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Writing Contests, Grants & Awards
The Writing Contests, Grants & Awards database includes details about the creative writing contests—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, and more—that we’ve published in Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it. Ours is the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.
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Entry Fee | Genre | Cash Prize | Prize includes | Application Deadline |
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San José State University Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing A one-year residency at San José State University, which includes a stipend of $10,000, is given annually to a fiction writer or a creative nonfiction writer. The resident will give one public reading... |
$0 | Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | $10,000 | Reading, Residency | 1/2/13 |
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Shakespeare and Company Paris Literary Prize A prize of €10,000 (approximately $12,275) will be given annually for a novella. Two second-place prizes of €2,000 (approximately $2,455) will also be given. Writers who have not published a book of... |
$93 | Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | $12,275 | 9/15/12 | |
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South Carolina Arts Commission Artist Fellowships Two fellowships of $5,000 each are given biennially to a poet and a writer of fiction or creative nonfiction. Residents of South Carolina may submit three copies of up to 20 pages of poetry or prose and... |
$0 | Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | $5,000 | 11/1/11 | |
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Sozopol Fiction Seminars English and Bulgarian Scholarships Ten scholarships, valued at approximately $1,600 each, to attend the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Sozopol, Bulgaria, are given annually to five fiction writers working in English and five working in... |
$0 | Fiction | $1,600 | Residency | 3/15/13 |
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St. Francis College Literary Prize A prize of $50,000 is given biennially for a third, fourth, or fifth published work of fiction. Self-published books and English translations are eligible. Peter Cameron, Kate Christensen, and Jonathan... |
$0 | Fiction | $50,000 | 5/1/13 | |
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Stadler Center for Poetry Philip Roth Residence A four-month residency, including a $4,000 stipend, at the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University is given annually to a poet, a fiction writer, or a creative nonfiction writer. The 2013 Philip... |
$0 | Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | $4,000 | Residency | 2/1/13 |