Deadline: October 1, 2023 Entry fee: $25 About the competition Ballarat Writers Inc is inviting entries to the 2023 Southern Cross Short Story competition, from authors writing in English on the theme of TRACKS OF DESIRE to a maximum of 3,000 words. First prize AUD$1000 with runner-up prizes and certificatesMore
Deadline: October 1, 2023 Entry fee: $25 About the competition A submission is one original short story, written in English, up to 7,000 words. This contest is open only to writers who have not yet published a book of fiction. Published books include self-published books with ISBN numbers. Those whoMore
Deadline: November 16, 2022 Entry fee: $12 About the competition The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (The Smokey) is a biennial competition that celebrates and compensates excellence in flash. Our first grand prize winner in 2018 was “Whale Fall” by Alvin Park. In 2020 Abby Feden won the top prize with “ToMore
Deadline: March 30, 2023 Entry fee: $5 About the competition The winning poet will receive a two thousand dollar award and the winning poem will be published in Plough Quarterly. In addition, two finalists will receive two hundred and fifty dollars as well as publication in Plough. This award honors the achievementsMore
Deadline: May 31, 2022 Reading Fee: $30 About the contest For the 2022 contest, the Autumn House staff as well as select outsider readers serve as the preliminary readers, and the final judge is Venita Blackburn. The winner receives publication of a full-length manuscript and $2,500. The submission period opens January 1, 2022,More
This website is sponsoring one of the awards for the 2022 Emerging Writer Fellowship. The judges for the Straw Dog Writers Guild Emerging Writer Fellowship have announced the 2022-23 shortlist of three writers. They are Vida James, Regine Jackson, and Syki Barbee. One writer will be named the 2022-23 FellowMore
At the beginning of May, Straw Dog Writers Guild started accepting submissions for their ‘Pandemic Poetry & Prose: Writers Respond to Corona’ project. The goal of this endeavor is to ‘solicit and feature work by writers that speaks to some aspect of life during these unique times. By publishing online,More
Here’s the program for this year’s WriteAngles Conference at Mount Holyoke College. The keynote speaker will be poet, essayist, translator, editor and University of Massachusetts Amherst professor, Martín Espada. Joining him on the speaker and presenter list for the day are over 20 other writers, editors and professionals from different fieldsMore