A frequent contest entrant—and winner—discusses the advantages of submitting to writers contests and offers tips for assessing a contest's legitimacy and value.
The Case for Contests: Why Emerging Writers Should Submit
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.