Happy Monday, everyone—and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 
We hope that finals week is off to a good start for you.
Last week, we posted a list of deadlines between March 10 and April 6. This list features some LAS deadlines, some miscellaneous deadlines, and several deadlines for creative writing publications and contests/competitions. There are lots of options for where to submit your work—but which submission opportunity is right for you?
To help you decide where your work would best fit, we’ve compiled a few charts and lists below; these compare and contrast what each contest requires and offers, as well as what each creative writing publication is looking for.
Poetry Contests
| Name | Given for single piece or full manuscript? | Length | Cash prize | Publi-cation? | Read-ing? | Entry fee | Additional notes | Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry | single poem (in metrical verse) | N/A | $1,000 | no | yes | $8 per poem | N/A | Mar. 31 |
| Lascaux Review: The Lascaux Prize in Poetry | single poem | ∞ | $1,000 | yes | no | $15 (up to 5 poems) | winner also receives bronze medallion | Mar. 31 |
| Fish Publishing: The Fish Poetry Prize | single poem | 60 lines or less | 1st place: €1,000 2nd place: Fish Writing Course + €300 3rd place: €300 4th–10th place (honorable mentions): publication | yes | yes | €16 for first poem; €11 for subsequent entries | N/A | Mar. 31 |
| Texas Review Press: The Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize | poetry MS | 40 pages or less | $1,000 | yes | yes | $20 | winner also receives 10 free author copies | Mar. 31 |
| Black Lawrence Press: The Hudson Prize | poetry MS | 45–90 pp | $1,000 | yes | no | $30 | winner also receives 10 free author copies | Mar. 31 |
| Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry | poetry MS | 48–80 pp | $1,000 | yes | yes | $30 | N/A | Mar. 31 |
| Laura Boss Poetry Foundation: The Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award | poetry MS | 70–90 pp | $5,000 | yes | yes | $20 | winner also receives 10 free author copies | Mar. 31 |
| Trio House Press Trio Award for First or Second Book | poetry MS | 120 pages or less | $1,000 | yes | yes | $25 | winner also receives 25 free author copies | Mar. 31 |
Fiction/Nonfiction Contests
| Name | Given for single piece or full manuscript? | Length | Cash prize | Publi-cation? | Entry fee | Additional notes | Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest | single short story | ∞ | 1st place: $1,000 2nd place: $100 3rd–5th place: $25 | yes | $10 | N/A | Mar. 31 |
| North American Review Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize | single essay | 500–10,000 words | $1,000 | yes | $23 | N/A | Apr. 2 |
| Narrative Magazine Winter 2025 Story Contest | single short story, flash fiction, essay, memoir, or excerpt from larger work | 15,000 words or less | 1st place: $2,500 2nd place: $1,000 | yes | $27 | N/A | Mar. 31 |
| Texas Review Press: The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize | novella MS | 15,000–40,000 words | $1,000 | yes | $20 | winner also receives 10 free author copies | Mar. 31 |
| Black Lawrence Press: The Hudson Prize | MS of individual essays, short stories, or hybrid work | 120–280 pp | $1,000 | yes | $30 | winner also receives 10 free author copies | Mar. 31 |
Creative Writing Journal Submissions
The three creative writing publications we have listed for deadlines between March 17–April 6 are:
- New Limestone Review (deadline: March 21)
- The theme for this issue is “Rotten”: themes, symbols, and imagery related to the idea of Rot, Rotten, Rotting experiences, personal and societal.
- Accepts poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash, & art/photography
- $3 reading fee
- Chestnut Review (deadline: March 31)
- any theme
- free poetry & art/photography submissions
- $5 reading fee for fiction, nonfiction, flash (waived for Black and Indigenous authors)
- Poetry Wales (deadline: April 4)
- any theme
- specializes in poetry only
- no submission fee
- £20/page if you are selected for publication
Other Submission Opportunities
Don’t forget about these other submission opportunities! They include submissions to our Spring English Conference and a call for proposals for a musical artist/album that you’d be passionate about writing a 30,000-word manuscript on within the next year. (To see when these submissions are due, please refer to our deadlines list here.)
For Your Written Work:
- 33 ⅓ [call for proposals] (click here for details)
- Spring English Conference submissions!!! (click here for details)
Applications:
- Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize [no self-nominations] (click here for details)