The final deadline for Black Lawrence Press’s annual prize for unpublished novels, The Big Moose Prize, is fast apporaching. The prize is open to new and emerging as well as established writers. The contest winner will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and ten copies of the book. The entry period closes on January 31st. Find further details on the contest page or submit via Submittable.
Magazine Jewish Currents: Activist Politics and Art, is accepting submissions for the 2016 Raynes Poetry Competition. Poets can submit up to three poems related to this years theme “Urge.” The first prize is $1,000, with two runners-up receiving $180. The submission fee is $18 which includes a 1-year subscription to the magazine. Submissions are due January 15th. Further information maybe found on the contest webpage or on the flyer below
Independent publisher Glimmer Train is now accepting submissions for their Short Story Award for New Writers contest. The contest is exclusively open to writers whose fiction has not appeared, nor is scheduled to appear, in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. The due date for submissions is November 30th (with a one week grace period). First place wins $1,500, publication in Glimmer Train Stories and 10 copies. Second place wins $500, or, if chosen for publication, $700 and 10 copies. Third place wins $300, or, if chosen for publication, $700 and 10 copies. The reading fee is… Read Article →
The Writer is now accepting fiction submissions for their “Two Roads Diverge” short story contest. The contest asks for a 2,000 word short story responding to two quotes from novelist Colum McCann who will be the contest judge. Prizes include: $1,000 cash prize for the winner and publication in March 2016 print issue of The Writer, runner-up and third place will receive cash prize of $500 and $250 respectively and publication on The Writer‘s website. The deadline to submit is December 6. Find submission guidelines and further details online here.
Black Lawrence Press will soon be closed for submissions to their Fall 2015 Black River Chapbook Competition. The deadline for the Fall 2015 Competition is October 31! The Black River chapbook Competition is a semi-annual prize for a chapbook of short fiction or poems open to new, emerging, or established writers. Entries should be between 16 and 36 pages in length. The winner will receive $500 and publication. The submission fee is $15. More information and submission guidelines can be found on the The Black River Chapbook submission page. Past winners include: Lisa Fay Coutley, Amelia Martens, Charlotte Pence, Russel… Read Article →
Narrative is now open for submissions to their 2015 30 Below Contest. The contest is open to all writers, poets, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers between eighteen and thirty years old. They are looking for the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary, and looking to encourage and promote the best young authors and artists working today. The contest is open until November 15, 2015. Submission guidelines are available here, and can be sent here. Awards include: First Prize $1,500, Second Prize $750, Third Prize $300, and ten finalists who receive $100 each. Likewise… Read Article →
Dappled Things literary magazine is now open for submissions to the 2016 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction. The winner will receive $500 and a prize of $250 will go to the runner-up. There is no reading fee. The winning stories will be announced in February, 2016 and published in Dappled Things, along with up to eight honorable mentions. Find details and submit on the Dappled Things website, submissions close November 27, 2015. From Dappled Things: “‘One foot in this world and one in the next’: that’s how J.F. Powers described the Midwestern priests he wrote about in his fiction. Having one foot in… Read Article →
Creative Nonfiction is now seeking multiple short and long-form stories. See their call for submissions below: Nov 16 Childhood (an issue of CNF) What’s on the line: $1,000 for best essay; $500 for runner-up; publication in CNF. What we’re looking for: True stories that explore the joys and struggles, the indignities and infinite possibilities of childhood. Maybe you lived Where the Wild Things Are or during the Wonder Years; maybe you’re a parent or a pediatrician; whatever your perspective, share your tale of kid-dom in all its messy, exhilarating, turbulent glory. View guidelines › Nov 16… Read Article →
The 2016 Saints and Sinners LGBT Literary Festival‘s Writing Contest’s Deadline has been extended to November 2, 2015. The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was founded in 2003 as a new initiative designed as way to reach the community with information about HIV/AIDS, particularly disseminating prevention messages via the writers, thinkers and spokes-people of the LGBT community while celebrating the literary arts. The Festival has grown into an internationally-recognized event that brings together a who’s who of LGBT publishers, writers and readers from throughout the United States and beyond. The Festival, held over 4 days each Spring, features… Read Article →
Callaloo, the premier literary journal of the African Diaspora, is now accepting applications for the 2016 Brown Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop (CCWW). They invite submissions of poetry or fiction for admission consideration for this two-week workshop, which will be hosted by the Department of Africana Studies and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University, June 12-25, 2016. Applications must be submitted online no later than November 1, 2015. Each applicant must submit a brief cover letter and writing sample (no more than five pages of poetry or twelve pages of prose fiction)…. Read Article →
Thursday, October 22 at 5:00 pm is the deadline to submit to The Guild Literary Complex for their 2015 prose awards for short fiction and non-fiction. Every fall, the Guild Complex acknowledges emerging and established writers via a judged competition and recognition at the historic Chopin Theatre in Chicago. A cash prize of $500 in each category (fiction and non-fiction) will be awarded to an original unpublished work. Three semi-finalist from each category will read their work at our annual Prose Awards event, and the winners will be announced live that evening. The recognition event will be held on Thursday, November… Read Article →
This Sunday marks the beginning of the 2015-2016 cycle of Narrative Magazine’s poem of the week contest. Authors are paid $25 (reprints) to $50 for a selected poem, a chance to win $150 if selected as one of the years Top Five Poems of the Week, and eligibility for the $4,000 Narrative Prize. Each week the new Poem of the Week is emailed to Narrative’s 200,000 readers and listed on their website. For more information and to submit, visit their submissions page for details and guidelines. Or check out the Top Five Poems of the Week from Narrative’s 2014-2015 contest.