Writing Contests

Poetry Contests, Fiction Contests, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Essay and Photography Contests, and more! Contests for publications, publishers and universities listed in NewPages.com. Book contests listed separately.

 
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Most recent update: July 26, 2010

 

Contests
July Deadline
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Comstock Review

The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award

Annual Poetry Contest

Prize: $1,000+pub/$250/$100

Final Judge: Charles Martin

Deadline: Postmark July 1 (annual)

Fee: $25

Narrative Magazine

Annual Poetry Contest

In a continuing effort to encourage and support poetry, we’re offering prizes, publication to the top three winners, and a public announcement of all winners and finalists via the Internet and in hard-copy literary trade publications.

Prize: $1,500/750/300/75

Deadline: July 18 (annual)

Fee: $20

Our Stories

Emerging Writers Story Contest

3-5 runners up have their submission fees returned. Yet, unlike every other contest out there with Our Stories everyone wins. Every contest entry receives a customized page-by-page review by our staff.

Prize: $400+pub

Deadline: May 1 - July 30 (annual)

Fee: $20

The Cincinnati Review

Robert & Adele Schiff Prizes in Poetry & Prose

One winning poem and prose piece will be chosen for publication in our prize issue. All entries will be considered for publication.

Prize: $300/category

Judges: Don Bogen (poetry), Michael Griffith (prose)

Deadline: Postmark during June and July only (annual)

Fee: $15 or $25 for one-year subscription

Glimmer Train

Very Short Fiction Award

We are interested in reading your original, unpublished very short stories! Open to all writers. Stories not to exceed 3,000 words.

Prize: $1200+pub/500/300

Deadline: Submit during July only

Fee: $15

Narrative

Spring 2010 Story Contest

Our spring contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction.

Prize: $3,250/$1,500/$750

Deadline: July 31, 2010

Fee: $20

New Millennium Writings

New Millennium Awards for Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction

Winners of NMW Awards are showcased along with interviews, profiles and tributes to writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Khaled Hosseini, J. D. Salinger, Julia Glass, Shel Silverstein, George Garrett, Ken Kesey, John Updike, and Cormac McCarthy.

Prize: $1,000/category+pub

Deadline: July 31, 2010 (extended)

Fee: $17

 

Alehouse Press. Poetry. $15. 7/1 (annual)

 

The Baltimore Review. Poetry. $15. 4/1 - 7/1 (annual)

 

Bellevue Literary Review. Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. $15. 7/1/10

 

Contemporary Verse 2. Poetry. $24. 7/1/10

 

Geist. Sonnet. $10. 7/1/10

 

This Magazine. Poetry, Fiction, Graphic Narrative. $20. 7/2 (annual)

 

Literal Latte Magazine. Poetry. $10. 7/15 (annual)

 

Room Magazine (Canada). Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. $27/$39 CAD. 7/15/10 (extended deadline)

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald Lit Conference. Short Story. $25. 7/16/10

 

Vilcek Foundation. Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. No Fee. 7/30/10

 

Adirondack Review. Fiction. $10. 7/31/10

 

A Room of Her Own. Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. $15. 7/31/10

 

 

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The Malahat Review

Creative Non-Fiction Prize

The entry must be between 2,000 and 3,000 words. No restrictions as to subject matter or approach apply. For example, the entry may be personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, nature writing, or literary journalism.

Prize: $500 CAD+pub

Deadline: Postmark August 1 (annual)

Fee: $35 CAD, $40 USD, $45 USD for Mexico & International

RATTLE

Poetry Prize

Judged in a blind review by the editors to ensure a fair and consistent selection, and with an entry fee that is simply a one-year subscription to the magazine, we've designed the Rattle Poetry Prize to be one of the most writer-friendly contests around.

Prize: $5,000/$100 for 10 honorable mentions+pub

Deadline: Postmark August 1 (annual)

Fee: $18 (includes one-year subscription or extension)

Terrain.org

Inaugural Contests in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

The contest theme is "The Signal in the Noise," to match our 26th issue, which launches in mid-September 2010. Though the contest and issue have a theme, we have a very liberal perspective on the theme and encourage you first and foremost to submit your best work.

Prize: $250+special treatment in online publication

Judges: Jessie Lendennie (poetry), Aurelie Sheehan (fiction),

David Rothenberg (nonfiction)

Deadline: August 1 (annual)

Fee: $10

The Aurorean

Haiku Contest

Undergraduate and graduate Creative Writing Students (across the U.S.) are invited to submit haiku for this student-only contest. To be eligible, entrants MUST be Creative Writing majors.

 

Deadline: August 15 (annual)

No Fee

Memoir (and)

Memoir in Prose or Poetry

The Memoir (and) Prizes for Memoir in Prose or Poetry are awarded to the most outstanding prose or poetry memoirs—traditional, nontraditional or experimental—drawn from the reading period.

Prize: $500/$250/$100+pub

Graphic Memoir

The Memoir (and) Prize for Graphic Memoir is awarded to the most outstanding graphic memoir drawn from the reading period.

Prize: $100+pub

Photography

The NEW Memoir (and) Prize for Photography is awarded to the most outstanding and innovative photography submission.

Deadline: May 1 - August 16, 2010

No entry fee

Carpe Articulum

John & Eva Keener Award

Work can include up to 3 black and white or colour photographs. Work must not be digitally altered beyond very basic touch up, available in jpeg or PDF format, and must be between 3x5 to 11x13. 

Prize: $400/200/100

Fee: $20

Carpe Verbum Essay/Nonfiction Award

Submissions must not exceed 25 pages double-spaced.

Prize: $300/200/100

Fee: $25

Deadline: August 30 (annual)

Glimmer Train

Short Story Award for New Writers

Open only to writers whose fiction has not been presented in a print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Entries, of course, must be unpublished.) Stories not to exceed 12,000 words.(Any shorter lengths are welcome.)

Prize: $1200+pub/500/300

Deadline: Submit during August only

Fee: $15

Gulf Coast

Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose

The prize awards $1000 and publication to one prose poem, micro-essay, or short story of 500 words or less.

Prize: $1000+pub

Judge: Joe Bonomo

Deadline: August 31 (annual)

Fee: $15 (postal), $18 (online) (includes one-year subscription)

 

 

Gival Press. Short Story. $25. 8/8 (annual postmark)

 

Smartish Pace. Poetry. 8/15. $5 (annual)

 

Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Lit Fest. Poetry. $20. 8/15/10 (postmark)

 

The Writers' Workshop. Fictoin, Nonfiction. $25. 8/15/10 (postmark)

 

Writers' Journal. Fiction. $5. 8/20/10

 

Writers' Journal. Poetry. $3. 8/30 (annual)

 

The Capilano Review. Poetry, Prose. $35/45 CAD. 8/31/2010

 

Gemini Magazine. Flash Fiction. $4. 8/31/10

 

NANO Fiction. Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction, Micro Essay. $15. 8/31/10

 

WOW! Women On Writing. Flash Fiction. $10. 8/31 (annual)

 

September Deadline
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Black Warrior Review

Fiction, Poetry & Nonfiction Contests

Prize: $1000 / category + pub

Judges: Peter Markus (fiction), Claudia Rankine (poetry), Lia Purpura (nonfiction)

Deadline: September 1, 2010

Fee: $15

Creative Nonfiction

Food Essay Contest

$1k/500+pub

Deadline: Postmark September 3, 2010

Fee: $20

Carpe Articulum

Poetry and Fiction Contests

$1.25k/300/200+pub

Deadline: September 30 (annual)

Fee: $20

Glimmer Train

Fiction Open

$2k+pub/1k/600

Deadline: Submit during September only

Fee: $20

The Southwest Review

Morton Marr Poetry Prize

$1k+pub/$500

Deadline: Postmark September 30 (annual)

Fee: $5

 

 

American Literary Review. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry.
6/1 - 9/1 (annual)

 

Mangrove Review/Sanibel Island Writers Conference. Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. 9/1 (annual)

 

Naugatuck River Review. Narrative Poetry. 9/1 (annual)

 

Rough Copy. Fiction. 9/1/10

 

Women in Judaism. Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. 9/1/10

 

The Teacher's Voice. Poetry. $10. 9/4/10 (extended deadline)

 

American Zoetrope. Screenplay. 5/1 - 9/7/10

 

Hunger Mountain. Nonfiction. 9/10 (annual)

 

Bloodroot. Poetry. 9/15 (annual)

 

Literal Latte Magazine. Essay. 9/15 (annual)

 

Robert Frost Foundation. Poetry. 9/15 (annual)

 

Other Voices. Poetry. 9/21 (annual)

 

Toasted Cheese. Fiction. 9/21 +/- (annual)

 

The Chariton Review. Short Fiction. 9/30 (annual)

 

Newport Review. Poetry, Prose. 5/1 - 9/30/10

 

Red Hen Press (under Literary Links). Poetry. 9/30 (annual)

 

The Review of English Studies. Essay. 9/30 (annual)

 

Two Review. Poetry. 9/30/10

 

 

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Georgetown Review

$1,000 and publication to the winning short story, poem, or essay on any theme or subject. All genres welcome. All entries are considered for publication on the journal.

Prize: $1000+pub

Deadline: Postmark October 1 (annual)

Fee: $10

The Missouri Review

Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in Fiction, Essay and Poetry

Not just any contest! Select winning entries in the past have been reprinted in the Best American series.

Prize: $5000/category + pub

Deadline: Postmark October 1 (annual)

Fee: $20

New Orleans Review

Walker Percy Prize in Short Fiction

Open to all writers in English with the exception of current students or employees or others affiliated with New Orleans Review or Loyola University New Orleans. Enter previously unpublished original stories up to 7,500 words.

Prize: $1,000+pub

Final judge: TBD

Deadline: October 1, 2010

Fee: $15

RHINO

Founder's Prize

A Poetry Contest Open to All Poets with a Distinctive Voice. Send up to 5 unpublished poems (no more than 5 pages total).

Prize: $300/50+pub

Deadline: Postmark between April 1 - October 1 (annual)

Fee: $10

CUTTHROAT

Joy Harjo Poetry Award & Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award

Submit up to three unpublished poems (100 line limit for each) or one unpublished short story (5000 word limit), any subject, any style.

Prize: $1250/250/category+pub

Judges: Marvin Bell (poetry), Lorian Hemingway (fiction)

Deadline: Postmark between July 15 - October 15, 2010

Fee: $15

Ruminate

Short Story Prize

Multiple entries allowed, must be 7,000 words or less

Prize: $500+pub

Judge: David James Duncan

Deadline: October 15 (annual)

Fee: $15

Thin Air

"Best in Show" All-Genre Contest

Send us your best work that: blurs poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, and show us there are more than three ways to see the world. Submissions (non-contest or contest) accepted in traditional poetry/prose/nonfiction as well—the choice is yours!

Prize: $500+pub

Judge: Jeff Gundy

Deadline: October 30, 2010

Fee: $15

Glimmer Train

Family Matters Contest

Open to all writers. Stories - about family - not to exceed 12,000 words. We don't publish stories for children.

Prize: $1,200/500/300+pub

Deadline: Submit during October only

Fee: $15/story

Standard Short Story Contest

We are interested in reading your original, unpublished short stories! Open to all writers. Stories not to exceed 12,000 words.

Prize: $700+pub+copies

Deadline: Submit during October only

Fee: No Fee

 

 

Boston Review. Fiction. 10/1 (annual)

 

New Southerner. Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. 10/1/10 (postmark)

 

Southeast Missouri State University Press. Short Story, Flash Fiction. 10/1 (annual)

 

Sycamore Review. Poetry. $15. 10/1/10 (annual)

 

Opium Magazine. Prose Poetry, Fiction. 10/4/10

 

Descant. Poetry. 10/8/10

 

Longwood University/Dos Passos Review. Drama. 9/15 - 10/15/10

 

Open City. Short Story. 10/15 (annual)

 

So to Speak. Poetry, Nonfiction. 10/15 (annual)

 

University of Louisville. Fiction. 7/1 - 10/15 (annual)

 

Inkwell. Short Fiction. 8/1 - 10/30 (annual)

 

A River & Sound Review. Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. 8/1 - 10/31/10

 

 

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The Briar Cliff Review

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction Contest

$1k / category + pub

Deadline: November 1 (annual)

Fee: $20

The Malahat Review

Open Season Awards

Poetry, Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

$1k CAD/category

Deadline: Postmark November 1 (annual)

Fee: $35 CAD, $40 USD, $45 USD for Mexico & International submissions

The Tampa Review

Danahy Fiction Prize

$1k+pub

Deadline: November 1 (annual)

Fee: $15

Zone 3

Poetry Awards

Prize: $500/300/100+pub

Deadline: Postmark 11/15 (annual)

Fee: $10

Glimmer Train

Short Story Award for New Writers

$1200+pub/500/300

Deadline: Submit during November only

Fee: $15

Shenandoah

The Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets

This annual prize of $500 is awarded by Shenandoah and the Virginia Poetry Center for a single poem by a writer born in or with current established residence in Virginia.

Prize: $500+pub

Deadline: Postmark between November 1-30, 2010

No fee

 

 

Bananafish. Short Story. 11/1/10

 

Saints & Sinners Literary Festival. Short Fiction. 11/1/10

 

Smartish Pace. Poetry. 11/1 (annual)

 

Sow's Ear Poetry Review. Poetry. 9/1 - 11/1 (annual)

 

Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Lit Fest. One-Act Play. 11/1/10

 

Chautauqua Writers' Center. Fiction. 8/1 - 11/15/10

 

Hollins University. Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest. 11/15 (annual)

 

Measure/The Formalist. Sonnet. 11/15 (annual)

 

Prairie Fire. Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. 11/30 (annual)

 

Prism Review. Poetry, Fiction. $9. 11/30/10

 

Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Lit Fest. Fiction. 11/15/10

 

Western Humanities Review. Poetry, Prose. 10/1 - 11/15/10

 

WOW! Women On Writing. Flash Fiction. 11/30 (annual)

 

 

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Phoebe

Winter Fiction Contest

Prize: $1,000+pub

Deadline: Postmark December 1 (annual)

Fee: $15

anderbo

Anderbo Poetry Prize

For up to six unpublished poems by poets who have not been previously published on anderbo.com

Prize: $500+pub

Judge: Linda Bierds

Deadline: Postmark December 15, 2010

Fee: $10

Glimmer Train

Fiction Open

Prize: $2,000+pub/$1,000/$600

Deadline: Submit during December only

Fee: $20

 

 

The Cream City Review. Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. 12/1 (annual)

 

Transitions Abroad. Nonfiction. 4/1 - 12/15/10

 

Toasted Cheese Fiction. 12/21 (annual)

 

Many Mountains Moving. Poetry, Flash Fiction. 12/30/10

 

Adirondack Review. Poetry. 12/31 (annual)

 

Freefall. Poetry. Fiction. 12/31 (annual)

 

The Litchfield Review. Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction. 12/31

 

River Styx. Micro-fiction. 12/31 (annual)

 

Saints & Sinners Literary Festival. Full-length Play. 12/31/10

 

 

January Deadline
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Carpe Articulum

Novella Contest

$1k/300/200+pub

Carpe Verbum Essay/Nonfiction Award

$300/200/100+pub

Deadline: January 7 (annual)

Fee: $25

The Journal

William Allen Creative Nonfiction Contest

$500+pub

Deadline: Postmark January 31 (annual)

Fee: $10

 

Boston Review. Poetry. 1/15 (annual)

 

Literal Latte. Fiction. 1/15 (annual)

 

Rosebud. Nonfiction. 1/15/2011 (biennial)

 

WRITERS' Journal. Fiction. 1/30 (annual)

 

Literal Latte. Poetry. 1/31 (annual)

 

 

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Malahat Review

Long Poem Prize

$1k+pub

Deadline: Postmark February 1, 2011

Fee: $35 CAD, $40 USD, $45 USD for Mexico & International submissions (includes one-year subscription)

Malahat Review

Novella Prize

$1.5k+pub

Deadline: Postmark February 1, 2012

Fee: $35 CAD, $40 USD, $45 USD for Mexico & International submissions (included one-year subscription)

 

 

WOW! Women On Writing. Flash Fiction. 2/28 (annual)

 

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The Ledge

Fiction Awards Competition

$1k/250/100+pub

Deadline: Postmark March 1 (annual)

Fee: $10

Colorado Review

The Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction

$1.5k+pub

Deadline: Postmark January 12 - March 12 (annual)

Fee: $10

Carpe Articulum

Poetry and Fiction Contests

$1.25k/300/200+pub

Deadline: March 30 (annual)

Fee: $20

 

 

Modern Haiku. Haiku. 3/13 (annual)

 

The Claremont Review. Poetry, Fiction. 3/15 (annual)

 

Flint Hills Review. Nonfiction. 3/15 (annual)

 

Yemassee Journal. Poetry. 3/15 (annual)

 

Toasted Cheese. Fiction. 3/21 +/- (annual)

 

WRITERS' Journal. Fiction. 3/30 (annual)

 

Harpur Palate. Fiction. 3/31 (annual)

 

Permafrost. Fiction. 3/31 (annual)

 

 

April Deadline
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Grain Magazine

Short Grain (with Variations)

Poetry, Short Fiction

$1.25k/750/500

Deadline: Postmark April 1 (annual)

Fee: $30 CAD, $36 USD for US & International submissions

(includes one-year subscription)

Glimmer Train

Family Matters

$1.2k/500/300+pub

Deadline: April 1 - 30 (annual)

Fee: $15

The Ledge

Poetry Awards Competition

$1k/250/100+pub

Deadline: April 30 (annual)

Fee: $10

 

 

Baltimore Review. Nonfiction. 1/1 - 4/1 (annual)

 

Passager. Poetry. 4/1 (annual)

 

Event. Nonfiction. 4/15 (annual)

 

Crab Orchard Review. Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. 3/1 - 4/30 (annual)

 

 

May Deadline
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Fugue

Annual Poetry & Prose Contest

$1000+pub

Deadline: May 1 (annual)

Fee: $20

The Journal

Short Story Prize

$1k+pub

Deadline: Postmark May 1 (annual)

Fee: $10

The Malahat Review

Far Horizons Award for Fiction

$500 CAD +pub

Deadline: Postmark May 1, 2011

(Alternating years fiction/poetry: poetry-2012)

Fee: $25 CAD, $30 US, $35 US for Mexico & international submissions

The Southwest Review

David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction

$1k+pub

Deadline: May 1 (annual)

Fee: $25

The Spoon River Poetry Review

Editors' Prize Contest

$1k/$100+pub

Deadline: Postmark May 1 (annual)

Fee: $16 (includes one-year subscription)

New Letters

Annual Literary Awards Competition

Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Fiction

$1.5k / category +pub

Deadline: Postmark May 18 (annual)

Fee: $15

Calyx

Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize

$300+pub

Deadline: March 1 - May 31 (annual)

Fee: $15

Glimmer Train

Short Story Award for New Writers

$1200+pub/500/300

Deadline: Submit during May only

Fee: $15

River Styx

International Poetry Contest

$1.5k+pub

Judge: TBA

Deadline: Postmark May 31 (annual)

Fee: $20 (includes one-year subscription)

 

 

American Short Fiction. Flash Fiction. 5/1 (annual)

 

Sow's Ear Poetry Review. Chapbook. 5/1 (annual)

 

Atlanta Review. Poetry. 5/6/2011

 

Blue Collar Review. Poetry. Dealine 5/15 (annual)

 

Dancing Poetry Contest. Poetry. 5/15 (annual) 

 

Ramble Underground. Short Story. 5/15 (annual)

 

subTerrain. Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction. 5/15 (annual)

 

Writers' Journal. Short Story, Photography. 5/30 (annual)

 

The Antigonish Review. Fiction. 5/31 (annual)

 

Crab Creek Review. Poetry. 5/31 (annual)

 

Pearl. Fiction. 4/1 - 5/31 (annual)

 

University of Georgia Press. Short Fiction. 4/1 - 5/31 (annual)

 

Vocabula Review. Prose. 5/31 (annual)

 

WOW! Women On Writing. Flash Fiction. 5/31 (annual)

 

 

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The MacGuffin

Poet Hunt Contest

$500+pub

Deadline: April 1 - June 3 (annual)

Fee: $15

The Bitter Oleander

Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award

$1k+pub

Deadline: Postmark June 15 (annual)

Fee: $10

Indiana Review

'1/2 K' Prize

Prose Poetry, Short-Short

$1k+pub

Final Judge:Alberto Rios

Deadline: June 15 (annual)

Fee: $15 (includes 1 year subscription)

Southern Poetry Review

Guy Owen Prize Contest

$1k+pub

Deadline: March 1 - June 15 (annual)

Fee: $15

Glimmer Train

Fiction Open

$2k+pub/1k/600

Deadline: Submit during June only

Fee: $20

 

 

Boulevard. Poetry. 6/1 (annual)

 

Burning Bush Publications. Poetry. 6/1 (annual)

 

Wordgathering. Poetry. 6/1 (annual)

 

The Writers' Workshop. Poetry. 6/1 (annual)

 

Boston Review. Poetry. 6/1 (annual)

 

Chelsea. Fiction. 6/15 (annual)

 

Quarter After Eight. Short Prose. 6/15 (annual)

 

Toasted Cheese. Nonfiction. 6/21 (annual)

 

Gival Press. Poetry. 6/27 (annual)

 

The American Poetry Journal. Poetry. 6/30 (annual)

 

The Antigonish Review. Poetry. 6/30 (annual)

 

Hunger Mountain. Short Fiction. 6/30 (annual)

 

Hunger Mountain. Children's/YA Fiction. 6/30 (annual)

 

Literal Latte Magazine. Short Story. 6/30 (annual)

 

Red Hen Press. Short Fiction. 6/30 (annual)

 

Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Essay. 6/30 (annual)

 

 

No Deadline
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Zone 3

Annual Fiction Award

Publication

No deadlines winners announced in fall issue

Fee: $10

 

 

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

The Chad Walsh Poetry Prize

"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.

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.

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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