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Deadline: November 30, 2017
In times of anti-immigrant sentiment and racial intolerance, we are pleased to announce The Shared Dream Chapbook Contest for immigrant poets. The final judge will be poet Janine Joseph, the author of Driving without a License (Alice James Books, 2016) winner of the 2014 Kundiman Poetry Prize. The winning manuscript with be published by Backbone Press and the author will receive a prize of $250. Deadline: November 30, 2017. Please see our submissions page for full guidelines: backbonepress.org/submissions/.

Deadline: January 19, 2018 (Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday)
We welcome submissions from around the world; affiliation with Virginia is not necessary. This year’s Judges include: Suzanne Rhodes, Rachel Richardsen, Rob and Michele Bonczek-Evory, James Owens, Luisa Igloria, Ravi Shankar, Sarah Gambito, Nicole Foreman-Tong, Lisa Russ Spaar, Kate Coombs, Rebecca Hazleton, Carrie Shipers, Tom Yuill, Shonda Buchanan, Kevin Prufer, Henry Hart, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, David Blair, Margaret Mackinnon, Patricia Fargnoli, John Hoppenthaller, Sofia Starnes, and Heather Bell, among others. Submissions accepted between 01 November 2017 and 19 January 2018. Entry fees: $5/poem, or join the Society when submitting for $35/yr and enter all categories. Please visit the website for complete submission details: poetrysocietyofvirginia.org/announcing-the-2018-poetry-society-of-virginia-annual-contest/.

Deadline: November 15, 2017
Philadelphia Stories hosts the annual Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize to celebrate poets of all backgrounds, experience, and styles. The prize includes a $1,000 cash award and invitation to the awards event in Philadelphia. This year's judge is Dilruba Ahmed whose debut book Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press, 2011) won the Bakeless Prize. Deadline: November 15, 2017. Visit www.philadelphiastories.org for details.

Deadline: November 15, 2017
Ruminate Magazine announces the 2018 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize. First place winner will receive a $1500 cash prize along with publication. Runner-up recipient will receive $200 cash prize and publication. The prize is open to all forms of nonfiction; no geographical restrictions. $20 Entry fee also includes a complimentary copy of the prize issue. You may submit a piece of nonfiction writing that is 5500 words or less. For more information, please visit Ruminate Magazine at www.ruminatemagazine.com/pages/nonfiction-prize. *Ruminate is a nonprofit, reader-supported magazine that celebrates slowing down, encountering honest art and storytelling, and living awake.

Deadline: December 10, 2017
The Beloit Fiction Journal invites submissions for the Hamlin Garland Award for the Short story. A prize of $2000 will be awarded to the top unpublished story. $20 reading fee. Rebecca Makkai will judge. Submission information can be found on our website: www.beloit.edu/bfj/.

Deadline: December 30, 2017
Our annual writing contest now has a new twist: we are accepting submissions of your unpublished short stories, stand-alone memoirs, and poetry for our anthology. First Serial Rights apply for contest and anthology submissions. See our guidelines. Wow us with your writing. Check out latest anthology to see the types of stories we're looking for. Jewels of San Fedele and past editions of East Meets West, American Writers Review can be found on Amazon.com and Barnes and Nobel. Check out our website for more details. No pornography, please. www.americanwritersreview.com

Deadline: October 31, 2017
The 18th Annual James Hearst Poetry Prize is currently accepting entries. First Prize receives $1,000 plus publication in North American Review. Deadline: October 31, 2017. This year’s judge is Eduardo C. Corral. Enter online at northeramericanreview.org. For more information email: .

Deadline: November 15, 2017
Judged by Brian Evenson, the winning story receives $2000 plus publication and a note from our judge on why the story was chosen. Second and third place stories earn $200 and $100 respectively, publication, and correspondence from our judge. 7000 word limit, fiction only, and emerging writers only. Visit our site for full guidelines. Submissions open now through November 15. Send us your best! mastersreview.com/fall-fiction-contest-2000-publication/

Deadline:  December 15,  2017
First, second, and third prizes will be published on the site and in the Spring 2018 issue. Winners will receive a digital copy of the issue along with the prize money upon publication. Prizes are $125, $75, and $25. Entry fee is $6. Deadline is December 15, 2017. Winners will be notified by January 15, 2018. Every word counts! Tip: read your work aloud several times during your revision process. Editors and readers for The Flexible Persona are not eligible to enter the contest. www.theflexiblepersona.com/flash-contest-2018

Deadline: November 13, 2017
Gambling the Aisle is happy to announce our fifth annual chapbook competition. The winner will receive $100 and 20 copies of his or her chapbook. It is open to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions. Five runners-up will receive recognition in the winter edition of Gambling the Aisle. The entry fee is $13 and the deadline is November 13th. For full competition details and to enter, visit our Submittable page at gamblingtheaisle.submittable.com/submit.

Deadline: March 31, 2018
The award-winning Port Yonder Press (2009-2015) is proud to announce the new 2018 Mary Hunter Austin Book Award. Seeking nonfiction, fiction, and prose poetry manuscripts in several genres including essay collections, woodswoman/man, nature, environmental, mysteries, hybrid, cross-genre, and place-based themes. Lyric works especially welcome. 50 to 300 double-spaced pages. One book will be chosen for publication, $300 award, and free copies. $20 reading fee. For a handy Q&A with details, visit: www.portyonderpress.com/mary-hunter-austin-book-award.html.

Deadline: Rolling 
The University of Arkansas Press invites submissions for the $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Submissions are accepted year-round, and the deadline for the following year’s prize is September 30. One winner will receive $5,000 and publication, and up to three finalists will receive publication. The series is edited by Billy Collins. The winner of the 2017 Prize is Stephen Gibson, for his book Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror. The finalists for the prize were Jennifer Givhan, for Protection Spell; Laura McCullough, for The Wild Night Dress; and Frances Schenkkan, for Mr. Stevens’ Secretary. Visit uapress.com for more information.

Deadline: October 31, 2017
The Monadnock Essay Collection Prize is awarded for a book-length collection of nonfiction essays. These essays can take any form and be on any subject: personal essays, memoir in essay form, narrative nonfiction, commentary, travel, historical account, etc. The winner receives publication and distribution of the collection with our 2018 titles, $750 prize money, and 50 copies of the book. We welcome submissions from around the country. This year's judge is journalist, essayist, and author Andrew Merton. Entry fee $25. www.bauhanpublishing.com/the-monadnock-essay-collection-prize/

Deadline: November 30, 2017
Judge: Suzanne Buffam. Submissions will be accepted from August 15 to November 30, 2017. Submit 48-64 pages of poetry, including a list of acknowledgments. Your name and contact information should not appear anywhere within the manuscript. A $25 entry fee must be paid at the time of submission. Each entrant will receive a copy of one Burnside Review Press titles. Complete guidelines and a link to our online submission manager can be found on our website, www.burnsidereview.org.

Deadline: December 31 (annual)
The thirteenth annual Tartt First Fiction Award is now open for submissions. Twenty-dollar entry fee, stories may have been previously published in magazines. Author not to have had a previous story collection published. Novels, nonfiction, or poetry collections do not disqualify. www.livingstonpress.uwa.edu

Deadline: November 1, 2017
The 2017 Coal Hill Review Chapbook Contest is now open for submissions! Submit 12-20 pages of poetry through our submissions manager or to our PO Box. The final judge for the 2017 competition is Heather McNaugher. Winner receives publication and $1,000. For more information please view our submission guidelines: www.coalhillreview.com/submissions/. Coal Hill Review is an imprint of Autumn House Press.

Deadline: October 31, 2017
The Atlantic Road Poetry Prize is now accepting entries. Submit chapbook-length poetry manuscripts, 22-28 pages, by October 31, 2017. The winner will receive a $250 honorarium, publication by Island Verse Editions, and 10 author copies. There is a $20 application fee. Visit www.islandverse.com for complete guidelines.

Deadline: October 31, 2017
$500 Grand Prize, $15 entry fee ($10 for student and previous contributors). Contest open September 15th - October 31st. Entries should consist of a single story between 500 and 7,000 words. Winners will be announced on or before November 25, 2017. Please see our website for full details: www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/contests/. JuxtaProse serves as a venue for new and emerging authors to showcase their work alongside some of the most acclaimed writers working today. Recent contributors include Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn, Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis, and several debut works by emerging and student writers.

Deadline: November 1, 2017
The first ever Jane Underwood Poetry Prize, judged by Julie Bruck, Alison Luterman, and Kathleen McClung, is still accepting submissions! Open to all California poets, the prize is awarded for a single poem. For a fee of $15, submit one entry of up to three poems. The prizewinner will receive an award of $250, online publication of the winning poem, and an invitation to do a featured reading at The Writing Salon in San Francisco. Full guidelines can be found at www.writingsalons.com/awards-resources/jane-underwood-poetry-prize/.

Deadline: November 15, 2017
The Tishman Review’s 2018 Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize is open to all writers for submissions October 1st to November 15th. Winner receives $500 and publication in our fourth anniversary issue on January 30, 2018. All submissions are read blind. Our final judge is the award-winning poet Major Jackson. Major Jackson is the author of four collections of poetry and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Contest entry fee is $15.00. Current students of the final judge are disqualified from entering. For full guidelines and more about the final judge, please visit our website: www.thetishmanreview.com.

Deadline: December 1, 2017
Two categories: poetry & short fiction. Prizes in each category: $2000 CAD for winner + publication payment and $250 CAD for 2 honourable mentions + publication payment. Winning entries published in The Fiddlehead 275 (Spring 2018). No simultaneous submissions; no previously published works. Short fiction submission: 1 story (6,000 words max). Poetry submission: 3 poems max, 100 lines max per poem. One entry is one submission in one genre. Entry Fee: $30 in Canada; $36 elsewhere. Includes one-year subscription to The Fiddlehead. Complete details at thefiddlehead.ca/contest.

Deadline: December 15, 2017
december Magazine seeks submissions for our 2018 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize. This year’s judge Luis Rodriguez is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist, and was the 2014-2016 Los Angeles Poet Laureate. Prizes: $1,500 & publication (winner); $500 & publication (honorable mention); all finalists will be published in the 2018 Spring/Summer awards issue. Submit up to 3 poems for $20 entry fee, which includes a copy of the awards issue. Submit October 1 to December 15. For complete guidelines please visit our website: decembermag.org/2018-jeff-marks-memorial-poetry-prize/.

Deadline: January 14, 2018
$2,000 honorarium and book publication: Submit book-length collection of poems to the Colorado Prize for Poetry by January 14, 2018. $25 reading fee (add $3 to submit online) includes subscription to Colorado Review. Final judge is John Yau; friends and students (current or former) of the judge are not eligible to compete, nor are Colorado State University employees, students, or alumni. Complete guidelines at coloradoprize.colostate.edu or Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 9105 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105.

Extended Deadline: October 31, 2017
Win a one-week writing retreat to the legendary Hamptons, NY, a destination to writers from around the world; home to Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, Truman Capote, among other literary legends; accommodations for two in spacious residence within walking distance to NYC train, ocean beach, and town. Publication in special winners WTP edition. Juror: DeWitt Henry, founding editor of Ploughshares literary magazine. Submit previously unpublished literary fiction or creative nonfiction. All submissions will be considered for publication in the WTP regularly monthly magazine on a rolling basis. Submission fee: $20. www.thewoventalepress.net/literary-competition-prose/

Deadline: November 30, 2017
The theme for The Baltimore Review’s winter contest is “Food.” We eat to survive. We eat for pleasure. We steal it. We crave it. We eat with strangers and with people we love. We eat alone. We dine in fancy restaurants and all-night diners. We have too much. We don't have enough. Submit your poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction to our Submittable Contest category. Three winners will be selected from among all entries. All submissions considered for publication. Prizes are $500, $200, and $100. Entry fee is $10. Deadline: November 30, 2017. For more information, visit our website: www.baltimorereview.org.

Deadline: November 2017 (dates vary)
The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival announces 4 writing contests with prizes of cash, Festival tickets, publication, and a public reading. We celebrate emerging writers with unpublished and unperformed pieces. One-Act Plays: judged by Lisa D’Amour, deadline November 1 ($25). Very Short Fiction: judged by Justin Torres, deadline November 8 ($10). Poetry: judged by Jericho Brown, deadline November 15 ($15). Fiction: judged by Jennifer Haigh, deadline November 30 ($25). No limit on submissions. #TWF18 is March 21-25, 2018. We look forward to reading your work! For more information, visit www.tennesseewilliams.net.