The volume of submissions that most literary magazines receive is a driving factor in slow response times. Complicating matters is the popularity of online submissions managers, supply-chain issues, and other problems brought on by the pandemic.
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.