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Gemini Magazine
Genres: Flash Fiction, Poetry, and Short Story
We hold three annual contests: Flash Fiction, Short Story, and Poetry. We are committed to keeping entry fees low so no one who wants to enter is excluded for financial reasons, and we sometimes waive fees for those in extreme circumstances. It’s not about the money—it’s about finding and publishing the best work available.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication in Gemini Magazine
💰 Entry fee: $8
📅 Deadline: January 04, 2024 (Expired)
Ironclad Creative CIC
Genres: Fiction, Short Story, Crime, Fantasy, Flash Fiction, Horror, Humor, Mystery, Novella, Romance, Science Fiction, and Thriller
We are looking for short stories that respond in any way to: 7:12am. You can use that in the text, as a theme, or any way you want. We accept any prose genre and any length of story up to 6k words. We’re looking for writers who have exciting voices and can move us - that can happen in any genre of prose. We’re not accepting plays or poetry for this competition.
Top Prize:
£100
Additional prizes:
2nd: £50 | 3rd & 4th: £25 | 10 short-listed entries: publication
💰 Entry fee: $8
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2024 (Expired)
Hastings Book Festival
Genres: Poetry and LGBTQ
Hastings Book Festival writing competition is open to writers from anywhere in the world writing in English on any theme. We invite poems up to 40 lines. We have additional prizes for LGBT+ writers and writers resident in Sussex.
Top Prize:
$250
Additional prizes:
A 3-day creative retreat at Starcroft Farm Cabins
💰 Entry fee: $8
📅 Deadline: July 07, 2024
The Rialto
Genres: Poetry
The Rialto working in association with the RSPB, BirdLife International, Cambridge Conservation Initiative and The University of Leeds Poetry Centre. Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place – these terms will be given a wide interpretation by the judge Zaffar Kunial.
Top Prize:
£1000
Additional prizes:
2nd: £500 | 3rd: £250
💰 Entry fee: $8
📅 Deadline: April 01, 2024 (Expired)
Exeter Writers
Genres: Fiction and Short Story
Exeter Writers runs an annual short story competition. The competition began in 2009 and is very popular, receiving entries from all over the world. The maximum word count is 3,000.
Top Prize:
$900
💰 Entry fee: $9
📅 Deadline: February 28, 2021 (Expired)
Oxford Flash Fiction
Genres: Flash Fiction, Fiction, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Humor, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller, and Young Adult
Write yourself into history and become one of the greats with the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize. For centuries, the greats have come to Oxford to ink masterpieces. Now, in one of the oldest towns, where the history of the English language can be traced back to its ancient streets, we are celebrating one of the newest forms in literature – flash fiction.
Top Prize:
£1000
Additional prizes:
2nd Prize: £200 | 3rd Prize: £100 | New Voice Prize: £200
💰 Entry fee: $9
📅 Deadline: January 31, 2024 (Expired)
Creative Writing NZ
Genres: Short Story
Open theme/subject/genre. Maximum 3,000 words. 2 runners-up prizes of $200 each and a free writing course of choice.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
2x runners up: $200 | Free writing course | Publication
💰 Entry fee: $9
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2024 (Expired)
FanStory.com Inc
Genres: Fiction, Science Writing, and Science Fiction
Share a Science Fiction themed story to enter this writing contest with a cash prizes. Let your imagination fly and enjoy sharing your writing.
Top Prize:
$100
Additional prizes:
Winning entries will be features on the FanStory.com welcome page.
💰 Entry fee: $9
📅 Deadline: April 12, 2023 (Expired)
FanStory.com Inc
Genres: Poetry
A nonet is a poem with only 9 lines. The first line has nine syllables, the second line has eight, the third has seven and so on until line 9 which has one syllable. It's a fun and challenging poem to write. Enter this contest for a chance at the cash prize.
Top Prize:
$100
Additional prizes:
Winning poems will be featured on the FanStory.com welcome page.
💰 Entry fee: $9
📅 Deadline: November 26, 2024
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Poetry
Write a poem of any type that has a rhyme scheme.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: August 12, 2024
Telluride Institute
Genres: Poetry
This annual award is open to poets of all ages living in the US. Deadline for submissions is August 31st, 2021.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Attendance at Telluride Literary Arts Festival
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: August 31, 2024
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres:
Write a free verse poem. This is a method of writing poetry, which does not essentially follow any structure or style. There is no fixed meter and no structure regarding rhyme and lines in each stanza.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: August 22, 2022 (Expired)
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:
Publication
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: April 20, 2024 (Expired)
Hastings Book Festival
Genres: Short Story
Hastings Book Festival writing competition is open to writers from anywhere in the world writing in English on any theme. We invite short stories up to 2,500 words. We have additional prizes for LGBT+ writers and writers resident in Sussex.
Top Prize:
£250
Additional prizes:
2nd: £100 | 3rd: £50
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: July 07, 2024
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Poetry
Go out for a walk and take a camera, smartphone or tablet with you. Snap a picture of something interesting and write a poem about it when you get home. Post the photo along with the poem.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: August 31, 2022 (Expired)
Breakwater Review
Genres: Poetry
Submit up to three poems and a $10 entry fee. There are no restrictions on content or form: it 's all poetry. Poems should be previously unpublished. The winner and finalists will be published in Breakwater Review.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication in spring issue
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: May 01, 2024 (Expired)
Write By the Sea
Genres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry
Write By The Sea is a dynamic boutique literary festival set in the beautiful fishing village of Kilmore Quay, County Wexford. The independent panel of judges will select the winners of each category and winners will be invited to read their work as part of the Festival.
Top Prize:
€500
Additional prizes:
2nd: €300 | 3rd: €200 | Publication
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: June 21, 2024
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Poetry
A Lune is a 5-3-5 contest. That means the first line has five syllables. The second line of your poem will have three. And the final line will have five again. Your poem can rhyme. Write about anything. Cash prize!
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: April 07, 2024 (Expired)
Hammond House Publishing
Genres: Poetry, Script Writing, and Short Story
Our Annual Literary Prize is back again for 2024, with bigger cash prizes, publication for all shortlisted entries in our annual anthologies, a televised award ceremony, and an inspiring new theme.
Top Prize:
£1000
Additional prizes:
Worldwide publication for all shortlisted entries
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Poetry
Write an ABC Poem. That's a poem with five lines that follows the alphabet. Cash prize!
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: July 25, 2024
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Poetry
The theme for this poetry contest is "faith". We are looking for poems that in some way pertain to this theme. It doesn't matter if it's spiritual, political, intellectual or emotional as long as faith is clearly represented.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: August 19, 2024
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Poetry
This poem has three stanzas. Each stanza has three lines that follows the 3-6-9 syllable count. The first line has 3 syllables, the second line has 6 syllables and the last line 9 syllables. The subject can be anything.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: November 15, 2024
WOW! Women on Writing
Genres: Flash Fiction
Seeking short fiction of any genre between 250 - 750 words. The mission of this contest is to inspire creativity, great writing, and provide well-rewarded recognition to contestants.
Top Prize:
$400
Additional prizes:
2nd: $300 | 3rd: $200 | 7 runner-ups: $25 Amazon Gift Cards
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: February 28, 2024 (Expired)
Sadie Tells Stories
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Story, and Young Adult
Are you an author who loves magic? Do you have an idea for a super short story that needs to be shared with the world? If you answered yes to both of those questions this contest is for you! The story can be about anything magical. Maybe it’s something that you’ve experienced in real life or it’s something you’ve created. Maybe it’s the start of a great idea. Maybe it’ll be the thing that inspires you to finally publish your book.
Top Prize:
$500
Additional prizes:
$150
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: April 01, 2024 (Expired)
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Poetry
Write an essence poem. This is a poem of two lines with six syllables per line, each containing an internal rhyme and an ending rhyme.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: December 05, 2022 (Expired)
FanStory.com Inc
Genres: Poetry
A sonnet is a poem with a specific structure. It has 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme. The topic is open! Write about anything for this poetry contest. Just follow the rules on how to write a sonnet. To read the rules and for an example view the contest announcement. Cash prize for the winner of this contest.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: November 06, 2022 (Expired)
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Non-fiction
We are looking for personal essays, memoirs, and works of literary non-fiction on any topic. It doesn't matter if it's spiritual, political, intellectual, emotional, funny, serious, or an essay about your DVD player.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: May 08, 2022 (Expired)
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Poetry
For this contest you are challenged to write a Tanka poem. Tanka is a form of poetry that often follows a specific syllable count. That count is 5-7-5-7-7. So your first line has five syllables, second has seven, third has five and the last two lines each have seven syllables. Cash prize!
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: June 18, 2024
Sunspot Literary Journal
Genres: Essay, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Novel, Novella, Poetry, Script Writing, and Short Story
Sunspot Lit is looking for the perfect combination of craft and appeal in stories, CNF, novel or novella excerpts, artwork, graphic novels, poems, scripts/screenplays. Literary and genre accepted. Enter through Submittable or Duotrope.
Top Prize:
$500
Additional prizes:
Publication
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2024 (Expired)
Fanstory
Genres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, and Short Story
Subscribe to Fanstory for $9.95 a month and enter as many contests as you like from their list of writing and poetry contests, updated daily. All participants receive feedback from a community of writers, and the winner of each contest receives a cash prize of up to $100.
Top Prize:
Cash prizes of up to $100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: January 31, 2023 (Expired)
Secant Publishing
Genres: Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Horror, Humor, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Story, and Young Adult
We are seeking the year's best original short stories (fiction) devoted to the theme of global climate change and its human impact. We are interested in literary interpretations of how individuals and families, cities and nations are bearing the brunt of a world dominated by new extremes of weather, seasons, and eco-disasters. All genres welcome.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
2nd: $500 | 3rd: $250 | Publication in anthology
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: March 01, 2024 (Expired)
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Poetry
Share a one line poem to enter this poetry contest. Cash prize to the winner. How creative can you get with one line to work with.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: August 24, 2024
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Flash Fiction and Non-fiction
Share your flash fiction story. But for this contest we aren't looking for fiction. Rather share your true story with only 100 words. Cash prize!
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: June 15, 2024
Bath Flash Fiction Award
Genres: Fiction and Flash Fiction
In addition to winning cash prizes, entrants have the opportunity to appear in our print and digital anthology collections. Our books are published by the award-winning small press Ad Hoc Fiction, and are available to buy from their own independent bookshop as well as worldwide from Amazon. 300 word limit.
Top Prize:
£1000
Additional prizes:
£300 for 2nd, £100 for 3rd
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: June 02, 2024
WOW! Women On Writing
Genres: Flash Fiction, Fiction, and Short Story
Seeking short fiction of any genre between 250 - 750 words. The mission of this contest is to inspire creativity, great writing, and provide well-rewarded recognition to contestants.
Top Prize:
$400
Additional prizes:
2nd: $300 | 3rd: $200 | 7 runner-ups: $25 Amazon Gift Cards
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: May 31, 2024
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