Poet Nathalie Handal will judge the 2023 Poetry Book Prize. To submit to the 2023 prize, please use our Online Submission Manager. In addition to Emma Aylor’s prizewinning Close Red Water from last year’s 2022 contest, we will be publishing…
Swan Scythe Press announces its 2023 poetry chapbook contest. Entry fee: $18. We are accepting submissions from March 1 to June 15 (postmark deadline). Winner receives $200 and 25 perfect-bound chapbooks. The 2022 winner is Arthur Solway for Siddhartha On…
The MacGuffin’s Poet Hunt 28 awards one Grand Prize winner $500 and publication! Up to two Honorable Mentions also published. Final selections will be made by guest judge, Barbara Crooker. All entrants will receive one copy of the issue containing…
From June 1 to June 30, 2023, we’re seeking full-length (48+ pages) hybrid and cross-genre manuscripts. We’re interested in flash fiction; prose poetry; novels-in-verse and novel(la)s-in-flash; flash nonfiction or memoirs-in-shorts; fragmentary works and lyric essays; image and text works and…
The Coniston Prize recognizes an exceptional group of 3-5 poems by a woman writing in English. Any poet who identifies as a woman is eligible. The winner will receive $1,000. Up to 10 finalists will also be awarded $175. This…
Need feedback? Sunspot Lit provides concrete, actionable comments for your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Literary and mainstream prose and graphic novel writers join forces with Laine Cunningham, an award-winning author and Sunspot’s senior editor. Authors of fantasy, romance, YA, and…
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access, quarterly literary journal publishing the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. Accomplished, well-established authors appear side-by-side with fresh, emerging voices. We provide over 125,000 readers in 145 countries with a powerful,…
Wordrunner eChapbooks will select one fiction and one nonfiction mini-collection for our 2023 e-Chapbook series, to be published in August and December, online and as epubs. We are looking for emotional complexity and nuanced characters in our collections. Prose pieces…
Palooka is an international literary magazine. For over a decade we’ve featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. We’re open to diverse forms and styles and are always seeking unique chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction,…
Main Street Rag will be open for submission of book length manuscripts in the prose genres of novels, novellas, short story collections, and creative nonfiction from May 1 through June 15. There is a reading fee. View our full submission…
$1,000, publication, and 53 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,…
All entries receive a +/- 800-word critique/analysis of their novel and a copy of the winning book. All manuscripts must be complete and unpublished. Send the first 10K words of the novel followed by a maximum 2500-word synopsis in one…
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…
Winner of the 2023 New American Fiction Prize will receive $1,500 and book publication. Deadline is June 15. Final judge this year is Gabriel Bump, author of the New York Times Notable Book Everywhere You Don’t Belong. Minimum length: 100…
MER – Mom Egg Review is open from April 23, 2023 to July 15, 2023 for submissions of art, poetry (up to 4 poems), fiction, creative prose/nonfiction, and hybrids (up to 1000 words) whose lens or focus is motherhood. Theme…
We are honored to create this space for women poets to step forward. This contest only accepts submissions from women poets. All women are welcome to submit (cis and trans). The winning poet will be awarded $3000, publication, and a…
The Blue Mountain Review launched from Athens, Georgia in 2015 with the mantra, “We’re all south of somewhere.” As a journal of culture, the BMR strives to represent all life through its stories. Stories are vital to our survival. What…
The 2023 Orison Chapbook Prize will award $300 and publication by Orison Books for a manuscript of 20–45 pages in any literary genre (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, or hybrid). Orison Books founder and editor Luke Hankins will judge. Submission period:…
Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2023: Final judge is Ellen Bass. $1,000 for first place and a letterpress broadside printed by Gary Young at Greenhouse Review Press, $500 for second, $250 for third. Top five published in Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine.…
Bellevue Literary Review’s annual prizes recognize exceptional writing about health, healing, illness, the body, and the mind. Winners will be published in the spring 2024 issue of BLR. For each genre, first prize is $1,000 and honorable mention is $300.…
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