Three prizes of $1,500 each and publication in New Ohio Review are given annually for a poem or group of poems, a short story, and an essay. Submit a poem or group of...
read moreWriting 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.
New Ohio Review
Cash Prize: $1,500
Entry Fee: $20
Application Deadline: 4/15/21
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Florida Review
Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $25
Application Deadline: 4/15/21
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Florida Review are given annually for a group of poems, a short story, and an essay. The editors will judge. Submit...
read moreYemassee
Cash Prize: $1,250
Entry Fee: $18
Application Deadline: 4/15/21
Two prizes of $1,250 and publication by Yemassee is given annually for a poetry chapbook and a fiction chapbook. Dustin Pearson will judge in poetry and Mira T. Lee...
read morePen Parentis
Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $15
Application Deadline: 4/17/21
Genre: Fiction
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine is given annually to a fiction writer who is the parent of a child under the age of 10. The...
read moreAmerican Literary Translators Association
Cash Prize: $2,500
Entry Fee: $50
Application Deadline: 4/19/21
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Two prizes of $2,500 each are given annually for a book of poetry and a book of prose translated from any language into English and published in the previous year. For the...
read moreAmerican Literary Translators Association
Cash Prize: $6,000
Entry Fee: $0
Application Deadline: 4/19/21
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
A prize of $6,000 is given annually for a book of poetry or a text from Zen Buddhism translated from an Asian language into English and published in the previous year....
read moreAmerican Literary Translators Association
Cash Prize: $5,000
Entry Fee: $0
Application Deadline: 4/19/21
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
A prize of $5,000 is given annually for a book of fiction or nonfiction translated from Italian into English and published in the previous year. Publishers or translators may...
read moreSixfold
Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $5
Application Deadline: 4/23/21
Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Sixfold are given quarterly for a group of poems and a short story. Using only the online submission system, submit up to...
read moreF(r)iction
Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $15
Application Deadline: 4/29/21
Genre: Fiction
A prize of $1,000 is given twice yearly for a short story. Using only the online submission system, submit a story of 1,000 to 7,500 words with a $15 entry fee by April 29. All...
read moreWinning Writers
Cash Prize: $3,000
Entry Fee: $20
Application Deadline: 4/30/21
Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Two prizes of $3,000 each and publication on the Winning Writers website are given annually for a short story and an essay. Dennis Norris II will judge. Unpublished and...
read moreUniversity of Mississippi
Cash Prize: $10,000
Entry Fee: $0
Application Deadline: 4/30/21
Genre: Fiction
A prize of $10,000 is given annually for a novel published during the previous year that is set in the South and reflects Willie Morris’s “hope for belonging, for belief in a...
read moreDIAGRAM/New Michigan Press
Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $20
Application Deadline: 4/30/21
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
A prize of $1,000, publication by New Michigan Press, and 25 author copies is given annually for a chapbook of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or hybrid-genre work. Ander...
read moreGhost Story
Cash Prize: $1,500
Entry Fee: $20
Application Deadline: 4/30/21
Genre: Fiction
A prize of $1,500 and publication on the Ghost Story website is given twice yearly for a short story with a supernatural or magic realism theme. The winning work will...
read moreLeapfrog Press
Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $35
Application Deadline: 5/3/21
Genre: Fiction
A prize of $1,000 and publication by Leapfrog Press is given annually for a short story collection, novel, or novella. Using only the online submission system, submit a...
read moreAustralian Book Review
Cash Prize: $4,356
Entry Fee: $19
Application Deadline: 5/3/21
Genre: Fiction
A prize of AUD $6,000 (approximately $4,356) is given annually for a story. A second-place prize of AUD $4,000 (approximately $2,970) and a third-place prize of AUD $2,500 (...
read moreBristol Short Story Prize
Cash Prize: $1,343
Entry Fee: $12
Application Deadline: 5/5/21
Genre: Fiction
A prize of £1,000 (approximately $1,343) and publication in Volume 14 of the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology is given annually for a short story. Irene Baldoni,...
read moreAcademy of American Poets
Cash Prize: $5,000
Entry Fee: $0
Application Deadline: 5/15/21
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
A prize of $5,000 is given annually for a second book of poetry by a living poet to be published in the coming calendar year. The winner also receives an all-expenses paid...
read moreCrook’s Corner Book Prize Foundation
Cash Prize: $5,000
Entry Fee: $35
Application Deadline: 5/15/21
Genre: Fiction
A prize of $5,000 is given annually for a debut novel set in the American South. The author may live anywhere, but eligible novels must be set primarily in Alabama, Arkansas,...
read morePloughshares
Cash Prize: $2,000
Entry Fee: $24
Application Deadline: 5/15/21
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Three prizes of $2,000 each and publication in Ploughshares are given annually for a poem or group of poems, a short story, and an essay. Each winner also receives a...
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