Writing 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.

Georgia Review

Prose Prize

Cash Prize: $1,500
Entry Fee: $25
Application Deadline: 1/15/27
Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

A prize of $1,500 and publication in Georgia Review is given annually for a short story or an essay. Vauhini Vara will judge. Submit a story or essay of up to 9,000...

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Red Hen Press

Cai Emmons Fiction Award

Cash Prize: $5,000
Entry Fee: $25
Application Deadline: 1/15/27
Genre: Fiction

A prize of $5,000 and publication by Red Hen Press is given annually for a story collection, a novella, a novel, or other book-length work of fiction. Using only the online...

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