On This Weekend's To Do List: Make Those End-of-Month Deadlines [1]
There is still one week left to submit your genre-bending nonfiction, poetry chapbook, or novel-in-progress, as well as a handful of other types of work. For those sparked into action by a fast-approaching deadline, a list of contests with closing dates in the coming week appears below. Happy submitting.
Closing on Friday, October 30 are:
DIAGRAM's Hybrid Nonfiction Contest [2]
Inkwell's Poetry and Short Fiction Competitions [3]
Wyoming Arts Council's Blanchan/Doubleday Memorial Awards [4] in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
The Saturday, October 31 deadlines are:
American Poetry Review's Honickman First Book Prize [5]
Dana Awards [6]for a group of poems, a short story, or a novel or novel-in-progress
Elixir Press's Poetry Awards [7]
Glimmer Train Press's Family Matters [8] for a story about family
Graywolf Press's Nonfiction Prize [9] for a work-in-progress
Kore Press's Short Fiction Award [10]
The Ledge Press's Poetry Chapbook Competition [11]
Margie's Strong Medicine Poetry Award [12]
North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize [13]
Ohio University Press's Hollis Summers Poetry Prize [14]
PEN/Faulkner Foundation's Award for Fiction [15] for novels or short story collections published in 2009
Poetry Society of the United Kingdom's National Poetry Competition [16], which is open to international submissions
Truman State University Press's T. S. Eliot Prize [17]for a poetry collection (not to be confused with the Poetry Book Society's T. S. Eliot Prize [18])
University of Arkansas Press's Miller Williams Poetry Prize [19] for a poetry collection
The Writing Site's Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction [20]