Contests and Awards

Eligibility: All poets Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry Fee: $18 Deadline: June 13, 2022

Eligibility: All U.S. writers Prize: $2,500 Entry Fee: $15 Deadline: June 15, 2022

Eligibility: All writers Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry Fee: $15 Deadline: June 1, 2022

AWARDS YEAR: 2022 contest is now open! The Book Awards Year is the year that contest entries were submitted and accepted into their related genre deadlines for submissions. Final winners…

$10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline July 11, 2022. Submit an original story or poem of up to 2,000 words of any genre and in any style. Here’s the catch: they provide…

Contemporary literary fiction need not apply to this genre-specific contest, which seeks works “that could not possibly be viewed as not falling inside their chosen genre.” Any genre is fine…

Call for submissions: Stories Rule Press (SRP) seeks submissions for Christmas Romance Digest 2022: Love In Other Lands, our portal fantasy romance anthology to be published on October 27, 2022.…

Sponsored by Winning Writers, will award a first prize of $2,000, a second prize of $500, and ten honorable mentions of $100 each. The winner will also enjoy a two-year…

Enter your best essay in 2,000 words or less for your chance to win $1,000 and publication in our magazine. Submit by Feb. 28, 2022 for your chance to win.

Send the most overwritten sentence you can manage. See the site for examples of the worst of the worst. The rules for the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest are childishly simple:…