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Deadline: March 1, 2019
The Non/Fiction Collection Prize is awarded annually to a book-length collection of short stories, essays, or a combination of the two. The prize carries a cash award of $1,500 and publication with The Ohio State University Press's literary imprint Mad Creek Books under its standard contract. This year's contest is judged by Nick White, author of the novel How to Survive a Summer and the story collection Sweet and Low. Submissions are read anonymously. For more information and to submit your manuscript, see thejournalmag.org/book-prizes/prose-prize.

Deadline: March 14, 2019
$2,000 & publication in the fall 2019 issue of Colorado Review will be awarded for the best short story. All stories will be considered for publication. The final judge is Joan Silber. Entry fee is $15 per story, payable to Colorado Review. For an additional $2, you may submit online at nelliganprize.submittable.com. Stories must be previously unpublished under 50 pages. Full guidelines can be found on our website: coloradoreview.colostate.edu/nelligan-prize/.

Deadline: March 15, 2019
Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Contest is accepting submissions from January 1 to March 15 at fourthgenre.submittable.com. The 2019 contest judge is Brenda Miller. Winning author receives $1,000 and publication in the issue that’s featured at AWP. $20 per entry, up to 6,000 words. Detailed submission guidelines: fourthgenre.msu.edu.

Deadline: March 15, 2019
The 2019 Tomaž Šalamun Prize is now open for submissions. The prize is for a chapbook (poetry, hybrid forms, prose poetry, translations) and is open to poets at any stage of their career. The winner receives $500, a free 1-month residency at the Tomaž Šalamun Centre for Poetry in downtown Ljubljana, Slovenia, and chapbook publication by Factory Hollow Press. verse.submittable.com/submit

Deadline: March 15, 2019
The Missouri Review invites submissions to the 2019 Miller Audio Prize contest in the following four categories: audio documentary, poetry, prose, and humor. Winners in each category will be awarded $1000, publication on our website, and promotion on our social media accounts. Entrants choose their own entry fee ($10, $16, $24, or $30), and each entrant will receive a digital subscription to TMR . Our final judge this year is Cher Vincent. Full guidelines here: www.missourireview.com/contests/audio-contest/.

Deadline: February 25, 2019
We’re looking stories that are honest, accurate, informative, intimate, and—most importantly—true. Whether your story is revelatory or painful, hilarious or tragic, if it’s about you and your life, we want to read it. Submissions must be vivid and dramatic; they should combine a strong and compelling narrative with an informative or reflective element, and reach beyond a strictly personal experience for some universal or deeper meaning. $2,500 for Best Essay and two $500 prizes for runner-up. www.creativenonfiction.org

Deadline: April 25, 2019
The SMOLDR Creative Group, a subgroup of Gold Man Review, is running a unique romance contest that takes place in the town of Lake Covington. Once you enter the contest and pay the entry fee of $5, you’ll be assigned a couple, a romantic trope, and a location. Your job is to create a story within 5,000 words. 18 winning stories will be published in an anthology with a projected publication date of February 14, 2020. Of those, three will be considered for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes. First prize winner will receive $500, second $250, and third $100. www.smoldr.org

Deadline: March 24, 2019
StoryQuarterly’s annual fiction contest is open through March 24, 2019. The winner will receive $1000, and the winner, first runner-up, and second runner-up will be published in StoryQuarterly 52. Please visit storyquarterly.camden.rutgers.edu for full details and a link to our submissions portal. There is an entry fee. Our contest judge is Nafissa Thompson-Spires. She is the author of the short story collection Heads of the Colored People, which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Fiction. Her work has appeared in Lunch Ticket, East Bay Review, Compose, Blinders, FLOW, and The Feminist Wire, among other publications.

Deadline: March 31, 2019
For our prizes in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, we offer the winner a $1,000 prize and publication in the next year’s Fall or Spring issue. The prize-winning one-act play winner receives a $500 prize and travel support to attend the prize play production at the Georgia College campus (usually in March.) Our prizes are made possible through generous gifts to our prize endowments from Dr. Martin Lammon, Dr. Barry Darugar, Bahram and Fari Atefat, and other friends of Arts & Letters. artsandletters.gcsu.edu

Deadline: February 18, 2019
Ruminate Magazine announces the 2019 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize. This year's competition will be judged by award-winning writer, Tyrese Coleman. First place winner will receive a $1,500 cash prize along with publication. Runner-up recipient will receive $200 cash prize and publication. The entry fee is $20 and includes a complimentary PDF copy of the prize issue featuring the winning work. You may submit one story per contest entry fee and it must be 5,500 words or less. For more information and a complete prospectus, please visit Ruminate Magazine at www.ruminatemagazine.com/pages/short-story-prize.

Deadline: April 30, 2019
Force Majeure: a great and unexpected power. $500 in prizes awarded to three individual flash pieces. We especially desire entries by women and nonbinary people, people of color and indigenous authors, writers who are lgbtqia+, border-straddling, neuroatypical, disabled, poor, or otherwise marginalized. Send us your best short writing, any form, any content: fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, fragment, experimental, illustrated, wild things! $5 entry fee; free entry available for financial hardship. All entries considered for publication; all entrants receive prize issue. Judged by the editors of Storm Cellar. Full guidelines: stormcellar.submittable.com/submit/72759/.

Deadline: March 10, 2019
Florida Loquat Festival seeks one-page poetry or prose submissions on loquats for reading at our festival, March 23, 2019. Prize packages are first ($100), second ($50), and third place ($25), and publication. Other small favors for presenters. All styles and forms accepted as long as loquats are the subject or central image. Submissions open to all writers and not restricted to professional poets. Writers can submit up to three poems. If making more than one submission, send all in a single document. Include brief bio with writing experience/publications, if any, to Deadline March 10, 2019. Accepted submissions notified upon acceptance. www.ecologyflorida.org/2018/12/loquat-festival-2019/

Deadline: April 1, 2019
The 2019 Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction offer $1,500 and publication by Orison Books for a full-length manuscript in each genre. Judges: Eric Pankey (poetry) & Victor LaValle (fiction). Entry fee: $30. Entry period: December 1, 2018 - April 1, 2019. For complete guidelines visit orisonbooks.submittable.com.

Deadline: June 30, 2019
The annual Autumn House Press Contests award publication of full-length manuscripts in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction. Each winner also receives $2,500 ($1,000 advance against royalties and a $1,500 travel/publicity grant to promote the book). The submission period opens January 1 and closes June 30 (Eastern Time). To submit online, please visit our online submission manager. There is a $30 reading fee to submit. The judges for the 2019 full-length contests are Cornelius Eady (poetry), Aimee Bender (fiction), and Paul Lisicky (nonfiction). www.autumnhouse.org

Deadline: June 30, 2019
Entries should be 1,500 words or less. Submissions should be unpublished. Entry fee is $10. Winner will receive $200. All entries will be considered for publication in Fiction Southeast. fictionsoutheast.com/fiction-southeast-editors-prize/

Deadline: February 28, 2019
Cloudbank is interested in what you have to say and how you say it. We award a $200 prize for one poem or flash fiction in each issue. The upcoming contest submission deadline is February 28 for Cloudbank 13. Non-contest submissions are welcome through March 31. Find contest and regular submission guidelines at www.cloudbankbooks.com. Revive us with your fire.

Deadline: January 31, 2019
Welcome to our Winter Short Story Award, a prize that recognizes the best fiction from today’s emerging writers. The winning story will be awarded $3000 and publication online. Second and third place stories will be awarded publication and $300 and $200, respectively. All winning stories will receive agency review by the following: Sobel Weber, The Bent Agency, Writers House, Trident Media, and Fletcher & Company. We’re looking for stories 7000 words and under, exclusively from new writers. We want you to succeed, and we want your writing to be read. It’s been our mission to support emerging writers since day one. mastersreview.com/short-story-award/