Contests and Awards

Sponsored by Winning Writers, will award a first prize of $2,000, a second prize of $500, and ten honorable mentions of $100 each. The winner will also enjoy a two-year…

Enter your best essay in 2,000 words or less for your chance to win $1,000 and publication in our magazine. Submit by Feb. 28, 2022 for your chance to win.

Send the most overwritten sentence you can manage. See the site for examples of the worst of the worst. The rules for the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest are childishly simple:…

Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Big Moose Prize for an unpublished novel.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…

This is for US and Canadian writers, for a first novel (manuscript) of mystery – in which a serious crime or crimes is at the heart of the story, and…

This is an international contest for crime novel manuscripts, for writers who have never been the author of any published novel in any genre. The writing should be no less…

Publishers of print and audiobooks with a copyright date of 2021 may enter the current competition. Qualifying publishers include: independent publishers hybrid publishers self-published authors university presses association presses PERIODS…

Conducted annually, the Independent Publisher Book Awards honor the year’s best independently published titles from around the world. The awards are intended to bring increased recognition to the thousands of…

Entry Fee $25 The contest winner is published in Five Points and is awarded $1,000. Submissions open through December 1, 2021.

$25 ENTRY FEE. Deadline November 30, 2021. Winner receives a $250 prize (via Paypal) and publication. Honorable mentions may also be offered a publishing contract. Round One: Submit the first…