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Ambroggio Prize
Academy of American Poets
Genres: Poetry
The Ambroggio Prize is a $1,000 publication prize given for a book-length poetry manuscript originally written in Spanish and with an English translation. The winning manuscript is published by Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, publisher of literary works, scholarship, and art books by or about U.S. Hispanics.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication by Bilingual Press
📅 Deadline: February 15, 2024 (Expired)
Writer's Games
The Writer's Workout
Genres: Fiction, Short Story, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Humor, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction, Script Writing, Thriller, and Young Adult
The Writer's Games is a free competition with six surprise challenges over six weeks, designed to help each individual writer improve his or her craft fast. FREE registration is required in advance (opens May 1, 2024). Every entry from a registered participant receives honest, unbiased feedback from multiple judges. There's no elimination; push yourself to try each challenge and see what you alone can do in 72 hours each week. The top five winners each week are published in a competition anthology (that's 25 chances, plus the Judges' Choice!).
Top Prize:
Publication in anthology, 72 Hours (26+ spaces)
📅 Deadline: July 22, 2024
Four Line Poem
FanStory.com Inc.
Genres: Poetry
Write a four line poem that has a specific syllable count. The first line has 1 syllable, the second line has 5 syllables, the third line has 5 syllables, and the last line has 9 syllables. The subject can be anything.
Top Prize:
$100
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: May 16, 2024
The One Page Poetry Contest
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
The Big Moose Prize
Black Lawrence Press
Genres: Fiction, Novel, Poetry, and Short Story
Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Big Moose Prize for an unpublished novel. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. Prizes will be awarded on publication. The Big Moose Prize is open to traditional novels as well as novels-in-stories, novels-in-poems, and other hybrid forms that contain within them the spirit of a novel.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication, 10 copies of your book
💰 Entry fee: $27
📅 Deadline: January 31, 2024 (Expired)
Kinsman Poetry Slam
Kinsman Avenue Publishing, Inc
Genres: Poetry
Poetry entries wanted for the upcoming collection, SLAM! Up to $300 in cash prizes. We are looking for captivating rhythm, form, hard-hitting themes of culture, resilience, passion, and justice. BIPOC Poets are encouraged to submit. Entries should have unpredictable patterns of rhyme and explore free verse and playfulness with language.
Top Prize:
$300
Additional prizes:
Publication in Kinsman Quarterly and the "SLAM" anthology.
💰 Entry fee: $6
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2024
Heroica Poetry Prize
Heroica
Genres: Poetry
Heroica is delighted to announce the launch of our new Poetry Prize. Heroica is a global storytelling platform dedicated to sharing stories about all aspects of gender oppression. Stories that are real, inspiring, challenging and relatable. Your story matters.
Top Prize:
£125
Additional prizes:
2nd: £50 | 3rd: £25 | Publication in anthology
💰 Entry fee: $2
📅 Deadline: February 29, 2024 (Expired)
African Diaspora Awards 2024
Kinsman Avenue Publishing, Inc
Genres: Essay, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Short Story
Up to $1000 in cash prizes for the African Diaspora Award 2024. African-themed prose and poetry wanted. Top finalists are published in Kinsman Quarterly’s magazine and the anthology, “Black Butterfly: Voices of the African Diaspora.”
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication in anthology, "Black Butterfly: Voices of the African Diaspora" and print and digital magazine
💰 Entry fee: $25
📅 Deadline: June 30, 2024
Fiction Factory Poetry Competition
Fiction Factory
Genres: Poetry
This is a UK based competition but we welcome international entries. Poets are invited to enter poems (maximum 40 lines excluding title) on any theme. Discounts are offered on multiple entries. Besides the cash prize, our judge, poet and author and mentor, Helen Cox, will offer feedback on five of the winner's poems plus an hour-long mentorship zoom call about their poetry.
Top Prize:
£100
Additional prizes:
Feedback on poems, a Zoom mentorship call, and publication
💰 Entry fee: $6
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2023 (Expired)
International Poetry Book Awards 2023
Poetry Book Awards
Genres: Poetry
The Poetry Book Awards is an annual, international book award given to the best poetry books produced by indie writers, self published authors or books published by small, truly independent presses. We are proud to be a Welsh based international awards programme, open to all indie authors and self published poets globally.
Top Prize:
£400
Additional prizes:
2nd: £200 | 3rd: £100 | Publication
💰 Entry fee: $44
📅 Deadline: June 30, 2024
Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award
Plough Publishing
Genres: Poetry
This award honors the achievements of the great Dominican-American poet, translator, and public school teacher Rhina Polonia Espaillat. The Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award will be awarded for an original poem of not more than fifty lines that reflects her lyricism, empathy, and ability to find grace in everyday events of life.
Top Prize:
$2,000
Additional prizes:
Publication in Plough Quarterly. Two finalists will receive $250
💰 Entry fee: $5
📅 Deadline: March 30, 2024 (Expired)
Reader Views Literary Awards
Reader Views
Genres: Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Humor, Memoir, Non-fiction, Novel, Novella, Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction, Science Writing, Short Story, Thriller, and Young Adult
The Reader Views Literary Awards program helps level the playing field for self-published authors, recognizing the most creative and exciting new books in the industry. Our awards program is recognized industry-wide as one of the top literary awards programs for independent authors.
Top Prize:
$2,500
Additional prizes:
Several marketing prizes (e.g. book review)
💰 Entry fee: $89
📅 Deadline: December 15, 2024
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, and Short Story
The 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the fifteenth edition of the prestigious prize, is open from 1 February to 1 July 2024. Exceptionally international in scope, the prize supports writers who have not yet published a book-length work, with no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners of each category will receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri magazine.
Top Prize:
£1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication
💰 Entry fee: $15
📅 Deadline: June 30, 2024
Louise Bogan Award
Trio House Press
Genres: Poetry
The Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence includes $1,000, publication, and twenty books. The Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence is open to ALL poets, regardless of publication history.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication
💰 Entry fee: $25
📅 Deadline: March 15, 2024 (Expired)
Nature and Place Poetry Competition
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)
4th Annual Wine Country Writers' Festival Writing Contest
Wine Country Writers' Festival Society
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Poetry
Welcome to the 4th Annual Wine Country Writers' Festival (WCWF) writing contest. Three Categories and Over $1800 total value in cash and prizes to be awarded. Opens April 01/24 and Closes June 02/24 (1159pm PST--Vancouver/Seattle time). Enter your short fiction or nonfiction (2000 words max) or up to 48 lines of poetry. Or purchase the 2 for $25 and enter a poem and a short story or two stories... You decide. Judged blindly by professional writers. Profiles on the website. Winning entries will be published in the 4th Annual WCWF Anthology. Winners will receive a copy. No previously published or winning works. No AI.
Top Prize:
$200 CAD per category
Additional prizes:
Free registration package to the Wine Country Writers' Festival
💰 Entry fee: $11
📅 Deadline: June 02, 2024
3-6-9 Poetry Contest
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: September 20, 2022 (Expired)
First Book Award
Academy of American Poets
Genres: Poetry
The First Book Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by an acclaimed poet, is published by Graywolf Press. The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center, in the Umbrian region of Italy.
Top Prize:
$5,000
Additional prizes:
Publication by Graywolf Press
💰 Entry fee: $35
📅 Deadline: October 01, 2021 (Expired)
South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition
South Warwickshire Literary Festival
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Short Story
Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction 800 words, Poetry 40 lines, any genre any style. Over 16s only
Top Prize:
£50
Additional prizes:
Read entry at literary festival, September 2024 UK
💰 Entry fee: $5
📅 Deadline: March 29, 2024 (Expired)
The Hudson Prize
Black Lawrence Press
Genres: Essay, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Short Story
Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Hudson Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or prose. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication
💰 Entry fee: $28
📅 Deadline: March 31, 2024 (Expired)
F(r)iction Poetry Contest
F(r)iction
Genres: Poetry
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 30, 2024
Nature & Environmental Poetry 2023
Write the World
Genres: Poetry
In his groundbreaking course on ecopoetry, writer and professor Craig Santos Perez focuses on how to use poetry as a voice for the planet. This month, write a poem about what you know and love from the natural world. Your poem may focus on an element of the environment under threat, explore changes in nature, or honor the planet we call home.
Top Prize:
$100
Additional prizes:
Runner up: $50 | Best peer review: $50
💰 Entry fee: $0
📅 Deadline: September 25, 2023 (Expired)
The Letter Review Prize for Books
The Letter Review
Genres: Crime, Essay, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Humor, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Novella, Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction, Science Writing, Short Story, Thriller, and Young Adult
The Letter Review Prize for Books is open to writers from anywhere in the world. Seeking most unpublished (we accept some self/indie published) novels, novellas, story collections, nonfiction, poetry etc. 20 entries are longlisted.
Top Prize:
$1000 USD shared by 3 winners
💰 Entry fee: $25
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2023 (Expired)
Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year
Friends of the Canterbury Festival
Genres: Poetry
The competition has become a popular fixture in the poetry world attracting entries from all over the globe, last year we received a total of 553 poems. The judges this year are Luigi Marchini (Chair of SaveAs Writers), Derek Sellen (Poet of the Year 2023) and Mara Adamitz Scrupe (Dean & Professor Emerita, University of the Arts, Philadelphia and former Poet of the Year). All the poems are judged totally anonymously, the poet’s name is not revealed to the judges. Poems may be on any subject and in any format but no more than 60 lines long.
Top Prize:
£200
Additional prizes:
Publication in anthology
💰 Entry fee: $6
📅 Deadline: June 07, 2024
New Writers Poetry Competition 2023
New Writers
Genres: Poetry
The New Writers Poetry Competition 2023 is open to published and unpublished poets from around the world. There is no specific theme but poems should be no longer than 40 lines. NewWriters.org.uk will donate £1.00 from each entry to First Story (a creative writing charity in the UK).
Top Prize:
£1,000
Additional prizes:
2nd: £300 | 3rd: £200
💰 Entry fee: $13
📅 Deadline: July 12, 2023 (Expired)
Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
Marsh Hawk Press
Genres: Poetry
Beginning December 1, 2023, Marsh Hawk Press is accepting submissions of poetry manuscripts to the annual Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prizes. Deadline is April 30, 2024. We welcome submissions from emerging as well as established poets. The winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize receives $1,000.00, book publication and promotion. Winners of the Robert Creeley and Rochelle Ratner prizes, selected from finalists, receive $250.00 each.
Top Prize:
$1000 + publication
Additional prizes:
$250
💰 Entry fee: $25
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2024
The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books
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
Free to enter. Seeking 0-5000 word (poetry: 15 pgs) excerpts of unpublished books (Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction), including most self-published and indie-published works. 2-4 Winners (publication of extract is optional). We Shortlist 10-20 writers. Open to writers from anywhere in the world, with no theme or genre restrictions. Judged blind.
Top Prize:
$500
Additional prizes:
Optional Publication of Excerpt, Letter of Recommendation
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2024
Michael Waters Poetry Prize
University of Southern Idaho
Genres: Poetry
A prize of $6,000 and publication by SIR Press is awarded annually for a collection of poetry written in English. All entries are considered for publication.
Top Prize:
$6,000
Additional prizes:
Publication
💰 Entry fee: $35
📅 Deadline: February 01, 2024 (Expired)
Autumn House Poetry Contest
Autumn House Press
Genres: Poetry
For the 2023 contest, the Autumn House staff as well as select outsider readers serve as the preliminary readers, and the final judge is Toi Derricotte. The winner receives publication of a full-length manuscript and $2,500.
Top Prize:
Book publication | $1,000 honorarium | $1,500 travel/publicity grant
💰 Entry fee: $30
📅 Deadline: June 30, 2024
ABC Poetry Contest
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: June 11, 2022 (Expired)
2024 International Literary Prize
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
The Iowa Review Awards
The Iowa Review
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Short Story
Each January since 2003, The Iowa Review has invited submissions to The Iowa Review Awards, a writing contest in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Winners receive $1,500; first runners-up receive $750. Winners and runners-up are published in each December issue.
Top Prize:
$1,500
💰 Entry fee: $20
📅 Deadline: January 31, 2024 (Expired)
The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Genres: Poetry
AWP sponsors the Award Series, an annual competition for the publication of excellent new book-length works. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence, and is available to published and unpublished authors alike.
Top Prize:
$5,500
Additional prizes:
Publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press
💰 Entry fee: $30
📅 Deadline: February 28, 2024 (Expired)
The Porter Fleming Literary Competition
The Morris Museum of Art
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Script Writing
Welcome to the 2024 Porter Fleming Literary Competition, now in its twenty-ninth year of recognizing outstanding writing and writers. The competition honors the memory of Porter Fleming, one of Augusta, Georgia’s leading citizens and foremost philanthropists. The competition is administered, with the support of the Porter Fleming Foundation, by the Morris Museum of Art, the first museum in the country to focus on the art and artists of the American South. Writers, ages 18 and older, who reside in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington, D.C are invited to apply.
Top Prize:
1st place in each genre category: $1,000
Additional prizes:
2nd place: $500 & 3rd place: $250 in each of the four genre categories
💰 Entry fee: $15
📅 Deadline: February 16, 2024 (Expired)
Willow Run Poetry Book Award
Hidden River Press
Genres: Poetry
Hidden River Arts offers a yearly prize of $1000 and publication in Hidden River Press, an imprint of Hidden River Publishing, for an unpublished book-length collection of poetry of 75 to 100 pages. The award is open to all poets writing in English around the world.
Top Prize:
$1000 + publication
💰 Entry fee: $20
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2024
