| Give a Gift |
Read Poets & Writers Magazine on your iPad, Mac, or PC
Available for your Kindle or Kindle Fire
Get new issues downloaded to your NOOK automatically
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.
| Sponsor and Award | Entry Fee | Genre |
Cash Prize |
Prize includes | Application Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Rattle Poetry Prize A prize of $5,000 and publication in Rattle is given annually for a poem. A Reader's Choice Award of $1,000 is also given to one of ten finalists. All entries are considered for publication.... |
$18 | Poetry | $5,000 | Publication | 7/15/13 |
|
Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships Established Professional Fellowships of $6,000 each and Emerging Professional Fellowships of $3,000 each are given annually to Delaware poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Writers... |
$0 | Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | $6,000 | 8/1/13 | |
|
Sustainable Arts Foundation Writing Awards Five awards of $6,000 each will be given twice yearly to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers with children. Five Promise Awards of $1,000 each will also be given twice yearly to poets... |
$0 | Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction | $6,000 | 8/31/13 | |
|
University of Pittsburgh Press Drue Heinz Literature Prize A prize of $15,000 and publication by University of Pittsburgh Press is given annually for a collection of short fiction. The prize is open to writers who have published a book of fiction or a minimum of... |
$0 | Fiction | $15,000 | Publication | 6/30/13 |
|
Manchester Metropolitan University Poetry and Fiction Prizes Two prizes of £10,000 (approximately $15,433) are given annually for a group of poems and a short story. Bernard O'Donoghue, Adam O'Riordan, and Fiona Sampson will judge in poetry, and Alison Moore,... |
$26 | Poetry, Fiction | $15,433 | 8/30/13 | |
|
The Story Prize The Story Prize A prize of $20,000 is given annually to honor a short story collection written in English and first published in the United States. Two runners-up will receive $5,000 each. A prize of $1,000 is also... |
$75 | Fiction | $20,000 | 7/15/13 |