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Deadline: February 28, 2019
Penelope Niven Prize in CNF (Judged by Melissa Febos), Reynolds Price Prize in Fiction (Judged by Jennine Crucet), & Rita Dove Prize in Poetry (Judged by Marilyn Nelson). Early bird submission fee of $10 for entries submitted prior to 1 December; Submission fee of $15 afterwards. First prize of $1000 in each genre; $150 honorable mention. Complete guidelines on our website: internationalliteraryawards.org/2019/competition.

Deadline: January 10, 2019
Submissions are now open for the DISQUIET Prize for writing in any genre. Three winners will be published in Granta.com (fiction), NinthLetter.com (nonfiction), or The Common (poetry). One grand prize winner will receive a full scholarship, accommodations, and travel stipend to attend the ninth annual DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon taking place June 23 – July 5, 2019. Runners-up and other outstanding entrants will also be considered for financial aid. Submission fee: $15. Website: disquietinternational.submittable.com/submit.

Deadline: December 31, 2018
Awarded to an outstanding, unpublished collection of short stories. Reading Fee: $30. Award: $1,000 cash advance, publication and fifty copies. Enter: Submit online with Submittable or by mail from September 1–December 31, 2018. Press 53 publisher and editor in chief Kevin Morgan Watson will serve as the final judge. Winner and finalists announced by May 1, 2019; advance review copies sent to major reviewers and outlets; publication in October 2019. Complete details and a list of previous winners at www.Press53.com/award-for-short-fiction.

Deadline: January 2, 2019
Gemini Magazine offers a prize of $1,000 for a single poem of any length. Second prize: $100. Four honorable mentions: $25 each. Entry fee: $7 for three poems. Deadline: January 2. All six winners will be published online in our March 2019 issue. We have no rules. We are open to any type of poetry, any subject, any style. Rhyming or non-rhyming. Traditional or non-traditional. Anyone writing in English is eligible. All entries are read blind so everyone gets an equal chance. All entries are also considered for publication in future issues. Read previous winners and enter at www.gemini-magazine.com/poetryopen.html.

Deadline: January 31, 2019
The 55th annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards are now accepting nominations for books and poetry chapbooks published in 2018 by an author who was a resident of Georgia when the nominated book or chapbook was written although they may have moved out state or by an author who is currently living in Georgia when the book is nominated. Winners and finalists in nineteen categories will be announced at a gala June 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2019. Please visit the following link for the complete guidelines: authoroftheyear.org.

Deadline: January 31, 2019
From January 1 to January 31, Crazyhorse will accept entries for our Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry. Submit fiction and nonfiction manuscripts of up to 25 pages or 1-3 poems via Submittable. Winners in each genre receive $2,000 & publication. The $20 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Crazyhorse; all entries will be considered for publication. For more information and a list of our judges, visit crazyhorse.cofc.edu/prizes/.

Deadline: January 15, 2019
The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards on the Jewish experience were established by Nedda Fratkin, Marvin Rosenberg, and Violet Ginsburg in memory of their mother, Anna Rosenberg, née Davidson in 1987. The contest is open to all writers exploring the Jewish experience (irrespective of author's ethnicity or religious affiliation). Fee: $3.00 per poem. $250 for first place. www.poeticamagazine.com

Deadline: December 30, 2018
For a full-length manuscript (40+ pages) of poetry by a debut poet. Open to poets who have not published a full-length collection of poetry. Submission fee: $25. Judge: Jericho Brown. Send to: New Issues Prize / New Issues / 1903 W. Michigan Ave. / Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5463, or submit online at: newissuespoetryprose.submittable.com. Recent winners include Chet'la Sebree, Nina Puro, Courtney Kampa, and Abdul Ali.

Deadline: December 31, 2018
Sonder Press seeks well-written, engaging chapbook-length works of short fiction and nonfiction—crafted with care, precision, and a penchant for language—for its annual Chapbook Competition. Prizes include $300 and publication. We wish to be transported, rearranged, and awakened; we want distinct visions rendered in piercing prose. Storytelling which throbs the gut and burns the throat; which examines the peculiar, the off-angles and edges, the resplendent, churning pulse of human experience. Website: www.thesonderpress.com. Guidelines: www.thesonderpress.com/chapbook-competition.

Deadline: December 15, 2018
Everett Southwest Literary Award is open! 5K for 1st prize and 3K for 2nd prize Short Story collections by authors living in OR writing about Texas, Oklahoma, or New Mexico. See website for details: sites.uco.edu/la/english/everett/.

Deadline: January 30, 2019
We are dedicated to publishing and advancing voices of color. Our 2018-19 Chapbook Competition is underway! Poets of all levels are encouraged to submit. See website for full guidelines: backbonepress.org/submissions/2018-chapbook-competition/.

Deadline: February 1, 2019
We invite book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2018 and February 1, 2019. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for publication. The winner/s will be announced on the Press’s website in early summer, 2019. Selected manuscripts will be scheduled for publication in the Spring of 2021. Sixteen Rivers Press is a nonprofit, shared-work poetry collective. Authors must live in Northern California and become members of the collective with a three-year commitment, devoting an average of eight hours per month. For further guidelines, visit our website at: www.sixteenrivers.org/submit-work/.

Deadline: December 31, 2018
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Nowhere Magazine is given twice yearly for a travel-specific short story, long-form creative nonfiction piece, poem, or essay that possesses a powerful sense of place, character or time. Unpublished and published pieces that have not previously been chosen as a contest winner are eligible. Submit your 800- to 5,000-word piece with a $20 entry fee by December 31, 2018, at nowheremag.com/contests. All entries are considered for publication. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Deadline: December 31, 2018
The Monadnock Essay Collection Prize is extending its deadline to December 31, 2018. The prize is awarded for a book-length collection of nonfiction essays. The winner receives $1,000, publication, 50 author copies, and distribution through Casemate Group in Fall 2019. $25 fee per entry. To enter and view our guidelines visit: www.bauhanpublishing.com/the-monadnock-essay-collection-prize/.

Deadline: January 31, 2019
The Rising Writer Contest is for a first full-length book of poetry by an author 33 years old or younger. Autumn House believes in supporting the work of younger, less-established writers who will become the voices of an emerging generation. The submission period opens November 1, 2018 and closes January 31, 2019 (Eastern Time). The judge for the 2019 contest is poet Stacey Waite. www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/rising-writers/

Deadline: January 31, 2019
The Chattahoochee Review awards two prizes of $1,000 each and publication to a story and essay in the annual Lamar York Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction. The prize honors the founder and former editor of The Chattahoochee Review. Entries of up to 6,000 words are accepted from November 1 to January 31. Kevin Wilson will judge in fiction and Adriana Páramo will judge in nonfiction. chattahoocheereview.gsu.edu/lamar-york-prizes/

Deadline: December 31, 2018
River Styx offers a prize of $1,500 for a single story of 500 words or fewer. Top three stories will be published. Your choice of entry fee: $20 to receive a one-year subscription, or $10 to receive just the issue with the winning stories. Submit up to three stories per entry, maximum 500 words per story. Additional stories may be submitted with additional entry fees. Submissions may not be previously published either in print or online. Submit via mail or online. Complete guidelines for both methods are posted at www.riverstyx.org/submit/microfiction-contest/.

Deadline: December 20, 2018
Minerva Rising Press seeks work that embodies and embraces the idea of daring: suppressed voices speaking out, speakers who take risks in the face of challenge, insistent and brave poetry with a message that has never been heard before. The 2018 Dare to Speak contest will be judged by Maggie Smith. The winner will receive a $250 prize and 10 copies. There is a $20 entry fee. For full contest guidelines, visit minervarising.com.

Deadline: December 22, 2018
Gambling the Aisle is happy to announce our sixth annual chapbook competition. It is open to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions. The winner will receive 20 copies of his or her chapbook and $100. The entry fee is $13 and the deadline is December 22nd. For full competition details and to enter, visit gamblingtheaisle.submittable.com/submit.

Deadline: January 15, 2019
We’ve always loved chapbooks for their brevity and intensity. At a few dozen pages, a great chapbook is the perfect reading experience for the 21st century—not too long, not too short. Every year, the Rattle Chapbook Prize awards $2,000, 500 copies, and distribution to Rattle's 7,000+ subscribers. The contest is open to writers worldwide; poems must be in English. $25 entry fee is a one-year subscription to Rattle. More information: www.rattle.com/chapbooks/guidelines/.

Deadline: January 15, 2019
$1,000 and book publication for the winners of the annual John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction. Submission fees: $25 by mail, $30 via Submittable. Guidelines available here. Founded in 1971, BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City publishes poetry, short fiction, and creative essays. Prize-winning books have received reviews or features in: Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Foreword Reviews, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Slate, and won or placed in the Poets' Prize, Eric Hoffer, IPPY, Foreword, Chautauqua, Balcones Fiction, Devil's Kitchen.

Deadline: December 31, 2018
The Fifteenth Tartt First Fiction Contest is open to authors who’ve yet to publish a full story collection. (Previous novels or poetry collections do not disqualify an author.) The collection may include stories previously published in magazines; in fact, this is better. The collection must be written in English. Please send a hard copy and keep one for yourself. livingstonpress.uwa.edu

Deadline: January 14, 2019
$2,000 honorarium and book publication: Submit book-length collection of poems to the Colorado Prize for Poetry by January 14, 2019. $25 reading fee (add $3 to submit online) includes subscription to Colorado Review. Final judge is Kazim Ali; 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 coloradoreview.colostate.edu/colorado-prize-for-poetry/ or Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 9105 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105.