Contests and Awards

The Aesthetica Creative Writing is now open for entry, offering both existing and aspiring writers the chance to showcase their work to a wider, international audience. Now in its sixth…

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition is now open for entries! The competition celebrates and champions creative writing, nurturing talent, and bringing work to international attention. Aesthetica is inviting all writers…

Global Book Contest 2013 and please pass the word to fellow writers about it. The Competition is open to all authors in the United States, Canada and UK. Open to…

Second Annual California Book Contest now seeing submissions. Winners receive reading by agents and consultations by publishing/book promotion professionals. Deadline March 31, 2013. http://bookcontest2013.luckycinda.com/

The Al Blanchard Award Contest for 2013 has officially begun. The prize includes a $100 cash award, publication in Level Best Books’ eleventh anthology of short crime fiction by New…

The Ventura County Writers Club announced its twelfth annual poetry contest, which includes an exciting audio/visual category to address more forms of poetry. The contest will continue its two youth…

2013 EIFLE Awards Nomination Deadline January 31, 2013 Awards Presentation April 3, 2013 in Orlando, Florida Each year, the Institute for Financial Literacy presents the Excellence in Financial Literacy Education…

Dan Poynter’s Third Annual 2013 Global E-book Awards is open for submissions Accepting entries from e-book authors and publishers in more than 95 categories: E-book released anytime 2011, 2012 or…

The 2012-2013 Los Angeles Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual celebration of books deserving more attention from the world publishing community. The Los Angeles Book Festival will consider entries in general non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children’s books,…

The 2013 San Francisco Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the spring and will consider non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children’s…