Contests and awards of interest to writers, artists, illustrators, and publishers
Find paying markets, calls for submissions, contests, agents looking for authors, and a special listing for calls for Western short stories, and more, updated monthly with more frequent updates on…
Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Hudson Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or short stories. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The…
Writers are invited to submit to the Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tales Prize through February 15, 2021. Guest judge Kevin Brockmeier will choose three prize winners from…
The 2021 PubWest Annual Conference will be held remotely on February 2-4. Check out the agenda and register today!
This January there are more than three dozen writing contests calling for every genre and form, from poetry, to creative nonfiction, to completed novels. Prizes range from $100,000 to publication.…
The most exciting and rewarding book awards program open to independent publishers and authors worldwide is now accepting entries written in English and released in 2019, 2020 or 2021 or…
Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Big Moose Prize for an unpublished novel. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The winner of this contest…
The TCK Publishing Poetry Awards Contest is an international poetry contest established in 2021. Each year’s prizewinner receives a $1,000 honorarium and publication of his or her poem on the…
Publishers of print and audiobooks with a copyright date of 2020 may enter the current competition. Qualifying publishers include: independent publishers hybrid publishers self-published authors university presses association presses Deadline…
The Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) announced this week that the 2020 WNBA Writing Contest is open for submission. The contest runs through December 1. In addition to the fiction,…
