Contests and Awards

$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).…

Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The St. Lawrence Book Award for an unpublished first collection of poems or short stories. The St. Lawrence Book Award is open to…

$10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline October 31, 2021. The Quill Prose Award is for a work of previously unpublished prose with a minimum of 150 pages by a queer (LGBTQIA+) writer.…

$25 ENTRY FEE. Deadline October 1, 2021. The Red Hen Press Fiction Award is for a previously unpublished fresh and original work of fiction, either a novel or short-story collection,…

Fiction Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Eligibility: Rising African-American authors with novels or short-story collections published in 2021 Prize: $15,000 Deadline: August 15, 2021 Nonfiction Iowa Prize in Literary…

How has your identity as a woman affected your career, jobs, and/or your relationship with money? Submit your essay on the theme “Work and Womanhood” to share your stories, experience,…

$3,000 for a poem in any style or genre and $3,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Ten Honorable Mentions will receive $200 each (any style).…

The nonrefundable entry fee for all submissions is $99. Each entry receives a publishable assessment by a Publishers Weekly reviewer and a chance to win the $5,000 grand prize or…