Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers Deadline: February 28, 2018 1st place wins $2,500 color, publication in Glimmer Train and 10 copies. 2nd place wins $500, or if chosen for publication, $700. 3rd place wins $300, or if chosen for publication, $700. (All submissions are considered for publication.) Open only to emerging writers…Continue reading Glimmer Train’s New Writer Award
Category: Contests
The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize
SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR THE DESPERATE LITERATURE SHORT FICTION PRIZE Awarded for fiction under 2000 words. First Prize: – €1000 – A week’s residency at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation – A consultation with a US Literary Agent from Foundry Literary + Media Runners-up Prizes: – €250 (two prizes available) All Winners: – Publication in 3:AM, Structo Magazine, and A Women’s Thing…Continue reading The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize
Short Short Chapbook Contest
Rose Metal Press’ 12th ANNUAL SHORT SHORT CHAPBOOK CONTEST BEGINS NOV. 1 Get your flash fiction and flash nonfiction chapbook manuscripts ready, because the annual contest opens next Wednesday, November 1, and runs through December 1. The winner will receive a $200 prize and have their chapbook published in summer 2018 with an introduction by the contest…Continue reading Short Short Chapbook Contest
VanderMay Nonfiction Prize Contest
Just a few weeks left to enter the Nonfiction Prize. The Ruminate Vandermey Nonfiction Prize closes November 15th, with a $1500 cash prize and publication awarded to the winning writer, and $200 and publication awarded to the second-place writer. Guest judge Camille T. Dungy has also been in that brave place, and she knows what it is to reveal yourself…Continue reading VanderMay Nonfiction Prize Contest
The Masters Review: Call for Submissions
The Masters Review’s third annual Fall Fiction Contest is now open! Submissions are open until November 15, 2017. The winning story receives $2000 + publication, and a note from the judge on why the story was chosen. For more information and to submit your work, visit their website here. The Masters Review has compiled 13 submission…Continue reading The Masters Review: Call for Submissions
Indiana Review Fiction Contest
The 2017 Fiction Prize Contest is now open! Send in your submissions by October 31st, 2017. Applicants must submit a single story of up to 8,000 words. For more information, visit the Indiana Review contest website here.
F(r)iction’s Fall 2017 Literary Contests
F(r)iction is now accepting submissions for their Fall Literary Contests! F(r)iction is accepting previously unpublished works of short fiction, flash fiction, and poetry. In addition to prizes, winners in each category will be published in the Summer issue of F(r)iction, and discussed in their Untethered Podcast. Please visit their formatting guidelines page to properly format your work for submission. Simultaneous submissions are accepted,…Continue reading F(r)iction’s Fall 2017 Literary Contests
Tennessee Williams Literary Festival Writing Contests
The Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans has four open contests! One-Act Play Contest Grand Prize $1,500 Professional Staged Reading at the next Festival VIP All-Access Festival pass ($600 value) Publication in Bayou Magazine Deadline: November 1,2017 For submission guidelines and more information click here. Poetry Contest Grand Prize $1,000 VIP All-Access Pass ($600 value) for…Continue reading Tennessee Williams Literary Festival Writing Contests
Narrative’s Fall Story and 30 Below Contest
The Fall Story Contest is open to all writers, and all entries will be considered for publication. The fall contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. They are looking for short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries…Continue reading Narrative’s Fall Story and 30 Below Contest
Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize
For 27 years, the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize (open for submissions through October 2) has discovered and honored the best fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in the country. First prize in each genre is $5000, and they will announce three runners-up and ten finalists in each category. Each entry is $22 by mail or $25 online. Each entry is…Continue reading Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize
The Journal Wheeler Prize for Poetry
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Submissions open September 1-30 for the annual The Journal / Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize In addition to publication under a standard book contract by The Ohio State University Press, the winning author receives the Charles B. Wheeler Prize of $2,500. THE RULES: Entries of at least 48 typed pages of original…Continue reading The Journal Wheeler Prize for Poetry