Contests and Awards

Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Big Moose Prize for an unpublished novel.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

$10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline November 30, 2021. Seeking short fiction of any genre between 250 and 750 words. The mission of this contest is to inspire creativity, communication, and well-rewarded…

WNBA Authentic Voices Fellowship With a goal to create equity in the publishing world, the WNBA Authentic Voices Fellowship supports voices that have been overlooked or stifled in the publishing…

The Black River Chapbook Competition is a semi-annual prize from Black Lawrence Press for a chapbook of poems or prose (including fiction, creative non-fiction, lyric essay, and prose hybrid manuscripts).…