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.

Yale University Press

Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize

Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $25
Application Deadline: 11/15/24
Genre: Poetry

A prize of $1,000 and publication by Yale University Press is given annually for a poetry collection by a poet who has not published a full-length book of poetry and who...

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Academy of American Poets

Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize

Cash Prize: $1,000
Entry Fee: $0
Application Deadline: 11/15/24
Genre: Poetry

A prize of $1,000 and publication on the Academy of American Poets website will be given for a poem “that help[s] readers recognize the gravity of the vulnerable state of our...

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