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Upcoming Contest Deadlines [1]

Poetry [2]
Fiction [3]
Creative Nonfiction [4]
12.6.19

As we enter the last month of 2019, the time is right to submit to contests with a deadline of December 15. These poetry, fiction, and nonfiction awards include opportunities to attend a residency in upstate New York and to have your work reviewed by a literary agency. Most offer a prize of $1,000 or more. 

Center for Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition [5]: A prize of $500 and letterpress publication by the Center for Book Arts is given annually for a poetry chapbook. The winner will also receive an additional $500 to give a reading with the contest judge at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in fall 2020, and a weeklong residency at the Winter Shakers program at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York. Entry fee: $30.

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards [6]: Five prizes are given annually for a poetry collection, a book of fiction, a first book of fiction, a book of creative nonfiction, and a book of fiction or nonfiction that relates to California published during the previous year. Books written by authors residing in California are eligible. Entry fee: none.

F(r)iction Short Story Contest [7]: A prize of $1,000 is given three times a year for a short story. Entry fee: $15.

LitMag Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction [8]: A prize of $3,500 and publication in LitMag is given annually for a short story. A second-place prize of $1,000 will also be given. The winners will have their work reviewed by Sobel Weber Associates literary agency. The editors will judge. Entry fee: $20. 

Mid-American Review Poetry and Fiction Contests [9]: Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Mid-American Review are given annually for a poem (the James Wright Poetry Award) and a short story (the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award). Entry fee: $10. 

Silverfish Review Press Gerald Cable Book Award [10]: A prize of $1,000, publication by Silverfish Review Press, and 25 author copies is given annually for a first poetry collection. Entry fee: $25, which includes a copy of the winning book.

Willow Books Literature Awards [11]: Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication by Willow Books are given annually for a book of fiction and a book of creative nonfiction by writers of color. Entry fee: $25.

Visit the contest websites for complete guidelines, and check out the Grants & Awards database [12] and Submission Calendar [13] for more contests in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/upcoming_contest_deadlines_9 [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [4] https://www.pw.org/genre/creativenonfiction [5] https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/letterpress_poetry_chapbook_competition [6] https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/california_book_awards [7] https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/short_story_contest_1 [8] https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/virginia_woolf_award_for_short_fiction [9] https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/poetry_and_fiction_contests [10] https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/gerald_cable_book_award [11] https://www.pw.org/writing_contests/literature_awards [12] https://www.pw.org/grants%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank [13] https://www.pw.org/submission_calendar%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank