A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a short story by a current undergraduate college student. The winner also receives a full scholarship to attend the Southampton Writers...
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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.
Stony Brook Southampton
Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $0
Application Deadline: 7/14/24
Genre: Fiction
Cincinnati Review
Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $25
Application Deadline: 7/15/24
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Cincinnati Review are given annually for a poem, a short story, and an essay. Erica Dawson will judge in poetry, Michael...
read moreRegal House Publishing
Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $25
Application Deadline: 7/15/24
Genre: Fiction
A prize of $1,000 and publication by Regal House Publishing is given annually for a novel. The editors will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript...
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Cash Prize: $15,000
Entry Fee: $0
Application Deadline: 8/1/24
Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Two grants of $15,000 are given annually for nonfiction works-in-progress that “use oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement.” Using only the online...
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Cash Prize: $5,000
Entry Fee: $0
Application Deadline: 8/1/24
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Two grants of $5,000 each will be given annually for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction works-in-progress “by immigrant and refugee writers, recognizing that the literature of...
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Cash Prize: $4,000
Entry Fee: $0
Application Deadline: 8/1/24
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Ten grants of $3,000 to $4,000 each are given annually to support the translation of book-length works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that have not previously...
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