$1,000 PRIZE: Montana Award for Fiction judged by Rick Bass. David Letterman has called Whitefish Review a “delightful project." Jimmy Kimmel will be interviewed for our 10-year anniversary issue (Out of Time), published December 3. October 3 deadline. $20 fee. Don’t wait. www.whitefishreview.org.
2016 ALLIGATOR JUNIPER Contests in Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction are now open. Alligator Juniper awards first-place prizes of $1,000 in each genre, and publication for first-place winners and finalists. All entrants pay the $18 entry fee ($21 for digital submissions) including a year’s subscription. Deadline: October 15. For complete guidelines, please visit alligatorjuniper.org.
2016 CHARITY-SUPPORTING poetry or flash fiction book prize: The Rousseau Prize for Literature. Winner receives $1,000 plus publication. Profits from submission fees will be donated to an animal welfare charity. All entries considered for publication. Online submissions and payment only, please. Deadline November 15. Please follow guidelines at www.tnprpress.com.
2016 DREAM HORSE PRESS Orphic Poetry Prize deadline: October 31. Submit 48–80 pages and a $25 entry fee. The winner receives $1,000 and 10 copies. Dream Horse Press, P.O. Box 670, Warrenton, OR 97146. For full guidelines: www.dreamhorsepress.com.
2016 MAIN STREET RAG Poetry Book Award. Deadline: January 31. Length: 48–84 pages. Reading fee: $25. Prize: $1,200 and publication. All entries considered for publication, multiple manuscripts will be published. Send to: Main Street Rag, P.O. Box 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001 or enter via e-mail. Complete guidelines available on website: www.mainstreetrag.com.
THE 2016 NEW WRITER AWARDS awards $500+ in prizes and publication in Sequestrum for writers yet to publish a book-length manuscript. Two grand prize winners (1 fiction/nonfiction, 1 poetry) and minimum 2 runners-up. Submit via our online submission system. Deadline October 15. E-mail: sequr.info@gmail.com. Full genre guidelines: www.sequestrum.org/contests.
2016 PHILIP LEVINE PRIZE for Poetry: $2,000 award, publication by Anhinga Press, 25 author copies, and public reading at California State University, Fresno. Final judge: Peter Everwine. Submit previously unpublished manuscript, 48–80 pages. Entry fee: $25 by mail or $28 electronic. Deadline: September 30. Submission details, guidelines, contact info: www.fresnostate.edu/levineprize.
2016 TALKING WRITING PRIZE for Flash Fiction: $500 plus publication. Topic: Absurd Stories. Here’s your chance to be weird and witty and succinct. For our fall contest, we want the best “surreal/impossible/magical writing,” says contest judge Meg Pokrass, author of The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down. Word limit: 800. Entry fee: $15. Deadline: October 31. http://talkingwriting.com/tw-contests.
2016 WILDER SERIES Poetry Book Prize for Women Over 50 is now open. Winner receives $1,000, book published by Two Sylvias Press as both a print & e-book, 20 copies of print book, and a vintage art nouveau pendant. All entries considered for publication. Deadline: November 30. Guidelines: www.twosylviaspress.com/wilder-series-poetry-book-prize.html.
2016-17 CONTEST. Theme: Work-- poems reflecting activities, experiences, feelings, thoughts, impact on your life, etc. Fee: $7.25/per poem; $20/3 poems; $30/5 poems. Prizes: 1 month’s salary ($1160.00); 2 weeks wages ($580.00); 8 hour day ($58.00) at $7.25 minimum wage. Guidelines and entry form: https://publicpoetry.submittable.com/submit/65109. Organized by Public Poetry, www.publicpoetry.net.
2017 NEW AMERICAN Poetry Prize: $1,000 award and book publication. Final judge: Jesse Lee Kercheval. Deadline: January 1, 2017. Minimum length: 48 pages (no maximum). Reading fee: $22.50. Online submissions only, please. Complete guidelines: www.newamericanpress.com/contests.
2017 PRESS 53 AWARD for Short Fiction: $1,000 advance, publication, and 1/4-page color ad in Poets & Writers. Awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of short stories. Reading fee $30. Enter September 1–December 31; winner and finalists announced no later than May 1, 2017. Complete details at www.press53.com.
5TH ANNUAL Time & Place Prize is now accepting submissions. The winning writer will be awarded a free, monthlong residency in France, including airfare. All genres welcome. The deadline for submissions is November 30. For details and more information please visit us at: www.timeandplaceprize.com.
11 BEST REASONS to Enter New Millennium Writings literary contest by November 30—20 years of literary excellence, $200,000 awarded, 1,600 writers published. All writers welcome. Best Poetry $1,000; Fiction $1,000; Nonfiction $1,000; Short-short Fiction $1,000. Winners published in our anthology and online. “Highly recommended. NMW is one of our favorite journals.”—Winning Writers. We have launched careers! Visit www.newmillenniumwritings.org.
11TH ANNUAL Smith College Poetry Prize for New England high school girls in 10th and 11th grades. Award: $500 + opportunity to read poem at Smith. Past judges: Sharon Olds, Marilyn Chin. No entry fee. Submissions: September 1–December 1. Sponsored by Poetry Center at Smith College. Guidelines, eligibility, required entry form: www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/wp/outreach/hs-poetry-prize.
18TH GIVAL PRESS Poetry Award for best original previously unpublished collection of poetry of at least 45 typed pages in any style or form. Prize: $1,000 and book publication. Reading fee: $20 per manuscript submitted. Deadline: December 15. E-mail givalpress@yahoo.com or visit website www.givalpress.com for complete details. Gival Press, P.O. Box 3812, Arlington, VA 22203.
AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW'S Annual Writing Awards are open for submission through October 1. Polish up your best work and send it our way. 1,000 dollars each awarded to winners in Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry. Read past winners and find complete submission details at: www.americanliteraryreview.com.
THE ANNUAL RATTLE Chapbook Prize offers $2,000 for a chapbook (up to 36 pages), plus 500 author copies, and distribution to Rattle’s 5,000+ subscribers. Entry fee of $20 includes a 1-year subscription to the magazine. Deadline January 15. For guidelines, visit our website: www.rattle.com/poetry/chapbooks.
THE ATLANTIS AWARD is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $200, publication, and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow website. Finalists may be published. We nominate for Pushcart Prize, Best of the Web, and Best New Poets. Deadline: October 1. For more information: thepoetsbillow.org.
ARKANA, the new, online journal of the Arkansas Writers MFA Program, is excited to offer prizes in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Illustrated Narrative. Winners in each category will receive $400 and publication in the spring issue. Additionally, 4 runner-ups will receive $75 and, potentially, publication. Final judges: emily m. danforth for fiction, Scott Russell Sanders for creative nonfiction, Oliver de la Paz for poetry, and Dusty Higgins for illustrated narrative. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: January 1. Guidelines: https://arkana.submittable.com/submit.
ARKANSAS WRITERS MFA Workshop Phillip H. McMath Writing Awards: Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award for books published in 2015 in any genre. Deadline: October 15. Details: https://arkansaswriters.wordpress.com/philip-k-mcmath-post-publication-book-award-genre-unlimited.
BALTIMORE REVIEW Winter Contest Theme: Milestones. We’re entering our 20th year, so “milestones” is a perfect theme. Make a milestone play a role in your poem, story, or CNF. All entries considered for publication. Prizes: $500, $200, and $100. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: November 30. For more details, please visit our website: www.baltimorereview.org.
BAUHAN PUBLISHING’S second annual Monadnock Essay Collection Prize is open for submissions! The prize is awarded for a book-length collection of nonfiction essays. The winner receives $1,000 and book publication. Entry fee $30. Deadline: December 31. Judge to be announced. For updates and submission guidelines: www.bauhanpublishing.com/the-monadnock-essay-collection-prize.
BRIGHT HILL PRESS 23rd annual Full-Length Poetry Book Competition, $1,000 and publication plus 30 copies for winner and national distribution of published book. Entry fee $27. 48–64 paginated pages (plus separate bio and acknowledgments) may be submitted electronically or via USPS. Results via e-mail. Complete guidelines: wordthur@stny.rr.com or www.brighthillpress.org. Deadline for manuscript receipt at BHP: November 30. BHP Poetry Book, 94 Church St., Treadwell, NY 13846-4607.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Crosswinds annual poetry contest awards $1,000, $250, and $100 respectively plus publication. Fifteen additional poets selected as honorable mentions. Approximately 100 poems published. Deadline December 31. Pays 1 contributor’s copy. This year’s judge is Lisa Starr, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Rhode Island. For information visit crosswindspoetry.com.
CALVINO PRIZE: 12th Annual Calvino Prize. Sponsored by the University of Louisville. For a short story or novel in the fabulist, experimental vein of Italo Calvino. Final judge for 2016: Jonathan Lethem, award-winning acclaimed novelist. First prize, $1,500 plus publication in the Salt Hill Journal. Second Prize, $300. First-place winner invited, expenses paid, to read winning entry at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture held in February at the University of Louisville. Fee: $25. Deadline: October 15. Details: louisville.edu/english.
CIDER PRESS REVIEW Book Award. Prize: $1,500 and publicattion of full-length poetry collection. All entrants will receive the winning book. Reading period: September 1–November 30. Reading fee: $25. Judge: Anne Harding Woodworth. Submit 48–80 page manuscript to www.ciderpressreview.com or mail to CPR, P.O. Box 33384, San Diego, CA 92163. Guidelines: www.ciderpressreview.com/bookaward.
CODHILL POETRY AWARD: $1,000 plus 25 copies. Distribution by SUNY Press. Deadline: December 10. Submit book-length manuscript (48–72 pages), acknowledgments, table of contents, and cover page (name, address, phone, e-mail) clip-bound plus SASE for contest results and $30 reading fee: Codhill Poetry Award, P.O. Box 280, Bloomington, NY 12411. Electronic submissions: http://codhillpoetryaward.submittable.com/submit. For complete guidelines: www.codhill.com.
COMSTOCK REVIEW Poetry Chapbook Contest. Top prize: $1,000 and 50 author’s copies. Michael A. Sickler will judge. Contest sponsored by Comstock Writers Group, Inc. Submit manuscript of 25–34 pages between August 1 and October 31. Entry fee of $30 includes copy of winning chapbook. Visit the website for complete guidelines, which must be followed. CR Chapbook Contest 2016, 4956 St. John Drive, Syracuse, NY 13215. Website: www.comstockreview.org; www.facebook.com/pages/comstock-review/186488898068352?ref=ts-219-.
CONNECTICUT RIVER REVIEW Poetry Contest. Submit up to 3 unpublished poems, 80-line limit each, by September 30. Two copies each, one only with contact info, $15 reading fee to CPS. CRR Contest, CPS, P.O. Box 270554, W. Hartford, CT 06127. Prizes of $400, $100 and $50 and publication in Connecticut River Review. http://ctpoetry.net.
CREATIVE NONFICTION magazine is seeking new work for an upcoming issue dedicated to “Dangerous Creations: Real-Life Frankenstein Stories.” Send your best work, 4,000 words or fewer. Deadline: March 20, 2017. Prizes: $10,000 for best essay; $2,500/each for two runners-up. Guidelines at www.creativenonfiction.org/submissions.
CREATIVE NONFICTION magazine is seeking new work for an upcoming issue dedicated to “The Dialogue Between Science & Religion.” Send your best work, 4,000 words or fewer. Deadline: December 12. Prizes: $10,000 for best essay; $5,000 for runner-up. Guidelines at www.creativenonfiction.org/submissions.
CREATIVE NONFICTION magazine is seeking new work for an upcoming issue dedicated to “How We Teach.” Send your best work, 4,000 words or fewer. Deadline: August 29. Prizes: $1,000 for best essay; $500 for runner-up. Guidelines at www.creativenonfiction.org/submissions.
DANAHY FICTION PRIZE/Tampa Review: $1,000 and publication in Tampa Review for a previously unpublished work of short fiction, 500–5,000 words. A $20 entry fee includes subscription. All entries considered for publication. Submit by December 31. Address: Danahy Fiction Prize, Tampa Review, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33606. Website: www.ut.edu/tampareview.
EMRYS JOURNAL accepts submissions for the 34th annual issue August 1–November 1. Prizes of $250 will be awarded to one selection in each genre for outstanding poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. We accept up to 3 poems and up to 5,000 words of fiction and CNF. emrys.org.
ENTER TO WIN the 2017 Miami University Press Novella Prize! Winner receives $750, book publication, and 10 copies. Final judge: Brian Roley. Deadline: October 15. Manuscript length: 18,000–40,000 words. Reading fee: $25. Online submissions only. For more info and to submit work, please visit: miamioh.edu/mupress/novella. Questions? E-mail mupress@miamioh.edu.
ESME (Empowering Solo Moms Everywhere) announces its second annual writing contest, which is open to all Solo Moms—women who parent on their own due to choice or circumstance. Prizes of $500, $350, and $150 will be given to the first, second, and third place winners in 3 categories: poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction essay. There is no entry fee, and the deadline is March 15, 2017. All submissions will also be considered for publication on the ESME website. For complete guidelines, please visit our website: www.esme.com.
EVENING STREET PRESS announces its 2016 contests: Helen Kay Chapbook Poetry Prize, $250 plus 25 copies, possible publication of runners-up; $15 reading fee, ongoing. eveningstreetpress.com/helen-kay.html. Grassic Short Novel: $500 plus 25 copies, possible publication of runners-up; $25 reading fee, May 1 to December 1. eveningstreetpress.com/grassic.html.
IN 2016, Writer Advice, www.writeradvice.com, is offering 4 contests, 1 per issue (flash memoir; flash fiction; openings of middle grade, young adult, or new adult; and openings of other prose genres). Lower fees. New due dates. New word limits. Same detailed responses. Submission information and fees for all contests are at our website: www.writeradvice.com/guidelines.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY South Bend’s 42 Miles Press Poetry Award will be awarded to an emerging or established poet for a book length manuscript of at least 48 pages. Winner receives $1,000, 50 copies, and will be invited to give a reading in South Bend. Deadline is March 1. David Dodd Lee, Series Editor, will judge. Entry fee: $25. For complete guidelines, go to www.42milespress.com.
LITERAL LATTE Essay Awards. Submit personal essays, 10,000 words max, by September 30. First Prize: $1,000. Second Prize: $300. Third Prize: $200. Literal Latte has been stimulating minds and careers for 22 years. Now accepting online submissions. Have a sip at www.literal-latte.com. Contact: litlatte@aol.com.
THE LONDON MAGAZINE’S Short Story Competition aims to discover new writers whose work is adventurous and fresh in form and content. Submit for the chance to be published in the UK’s oldest literary journal. 1st: £500, 2nd: £300, 3rd: £200. Entry fee: £10. Runs: September 1- October 31. www.thelondonmagazine.org.
LUMINA NONFICTION CONTEST, deadline September 1, judged by Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams. We seek bold, beautiful interpretations of the theme Borders and Boundaries: travel, gender, sexuality, love, citizenship, race, body, language, death, atmosphere, psychological barriers, prisons, fences, challenging genres, and anything else. First Place: $750 + publication in LUMINA, Vol. XVI. For details: luminajournal.com/contest.
NEIL POSTMAN Award for Metaphor: All submissions to Rattle magazine are automatically considered for the award, which offers $500 for the best use of metaphor in Rattle each year. Send up to 4 unpublished poems to: Rattle, 12411 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604. Online submissions accepted. Website: www.rattle.com.
NEW RIVERS PRESS Electronic Book Series. Prize of $500 and e-book publishing contract for book-length manuscript in any of the following genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller/Suspense, Western, Young Adult, Inspirational, or any sub-genres therein. The Electronic Book Series publishes popular fiction titles with literary value. Submit between July 1 and October 1 online at https://newriverspress.submittable.com/submit or see website for complete guidelines: www.newriverspress.com.
NEW RIVERS PRESS Many Voices Project Award. Two prizes of $1,000 each for book-length manuscripts by emerging writers, 1 in poetry and 1 in fiction or creative nonfiction. Finalist judges TBA. Submit full-length, unpublished manuscripts of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry postmarked September 15 through November 1, along with $25 entry fee. Submit online at https://newriverspress.submittable.com/submit or see website for complete guidelines: www.newriverspress.com.
NILSEN PRIZE for a First Novel. Winner receives $2,000, publication, distribution. Authors must not have previously published a full-length fiction book. Postmark by November 1; $25 fee. Southeast Missouri State University Press, MS 2650, One University Plaza, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701. Full guidelines at www.semopress.com/events/nilsen-prize.
OMNIDAWN OFFERS $1,000 prize for our annual Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Prize. Bradford Morrow will judge. Electronic and postal submissions August 1–October 17. Winner receives cash prize, publication, 100 copies. Entry fee: $18. Entrants who add $2 shipping receive Omnidawn fiction book of their choice. For guidelines, see www.omnidawn.com/contest/fiction.
OMNIDAWN OFFERS $3,000 prize for our annual Open Book Poetry Contest. Terrance Hayes will judge. Electronic and postal submissions November 1–December 31. Winner receives cash prize, publication, 100 copies. Entry fee: $27. Entrants who add $3 shipping receive Omnidawn book of their choice. For guidelines, see www.omnidawn.com/contest.
OMNIDAWN OFFERS cash prize of $1,000 for our first annual Single Poem Broadside Poetry Prize. Electronic and postal submissions: August 1–October 17. Winner receives cash prize, broadside publication, 50 copies. Entry fee: $10 for first poem, $5 for each additional poem. For guidelines, see www.omnidawn.com/contest.
PATRICIA DOBLER Poetry Award 2016: Open to women writers over the age of 40 living in the US who haven’t published a full-length book of poetry, fiction, or nonfiction (chapbooks excluded). Winner receives $1,000, publication in Voices from the Attic, round-trip travel, lodging and reading at Carlow University in Pittsburgh with final judge. Poems must be unpublished, up to 75 lines; up to 2 poems, any style, per submission ($20 fee). Postmarked by October 1. For complete rules: (412) 578-6346, e-mail: sewilliams412@carlow.edu, or visit our website at www.carlow.edu.
THE PERMAFROST Book Prize in Poetry offers publication of a book-length work of poetry, $1,000, and distribution through the University of Alaska Press. Final judge, Jericho Brown. Deadline: January 15, 2017. Entry fee: $20. For complete guidelines, please visit: http://permafrostmag.com/contests/permafrost-book-prize-in-poetry.
POETRY SOCIETY of Virginia Annual Contest for Grades 1–12 and Adult Contest; $3,000 in prize money. Many categories. Entries must be submitted between November 1, 2016, and January 19, 2017. Member entries free. Nonmember entry fee $4/poem. For guidelines and membership application: www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org or psvcontest@gmail.com.
PRINCEMERE POETRY PRIZE. $500 for best unpublished poem. No entry fee. Deadline: September 12. Submit up to 3 poems online (princemerepoetryprize.submittable.com). Paper submissions (typed, single-spaced, no names; cover letter with contact info and titles) to Princemere Poetry Prize, Gordon College, Wenham, MA 01984. Previous winners and complete details at www.princemere.com.
QUERCUS REVIEW Press. Fall Poetry Book Award: $1,000 prize, book publication, generous royalties. Deadline: December 16. Submit online or send manuscript and $25 reading fee to Quercus Review Press, Dept. of English, Modesto Junior College, 425 College Ave., Modesto, CA 95350. New and emerging writers encouraged to submit. Info: quercusreviewpress.com.
REED MAGAZINE, the West’s oldest literary journal, was established in San José in 1867. We offer $3,833 in prizes: the John Steinbeck Award for fiction; Gabriele Rico Challenge for nonfiction; Edwin Markham Prize for poetry; Mary Blair Award for art. Submit online June 1–November 1 using Submittable; $15 reading fee includes a free copy. Winners are published in our handsome print journal. Website: www.reedmag.org.
RIVER STYX Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest. First place receives prize of $1,500 and 1 case of Schlafly beer. Winners published in River Styx; 500 words maximum per story, up to 3 stories per entry. Entry options: $10 includes a copy of the issue in which the winners appear, $20 includes a 1-year subscription to River Styx. Postmarked by December 31 or enter online via Submittable. www.riverstyx.org/contests. Mail to: River Styx Micro-Fiction Contest, 3139A South Grand Blvd., Ste. 203, St. Louis, MO 63118. Editor: bigriver@riverstyx.org.
ROSE METAL PRESS, an independent publisher of hybrid genres, seeks submissions to its 11th Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest. Please submit your 25–40 page, double-spaced manuscript of flash fiction/nonfiction under 1,000 words from November 1 to December 1. $10 fee. Judge: Amelia Gray. More details at www.rosemetalpress.com.
SEEKING POEMS regarding wine (appreciation/imbibing/production), Napa Valley, vineyards, you get the idea. Selected poems will appear on the Judd’s Hill website (www.juddshill.com, where previous years’ poems can be found), and winner will receive a very big bottle of wine if it is legal in your state. Final judge is Jane Hall, editor of late poetry journal Coracle. No entry fee. Please submit a maximum of 3 poems and a brief cover letter with contact information by November 1. Thank you! bunnie@juddshill.com.
SELECTED SHORTS’ Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Contest. Prize includes $1,000; publication on electricliterature.com; and 2 tickets to a performance of Selected Shorts featuring your winning story. Judge: Lauren Groff. Max: 750 words. Fee: $25. Due: March 1. For complete guidelines, visit www.selectedshorts.org.
SLAB’S 2017 Curry Prize in Poetry contest is accepting submissions: $600 first place/$400 second. All winners published. Judge: Lori Jakiela, author of the memoir Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, the poetry collection Spot the Terrorist, et al. Reading period runs from August 1–December 1; $10 reading fee. Details at slablitmag.org.
SLIPSTREAM Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition offers $1,000 prize plus 50 copies for winner. Deadline: December 1. Entrants receive copy of winner and 1-issue subscription. Send up to 40 pages and $20 reading fee to Slipstream, P.O. Box 2071, Niagara Falls, NY 14301. For further details and new guidelines, visit: www.slipstreampress.org.
SOUL-MAKING KEATS Literary Competition, open to everyone. Cash Prizes: Categories: Poetry; Creative Nonfiction; Short Story; Flash Fiction; Sonnet; Novel Excerpt, Religious Essay, Intercultural Essay, Memoir Vignette, Humor; Young Adult. Deadline: November 30, 2016. Sponsored by American Pen Women, SASE: 1544 Sweetwood Dr., Broadmoor Village, CA 94015. Inquire: pennobhill@aol.com. Rules: www.soulmakingcontest.us.
SPLIT THIS ROCK Annual Poetry Contest seeks poems of provocation & witness. Judge: Sheila Black; $20 to enter, up to 3 poems; $1,000 in prizes, free 2018 festival registration, and poems published on website to top 3. Winner reads at 2018 festival. Enter via Submittable by November 1. Guidelines: www.splitthisrock.org.
TAMPA REVIEW Prize for Poetry: $2,000 plus hardcover and paperback book publication, and portfolio in Tampa Review for previously unpublished manuscript by a new or established poet. A $25 entry includes subscription. Submit by December 31. Tampa Review Prize, University of Tampa Press, 401 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33606. Website: www.ut.edu/tampareview.
TEBOT BACH announces the 2017 Patricia Bibby First Book Award: $500 and book publication. Deadline: October 31 postmark. Winner announced April 2017. Send manuscript and reading fee of $20 for each manuscript submitted to Tebot Bach, Bibby, Box 7887, Huntington Beach, CA 92615. Complete guidelines available at: www.tebotbach.org.
THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS/New Orleans Literary Festival announces 3 writing contests with prizes of cash, festival packages, publication, and festival public readings. Deadlines: One-Act Play—November 1; Poetry—November 15; Fiction—November 30. Judges include award-winning novelist Dorothy Allison and Louisiana Poet Laureate Peter Cooley. For more information and to submit, visit www.tennesseewilliams.net.
TERRAIN.ORG: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments 7th Annual Contest in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. Theme: Fabrication. Judges: Kate Bernheimer (fiction), Lauret Savoy (nonfiction), and Eamon Grennan (poetry). All submissions considered for publication; $15/entry, $500 prize/genre. Deadline: September 1. Full guidelines at www.terrain.org/submit/contest-guidelines.
THIRD WEDNESDAY annual contest. A prize of $50 each goes to the best 3 poems. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: the end of January 2017. Include e-mail address or SASE. Send up to 3 unpublished poems via USP, not over 2 pages each, to: Third Wednesday Contest, 174 Greenside Up, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.
THROUGHOUT OCTOBER, Pleiades will be accepting entries into its annual fiction contest, the Gail B. Crump Award for Experimental Fiction, judged by emeritus editor Gail B. Crump. A reading fee of $25 includes a 1-year subscription to Pleiades. Winner receives $1,000 and publication in the journal. www.pleiadesmag.com/submit.
TOM HOWARD/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, 14th year. Sponsored by Winning Writers, one of the “101 Best Websites for Writers” (Writer’s Digest). Top prize for a poem in any style: $1,500. Top prize for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style: $1,500. Total prizes: $4,000. Winning entries published online. Fee: $10 per poem. Length limit: 250 lines. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Submit by September 30. Final judge: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier. Enter at winningwriters.com/tompoetry.
TWELVE WINTERS PRESS’S Vachel Lindsay Poetry Prize is accepting submissions of an unpublished collection of poems. Print & digital publication, cash prize, global distribution. Final judge: Pauline Uchmanowicz, author of the collection Starfish. Visit twelvewinters.com and follow @twelvewinters.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS is accepting submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, judged by Billy Collins. The winner receives $5,000 in cash in addition to publication. Applications are accepted year-round. The deadline for the following year’s prize is September 30. Website: www.uapress.com.
WEEKLY POETRY CONTEST at poetrynook.com, $100 prize each week for the winner, $10 prizes for any honorable mentions. No charge of any kind. Contest guidelines at poetrynook.com.
WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW (WHR) invites entries to its annual writing competition, open to writers currently living in AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, or WY. Winners in poetry and prose receive $500 and publication. Submissions due November 18th. Judges: Monica de la Torre (Poetry) & Brian Evenson (Prose). www.westernhumanitiesreview.com.
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION announces its 2016–17 Writing Contest. Fiction, Poetry & Creative Nonfiction/Memoir. Award includes publication for top four submissions in The Bookwoman, WNBA’s national magazine. $250 award for first prize winners. Submission period September 15, 2016–January 15, 2017. All contest fees fund WNBA literacy programs. Submission guidelines, judges’ bios: www.wnba-books.org/contest.
WONDER INSTITUTE awards $1,000 first prize and online publication for a personal essay on “What Is Your Life’s Purpose?” 1,500 word maximum. Deadline November 1. Final Judge: Linda Durham. Fee: $20. Full guidelines: www.wonderessaycontest.com.