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Contests
Posted June 24, 2009
The Cincinnati Review
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First Annual Robert & Adele Schiff Prose and Poetry Prize
$300+pub
Deadline: Postmark June 1 - July 31, 2009
Glimmer Train
Very Short Fiction Award
$1200+pub/500/300
Deadline: Submit during July, January only
Glimmer Train
Short Story Award for New Writers
$1200+pub/500/300
Deadline: Submit during February, May, August, November only
Glimmer Train
Best Start
Top 50 receive $50 and make Glimmer Train’s Best Start list. Deadline: Submit during March, June, September, December only
Pank Magazine
1001 Awesome Words Contest
$750/500/250+pub
All entries receive issue copy
Deadline: Midnight September 30, 2009
Georgetown Review
Short story, poem, or essay
Prize: $1,000 and publication
Deadline: Postmark October 1, 2009
Malahat Review
Open Season Awards
Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-fiction
Subscription for entry fee.
Winners published in Malahat Spring 2010.
Deadline: Postmark November 1, 2009
Raving Dove
The Raving Dove of Hope Award
For Oregon High School Students
Deadline: October 1 - November 30, 2009
Willow Springs
Fiction Prize
$2k+Pub
Deadline: Postmark March 1, 2010
Posted June 17, 2009
Comstock Review
The Comstock Review Poetry Contest
Final Judge: Carolyn Forché
Deadline: Postmark July 1 (annual)
Prick of the Spindle
Fiction Open: Flash Fiction (1000-)
Print publication for three + HM
Deadline: May 5, 2009 Extended July 5, 2009
New Millennium Writings
Semi-annual Contest
Fiction, Poetry, Short-short Fiction, & Creative Non-fiction
$1k+pub
Deadlines: January 31 and July 31
Narrative Magazine
First Annual Poetry Contest
$1500/750/300/10@75
All entries considered for publication.
Deadline: July 18, 2009
Narrative Magazine
Spring 2009 Story Contest
$3250/1500/750/10 finalists@100
All considered for publication.
Deadline: July 31, 2009
The Malahat Review
Creative Non-fiction Prize
Deadline: Postmark August 1, 2009
Rattle
Poetry Prize
$5k 1st & 10 $100 Honorable Mentions
Deadline: Postmark August 1, 2009
The Aurorean
Haiku Contest
No Fee
Entrants MUST be U.S. undergraduate/graduate in Creative Writing
Deadline: February 15 and August 15 (annual)
Memoir (and)
Memoir in Prose or Poetry
$500/$250/$100+pub
Graphic Memoir
$100+pub
All submissions eligible to win.
Deadline: February 15 and August 15 (annual)
Gulf Coast
First Annual Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose
$500 and Publication
Selection of winning entry Mary Robison
Deadline: Postmark August 31, 2009
Juked
Fiction and Poetry Prizes
Final Judges: Don Chaon (fiction) and
Dora Malech (poetry)
$500 and publication
Deadline: Postmark August 31, 2009
Our Stories
Emerging Writers Story Contest
Deadline: June 1 - August 31 (annual)
Feedback provided for all entries
Greensboro Review
Robert Watson Literary Prizes for Fiction and Poetry
$500+pub
Deadline: September 15, 2009
Glimmer Train
Fiction Open
$2k+pub/1k/600
Deadline: Submit during March, June, September, December only
The Southwest Review
Morton Marr Poetry Prize
Deadline: Postmark September 30 (annual)
Harpur Palate
The Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry
Deadline: July 1 - October 1 (annual)
Mississippi Review Prize
Fiction and Poetry
Deadline: Postmark April 2 - October 1, 2009
Shenandoah
Flannery O'Connor
$1000 for Best O'Connor-related work published in the Fall 2010 issue of Shenandoah.
Deadline: October 1, 2009
Cutthroat
Judge Dorianne Laux, The Joy Harjo Poetry Prize
Judge Alan Cheuse, The Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Prize
$1250/250+Pub
Deadline: Postmark June 15 - October 10, 2009
Isotope
2010 Editors' Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry
$250+pub
Deadline: July 1 - October 15, 2009
Glimmer Train
Family Matters Contest
Standard Short Story Contest
$1200+pub/500/300
Deadline: April 30, October only
the new renaissance
tnr Poetry Award
The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Award
The awards are give for each 3-issue volume of tnr, and only writers published in that volume are eligible.
Deadline: January 2 – June 30 for fiction or poetry;
September 1 – October 31 for fiction only
Anderbo
Poetry Prize
$500+pub
Judge: William Logan
Deadline: Postmark November 1, 2009
The Briar Cliff Review
Poetry and Fiction Contest
Deadline: November 1 (annual)
Harpur Palate
The Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry
Deadline: July 1 - Extended to November 1 (annual)
The Tampa Review
Danahy Fiction Prize
Deadline: November 1 (annual)
Shenandoah
Graybeal-Gowan Prize for Virginia Writers
No entry fee.
$500 awarded for a single poem by a writer born in or with current established residence in Virginia.
Deadline: Postmark Oct. 1 – November 21, 2009
Phoebe
Winter Fiction Contest
Judge: Benjamin Percy
Greg Grummer Poetry Award
Judge: Bin Ramke
Deadline: Postmark December 1 (annual)
The Journal
William Allen Creative Nonfiction Prize
Deadline: Postmark January 15 (annual)
Chattahoochee Review
Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction
Deadline: October 1 - January 31 (annual)
The Malahat Review
Novella Contest
Deadline: Postmark February 1, 2010
The Aurorean
Haiku Contest
No Fee
Entrants MUST be U.S. undergraduate/graduate in Creative Writing
Deadline: February 15 and August 15 (annual)
Fourth Genre
Annual Editor's Prize for Best Essay/Memoir
$1k+pub
Judge: Jocelyn Bartkevicius
Deadline: January 15 - February 15
Bayou Magazine
Nonfiction Bonanza
Deadline: Postmark November 15 - March 31 (annual)
Harpur Palate
The John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction
Deadline: January 1 - March 31 (annual)
Shenandoah
The Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers
2009 Prize - Short Stories; 2010 Poetry
Deadline: March 15 - March 31 (annual)
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Lush Triumphant
Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-fiction
Deadline: Postmark April 15 (annual)
The Journal
Short Story Prize
Deadline: Postmark May 1 (annual)
The Malahat Review
Far Horizons Award for Poetry
Deadline: Postmark May 1, 2010
(Alternating years fiction/poetry: fiction-2011.)
The Southwest Review
David Nathan Mayerson Prize for Fiction
Deadline: May 1 (annual)
Zone 3
Annual Fiction Award
Deadline: May 1
subTerrain
Annual Literary Awards Competition
Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-fiction
Deadline: Postmark May 15 (annual)
New Letters
Annual Literary Awards Competition
Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction, and Fiction
Deadline: Postmark May 18 (annual)
Southern Poetry Review
Guy Owen Prize Contest
Deadline: March 1 - June 15 (annual)
the new renaissance
tnr Poetry Award
The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Award
The awards are give for each 3-issue volume of tnr, and only writers published in that volume are eligible.
Deadline: January 2 – June 30 for fiction or poetry;
September 1 – October 31 for fiction only
Awards for Published Works
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American Poetry Review
The Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prizes
Two annual prizes for poetry published in APR during the calendar year.
The Aurorean
Best-of-Last-Issue Poetry Award
For each issue, an independent judge chooses the “Best Poem” from the previous issue.
Beloit Poetry Journal
"Awarded to the author of the poem or group of poems that the editors judge to be the most outstanding among those we've published during the previous year."
Michigan Quarterly Review
Lawrence Foundation Prize
"This is not a contest."
Best short story published in MQR the previous year.
Narrative Magazine
The $4,000 Narrative Prize is awarded annually for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, or work of literary nonfiction published by a new or emerging writer in Narrative.
the new renaissance
tnr Poetry Award
The Louise E. Reynolds Memorial Fiction Award
The awards are give for each 3-issue volume of tnr, and only writers published in that volume are eligible.
Deadline: January 2 – June 30 for fiction or poetry;
September 1 – October 31 for fiction only
The Paris Review
The Plimpton Prize
Awarded to the best work of fiction published in The Paris Review in a given year by an emerging or previously unpublished writer.
The Paris Review Hadada
Awarded annually to a distinguished member of the literary community who has demonstrated a strong and unique commitment to the literary arts.
Rhino
Annual Editors’ Prizes for works published in Rhino.
Shenandoah
Fiction, Poetry, Essay
Awarded annually to the best author in each genre published during the volume year.
The Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers
Eligibility for 2010 Prize: all writers of POETRY with only one published book in that genre.
Deadline: March 15 to March 31
Flannery O'Connor
$1000 for Best O'Connor-related work published in the Fall 2010 issue of Shenandoah.
Deadline: October 1, 2009
The Southern Review
The Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction
given to the best short story published in The
Southern Review each volume year
The Robert Penn Warren Prize in Poetry
given to the best poem or group of poems published in
The Southern Review each volume year
The Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonfiction
given to the best work of nonfiction published in
The Southern Review each volume year
Southwest Review
McGinnis-Ritchie Awards for Fiction and Nonfiction, Essay
Awarded annually to the best genre works published during the previous year in SR's pages.
The Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award
Awarded to the best poem or group of poems published during the previous year in SR's pages.
Morton Marr Poetry Prize
An annual award to a poem by a writer who has not yet published a first book of poetry.
The David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction
New prize, beginning in 2008, for fiction writers who have not published a first book.
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