Count on small presses to boast enthusiastic staff, personal publishing experiences, and editors ready to champion your work. Our senior editor selects twelve top contests and reading periods from indies open to submissions this winter.
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.