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Contest and Writing Sessions from Black Fox Literary Magazine

Black Fox Literary Magazine Summer Fox Tales Prize announcement with theme “Feast”; submit fiction, poetry, or nonfiction by August 31, 2025.
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Submission/Registration Deadline: August 31, 2025
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Summer Fox Tales Prize with theme: Feast! Deadline: August 31, 2025! Registration is also open for our September Lunch Break Writing Sessions. View our flyer for more information and links to our website.

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35th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize

Flyer for The Missouri Review’s 35th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize offering $5,000 awards in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Deadline: October 1.
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Deadline: October 1, 2025
The Missouri Review invites short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction submissions for the 35th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Winners receive $5000 and publication in the Spring 2026 issue of TMR. Entrants receive a 1-year digital subscription and a digital copy of Mix and Match: Stories of Sex & Marriage. Fee: $25. All entries considered for publication. View flyer and visit website for more information.

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Where to Submit Roundup: August 15, 2025

t’s Friday — and the weekend is calling!

Whether you’re stepping away from your desk for one last summer hurrah or leaning into the cooler weather with a fresh burst of creative energy (indoors or out—laptops travel well!), NewPages has you covered with this week’s submission opportunities for August 15, 2025 (featuring ways to share your work)—plus a creative writing prompt to help spark new ideas if you’re feeling stuck.

📅 Heads up: It’s the 15th, which means some deadlines close today. Don’t miss your chance to submit!

📬 ICYMI: Our August eLitPak went out Wednesday to newsletter subscribers, packed with even more submission calls, fall book releases, and upcoming events for readers and writers alike.

This week’s prompt, Don’t Stop the Music, was inspired by the Japanese drama Glass Heart and the magic of collaboration. Whether you’re imagining your own fictional band or turning your words into lyrics, let the music move your creativity.

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Where to Submit Roundup: July 25, 2025

Greetings and salutations fellow creatives!

As July winds down, we’re gearing up for our next Friday Inspiration Prompt and Where to Submit Roundup—arriving August 1st. Time flies, doesn’t it? Even when it’s not all sunshine and creativity.

Aside from doing the normal routines, NewPages has been kicking around some innovations for our Bookstore Guide. These indie bookstores are hubs of inspiration and community. Check out our guide to find one near you—you might discover a cozy spot to work, read, and connect with kindred spirits. Who knows? They might just become part of your chosen family.

Inspiration Prompt: The Family We Choose

Family isn’t always inherited. Sometimes, it’s built—through love, loyalty, and the quiet decision to show up when no one had to.

Think about the people who stepped in, stood by, or shaped your life in unexpected ways. Maybe it was a step-parent, a mentor, a friend who became a sibling, or a partner who helped you feel seen. Maybe it’s a community that redefined what home means.

This week, write about the people who became family by choice.

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Inverted Syntax’s Poetry Book Contests

Flyer for Inverted Syntax Press’s annual poetry book contests, offering publication, author copies, a writing retreat, and a $500 prize. Deadline: Aug 15.
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Deadline: August 15, 2025
Inverted Syntax is where the margins take center stage. Now accepting submissions for our annual poetry book contests: the Sublingua Prize (for debut collections by female-identifying writers) and the Aggrey & Tabbikha Prize (for first or second books by Black and/or S.W.A.N.A writers). Winners receive $500, publication, a retreat, and more. Fissured Tongue Vol. VII also open. View flyer for more information and submit here.

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Extended Deadline: New American Fiction Prize – July 15

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Submissions deadline for the 2025 New American Fiction Prize has been extended! Winner will receive a contract including a $1500, publication, twenty-five copies, and promotional support. EXTENDED DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2025. All full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including novels, novellas, collections of stories and/or novellas, novels in verse, linked collections, as well as full-length collections of flash fiction and short-shorts. Full-length fiction manuscripts tend to be at least 100 pages. There is no maximum length. To submit, please access our convenient online submission manager, which saves paper and helps keep things organized. Entry fee is $25.

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HEART Poetry Award $500.00 – Deadline June 30

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The HEART Poetry Award 2025 is open to entries of unpublished reflective modern prose poems through June 30! $10 fee to enter up to 3 poems. Winner of the HEART Poetry Award will be awarded $500 and publication in HEART 20 (Fall/Winter 2025). This year’s judge is Grey Held. View flyer to view more information and visit Nostalgia Press to view judge bio and submit.

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The Catamaran Poetry Prize open for Submissions until June 15th

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Deadline: June 15, 2025
The Catamaran Poetry Prize is open to West Coast poets living in California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii. A prize of $1,000 and publication in book form will be awarded. Submit here. The 2025 Catamaran poetry prize judge is Mary Szybist. Mary Szybist is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry. View flyer for more information.

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Boudin Flash Fiction Chapbook Contest judged by Roxane Gay

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Deadline: June 15, 2025
Submit your 25–40-page flash fiction chapbook to Boudin (the spicy online cousin of The McNeese Review)! Winner will receive $1,000, 25 author copies, an author-signing at AWP 2026, inclusion in The McNeese Review 2026, etc. Final Judge: Roxane Gay. Distributed by TRP: The University Press of SHSU. See our flyer and submit here!

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2025 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize

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Deadline: June 15, 2025
For the 2025 Tusculum Review Fiction Chapbook Prize, Gordo author Jaime Cortez will select one story for this three-part award: a prize of $1,500, publication of the story in The Tusculum Review’s 21st volume (2025), and creation of a stand-alone chapbook with original art. The winning author will be celebrated at our live chapbook launch. See our flyer and website for guidelines and past contest winners, publications, and events.

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Last Syllable Book Awards in Poetry and Prose

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Deadline: September 1, 2025
Open now until September 1, 2025! Last Syllable wants submissions of books of poetry or prose published in 2023-2025. Prize includes $1,000, travel expenses to San Diego (up to an additional $1,000), and a headlining feature in the PLNU M.A. in Writing program’s Visiting Writer Series. $25 entry fee. View flyer for more information. Full submission details at our website.

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Livingston Press 2025 Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse

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Deadline: May 25, 2025
Livingston Press announces it is seeking unpublished manuscripts preferably between 90 to 160 pages for its annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. Past winners include Nicelle Davis and Michael George. No fee to submit. See flyer for more information and a link to the Livingston Press website.

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Submit Poetry Manuscripts for the Richard Snyder Prize!

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Deadline: May 1, 2025
Ashland Poetry Press is currently reading manuscripts for the 2025 Richard Snyder Memorial Book Prize. $1000 and publication to the winner. Multiple submissions accepted. Any style or subject okay; we only want to be wowed by the poems. 2025 judge: Kim Addonizio. Submit by May 1. View flyer for a link to our website with full guidelines and link to submit.

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2025 National Indie Excellence Awards

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Deadline: March 31, 2025
The National Indie Excellence© Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books currently for sale including self-published authors, small to midsize independent publishers, and university presses. Now in our nineteenth year, NIEA is a proud champion of self and independent publishing and authors of all genres who produce books of excellence and distinction. View our flyer for more information and a link to submit.

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Encourage Young Writers and Readers

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NewPages curates Publications for Young Writers and Writing Contests for Young Writers, two guides where young readers and writers can find print and online literary magazines to read, places to publish their own works, and legitimate contests. These are ad-free resources regularly updated with carefully vetted content, wonderful resources for teachers to use in the classroom as well as for anyone mentoring young readers or writers in their lives.

Pictured is Fleeting Daze Magazine, a youth-run literary online quarterly magazine publishing all forms of literary arts and writing from contributors ages 13-24. Their most recent issue is themed “Aurora.”

If you know publications or contests for young readers and writers not listed, please contact us.

Subnivean Awards: Win an Author Blurb, Publication, Prize, Event Appearance

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Deadline: February 21, 2025
The Subnivean Awards are open: winners receive publication and blurbs from final judges, as well as $150 each. Finalists and winners are featured at a popular virtual event. Subnivean’s received submissions from 63 countries and every U.S. state, publishing U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Wong, Molly Giles, Amit Majmudar and others. We await your poems and stories! View flyer for more info and a link to submit.

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Submit to Epiphany’s 2025 Breakout Writers Contest, $1000 prize!

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Deadline: April 15, 2025
Epiphany‘s 2025 Breakout! Writers prize will be judged by Victoria Chang in poetry and Hilary Leichter in prose. The contest is open to college and graduate students, and first prize winner in each genre will be awarded $1000 and publication. Submissions open March 1 and close April 15. View our flyer for more info and see more details on our website.

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Contest and Online Class Opportunity from Black Fox Literary

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Submission Deadline: March 30, 2025
Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Winter Prize with theme Rise or Ruin! Deadline: March 30, 2025! Registration is also open for our online January class: Goals, Routines, and Mindset for Writers on January 18, 2025 at 1-3 PM EST. View flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Bardsy’s 2025 Winter Anthology Contest – First Chapters

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Deadline: March 3, 2025
Winning is great, but our contests are about more: they boost you toward ultimate writing success. Every entrant receives concrete feedback as well as the opportunity to revise before final judging. In addition, finalists receive a professional editorial experience that ends with publication. Contest runs until March 3. View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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2025 Colorado Prize for Poetry Closing Soon!

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Deadline: January 14, 2025
$2,500 honorarium & book publication. Book-length poetry manuscripts accepted until January 14, 2025 (we observe a 5-day grace period). Final judge: Craig Morgan Teicher. $28 entry fee includes one-year subscription to Colorado Review. View our flyer for more information and a link to our complete guidelines. Questions? Please email us.

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Ashland Poetry Press 2nd Annual Broadside Contest—Now Reading!

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Deadline: November 1, 2024
Submit individual poems via Submittable ($10 for two poems, 40 lines or fewer). Winner and two runners-up will have broadsides designed and printed ($250 and 50 copies to winner; 25 copies for runners-up). No particular aesthetic; we just want great poems. Winning broadsides will be designed by poet/artist Lindsay Lusby. View flyer for more information and a link to submit.

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2025 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize

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Deadline: November 1, 2024
December Magazine seeks submissions for the 2025 Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize. Maggie Smith will Judge. Prizes: $1,500 & publication (winner); $500 & publication (honorable mention). All finalists will be published in the 2025 Spring/Summer Awards issue. Submit up to 3 poems per entry. $20 entry fee includes a copy of the awards issue. Submit September 1 to November 1, 2024. For more information and a link to our guidelines, please view our flyer.

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The 2024 Haiku Search is On Now!

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Deadline: November 30, 2024
Haiku Crush’s 4th annual international search for the best haiku is underway now! Entries for the 2024 search are now being accepted. $350 USD of honorariums will be awarded. Haiku Crush’s panel of judges will give a top award of $150 to the best of the best! Up to 50 winners will be published in this year’s anthology. Submit your four best haiku! View flyer for more info and a link to our website.

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2024 Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction

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Deadline: October 1, 2024
Permafrost is very happy to announce Pulitzer Finalist and Alaskan author Eowyn Ivey as the final judge for this annual contest. Submissions in fiction may include novels, short story collections, or novella collections. More info can be found at our website and on our flyer.

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22nd Annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest – Last Call!

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Submit published or unpublished poems to the 22nd annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers and co-sponsored by Duotrope. We will award $3,500 for the best poem in any style and $3,500 for the best poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. The top 12 poems will be published online. Final judge: Michal ‘MJ’ Jones. Fee: $22 for 1-3 poems. View flyer for more information and a link to submit.

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Alternating Current Press Submissions Open for August—Closing Soon!

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Submissions now open for the Futurist Debut Book Award for debut books in any genre ($1,000 prize), the Spark Translation Prize for translated books ($1,000 prize), several anthologies, book-length nonfiction manuscripts, and more! See what’s closing at the end of August, and plan ahead for what’s opening in September. View our flyer and learn more at our website.

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Raven Chronicles’ Inaugural Annual Awards for Innovative Fiction & Nonfiction

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Deadline: October 1, 2024
We seek nonfiction & fiction work for publication in Spring 2025 on the theme Habitat: Planet Earth. Chosen authors will receive $1,000 and 50% of net sales. Each year we will publish two books, one fiction (speculative, utopian, historical, etc.) and one nonfiction (creative nonfiction, memoir, scientific, historical, etc.). A new theme will be chosen each year. Submissions now open. View our flyer for more information.

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Submit to Sport Literate’s “1970s Contest” before July Ends

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Deadline: July 31, 2024
We won’t be prescriptive beyond the decade in question, except to say that poets and writers should reflect on a subject through a sporting lens. Our guest judges, both SL veterans and contest winners, are also former state Poet Laureates. SL editors read through submissions and send anonymous finalists to Jack Bedell and Sydney Lea, who will pick their favorites. View our flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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Inverted Syntax Poetry Book Contests

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Deadline: August 15
Inverted Syntax will be publishing and debuting between 3-5 full-length poetry books in the fall of 2026. Starting in 2024, we seek to identify up to five exceptional manuscripts for publication. We look for work that risks everything. We favor the hybrid but welcome all writing. If it’s well-crafted, uses language in daring ways, we want it. View guidelines and submission details on our flyer and at our website.

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Submit to The Greensboro Review’s Literary Awards – $1000 prizes!

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Deadline: August 1, 2024
The Greensboro Review invites submissions for our annual Robert Watson Literary Prizes in Poetry and Fiction. Winners in each genre receive a $1,000 award and publication in the spring issue of the journal. Send us your previously unpublished poems and short stories, now through August 1! To learn more, read past prizewinners, and submit your work, visit our website and view our flyer.

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Time to Submit Your Manuscript to The Tenth Gate Prize

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Deadline: July 15, 2024
The Tenth Gate Prize honors mid-career poets writing in English. Entry is open to authors of at least two previously published full-length poetry collections. A prize of $1000 and publication of the collection is awarded annually. See our flyer for more information and a link to submit.

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Final Month! North Street Book Prize for Self-Published and Hybrid-Published Books

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Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $10,000 in its tenth annual North Street competition, and $20,400 in all. The top nine winners will enjoy additional benefits from co-sponsors BookBaby, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Book Award Pro, Self-Publishing Made Simple, and Laura Duffy Design. New this year: Everyone who enters online will receive a brief commentary from one of the judges. Submit books published in any year and on any self-publishing or hybrid-publishing platform. $79 entry fee. Enter online or by mail by July 1. Learn more at our website and share our flyer.

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$1000 prize & publication with Vine Leaves Press

Vine Leaves Press 2025 International Voices in Creative Nonfiction Competition
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Deadline: July 1, 2024
It is our responsibility to give marginalized groups the opportunity to establish literary legacies that feel rich and vast. Why? To sustain hope for the world to become a more loving, tolerable, and open space. It always begins with art. That is why we invite you to enter the 2025 International Voices in Creative Nonfiction Competition. Visit our website and view our flyer for more information.

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2024 Charles Simic Prize for Poetry

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Deadline: July 31, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Dana Levin will judge the second annual Charles Simic Prize for Poetry. Dana is the author of five books of poetry and teaches for the Bennington Writing Seminars, the MFA program at Bennington College, and serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. Dana recently published a recollection of Charlie as friend, teacher, and mentor in The Yale Review.
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2024 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets

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Now in its 7th year, the Catamaran Poetry Prize is open to previously unpublished poetry manuscripts across a range of styles, themes, and forms. The prize is only open to West Coast poets living in California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii. See our website and flyer for full details.

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2nd Annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse

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Deadline: May 25, 2024
Livingston Press is accepting submissions of unpublished manuscripts for its annual Changing Light Prize for a Novel-in-Verse. There is no entry fee. Winner receives $500, publication, twenty copies, and a standard royalty contract. View our flyer and visit our website for guidelines.

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Tenth Annual North Street Book Prize for Self-Published & Hybrid-Published Books

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Winning Writers will award a grand prize of $10,000 in its tenth annual North Street competition, and $20,400 in all. The top nine winners will enjoy additional benefits from co-sponsors BookBaby, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Book Award Pro, Self-Publishing Made Simple, and Laura Duffy Design. New this year: Everyone who enters online will receive a brief commentary from one of the judges. Submit books published in any year and on any self-publishing or hybrid-publishing platform. $79 entry fee. Enter online or by mail by July 1. Learn more at our website and share our flyer.

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Open for Submissions: The Akron Poetry Prize

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Deadline: June 15, 2024
Entry fee: $25
The annual Akron Poetry Prize is now open. The winner receives $1,500 and publication of their book as part of the Akron Series in Poetry. Matthew Olzmann will judge. Other manuscripts may be considered for publication in the series. Submit manuscripts via Submittable from April 15 – June 15, 2024. View flyer and visit our website for complete guidelines.

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Announcing the 2024 RockPaperPoem Poetry Prize

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Deadline: May 31, 2024
The contest is un-themed so any subject is eligible, and all submissions will be considered for publication in the next issue of RockPaperPoem. We’re looking for your three best poems! View our flyer for more information and see complete contest guidelines at our website.

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Extended deadline for Richard Snyder Prize: May 15

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Deadline: May 15, 2024
$1000 and publication with Ashland Poetry Press for an unpublished manuscript of original poetry. No aesthetic preference or requirements; we’re happy to publish someone’s first book or their tenth. We just want books we love. 2024 Judge: Matthew Rohrer. View our flyer. Full guidelines and submission details at our website.

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december seeks submissions for the 2024 Curt Johnson Prose Awards

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december seeks submissions for the 2024 Curt Johnson Prose Awards in fiction and creative nonfiction. Prizes each genre: $1,500 & publication (winner); $500 & publication (honorable mention). All finalists will be listed in the 2024 Fall/Winter awards issue. $20 entry fee includes copy of awards issue. All submissions considered for publication. Submit one story or essay up to 8,000 words March 1 to May 1. For complete guidelines and judge information view our flyer and visit our website.

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Poet-Volunteers Are Invited to Submit a Manuscript!

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Deadline: April 30, 2024
Only poets who donate labor to help a literary venture may submit. We publish 2 books per year, and the 2024 judge is Ariel Francisco Henriquez Cos. TO NOMINATE A VOLUNTEER, review the submission details on our flyer and Guidelines page and complete the Hilary Tham Capital Collection Nomination Form.

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Flying South 2024 Contest is Open

$2,100 in Prizes

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Deadline: May 31, 2024
From March 1 to May 31, Flying South 2024 will be accepting entries for this year’s contest. There will be three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. In each of the three categories the awards will be $400 for First Place, $200 for Second Place, and $100 for Third Place. Finalists will be awarded publication in Flying South. View our flyer and visit our website to learn more.

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Last Call for the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest

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Winning Writers’ 32nd annual Fiction & Essay Contest has a May 1 deadline. Submit published or unpublished work. Max 6,000 words. Prizes: 2 X $3,500, 10 X $300. Top 12 entries published online. Entry fee: $22. Final judge: Mina Manchester. Co-sponsored by Duotrope and recommended by Reedsy. View flyer to see guidelines and enter online on our website.

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March 2024 eLitPak :: Writing Contests for the Best Poem and Short Story

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Gival Press is now accepting entries for the Best stand-alone Short Story (prize: $1,000.00) and for the Best Poem about LGBTQ+ life (prize: $500.00). Details about reading fee, etc.: at our Submittable portal. Winners will be published in the online journal, ArLiJo,  which will have an Open Reading Period from March 25 to April 25, 2024. View flyer for more information.

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March 2024 eLitPak :: First Pages Prize – Judge Edwidge Danticat

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Deadline: April 10, 2024 (April 24 extended)
First Pages Prize invites you to enter your first 5 pages of a longer work of fiction or creative nonfiction. Prizes in both fiction & creative nonfiction. 2024 Judge is Edwidge Dandicat! Open to un-agented writers worldwide, the prize supports emerging writers with cash awards, developmental mentoring, & agent consultation. View our flyer and visit our website for full information.

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March 2024 eLitPak :: Last Call! Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest

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Deadline: April 1
Submit one humor poem to Winning Writers’ 2024 contest to win $2,000 and online publication. Accepts published and unpublished work. Co-sponsored by Duotrope. Recommended by Reedsy. Judged by Jendi Reiter and Lauren Singer. Winners announced on August 15. Visit our website and view our flyer for more information.

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March 2024 eLitPak :: 18th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards

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Deadline: March 31, 2024
The 18th annual National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA) are open to all English language printed books available for sale, including small presses, mid-sized independent publishers, university presses, and self-published authors. NIEA is proud to be a champion of self-publishing and independent presses. Monetary awards, sponsorships, and entry rules are described in detail on our website.

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March 2024 eLitPak :: Contest and Submission Opportunity from Black Fox Literary Magazine!

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Submit your fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to Black Fox Literary Magazine’s Fairy Tale Remix Writing Prize! Deadline: March 31, 2024! We are also accepting free submissions for our summer 2024 print issue. Free subs close on May 31, 2024! View flyer and visit website to learn more.

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March 2024 eLitPak :: Poets Time to Submit Your Manuscript to The Washington Prize

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Deadline: March 15, 2024
Win $1,500 and publication by The Word Works. The contest is open to unpublished English language volumes of original poetry by a living Canadian or American writer at any stage of their career. Winner announced August 1 by series editor Andrea Carter Brown. View flyer to learn more and submit.

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