Contests and Awards

The TCK Publishing Short Story Contest is an international short story contest established in 2021. Each year’s prizewinner receives a $1,000 honorarium and publication of his or her short story…

Deadline: June 30, 2021 Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $5,000 in the seventh annual North Street competition for self-published books, co-sponsored by BookBaby and Carolyn Howard-Johnson (author…

Deadlines at the end of each month (must be received by this date). Neutral free contest gives monthly prizes up to $100 and web publication for flash prose on a…

Deadline May 31. Recommended free contest awards one grant of $1,000 for unpublished writing samples (poetry, drama, fiction, or nonfiction) by writers aged 50+ who are just starting to write…

Deadline May 31. Recommended free contest gives $1,000 and publication in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine for the best traditional mystery novella. Entries should be 15,000-20,000 words. See website for thematic…

Deadline May 15. Highly recommended free contest from Sisters in Crime awards $2,000 grant for adult crime fiction, 2,500-5,000 words, by an author of color who has not published more…

Readers’ Favorite is the largest book review and award contest site for authors on the web. Their annual International Book Award Contest receives submissions from first-time self-published authors to New…

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).…

$10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline June 1, 2021. First Prize: $500 and publication in Midway Journal. Second Prize: $250 and publication in Midway Journal. Third Prize: $50 and publication in Midway…

$5 ENTRY FEE. Deadline April 30, 2021. Top prize for a single flash $300; two runners-up $100 each. Limit 1,000 words. May contain fiction, nonfiction, hybrids, marks, or images, in…