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Wednesday, Jan. 28th - Each month I post one entire issue of new writing and poetry contests open for submissions. In this issue I have included 40+ new writing and poetry contests (both free and fee-based). I've tried to include the most reputable and prize-worthy contests that many literary experts feel benefit the careers of writers and poets. To make this issue more reader-friendly, I have posted direct links to many of the contests' websites instead of our site where we originally posted the information.
Since this is a private emailing to my subscribers only, please do NOT repost online. Thank you. (C) 2015 / Brian Scott
Next week subscribers will receive our Special Deadlines Issue, which will have special calls for submissions and writing opportunities nearing their final deadlines.
( Note: You can view this entire issue online at https://madmimi.com/s/940bb5 ) |
1. The Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction
The Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction invites writers to submit previously published or unpublished stories. Length should not exceed 1,000 words. The winner receives $1,000 and publication in The Lascaux Review. Deadline: 03/31/2015. Fees: $10.
2. Zero Bone Poetry Prize
Named in honor of the distinguished American poet Emily Dickinson, the Zero Bone Poetry Prize welcomes submissions of unpublished, original poems. First prize is $200. Deadline: 02/28/2015. Fees: $2
3. New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize
Open to all poets who have either never published a full-length collection of poetry, or who have only published one full-length collection, and who currently reside in and have had residency in one or more of the following states for a minimum of 24 consecutive months: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia. Deadline: 04/15/2015. Prizes: $1,000. Fees: $25. |
4. The Peseroff Prize
Breakwater Review is proud to announce The Peseroff Prize: publication and $1,000 for a single poem. The Peseroff Prize honors Joyce Peseroff's work as a poet, teacher, editor, innovator, and mentor. Deadline: 05/01/2015. Fees: $10.
5. The Cowles Poetry Book Prize
The Cowles Poetry Book Prize is an annual competition in honor of Vern Cowles, a man who loved literature. Send 48-100 pages of poetry--any style or theme. First prize is $2,000 and publication. Deadline: 04/01/2015. Fees: $25.
6. The 2015 Frost Farm Prize
The Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH, and the Hyla Brook Poets invite submissions for their 5th Annual The Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry. The winner receives $1,000, publication in Evansville Review and an invitation. Deadline: 04/01/2015. Fees: $5. |
7. The Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize
The Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize is a writing competition sponsored by the stage and radio series, Selected Shorts. Entries should be 750 words or less. The winning writer will receive $1000 and a free 10-week course. Deadline: 03/15/2015. Fees: $25.
8. 2015 Prime Number Magazine Awards
Prime Number Magazine (a Press 53 publication) announces the 2015 Prime Number Magazine Awards with prizes and/or publication for top three entries in Poetry, Short Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction. First prize in each category is $1,000. Deadline: 03/31/2015. Fees: $15.
9. Fugue's Annual Writing Contest
Fugue accepts submissions of both poetry and prose (fiction and nonfiction) from January 1 - May 1. Multiple submissions are accepted. Contest winners in poetry and prose each receive $1000 and publication. Deadline: 05/01/2015. Fees: $15. |
10. Sawtooth Poetry Prize
The Sawtooth Poetry Prize honors a book of original poetry in English by a single author; translations are not eligible for this award. The winning poet receives a $1,500 honorarium upon publication plus 25 copies. Deadline: 03/01/2015. Fees: $25.
11. Fence Modern Poets Series
The Fence Modern Poets Series is open to poets of any gender and at any stage in their publishing career. The prize is $1,000 and publication by Fence Books. The 2016 Fence Modern Poets Series will be open for submissions during the month of February, 2015. Deadline: 02/28/2015. Fees: $28.
12. Snowbound Chapbook Award
The Snowbound Chapbook Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies of the winning title, a book launch, and national distribution. Deadline: 02/28/2015. Fees: $25. |
13. Enizagam Literary Awards in Poetry and Fiction
The 2015 Enizagam Literary Awards in Poetry and Fiction is open for submissions. $1000 prize in each category. Send up to 3 poems or up to 4,000 words of fiction. Deadline: 03/01/2015. Fees: $20.
14. Malahat Review Long Poem Prize
The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites entries from Canadian, American, and overseas authors for the Long Poem Prize. Two awards of $1,000 CAD each are given. Deadline: 02/01/2015. Fees: $35.
15. Wag's Revue Winter Writers Contest
Wag’s Revue is accepting submissions for its 2015 Winter Writers Contest in fiction, poetry, and essays. First prize is $1,000 and publication; second prize is $500. Deadline: 02/28/2015. Fees: $22. |
16. Harvest Poetry Competiton
Harvest Enterprises is inviting writers to enter its Harvest Poetry Competiton. Writers can submit up to nine poems. First-place receives a cash prize of $1,000. Deadline: 03/15/2015. Fees: $9.99.
17. Common Ground Review Poetry Contest
Send 1-3 unpublished poems under 61 lines, a brief biography, SASE and a $15 check made out to Western New England University. First prize is $500. Deadline: 03/01/2015. Fees: $15.
18. 15th Poetry on the Lake International Poetry Competition
Poetry on the Lake is inviting poets to submit poetry on the theme, "Wining & Dining or Fasting, Thirsting, Hungering, Starving." First prize is €400.00 and Silver Wyvern. Deadline: 03/31/2015. Fees: €12 |
19. Writer Advice's 10th Flash Prose Contest
WriterAdvice seeks flash fiction, memoir, and creative non-fiction running 750 words or less. Enlighten, dazzle, and delight us. Finalists receive responses from all judges. First prize is $200. Deadline: 04/21/2015. Fees: $15.
20. Leapfrog 2015 Fiction Contest
The 2015 Leapfrog Fiction Contest invites writers to submit adult novels, novellas and story collections; YA and middle-grade novels, minimum 22,000 words. First prize is publication contract with advance. Deadline: 05/01/2015. Fees: $30.
21. Annual Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award
The Annual Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award accepts previously unpublished original poem written in English (of any length, in any style), which best relates gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender life. First prize is $100 and publication. Deadline: 06/27/2015. Fees: $5. |
22. The Masters Review Anthology
Every year The Masters Review opens submissions to produce our anthology, a collection of ten stories written by the country’s best emerging authors. The ten winning writers will each receive $500. Deadline: 03/31/2015. Fees: $20.
23. Annual Gival Press Novel Award
The Annual Gival Press Novel Award invites writers to submit previously unpublished original (not a translation) novel in English, approx. 30,000 to 100,000 words. First prize is $3,000 and publication. Deadline: 05/30/2015. Fees: $50.
24. The 2015 CBC Creative Nonfiction Competition
The Creative Nonfiction Prize includes memoir, biography, humour writing, essay (including personal essay), travel writing and feature articles. Grand prize is $6,000. Deadline: 03/01/2015. Fees: $25. |
1. Moral Apologetics Writing Contest
MoralApologetics.com is excited to announce that its first annual Writing Contest is now underway. Entries are to be 1000 words (maximum) on a topic pertaining to moral resources for apologetics. Writers of the winning entries will each receive $100. Deadline: 03/01/2015. Fees: $0.
2. Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest
Submit no more than two (2) poems by March 1, 2015. The winning poem will be published in ICON Magazine for Literature and Art. The author will be awarded a free copy of ICON and $200. Deadline: 03/01/2015. Fees: $0.
3. Southern Pacific Review Short Story Contest
Southern Pacific Review seeks short fiction written in (or translated into) English. Winning prize is $100 USD and publication in Southern Pacific Review. Deadline: 03/30/2015. Prizes: $100. Fees: $0. |
4. The Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award
This Award honors the talents of local writers of prose and poetry while promoting the love of literature throughout Indiana. The judges will award cash prizes in three categories. Deadline: 03/20/2015. Prizes: $10,000. Fees: $0.
5. RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
The Writers' Trust of Canada welcomes Canadian writers to enter its annual Award for the chance to win a stipend of $5,000 for his or her poetry. Deadline: 03/03/2015. Fees: $0.
6. WNDB Short Story Contest
We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) is hosting a short story contest to support diversity and improve exposure for diverse books and writers. The first-place winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 plus publication. Deadline: 05/08/2014. Fees: $0. |
7. John Gardner Fiction Book Award
The Binghamton Center for Writers at Binghamton University is accepting submissions to the John Gardner Fiction Book Award (est. 2002) and is awarding a cash prize of $1,000 to an author of a fiction book or a collection of fiction stories written in English. Deadline: 03/01/2015. Fees: $0.
8. Inspiration Travel Writing Contest
We Said Go Travel, a website dedicated to promote the wonders of global travel, is accepting inspirational stories for the 2015 Inspiration Travel Writing Contest. Deadline: 02/14/2015. Prizes: $500. Fees: $0.
9. The Lakefly Writers Conference Writing Contest
The Lakefly Writers Conference is hosting a short story writing contest which will award the first-place winner with a cash prize of $100 for the best fiction or flash fiction story. Second-place receives $100, and third-place receives $50. Deadline: 03/15/2015. Fees: $0.
10. Community Stories Grants Program
Cal Humanities invites proposals for centered works that will create local and national interest and reveal the cultures and lifestyles of Californians. Deadline: 02/02/2015. Prizes: $10,000. Fees: $0. |
1. Mississippi Arts Commission's Artist Fellowship
The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) sponsors the annual Artist Fellowship to recognize Mississippi writers and artists of quintessential work in their field of specialty. MAC will award a stipend of up to $5,000 in a variety of creative arts categories. Deadline: 03/02/2015. Fees: $0.
2. The Milton Postgraduate Fellowships
The Milton Postgraduate Fellowships sponsored by English department at Seattle Pacific University provides aspiring writers of Christian faith the chance to finish a first novel-size manuscript of fictional works, poetry or verse, or creative non-fiction. Deadline: 03/15/2015. Prizes: $16,000. Fees: $0. |
3. The Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship
Washington College sponsors a second fellowship called the Hodson-Brown Fellowship to support the talents of writers and researchers who are carrying out a substantial project covering the humanities, history, civilization, and/or creative arts of the Americas prior to 1830. Deadline: 03/15/2015. Prizes: $20,000. Fees: $0.
4. The NEA Literature Fellowships
The NEA Literature Fellowships (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts) provide a $25,000 stipend to a creative writer of fiction, non-fiction or poetry. Deadline: 03/11/2015. Fees: $0. |
1. BN Poetry Award
The BN Poetry Foundation is accepting submissions to the BN Poetry Award, which will award a cash prize of $1,000 (US) to an African poet who has written the most outstanding poetry. Deadline: 05/15/2015. Fees: $0.
2. Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
Each year Lotus Press sponsors the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, which awards a cash prize of $500 to an African American poet with the strongest collection of poetry. Deadline: 03/01/2015. Fees: $0.
3 Madeleine P. Plonsker Residency
The Emerging Writer's Residency Prize sponsored by Lake Forest College provides an emerging writer (who is younger than 40 yrs. old) --with no notable book contract or publication--to enjoy two months in residency at Lake Forest College (situated in Chicago's northerly suburban area on the coast of Lake Michigan). Deadline: 03/01/2015. Prizes: $10,000. Fees: $0. |
4. North Carolina State Poetry Contest
Poets who reside in North Carolina can enter the NC Poetry Contest for a chance to receive a cash prize of $500 for the best poem. The judges will review poetry in any style and on any theme or topic. Deadline: 02/25/2015. Fees: $0.
5. Foley Poetry Award
America Press Inc., publishers of America: The National Catholic Review, sponsors the annual Foley Poetry Award. The winning poet receives a cash prize of $1,000 plus publication in a future issue of America. Deadline: 03/31/2015. Fees: $0. |
You can find more writing and poetry contests to enter for free here, here, and here. |
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