Contests and Awards

The Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition is open to all. To enter, creators must provide an original story of up to 3,000 words in any genre. The catch: They provide…

Bookselling Without Borders, a program to send booksellers to international books fairs, is taking applications for all-expenses-paid trips to the Turin Book Fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair, and the Guadalajara…

Independent Publisher Book Awards Will Present 5,000th Medal This Year (the Ippys). The world’s top independent authors and publishers will compete for gold, silver, and bronze medals in the 22nd…

Gemini Magazine submissions for 2018 are now open. There is no fee for submitting and payment is $10 per published piece. They publish short stories, flash fiction and poetry. Gemini…

The Eric Hoffer Book Award recognizes excellence in independent publishing. Prizes awarded by genre, press, the Montaigne Medal, the da Vince Eye, the First Horizon Award, and the Hoffer grand…

One first-place winner will receive $500, an opportunity to read at the 2017 Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, Kentucky on October 21, and publication in The Louisville Review, the literary…

$5,000 Grand Prize. Each entry receives a brief assessment by a Publishers Weekly Reviewer. The BookLife Prize is an annual writing contest sponsored by BookLife and Publishers Weekly. The prize…

Find Glimmer Train on Submittable NOTE: contest deadlines are always followed by a one-week grace period. Short Story Award for New Writers (1st place – $2,500): Welcome in January/February, May/June,…

The Ventura County Writers Club is accepting entries for its annual 2017 Memoir Contest. “We hope writers of all levels will submit their personal stories,” says contest chairwoman Shelba Cole-Robison.…

3rd year, sponsored by Winning Writers, one of the Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers. Awards $1,500 each to three authors along with expert marketing services. Categories: General Fiction,…