NewPages Guide to Writing Contests
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Unleash Your Tale of Yesteryear: Win Cash & Get Published!
Deadline: August 15, 2024
Calling all writers with a passion for the past! History Through Fiction’s annual short story contest is back. Submit your unpublished historical fiction masterpiece between June 15 and August 15, 2024, for a chance to win up to $250 and get published in our anthology. With a 5,000-word limit and settings that predate the year 2000, your story will be judged on theme, historical relevance, characters, narration, and impact. Multiple entries welcome; a $15 fee applies. Winners announced by November 15. Don’t miss this opportunity to make history with your story! www.historythroughfiction.com/short-story-contest
Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize is Now Open!
Deadline: October 1, 2024
The Missouri Review invites entries for the 34th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Winners receive $5000 in cash, publication in the Spring 2025 issue of TMR, and promotion across our social media channels. Entry fee: $25. Each entrant receives a 1-year digital subscription and the latest anthology from Missouri Review Books, Life Support: Stories of Health & Medicine. Deadline: October 1. Learn more about the contest guidelines and FAQs here: missourireview.com/contests/jeffrey-e-smith-editors-prize/.
The 2024 Best Spiritual Literature Awards
Deadline: August 1, 2024
The 2024 Best Spiritual Literature Awards offer $500 and publication for a story, an essay, and a poem. Judged by Sarah Ghazal Ali (poetry), Susanne Paola Antonetta (nonfiction), and Amit Majmudar (fiction). Deadline: Aug. 1. www.orisonbooks.com/submissions
Call for Submission for the PWPL 3-Day International Chapbook Contest
Registration Deadline: August 23, 2024, at 5PM EST
Registration is now open until Friday, August 23, 2024, for the Peter White Public Library (PWPL) 3-Day International Chapbook Contest with the theme “Room for Love.” No entry fee is required. The contest is open to the first 100 poets to register. The final judge is award-winning poet, Diane Glancy. The contest start date is Friday, August 30, 2024, at 6 PM EST until Monday, September 2, 2024, at 6 PM EST. The final submission will be on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, at 6 PM EST. Full guidelines at pwpl.info/news-events/special-events/.
2025 Press 53 Award for Poetry
Deadline: July 31, 2024
$1,000 advance, publication by Press 53 as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection, and 53 copies awarded to an outstanding, unpublished poetry manuscript of approximately 50-120 pages. If a Runner-Up is also selected: $500 advance, publication by Press 53 as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection, and 25 copies. Poet must be 18 or older, living in the US or one of its territories. Press 53 Poetry Series Editor Tom Lombardo will judge. Prizes awarded upon publication. Enter April 1 to July 31 via Submittable or by mail. Winner and finalists announced by November 1. Reading fee: $30. Complete information at www.press53.com/award-for-poetry/.
Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2024: $1,000 and Letterpress Broadside
Deadline: July 31, 2024
Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2024: $1,000 for first place and a letterpress broadside, $500 for second, $250 for third. Top five published in Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine. Judge is Kim Addonizio. Submit up to 3 original unpublished poems. $15 entry fee. Deadline: July 31. For complete guidelines, see redwheelbarrow.submittable.com.
The Coniston Prize from Radar Poetry
Deadline: August 1, 2024 at 11:59pm ET
Radar Poetry is now open to submissions for the 11th annual Coniston Prize, judged by January Gill O’Neil! The Coniston Prize recognizes an exceptional group of poems by a woman writing in English. Any poet who identifies as a woman is eligible. The winner will receive $1,000, and up to 10 finalists will also be awarded $175. The winner and all finalists’ poems will also be published in the prize issue. Submit 3-5 poems with no identifying information. Entry fee $20. www.radarpoetry.com/contest
Black Warrior Review Annual Contest Open for Submissions
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Biannual print journal Black Warrior Review invites you to submit your weirdest & wildest short stories, flash (fiction or nonfiction), essays, or poems to our annual contest. Winners in each genre receive a cash prize and publication in print & on our website. All entries are considered for publication and must be unpublished. Judges: Chigozie Obioma (fiction), Rajiv Mohabir (nonfiction), Donika Kelly (poetry), and Intan Paramaditha (flash). Entry fee: $20 for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; $10 for flash. Multiple entries are welcome, and all entrants receive a one-year subscription to the journal. For complete guidelines, visit bwr.submittable.com/submit.
Driftwood Press Contest Deadlines Incoming
Deadline: July 15, 2024 (Adrift contests); Year-round (general submissions)
Driftwood Press is happy to share a plethora of submission opportunities for writers and artists! Our Adrift Short Fiction & Poetry Chapbook Contests, in which every work submitted is considered for publication as winner or runner-up, is ending soon! For our yearly print anthology, we are looking for poems, short stories, comics, and visual art that will wow our readers, accepted as both contest and normal submissions. We are a paying market, and our published writers also get to take part in bespoke interviews about their work! Driftwood is also on the hunt for amazing book-length titles to grow our catalogue, so if you have a novella, poetry collection, comic collection, or graphic novel manuscript, we would love to read it! Visit us here for our Submittable page, and we encourage you to follow us on social media (@driftwoodpress) to learn about even more submission opportunities!