Contests and Awards

Seeking your best work for a national writing contest. Winning entries will be published in a special issue of The Bookwoman, the national newsletter of the WNBA. Entry Fee: WNBA…

The IACP Cookbook Awards honor the authors, publishers, and other contributors behind the best of cookbooks published each year. Early Bird- September 17th to November 16th, 2015 The entry fee…

Submit your poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction for a chance to attend the 11th annual San Miguel Writers’ Conference free of charge. Three writers will be awarded the entire five-day…

Deadline November 30, 2015 http://www.usaregionalexcellencebookawards.com

Deadline January 31, 2016 http://www.beverlyhillsbookawards.com

Dan Poynter is now accepting entries from e-book authors and publishers. Eligibility: e-books released to the public anytime in 2014 or newer. Entry deadline is April 30, 2016 (midnight Pacific…

Deadline: October 15, 2015. Entry fee: $25. If you write short stories, don’t miss your chance to compete in the Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards. There’s sure to be a…

The regular rate to enter INDIEFAB is $99 per title per category. Enter by September 1, 2015 and the rate is $79 per title for the first category and $59…

Over the past two decades, Kimberly Yorio has, in her best estimation, worked on roughly 1,200 cookbooks. As an in-house cookbook publicist for William Morrow, she created campaigns for authors…

10th Annual Poetry Awards from Writer’s Digest. If you’ve written a poem this year that you’re proud of—one that you’ve revisited again and again—our editors would like to read it,…