Genre: Poetry

Open Season Awards

Malahat Review
Entry Fee: 
$26
Deadline: 
November 1, 2024
Three prizes of $2,000 Canadian (approximately $1,461) each and publication in Malahat Review are given annually for a poem, a short story, and an essay. Using only the online submission system, submit up to three poems of no more than 100 lines each or a short story or essay of up to 2,500 words with a $35 Canadian (approximately $26) entry fee by the early-bird deadline of September 30 or a $45 Canadian (approximately $33) entry fee by November 1. All entry fees include a subscription to Malahat Review. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Poetry Book Prize

Changes Press
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
October 1, 2024
A prize of $10,000, publication by Changes Press, and 50 author copies is given annually for a first or second poetry collection. The winner will also receive an all-expenses-paid book launch in New York City in 2026. Terrance Hayes will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 48 to 96 pages, a brief bio, and a list of previously published poems by October 1. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Poetry Contest

One Page
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
September 30, 2024
A prize of $2,000 is given annually for a single poem. A second-place prize of $1,000 is also given. Mark Graham, Monique Jonath, Mridvi Khetan, and Ann Tinkham will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a one-page poem and a cover letter with a $25 entry fee by September 30. All entries are considered for publication. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

Juniper Prizes

University of Massachusetts Press
Entry Fee: 
$30
Deadline: 
September 30, 2024
Five prizes of $1,000 each and publication by University of Massachusetts Press are given annually for a debut poetry collection, a poetry collection by an author who has previously published a book, a short story collection, a novel, and a book of creative nonfiction. The creative writing faculty at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a poetry manuscript of 50 to 70 pages, a story collection or novel of 150 to 350 pages, or a memoir, book of narrative nonfiction, biography, or essay collection of 150 to 300 pages with a $30 entry fee by September 30. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
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novel | novella | short stories | book awards | first book awards

Tulsa NightWriters Craft of Writing Conference

September/October 2024

The Tulsa NightWriters Craft of Writing Conference was held on October 19 and October 20 at Oklahoma State University’s Center for Poets and Writers in Tulsa. The conference featured panel discussions, presentations on the craft and business of writing, breakout sessions, and pitch sessions for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 19, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
May 24, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 24, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Tulsa NightWriters Craft of Writing Conference, P.O. Box 702874, Tulsa, OK 74170. Ana Maddox, Director of Communications.

Ana Maddox
Director of Communications
Contact City: 
Tulsa
Contact State: 
OK
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
74170
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Troubadour International Poetry Prize

Coffee-House Poetry
Entry Fee: 
$8
Deadline: 
September 23, 2024
A prize of £2,000 (approximately $2,602) is given annually for a single poem. A second-place prize of £1,000 (approximately $1,301) is also given. Both winners receive publication on the Coffee-House Poetry website and an invitation to read alongside the contest judges in an online celebration on December 9. Glyn Maxwell and Jane Yeh will judge. E-mail any number of poems of up to 45 lines each with a £6 (approximately $8) entry fee per poem, sent via PayPal, by September 23. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Book Prize

Permafrost
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
October 1, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication by University of Alaska Press will be given in alternating years for a book of poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. The 2024 prize will be given in fiction. Eowyn Ivey will judge. Submit a short story collection or novel of 150 to 300 pages and a brief bio with a $25 entry fee by October 1. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry

University of Mississippi
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
September 30, 2024
A prize of $3,000 is given annually for a single poem that evokes the U.S. South. The winner will also receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Oxford, Mississippi, for the awards ceremony in March 2025. Susan Kinsolving will judge. Submit one poem of up to three pages by September 30. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Portland Book Festival

September/October 2024

The 2024 Portland Book Festival, hosted by Literary Arts, was held on November 2 at six partner venues in Portland’s South Park Blocks. The festival’s third annual Cover to Cover program was held from October 28 to November 3 in multiple locations throughout the Portland area and included programming such as interactive book presentations, literature-inspired comedy shows, and storytelling events. The festival featured writing workshops, pop-up readings with local writers, and author discussions, taking place across ten stages and with over eighty authors, as well as a book fair.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
November 2, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
May 24, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 24, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Portland Book Festival, Literary Arts, 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR 97205. (503) 227-2583. 

Contact City: 
Portland
Contact State: 
OR
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Paterson

The Time Is Now
8.13.24

William Carlos Williams’s multi-volume, mid-twentieth-century poem Paterson is purportedly inspired by the works of his contemporaries: James Joyce’s Ulysses, Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and Hart Crane’s The Bridge. Through his subject—the former mill town of Paterson, New Jersey—Williams provides a voice for American industrial communities. A launching pad for other artists’ work, the book inspired Jim Jarmusch’s 2016 film Paterson, about a bus driver and poet named Paterson in the city of the same name, and Robert Fitterman’s book Creve Coeur (Winter Editions, 2024), set in the segregated suburbs of his eponymous Missouri hometown—an illustration of contemporary America that mirrors the structure of Williams’s postwar epic. Write a poem that draws on specific observations of your neighborhood to express a wider perspective on life in the twenty-first century. Incorporate street names, local landmarks, and history as well as tidbits of everyday conversation.

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