Contests and Awards

The 23rd annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest offers $3,750 in prizes, with a first prize of $2,000, a second prize of $500, and a third prize of $250. The…

Deadline April 15, 2024 The AHAF (American Handwriting Analysis Foundation) Campaign for Cursive sponsors the annual Cursive is Cool contest. Any grade-school-age child is welcome to enter in the U.S.…

$15 entry fee. Deadline September 30, 2023. Submit up to three poems per entry fee. First prize $1,000. Second prize $100. Third prize $50. Winning poems published in Connecticut Review.

No entry fee. Deadline December 15, 2023. The competition is open to any writer, regardless of nationality, age 18 or older, who has never authored any published novel in any…

Deadline –October 31, 2023 Publication – December 2023 Word Count: 3,000-20,000 Theme: All Christmas stories. If Christmas is involved, the story qualifies. All genres. Happily Ever After (HEA) not required.

Publishers of print and audiobooks with a copyright date of 2023 may enter the current competition. Qualifying publishers include: independent publishers hybrid publishers self-published authors university presses association presses PERIODS…

Writer’s Digest’s 11th Annual Self-Published E-book Awards honors the best self-published e-book(s) in eight of the most popular categories with $5,000 in cash, a featured interview in Writer’s Digest magazine,…

Unveil the complexities of betrayal in this year’s Chilling Pen award, the theme of the award. We invite writers from around the globe to submit their original unpublished works of…

The Gutsy Great Novelist Page One Prize is awarded for an outstanding opening page of an unpublished novel. First prize is $1,000; 2nd is $500; and 3rd is $250. The…

Elegant Literature is one of the largest awards open to unpublished writers, and the only one closed to professionals. They are the first magazine to pay pro rates and accept…