.
π Deadline April 17, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: $2
Genres: Non-fiction,
$10,000
Publication in Creative Nonfiction Magazine
Your story can be on any subject or theme, just keep one editing eye open to stay within the 750 wordcount.
π Deadline April 15, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: $5
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, Short Story,
$200
Publication in Writing Magazine
The village of GaltellΒ, Sardinia, is launching the second edition of its international prose contest dedicated to the great Sardinian writer Grazia Deledda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926, who set her masterpiece Canne al Vento, or Reeds in the Wind, right in GaltellΒ.
π Deadline April 15, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: FREE
Genres: Fiction,
$1,000
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Open to black, Asian and minority ethnic writers aged 18 and over and based in the UK, the B4ME prize is brought by The Guardian and 4th Estate to encourage diversity in the publishing world.
π Deadline April 02, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: FREE
Genres: Short Story,
$1,000
Publication on Guardian Books website
The 2017 Scythe Prize is a contest/book for college writers of short stories and creative nonfiction/essays. Two writers will win a $200 prize, several others to be collected in a printed book.
π Deadline April 01, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: FREE
Genres: Essay, Fiction, Non-fiction, Short Story,
$200
Publication in printed book
Entries to the Henshaw Short Story Competition must be an unpublished work of fiction any theme. The length limit is 2,000.
π Deadline March 31, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: $5
Genres: Fiction, Short Story,
$100
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This $8,000 grant is open to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers who have lived in the state of Minnesota for at least one year and have published no more than two books in any genre are eligible to apply.
π Deadline March 31, 2017 (Expired) β π° Entry Fee: FREE
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry,
$8,000
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