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- Posted July 05, 2022
- Genres Poetry
- Type Book
- Big Title Submit to the 2023 Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize
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Deadline: November 18, 2022
Willow Springs Books is seeking submissions for the Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize, a first poetry book prize for poets 35 years old and younger who have not yet published a book-length poetry manuscript. Poets who have previously published chapbooks are welcome to submit. 48 pages minimum. One manuscript per submission. Open for submissions from 6/20/2022 to 11/18/2022. The winner receives $2,000 plus publication in our Emma Howell Rising Poets series. wse.submittable.com/submit/228879/submit-to-the-2023-emma-howell-rising-poet-prize - Fee Show All, Show with fee
- Posted June 30, 2022
- Genres Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Type Anthology
- Big Title The 2022 Best Spiritual Literature Awards
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Deadline: August 1, 2022
The 2022 Best Spiritual Literature Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry offer $500 and publication by Orison Books in the Best Spiritual Literature anthology for a single work in each genre. The editors will judge. Entry fee: $12. Submission period: May 1–August 1. Find complete details at www.orisonbooks.com/submissions. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
- Posted June 30, 2022
- Genres Fiction
- Type Literary Site
- Big Title Gival Press Short Story Award
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Deadline: August 8, 2022
19th Gival Press Short Story Award (annual), deadline August 8, 2022. Prize: $1,000.00 and online publication for the best stand-alone (not part of a novel) previously unpublished (print or online) short story. Reading fee: $25.00. Submit Word or RTF document, please also include personal details and a short bio via portal: givalpress.submittable.com. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 30, 2022
- Genres Poetry
- Type Literary Site
- Big Title Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
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Deadline: September 30, 2022
20th year, sponsored by Winning Writers. Win $3,000 for a poem in any style and $3,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Total prizes: $8,000. The top two winners will also receive two-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor, Duotrope (a $100 value). Both published and unpublished work accepted. Winning entries published online. Submit 1-3 poems for a $20 entry fee. Length limit: 250 lines per poem. Judged by S. Mei Sheng Frazier. This contest is recommended by Reedsy. Winning Writers is one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2022). See past winners, advice from the judge, and submit online at winningwriters.com/tompoetrynp22 - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 30, 2022
- Genres Poetry, Cross-genre
- Type Chapbook
- Big Title $1,000 Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest
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Deadline: July 31, 2022
MAYDAY Magazine invites you to send 8-12 pages of poems to be considered for the Editors' Choice Award, including $1000, publication at MAYDAY, and an author interview. Deadline: July 31. Early bird entry fee: $10 (May 1-June 15). Regular fee: $15 (June 16-July 31). Submit a unified manuscript filled with poems that have achieved a balance of both craft and story so seamlessly that we cannot look away. We welcome a diverse range of content and authors, including LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and international voices. For more details, visit maydaymagazine.com/contests. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 29, 2022
- Genres Fiction, Nonfiction
- Type Magazine
- Big Title Cleaver's Summer Lightning Flash Contest for Fiction & Nonfiction
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Deadline: August 1, 2022
Show us what strikes you and lights up your summer! Whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, we’re excited to see your compact and commanding work, up to 500 words. Judge: Meg Pokrass. Prizes: $500 first; $250 second; $200 third. Prizewinners will be published in Cleaver’s Winter Issue. Finalists may also receive a publication offer. For more info and guidelines, visit our website. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 28, 2022
- Genres Fiction, Poetry
- Type Magazine
- Big Title $1500 each plus Publication - Poetry & Short Story
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Deadline: August 20, 2022
Kallisto Gaia Press sponsors two annual prizes of $1,500 each and publication in Ocotillo Review. Zoë Fay-Stindt will judge the Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize; Jen Knox will judge the Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Prize. Submit up to three poems of no more than 65 lines each or a story of up to 4,200 words with a $20 entry fee, which includes a copy of Ocotillo Review, by August 20. Visit kallistogaiapress.submittable.com/submit for guidelines. Proceeds are donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease and the MD Anderson Foundation for Breast Cancer. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
- Posted June 16, 2022
- Genres Poetry
- Type Chapbook
- Big Title The Heartland Review Press Announces 2022 Chapbook Contest
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Deadline: August 1, 2022
$500 Grand Prize + 15 copies awarded. Submit no more than 30 pages of the best work. THRP is not concerned with the poet who has the most publications; rather, we wish to award the best writing that contributes to the craft of poetry. Each submitter will receive a copy of the winning manuscript. All entrants will be invited to record a reading of their work that will be published on THRP’s Facebook page. To meet the judge and review submission guidelines, visit: www.theheartlandreview.com/chapbooks. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 16, 2022
- Genres Poetry
- Type Event
- Big Title Rockvale Writers' Colony Announces a Fellowship Contest for Poets
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Deadline: August 31, 2022
We’ve created a new fellowship opportunity for poets to share their important landscapes and environmental heritage. We’re interested in the natural spaces that have made meaningful marks upon lives, those places from which we cannot be separated no matter how far away we are. We want to know how that land speaks, and most of all, why it matters. One poet will win a 1-week residency at Rockvale Writers' Colony in College Grove, TN, plus a small stipend for food and travel. Read the guidelines here: Language of the Land Fellowship. Application fee is $30. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 16, 2022
- Genres Poetry
- Type Book
- Big Title Submit to the 2022 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry
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Extended Deadline: July 15, 2022
Lynx House Press seeks submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts for the annual Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry. The winner will receive $2,000 and publication. Entries must be at least 48 pages in length. The fee for submitting is $28. Previous judges include James Tate, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Dara Wier, Melissa Kwasny, and Robert Wrigley. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 14, 2022
- Genres Fiction, Poetry
- Type Magazine
- Big Title The Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers: $500 Prizes
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Deadline: July 15, 2022
Submissions are open for Nimrod’s Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers. The Ringold Awards offer prizes of $500 and publication for fiction and poetry. They are open only to writers with no more than two previous publication credits in their genre. For poetry, submit up to five pages; for fiction, one short story, 5,000 words maximum. The contest is open internationally. All honorable mentions will also be published and paid at our normal rates. Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online: nimrodjournal.submittable.com/submit. Each entry must be accompanied by a $12 entry fee. Email us or visit Nimrod's website for complete rules. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 09, 2022
- Genres Fiction, Poetry
- Type Chapbook, Magazine
- Big Title Driftwood Press Adrift Chapbook & Short Story Contests
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Deadline: July 15, 2022
Driftwood Press' Adrift Chapbook Contest and Adrift Short Story Contest return this year, featuring poetry guest judge Carl Phillips and fiction guest judge Allegra Hyde. Winners receive $1,000 and $500, and runner-ups receive $200-400 depending on the genre. The deadline is July 15th! Check out past winners for sale on our website. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 08, 2022
- Genres Fiction
- Type Book
- Big Title Submit to the 2022 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction
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Deadline: June 24, 2022
Willow Springs Books is accepting submissions for the 2022 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. All authors are eligible regardless of publication history. Manuscripts must have a minimum of three (3) stories of fiction totaling at least 98 pages. The collection as a whole must be previously unpublished. Deadline: June 24, 20222. Prize: $2,000 plus publication. More information: trib.al/KH2gaFa. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 02, 2022
- Genres Poetry
- Type Magazine
- Big Title 2022 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize now Open for Submissions
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Deadline: July 31, 2022
RED WHEELBARROW POETRY PRIZE 2022: Judged by Juan Felipe Herrera! $1,000 for first place and a letterpress broadside printed by Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press, $500 for second, $250 for third. Top five published in Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine. Submit up to 3 original, unpublished poems. $15 entry fee. Deadline: July 31, 2022. For complete guidelines, see redwheelbarrow.submittable.com/submit. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
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- Posted June 02, 2022
- Genres Poetry
- Type Book
- Big Title 2023 Press 53 Award for Poetry
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Deadline: July 31, 2022
$1,000 and 50 copies awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of poems of approximately 50 to 120 pages. Open to poets 18 years of age and older who live in the US or one of its territories. Tom Lombardo, Press 53 Poetry Series Editor, will serve as judge. Press 53 will publish the winning manuscript as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection; all prizes will be awarded upon publication. Deadline: Midnight Eastern, July 31, 2022. Winner and finalists announced on or before November 1. Reading fee: $30. Complete information at www.press53.com/award-for-poetry/. - Fee Show All, Show with fee
- Posted June 01, 2022
- Genres Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Cross-genre
- Type Magazine
- Big Title Puerto del Sol's 2022 Poetry and Prose Annual Contests $1,000
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Deadline: September 1, 2022
Puerto del Sol is accepting entries to annual contests in poetry and prose between March 1 and September 1. Judges are Kali Fajardo-Anstine in prose and Anthony Cody in poetry. One prize in each genre for $1,000 will be awarded along with publication. Current students, faculty, or alum of New Mexico State University are not eligible. Close friends or former students of the judges are ineligible. Submitters must remove identifying information from submissions. Winners are announced in October 2022. $15 entry fee. All entries will receive the issue featuring the winner. All submissions are considered for publication. Submit at puertodelsol.org. - Fee Show All, Show with fee