Deadline: May 6, 2022. Writer’s Digest is calling for entries for its oldest and most popular competition, the Annual Writing Competition. This is the 91st edition of the competition. Winners will be announced in the Nov/Dec 2022 issue of Writer’s Digest. Prizes One Grand Prize winner will receive: $5,000 inMore
Deadline: December 30, 2021. Open to Black women and to Black gender expansive writers. Straw Dog Writers Guild, has announced that it is now accepting applications for its Emerging Writer Fellowship. The fellowship will grant an emerging writer of fiction a $3000 stipend and other professional benefits for a fullMore
Deadline: November 15, 2021 SmokeLong is an online literary magazine dedicated to flash narrative. It publishes narratives that are 1,000 words or fewer. The term “smoke-long” comes from a tongue-in-cheek Chinese anecdote that reading a piece of flash writing takes about the same length of time as smoking a cigarette.More
Deadline: August 31st, 2021, Midnight, Pacific Time. The Prize Cultural Daily’s 9th Annual “Jack Grapes Poetry Prize” is open for submissions. This contest is free to enter. 3 winners will receive $500 each, plus publication. 9 finalists will receive $100 each, plus publication. Winners and finalists will be announced inMore
Deadline: September 1, 2021 The Awards The American-Scandinavian Foundation annually awards three translation prizes for outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose written by a Nordic author born after 1900: The Nadia Christensen Prize includes a $2,500 award, publication of an excerpt in Scandinavian Review, and a commemorativeMore
Entries are invited for the 2021 Kindle Storyteller Award. This is a £20,000 literary prize recognizing outstanding writing published through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform. It is open to writers publishing in English in any genre. Readers play a significant role in selecting the winner, helped by a panel ofMore
What the opportunity is Present your own workshop, debate, or other event at the 2021 Boston Book Festival. Who it’s for Literary enthusiasts who are willing and able to organize an in-person event at the 2021 Boston Book Festival. You will need to be able to get yourself to theMore
Summary No Contact, an online literary magazine that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art, is looking for submissions for its first poetry contest. Deadline Closes on Monday, July 26, 2021 Details No Contact is proud to announce its very first poetry contest, judged by Matt Mitchell! One winner will receiveMore
The annual $15,000 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence is open to rising African-American fiction writers across the United States. The book award, honors Louisiana’s revered storyteller, Ernest J. Gaines, and is now in its 15th year. It has become nationally recognized in its role of enhancing the visibilityMore
