Legitimate writing and literary contests, competitions, awards and prizes of all kinds. In this general category, contests that offer prizes in two or more different genres will be found. Contests that focus on specific genres, like Essays, Poetry, Screenwriting and Short Stories, are listed in those specific sub-categories. Contests do not have to have monetary rewards, but that is what is most likely to be found in this category.
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Held annually on Labor Day weekend. Rules, survival guide, prizes, and past winners.
An annual competition for writers, editors, publications staff, and both business and non-profit communicators.
Annual awards of $2,000 (plus publication) are offered for original, unpublished, book-length work in each of three categories: novels, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Reading fee: $20. Deadline: February 28. Open to U.S. residents only.
San Jose State University sponsors this yearly challenge "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels". No entry fee. Official deadline: April 15.
Annual competitions honoring excellence in all areas of communication, with separate categories for print, video, and audio. US based.
Poetry, flash fiction, short story and short memoir writing contests.
An awards program for self-published authors, independent book publishers, university presses, small/ medium publishers. Cash awards and a chance at professional literary agency representation.
Annual online fiction competition with £10,000 prize, lead by Poet Laureate MMU Professor Carol Ann Duffy for the Manchester Writing School.
Milkweed Editions is a non-profit publisher of literature for adults and young adults based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Milkweed National Fiction Prize is awarded annually for the best fiction manuscript submitted by an author not previously published by Milkweed.
Annual fiction and poetry contest.
Publishers of the magazines, "Scribble" and "Countryside Tales", holding quarterly competitions for original, unpublished short stories and poems, some open, some limited to specific themes.
Offers free monthly contests for poetry and fiction. Open worldwide, but to teenagers only.
Promotes annual prose (up to 5,000 words) and poetry (no more than 60 lines) contests relating to contemporary life in three specific regions, namely, the Rockies, the Desert Southwest, and the Northwest Coast.
Salamander magazine will award a cash prize and publication for the best fiction story. Entries accepted from May 15-June 15.
SFWP provides resources for authors and features online fiction as well as an annual writing contest for prose, both fiction and non-fiction, including short stories, essays and sample chapters of novels. $6,000 in cash prizes. Deadline: mid-January.
Writing competition for best indie book open to self-published or small press books in any genre.
Fiction, one act play and poetry contests.
An annual award is intended to encourage new writers who have recently published a work of fiction or memoirs. Standford University Libraries.
Offers several annual competitions, among them a contest on the specific theme of War and a parody competition. Includes link lists, recommendations for reading and an online guide to poetry contests for subscribers.
Writing contest for women seeks a story, memoir or book chapter on a given theme. Deadline; December 31, thence monthly. Entry fee: $7. First prize: $70.
Offers $25,000 in prize money for original, unpublished work in ten categories including poetry, short stories, plays, television scripts, articles, and children's fiction. Deadline: mid-May. Also provides separate annual awards for short short stories, screenplays and self-published books.
The Gauntlet is a new format, underground writing contest for speculative fiction.
An annual award is intended to encourage new writers who have recently published a work of fiction or memoirs. Standford University Libraries.
Offers several annual competitions, among them a contest on the specific theme of War and a parody competition. Includes link lists, recommendations for reading and an online guide to poetry contests for subscribers.
Writing competition for best indie book open to self-published or small press books in any genre.
Annual competitions honoring excellence in all areas of communication, with separate categories for print, video, and audio. US based.
Annual online fiction competition with £10,000 prize, lead by Poet Laureate MMU Professor Carol Ann Duffy for the Manchester Writing School.
Salamander magazine will award a cash prize and publication for the best fiction story. Entries accepted from May 15-June 15.
Fiction, one act play and poetry contests.
The Gauntlet is a new format, underground writing contest for speculative fiction.
An awards program for self-published authors, independent book publishers, university presses, small/ medium publishers. Cash awards and a chance at professional literary agency representation.
Annual fiction and poetry contest.
Poetry, flash fiction, short story and short memoir writing contests.
Offers $25,000 in prize money for original, unpublished work in ten categories including poetry, short stories, plays, television scripts, articles, and children's fiction. Deadline: mid-May. Also provides separate annual awards for short short stories, screenplays and self-published books.
Held annually on Labor Day weekend. Rules, survival guide, prizes, and past winners.
San Jose State University sponsors this yearly challenge "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels". No entry fee. Official deadline: April 15.
Milkweed Editions is a non-profit publisher of literature for adults and young adults based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Milkweed National Fiction Prize is awarded annually for the best fiction manuscript submitted by an author not previously published by Milkweed.
Publishers of the magazines, "Scribble" and "Countryside Tales", holding quarterly competitions for original, unpublished short stories and poems, some open, some limited to specific themes.
An annual competition for writers, editors, publications staff, and both business and non-profit communicators.
SFWP provides resources for authors and features online fiction as well as an annual writing contest for prose, both fiction and non-fiction, including short stories, essays and sample chapters of novels. $6,000 in cash prizes. Deadline: mid-January.
Promotes annual prose (up to 5,000 words) and poetry (no more than 60 lines) contests relating to contemporary life in three specific regions, namely, the Rockies, the Desert Southwest, and the Northwest Coast.
Offers free monthly contests for poetry and fiction. Open worldwide, but to teenagers only.
Writing contest for women seeks a story, memoir or book chapter on a given theme. Deadline; December 31, thence monthly. Entry fee: $7. First prize: $70.
Annual awards of $2,000 (plus publication) are offered for original, unpublished, book-length work in each of three categories: novels, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Reading fee: $20. Deadline: February 28. Open to U.S. residents only.
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