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TWP Weekly Writing Post 2016 Jan 3-9 Edition
Posted by mimrlith on January 1, 2016 January 1, 2016
The Writing Pool's Weekly Writing PostTM
2016 Jan 3-9 Edition
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
How many works in progress do you have? If you're the type of writer who jots down story ideas every time they come to mind, you're probably on Roth's road to hell. After all, every idea is a work in progress. Sure, they might be in the beginning stage. You know. That stage when you get this really great or interesting idea that you're sure you'd like to turn into some type of creative work, never mind the genre and write it down. That's a work in progress. Or the idea you started out with a paragraph you set aside because another better idea came up. How about that work-in-progress you started with a chapter or two then couldn't decide where to send your characters? Or maybe you figured you didn't like the way the point-of-view was panning out so you tried to change it and didn't like that either, so you set it aside to rest while you worked on something else. Before you knew it, you had about half a dozen or more files sitting in your "works-in-progress" folder. Or it could be a dozen notebooks you filed away up because you like to write by hand and you like to have a new notebook for each story. Worse, you could be less organized and have a pile of notes on random sheets and bits of paper sitting just about everywhere for you to rediscover serendipitously so you can resuscitate them and breathe new life in them. It would be terrible if you are an organized writer and want things in order, write in order, plan everything, it would probably keep you wide awake if you had works in progress sitting around and not getting completed. Of course, if you were really organized, you've probably completed every project you started. But that's in a perfect world. I'm sure every author, no matter how organized, has those works that have never been completed or are still waiting to be completed. You might not be able to pave your way to hell with them, but they might clutter your work desk, cover your bed, or even carpet your living room floor. That's hell enough if you haven't published a thing.
Do you have works in progess? Tell us how you plan to deal with them in The Writing Pool™ because it's 2016! You can also read more on writing at Creativity Unlimited.
2016 Playwrights' Colony – Submission Deadline January 7, 2016
PARC will be hosting the 2016 PARC Playwrights' Colony from May 8th to 21st, 2016 in Sackville, New Brunswick on the Mount Allison University campus. The annual Playwrights' Colony, PARC's flagship program, is a two-week long playwrights' residency and is open to
emerging and established playwrights in Atlantic Canada. Eight to ten playwrights
from across the Atlantic region have an opportunity to develop a new script. The Colony
offers the most intensive writing opportunity for playwrights in this region.
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/1O7C6Lj
PEI BATTLE TALES
Short story writing contest following a prompt to be released on January 3, 2016.
Contest begins: 12:01 am on Sunday, January 3, 2016
Contest ends: 11:59 pm on Saturday, January 9, 2016
Max word length: 2500
Submit to: peiwritersguild@gmail.com
The winner will be announced during the PEI Writers' Guild Winter Writing Social at 7pm on February 13th at the Upstreet Craft Brewery on Allen Street in Charlottetown.
Stay tuned for the prompt on Facebook, Twitter, and peiwritersguild.com!
Literary Evening in the Cradle of Confederation: Open Mic and J. J. Steinfeld book launch
Baha'i Centre
20 Lapthorne Avenue, Charlottetown
Wednesday, January 13, 2016, 07:00 pm – 09:00 pm
The next session of the Dianne Hicks Morrow Open Mic will feature a book launch by well-known Island writer, J.J. Steinfeld. Madhouses in Heaven, Castles in Hell (Ekstasis Editions), Steinfeld's 16th book, is an eclectic mix of 30 stories embracing and exploring the themes and the psychological terrain—from the absurd to the existential, the surreal to the spiritual. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.
J.J. is a fiction writer, poet, and playwright with more than 300 short stories and 700 poems published in anthologies and periodicals in every Canadian province and internationally in eighteen countries, and over forty of his one-act plays and a handful of full-length plays have been performed in Canada and the United States. He lives in Prince Edward Island where he is patiently waiting for Godot and a phone call from Kafka.
Dianne Hicks Morrow recently completed her term as the Island's fifth Poet Laureate, and the literary community awaits the announcement by the Ministry of Tourism of Culture of the next author to serve in that capacity. In the meantime, the monthly open mic sessions established by Dianne will continue. All are welcome at the Baha'i Centre, 20 Lapthorne Ave, Charlottetown. It is wheelchair accessible and alcohol-free.
Readers can sign up at 7 pm to read their own poetry or prose, anywhere from three to five minutes. Info: Paul Vreeland at 902 388 8697.
Canadian Authors 2016 Literary Awards
Entries are now being accepted for the Canadian Authors Association's 2016 Literary Awards.
Criteria and submission details are available in the CAA 2016 Literary Awards Guidelines. Complete the CAA 2016 Awards entry form online, print it and send it to us along with your submission and entry fee.
The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2016.
For more details, please visit http://canadianauthors.org/national/awards/
THE 29th COX & PALMER ISLAND LITERARY AWARDS
Deadline: February 26, 2016, 9:00pm
The 29th annual Cox & Palmer Island Literary Awards gala ceremony will take place in the spring of 2016. Prizes will be given out in five categories, and special awards may also be awarded.
ADULT (18+) AWARD CATEGORIES
Lucy Maud Montgomery* P.E.I. Literature for Children Awards
Milton Acorn Poetry Awards
Maritime Electric Short Story Awards
Clary Pottie Creative Non-Fiction Awards
STUDENT AWARD CATEGORIES
Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty Creative Writing Awards for Young People
School Participation Award
Entries must be postmarked or submitted by hand by 9 p.m., February 26, 2016. Those postmarked or delivered later will not be eligible.
A $25 entry fee is required for EACH Adult Category entry. There is no fee for Student entries.
For more information, contact the Cox & Palmer ILA co-ordinator, at peiliteraryawards @ gmail.com or visit http://www.peiwritersguild.com/ila-call-for-submissions-2016/
Story Quilt
Story Quilt is an all-electronic magazine began 2015 with the goal to collect stories, and poems, and art for the relaxed entertainment of all readers worldwide. Initially the contributions will mainly come from Canada but with time we hope to welcome submissions from any country in English.
The emphasis will be on stories. Stories can be told in many ways: "True" format using personal experiences or true facts from known sources, or "Fiction" based on facts, or "Pure Fiction, or "Art" as in artist's creations either in black and white or colour, or Photography, or Applied Arts as in quilts, or in Videos, or in Music, or in any combination of the above. Suitable essays and novellas may also be considered. For more details, please visit http://www.story-quilt.com/
A Celebration of Courage and Tenacity
The Brain Injury Association of PEI (BIAPEI) is compiling a book of inspirational, short stories/poems called: A Celebration of Courage and Tenacity. It is a dynamic compilation of short stories about those who have triumphed over traumatic brain injury. We are honouring survivors of brain injury for their strength of will, for believing in themselves, for overcoming adversity, and standing up for themselves or others. It is meant to move you to laugh, to cry, to ponder possibilities, to dream, and to make those dreams a reality.
We are inviting survivors of brain injury and family to submit their stories/poems. Our goal is to have the book represent a wide range of experience and inspiration. Surviving the physical challenges of brain injury is the first step of a lifelong journey of adjustment and accommodation. Re-establishing lives transformed by brain injury requires foresight, fortitude, and unflagging courage. This book will be a celebration of those journeys.
Charting new territory, brain injury has been characterized as the "Silent Epidemic." It has earned that distinction in part because survivors tend to withdraw from society. This book ends the silence and inspires others to take charge of their lives.
We look forward to reading your personal experience.
If this is something you are interested in but could use a little help getting your story on paper give us a call. We have some journalism students who are ready to help out.
Maximum 2500 words
This is an ongoing project once we have enough stories we will move forward
Submissions can be sent by email to story@biapei.com or mail to
Brain Injury Association PEI
81 Prince St
Charlottetown, PE
C1A 4R3
For more information call 902-367-3216
Attention Playwrights
PARC (Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre) has been one of the best-kept secrets of playwrights in Atlantic Canada — but now you're in the know! Become a member and benefit from the programs available to PEI writers.
http://www.playwrightsatlantic.ca
The Stardust Gazette
Submit journalism, music, art, poetry, or prose to The Stardust Gazette, or join our staff (readers and managerial crew needed)! See the "Submit" and "Join Us" tabs. Questions? Email thestardustgazette@gmail.com.
http://www.thestardustgazette.com/
CARGO Literary Journal
Cargo is a nonfiction journal, and we are looking for pieces with a strong narrative and interior journey, such as immersion reportage. Please submit one essay or up to five poems. We will consider prose poems, lists, and interesting personal notes providing they meet our guidelines, so feel free to take risks with form. We would also like to publish author interviews.
We are also accepting reviews. We're also interested in collaborations between writers and visual artists, and are looking for submissions from across our beautiful blue planet. Cargo will also consider your translations of poetry or prose.
We publish four issues a year, and we are currently accepting submissions
year-round.
For more details, visit http://cargoliterary.com/
PEI poet laureate Dianne Hicks Morrow wants new poets to know they are always welcome to submit a poem to this site, especially if they have never have done so before. The submission form —with complete guidelines and formatting tips—is at www.poetrypei.com/submit.
3rd Ó Bhéal Five Words International Poetry Competition
At around noon each Tuesday (GMT), from the 14th of April 2015, five words are posted on this competition page. Entrants have one week to compose and submit poems that include all five words given for the week.
The competition runs for 41 weeks, until the last week of January 2016.
For more details, please visit http://www.obheal.ie/blog/?page_id=2371
Now in its sixth year, this quarterly open-themed competition for fiction up to 500 words has closing dates of 31st March, 30th June, 30th September and 31st December.
2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press
The Frost Place, a nonprofit center for poetry and the arts at Robert Frost's old homestead in Franconia, NH, in partnership with Bull City Press, invites submissions to The Fourth Annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press.
The winner's chapbook will be published by Bull City Press in Summer 2016. The winner will receive 10 complimentary copies (from a print run of 300), and a $250 prize. The winner will also receive a full scholarship to attend the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, August 2016, including room and board (valued at approximately $1,500), and will give a featured reading from the chapbook at the Seminar.
Additionally, the chapbook fellow will have the option to spend one week living and writing in The Frost Place House-Museum in September 2016 (peak fall foliage season in the White Mountains) at a time agreed upon by the fellow and the Frost Place.
The 4th Annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition's Final Judge is Afaa Michael Weaver.
Submission Period: October 1, 2015 – January 5, 2016.
Submissions Fee: $28.00.
Submissions are only accepted online through the online submission manager. For more details, please visit https://thefrostplace.submittable.com/submit
Colorado Prize for Poetry
Manuscripts will be accepted between October 1, 2015, and the postmark deadline of January 14, 2016. The winner will be announced by May 2016.
The winning book-length collection of poems will be published by the Center for Literary Publishing and distributed by the University Press of Colorado in the fall of 2016. The author receives a $2,000 honorarium.
To submit online, the entry fee is $28 (the extra $3 goes to the good people at Submittable), which includes a one-year subscription to Colorado Review. Poets with US addresses may opt for either a print or digital subscription. Poets living outside the US will receive digital subscriptions (as long as a valid e-mail address is provided). Please select the appropriate submission portal.
For more details, please visit http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/colorado-prize-for-poetry/
Prism Short Fiction Contest
Prize: $1,500 grand prize, $600 runner-up, $400 2nd runner-up
Entry fee: $35 Canadian entries; $40 US entries; $45 Int'l entries (includes a one-year subscription or extension)
Additional entry: $5 each piece
Max. word count: 6,000
PRISM MAGAZINE IS NOW ACCEPTING ONLINE SUBMISSIONS USING SUBMITTABLE at http://prisminternational.submittable.com/submit
MAIL CONTEST ENTRIES TO EXECUTIVE EDITOR, PROMOTIONS:
CLAIRE MATTHEWS
PRISM international
Creative Writing Program, UBC
Buch. E462 – 1866 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
For more details, please visit http://prismmagazine.ca/contests/
Prism Poetry Contest
Entry fee: $35 Canadian entries; $40 US entries; $45 Int'l entries (each entry includes a one-year subscription or extension).
Up to three poems may be submitted with each entry.
Additional entry: $5 each poem
Third Coast 2016 Poetry & Fiction Contest
Submit one previously unpublished story of up to 9,000 words or up to three (3) previously unpublished poems at a time in ONE file. All manuscripts should be typed and double-spaced. Please include entry title and page numbers on all prose manuscript pages. Since the judging is blind, the author's name and identifying information (including address, email, phone number, and bio) should only appear in the "cover letter" box; identifying information must NOT appear anywhere on the manuscript itself. Manuscripts with names left on them may be disqualified.
The $16 entry fee payable online, or by check for postal entries) entitles the submitter to a one-year subscription or gift subscription to Third Coast. No money will be refunded. Submissions will not be returned. Postal entries may be mailed to: Third Coast Contests, Western Michigan University, English Department, Kalamazoo MI 49008
The deadline to submit work for both contests is January 15, 2016. Winners will be announced in April 2016 and published in Third Coast. All contest entries will be considered for publication in Third Coast.
For more details, please visit http://www.thirdcoastmagazine.com/contests/
2016 Desert Writers Award
Established in 2005 to honor the memory of Ellen Meloy, the Fund provides support to writers whose work reflects the spirit and passions embodied in Ellen's writing and her commitment to a "deep map of place." Ellen's own map-in-progress was of the desert country she called home.
The Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers grants one $3,000 award in the spring of each year. Only literary or creative nonfiction proposals will be considered. No fiction or poetry proposals will be reviewed.
We will be accepting applications Nov. 1, 2015 through Jan. 15, 2016.
The recipient will be announced in April 2016.
For more details, please visit http://www.ellenmeloy.com/application-guidelines.html
G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction
and John Ciardi Prize for Poetry
Prizes for the best book-length collections of poetry and of short fiction in English by a living author. $1000 Awards and book publication.
Submission deadline: January 15, 2016.
For more details, please visit http://www.newletters.org/writers-wanted/BkMk-writing-contests
ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
Calling all TV and Film screenwriters. Extended deadline: January 15.
The ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship has become one of the most important screenwriter discovery platforms for the entertainment industry. Up to 4 recipients will receive ongoing professional support and a special trip to Los Angeles for meetings and introductions to key entertainment executives, producers and representatives.
Apply now and join a growing community of visionary screenwriters with meaningful connections to Hollywood mentors.
For more details, please visit https://screencraft.org/fellowship/
Alexander and Dora Raynes Poetry Competition
Jewish Currents, now entering its 70th year of publication, announces its fourth annual Alexander and Dora Raynes Poetry Competition, this year on the theme of "Urge."
Poets can submit up to three poems related to the theme (no more than two pages each, please, with name, address, and e-mail on each page). The submission fee is $18, which gains entrants a one-year subscription to Jewish Currents.
The first prize is $1,000. Two second prizes are given of $180 each. These winning poems will be published in the Spring, 2016 issue of our magazine. Thirty-six poems chosen as finalists will be published in our annual poetry anthology.
Deadline: January 15, 2016.
For more details, please visit http://jewishcurrents.org/poetry2016-39421
2016 Yemassee Poetry Contest (with Discounted 1-year Subscription)
Ends on 1/15/2016
Guest Judge: Catie Rosemurgy, author of The Stranger Manual and My Favorite Apocalypse. Recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at The College of New Jersey.
Overview: Yemassee is now accepting entries for its 2016 Writing Prizes, including the 2016 Poetry Contest. The author of the winning poem will receive $1000 and publication in Yemassee 23.2. Ten finalists will receive acknowledgment in the same issue and on our website. All entries will be considered for publication in an upcoming issue of Yemassee.
For more details, please visit http://yemasseejournal.com/
The Monadnock Essay Collection Prize
This contest is now open for submissions! See our guidelines or head straight to our Submittable page to submit online!
Deadline: January 15th, 2016
We at Bauhan Publishing are pleased to announce the establishment of a new prize: The Monadnock Essay Collection Prize.
The cost to enter this competition is $30.00 per manuscript (entrants may submit multiple manuscripts) and the winner will receive:
$1,000 prize money
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/1jZnN1b
2015 WNBA Fourth Annual Writing Contest
We are seeking your best work for our national writing contest. Winning entries will be published in a special issue of The Bookwoman, the national newsletter of the WNBA.
Prizes: First place winners receive $250 cash prize. Second, third and honorable mentions will be published with the first place winners in the contest edition of The Bookwoman.
Open to all writers 18 or older writing in English. Now accepting submissions – deadline January 15, 2016
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/1kiNBFA
OddContest: Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry Contest
The OddContest is an annual competition for speculative (science fiction, fantasy, or horror) stories or prose poems no longer than 500 words. The contest has been sponsored since 2008 by Odyssey Con. The contest offers cash prizes, convention memberships, and books in both Adult and Youth divisions.
The entry deadline is January 15 this year and results are announced by March 15. An awards ceremony and reading of the 2016 winning entries will be held at Odyssey Con on April 8-10, 2016; they will also be published in the Odyssey Con program and on this website.
For more details, please visit http://odysseycon.org/contest/contest.html
Winter 2015 Essay Contest
"Winter Indigo"
Write an original essay between 500 and 1000 words, inspired by the photograph on the site and the theme, "Winter Indigo" for a chance to win $1000 and publication.
Submissions may be a personal essay, memoir, narrative nonfiction, commentary, travel piece, historical account, biography, or short story, as long as it creatively embodies the theme and photo. Please review our Submission Guidelines before submitting your manuscript. Entry Fee: $20
For more details, visit http://highfieldpress.wix.com/contests#!contests/c1xh4
TURNBUCKLE CHAPBOOK CONTEST SUBMISSIONS
Submission Deadline: January 16, 2016
Prize: $100 + Publication + 20 Author Copies
Final Judge: Sara Lippman, author of Doll Palace. More about Sara HERE.
Eligibility: Fiction, Poetry, CNF or a hybrid. Previously published, stand-alone works are fine, but the ms must be an unpublished body of work. So no book excerpts or do-overs. Simultaneous submissions are just fine; however, the reading fee is non-refundable. Please simply withdraw the ms from Submittable if the work is picked up elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. Translations are not ideal for this contest. If you have cover art, great, but please do not send it with your submission. B&W illustrations may be included within the body of the ms though.
Reading Fee: $10
For more details, please visit https://splitlip.submittable.com/submit
10th Annual Short Story Challenge
The 10th Annual Short Story Challenge is a creative writing competition open to writers around the world. There are 3 rounds of competition. In the 1st Round (January 22-30, 2016), writers are placed randomly in heats and are assigned a genre, subject, and character assignment. Writers have 8 days to write an original story no longer than 2,500 words. The judges choose a top 5 in each heat to advance to the 2nd Round (March 17-20, 2016) where writers receive new assignments, only this time they have just 3 days to write a 2,000 word (maximum) short story. Judges choose finalists from the 2nd Round to advance to the 3rd and final round of the competition where writers are challenged to write a 1,500 word (maximum) story in just 24 hours (April 29-30, 2016). A panel of judges review the final round stories and overall winners are selected. Sound like fun? Join the competition below and get ready for January 22nd!
It's easy to register. First, download and read the Official Rules and Participation Agreement. After you have read the rules, you are ready to register by clicking here. The entry fee is US$55 until the final entry deadline of January 21, 2016.
For more details, please visit the official website.
THE DREAMQUESTONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST
THE DREAMQUESTONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful literary art of poetry and/or writing a story that is worth telling everyone. Guidelines: (1) Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, form or style. And/or (2) Write a short story, five pages maximum length, using single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme, fiction, nonfiction or creative nonfiction. Multiple entries are accepted. Prizes: Writing First Prize is $500; Second: $250; Third: $100. Poetry First Prize: $250; Second: $125; Third: $50. Entry fees: $5 per poem/$10 per story. How to enter, visit: http://www.dreamquestone.com
The next deadline is January 24, 2016.
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
The Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation jointly award the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, a biennial competition for newly-published books.
The prize commemorates the life, legacy and intentions of William Saroyan – author, artist, dramatist, composer – and is intended to encourage new or emerging writers, rather than to recognize established literary figures.
We are currently accepting submissions for the 2016 Saroyan Prize for books published in 2014 and 2015. The deadline for entries is January 29, 2016. Please see our FAQ page for complete details.
The Interpreter's House Poetry Competition
First Prize £500
Second Prize £150
Third Prize £100
Seven Highly Commended
The winning poems will be featured in Issue 62 of
The Interpreter's House
Competition opening date:
Competition closing date:
midnight on 30th January 2016
£4 for single poems
£10 for three poems
All proceeds of the competition are used to fund future issues of TIH.
For more details, please visit http://www.theinterpretershouse.com/competition
The Stringybark Short Story Award 2015
The Stringybark Short Story Award is our annual open themed award and will be presented to the writer whose story entertains the judges the most. You have a maximum of 1500 words in which to achieve this feat. International entries are most welcome. The story must:
Have a connection, no matter how incidental to Australia (eg the protagonist might dislike Tony Abbott); and
Be written for an adult audience (that is, we aren't after children's stories).
There is a total value of over $925 worth of prizes in cash and books available. Stories must be sent via email. Closing date for entries is 31 January 2016. Results will be posted on this website on 26 April 2016.
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/1Off9re
25th International Play Writing Competition 2016
The International Playwriting Competition – from the BBC World Service & British Council in partnership with Commonwealth Writers and co-produced by The Open University
The competition is open from 1 October 2015 to 31 January 2016. The competition is open to new and established writers, provided they live outside the UK.
There are three prizes
English as a First Language Winner
£2200 sterling will be given for the overall winning playwright of the best play written with English as a first language and a trip to London to see the play being recorded for broadcast on the BBC World Service and to attend a prize-giving evening.
English as a Second Language Winner
£2200 sterling will be given for the overall winning playwright of the best play written with English as a second language and a trip to London to see the play being recorded for broadcast on the BBC World Service and to attend a prize-giving evening.
The Georgi Markov Prize
In memory of the writer, BBC World Service journalist and broadcaster Georgi Markov (1929-1978) who championed freedom of creative expression, this prize is for the writer of the script identified by the judges as showing most promise. The script will be selected from the International Radio Playwriting Competition shortlist and will be an entry which, whilst not deemed ready for broadcast in its current form, shows outstanding potential.
The Georgi Markov Prize includes a standard return flight to London, with 2 weeks accommodation – a week of which will be spent with the BBC's London Radio Drama department and a week with BBC World Service. These 2 weeks will coincide with the making of the winning plays from the International Radio Playwriting Competition and the winner of the Georgi Markov prize will attend the prize-giving ceremony and receive recognition at the same time.
For more details, please visit http://bbc.in/1LaBnos
The writing contest whose name is almost as long as the entries! Deadline: February 1, 2016.
For a classic example of a postcard story, read "Grizzly Bill" or "Nettie, Rose, Daphne and Ginger."
Visit our postcard story archive for more examples of notable stories.
First Prize: $500 Second Prize: $250 Third Prize: $150
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/1UaTVuU
Aurora Poetry & Short Fiction Open Competition
"…And beat the twilight into flakes of a fire" Alfred Lord Tennyson
Enter our inaugural writing competition and let us light up the skies with outstanding poetry and short fiction. Our judges are renowned poet Pascale Petit and acclaimed short fiction writer and novelist Paul McVeigh. The prizes are: 1st £500, 2nd £100, 3rd £50, and the Stonewood Press Regional Prize £70 which includes a Writing School East Midlands course*, and an invitation to read at the prize-giving event in Nottingham.
Closing date is 1st February 2016.
Entry fees £7 for first poem or story and £5.50 for subsequent entries.
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/1Igp1Li
Grayson Books Chapbook Contest 2016
Ends on 2/1/2016
2016 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest
Prize: $500, publication of chapbook and 50 copies
Deadline: January 31, 2015 postmark
Submit: 16-24 pages of poetry. Do not place identifying information on your chapbook manuscript. Put it in the submission form instead.
Simultaneous submissions are permissible if we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
Learning from Nature
Deadline: February 1, 2016
For an upcoming issue, Creative Nonfiction is seeking new essays about LEARNING FROM NATURE.
The Biomimicry Center at Arizona State University will award $5,000 for best essay, and Creative Nonfiction editors will award $1,000 for runner-up. All essays will be considered for publication in a special "Learning from Nature" issue of the magazine to be published in fall 2016.
Guidelines: Essays must be previously unpublished and no longer than 4,000 words. Multiple submissions are welcome, as are entries from outside the United States.
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/1QRot5h
2016 Novella Prize
The Malahat Review, Canada's premier literary magazine, invites entries from Canada, the United States, and elsewhere for the Novella Prize. One prize of $1,500 CAD is awarded. Previous winning entries have also won or been nominated for National Magazine Awards for Fiction and the O. Henry Prize. The Novella Prize is offered every second year, alternating with The Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize.
Entries may be sent by regular mail or email.
$35 CAD for Canadian entries;
$40 US for American entries;
$15 CAD for each additional entry (from anywhere)
The deadline for the 2016 Novella Prize is February 1, 2016 (postmark date).
For more details, please visit http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/novella_contest/info.html
Postcard Story Contest
Submit your entry to the 12th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest by following the contest guidelines.
Please make sure the cover letter field includes your mailing address, telephone number and email address. Even though you have already entered this information when creating your Submittable account, we still need it to appear in the cover letter.
Judging is blind, so please do not write your name on your entry.
The deadline is February 1, 2016.
The W.B. Yeats Poetry Award
These are complete guidelines. No entry form required.
First prize $500, second $250, honorable mentions. Unpublished poems in English up to 60 lines on any subject, each (judged separately) typed on an 8½ x 11-inch sheet without author's name; attach 3×5-inch card(s) with name, address, telephone, e-mail. Entry fee: $10 for first poem and $8 each additional. Include SASE to receive a copy of the report, posted on our Web site mid March.
Winners and honorable mentions receive 2-year Yeats Society membership and are honored at a ceremony in New York. Authors retain rights, but permit the Society to publish or broadcast winning entries.
The deadline for the 2016 competition is February 1st. Awards will be presented at an event in April.
2016 Psychopomp Magazine Short Fiction Award
*We will be accepting contest entries until February 28, 2016*
The Psychopomp Magazine Short Fiction Award recognizes outstanding pieces of fiction that push the boundaries of genre and/or form. Surprise us! Show us something we've never seen before. Note: As with our regular submissions, we ARE open to realist fiction and work that may veer towards the hard genre but are most interested in stories that work between these realms and/or is innovative in the way a story is told.
First Place Award: $500 and issue publication
All finalists will be considered for publication on our site as "special contest features."
For more details, please visit http://psychopompmag.com/contests/
Flash 500 Short Story Contest
Welcome to the first year of our new short story category. This is an open-themed competition and we accept all genres, including those written by or for children. Adult material is also acceptable providing the content fits the story and is not gratuitous.
This is an annual competition: entries open on 1st September and close on the last day of February each year.
CBC Creative NonFiction Prize
WHAT: Submit your original, unpublished work of creative nonfiction between 1200 and 1500 words.
WHEN: Competition runs from January 1 to February 29, 2016.
For more details, please visit http://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/nonfiction/
On The Premises Current Contest
Short Story Contest #27 launched on December 13, 2015.
One or more character(s) have to deal with some kind of significant change. It can be any kind of change you like, and on any scale, from a change affecting only one person (or one place, or one thing) to something affecting everyone/everything everywhere, or anything between those extremes.
Your challenge: Write a creative, compelling, well-crafted story between 1,000 and 5,000 words long that clearly uses the contest premise.
Deadline: 11:59 PM Eastern US time, Friday, March 4, 2016.
The Wenlock International Poetry Competition 2016
This year, we are honoured to welcome one of Britain's most respected poets, Don Paterson, as lead judge. The only poet to have won the TS Eliot prize twice, Don was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2009.
The long list of poems will be chosen by a panel of prize-winning, published poets including Festival Poet in Residence, Paul Francis.
Entry costs £5 per poem (maximum of 5 poems per person), and the competition prizes are:
– 1st prize: £500
– 2nd prize: £200
– 3rd prize: £100
One poem will be judged as Highly Commended.
The closing date for entries is Monday, 7 March 2016. Please read the rules below carefully before submitting.
For more details, please visit http://www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org/competitions/
Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award™
The purpose of the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award™ is to honor the best books readily available to a North American audience in any format within the past year. The categories include both fiction and nonfiction.
Any book-length work published for the first time in 2015 may be nominated for the 9th Annual Silver Falchion Award™.
Entries and nominees will be evaluated by judges, who will choose up to eight finalists in each of the following generic categories (full category guidelines here):
*Best Novel
*Best First Novel
*Best Nonfiction
*Best Young Adult
*Best Children's
*Best Young Readers
*Best Anthology or Collection
*Best Book by a Conference Attendee
Finalists will be announced the beginning of August and winners will be chosen by 2016 Killer Nashville Writers' Conference attendees and announced at the Killer Nashville Guest of Honor Dinner and Awards Banquet.
The deadline for entering the Silver Falchion Award™ is March 30, 2016.
For more details, please visit http://www.killernashville.com/awards/silver-falchion-award/
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL
GeminiMAGAZINE
Entry fee: $5
All Five Finalists Will Be Published Online in the
June 2016 Issue of Gemini.
We are open to ANY subject, style, genre or length. Stories
must be unpublished but work displayed on personal blogs is eligible.
Entries are read blind so EVERYONE gets an equal chance.
Both new and experienced writers have won our contests.
For more details, please visit http://www.gemini-magazine.com/contest.html
The Nivalis Short Story Contest 2016
BEGINS – 9:00 a.m. Jan 01, 2016 (US Central time)
ENDS – 11:59 p.m. Mar 31, 2016 (US Central time)
Nivalis 2016 is not theme bound. There is no restriction on genre either, and we are happy to read historical fiction, mystery/suspense, and horror. However, for consistency of presentation we cannot accept children's stories, fantasy, young adult or chick lit; likewise hardcore science fiction is not something we are looking for, but are open to science based/alternative history based literary works. In case of doubt, it is best to query the editorial team before submitting.
For more details, please visit http://www.fabulapress.com/the-contest/
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Contest Opens: Aug 15, 2015
Deadline: Apr 01, 2016
Results Announced: Aug 15, 2016
Theme: Humor
Length Limit: Submit one poem only, with a maximum of 250 lines
Entry Fee: No fee
First Prize: $1,000
Second Prize: $250
Honorable Mentions: 10 awards of $100 each
Top 12 entries published online
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/15fB5iD
A Room of Her Own Foundation
The deadline for the next To the Lighthouse & Clarissa Dalloway Book Prizes, judged by Alicia Ostriker and Kate Gale respectively, is April 1st, 2016.
Spring 2016 Essay Contest
"In the Pink" $1000 Prize
Write an original essay between 500 and 1000 words, inspired by the photograph at left and the theme, "In the Pink" for an opportunity to win $1000 and publication.
Submissions may be a personal essay, memoir, narrative nonfiction, commentary, travel piece, historical account, biography, or short story, as long as it creatively embodies the theme and photo. Please review our Submission Guidelines before submitting your manuscript. Entry Fee: $20 USD
Deadline: April 15, 2016
2016 Bath Short Story Award
Welcome to the 2016 Bath Short Story Award. We invite local, national and international entries from published and unpublished writers.
Closing date: Monday, April 25th, 2016 at midnight BST
Entry fee: £8. Enter online or by post
Short stories of up to 2200 words in all genres, styles welcome. No lower word limit. Check Rules for more information.
Shortlist Judge: BBC Radio 4 producer Mair Bosworth
1st £1000
2nd £200
3rd £100
Local prize: £50 voucher
The Acorn Award for unpublished writers of fiction: £50
For more details, please visit http://bathshortstoryaward.co.uk/
Contest Opens: Oct 15, 2015
Results Announced: Oct 15, 2016
Theme: All themes accepted
Length Limit: 6,000 words
Entry Fee: $18 per entry. Please submit entries one at a time.
FICTION: First Prize, $1,500
ESSAYS: First Prize, $1,500
10 Honorable Mentions will receive $100 each (any category)
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/P2pmfW
2016 Editor's Reprint Award
$200 and publication in Sequestrum will be awarded to one previously-published piece of prose.
A minimum of one runner-up will receive $25 and publication. Finalists listed on the site.
Contest doors close April 30th 2016, dependent on submission volume.
As always, our first obligation is to giving every submission the time and consideration it deserves, and we reserve the right to close contest doors early in order to do so.
The short and long: Get your work polished and submitted and don't dawdle about it.
Entry fee is $15.
For more details, please visit http://www.sequestrum.org/contests
Entry Deadline for the
2016 Claymore Award is April 30, 2016
Over $3,000 in prizes, plus possible book advance, agent, and movie deal.
What Manuscripts Will be Considered
Enter the first 50 pages of your unpublished crime literature manuscript in the contest.
Judges will consider any subgenre of mystery or thriller, including political thriller, cozy, legal, police procedural, private eye, romantic suspense, paranormal mystery, and historical mystery.
For more details, please visit http://www.killernashville.com/awards/claymore-award-2/
FJORDS REVIEW ANNUAL CONTEST
Rolling deadlines
We read manuscripts throughout the year and publish our winner and shortlist on the same day.
Each manuscript should be between 45-300 pages and may be a collection of poetry, short stories or different kinds of literary pieces. Full-length visual art, illustrated and collaborative books are also considered.
To enter: send one word file or .pdf containing
Cover page with author name, telephone number, email and postal address and manuscript name
Page that includes only the title of the manuscript.
Manuscript with numbered pages and table of contents.
Judging for the contest is blind. All work submitted is considered for book publication and for publication in an edition of Fjords
http://fjordsreview.com/contest/contest.html
CBC Poetry Prize
WHAT: Submit your original, unpublished, poem or poetry collection. The entry must be between 400 and 600 words.
WHEN: Competition runs from April 1 to May 31.
WHO: All Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada.
HOW: While the competition is active, submit online by clicking the "submit" link below or, if you wish to submit by mail, you can download the submission form as of April 1, 2016.
For more details, please visit http://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/poetry/
New Letters Prizes
$4,500 in awards for writers
The $1,500 New Letters Prize for Poetry for the best group of three to six poems.
The $1,500 Dorothy Cappon Prize for Nonfiction for the best Essay.
The $1,500 Alexander Cappon Prize for Fiction for the best short story.
Upload your writing online by midnight Monday, May 18th. Entries sent after midnight May 18th cannot be considered or refunded. Please read guidelines carefully to insure best service. For a printable version of the guidelines, click here.
Postmark by May 18, 2016.
For more details, please visit http://www.newletters.org/writers-wanted/writing-contests
The Diode Editions 2015 Chapbook Contest Submission Guidelines
Open to all poets over the age of 18 who write in English.
Length: 22-32 pages (front matter is not included in count).
We will consider translations, and we welcome collaborations.
Your submission should include:
A title page with the title of your manuscript, your name, address, telephone number and email.
Your name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript.
An acknowledgments page: poems included in your manuscript may be previously published as long as there is an acknowledgements page.
For more details, please visit http://www.diodeeditions.com/contests.html
Orlando Prize
Braced and strung up by the present moment she was also strangely afraid, as if every time the gulf of time gaped and let a second through some unknown danger might come with it. The tension was too relentless and too rigorous to be endured long without discomfort.
—Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Biannual Deadlines: January and July 31
Poetry (36 lines)
Flash Fiction (500 words)
Short Fiction & Creative Nonfiction (1500 words)
*Or download application form to submit and pay via post.
For more details, visit http://aroomofherownfoundation.org/awards/orlando/
Hillerman Prize
Sponsored by St. Martin's Press and WORDHARVEST, the Tony Hillerman Prize is awarded annually for the best first mystery set in the Southwest. The winner receives a contract with St. Martin's Press for publication of the novel and $10,000. Named after New Mexico's best known mystery author, the Tony Hillerman Prize competition is open to any professional or non-professional writer who has never been the author of a published mystery, or under contract with a publisher for publication of a mystery. Murder or another serious crime or crimes must be at the heart of the story, with the emphasis on the solution rather than the details of the crime.
Only one manuscript entry is permitted per writer. All entries must be received or postmarked no later than June 1 of the given year. All manuscripts submitted: a) must be original works of book length (no less than 220 typewritten pages or approximately 60,000 words) written in the English language by the contestants; b) must not violate the rights of any third party, and c) must generally follow the guidelines.
For details, visit http://www.hillermanprize.com/
GLENNA LUSCHEI PRIZE FOR AFRICAN POETRY
Under the auspices of the African Poetry Book Fund and in partnership with the literary journal, Prairie Schooner, is an annual award of USD $5,000. Named for the literary philanthropist Glenna Luschei, this Pan African Poetry Prize is the only one of its kind in the world and was established to promote African poetry written in English or in translation and to recognize a significant book published each year by an African poet.
Each year, the prize will be judged by an internationally renowned poet. This judge for the inaugural prize is Nigerian poet and novelist Chris Abani.
Manuscripts are accepted annually between May 1st and July 1st.
For details, visit http://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/?page_id=21#glenna
Bellevue Literary Review Prizes
The annual Bellevue Literary Review Prizes award outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. The contest is open each year from February 1 – July 1.
The winners of the 2014 prizes are Abby Horowitz for "Pediatricology" (fiction), Will McGrath for "Forty-One Months" (nonfiction), and Laurie Clements Lambeth for "Chronic Care: 'Broken Leg' by Keith Carter, Photograph" (poetry). Find out more.
See more at: http://blr.med.nyu.edu/submissions/BLRPrizes#sthash.UNzlpPcL.dpuf
Historical Fiction with Lawrence Hill
Author of The Book of Negroes (2007) and The Illegal (2015).
April 04 – April 08, 2016
Application Deadline: 13 January 2016
How accurate are historical details meant to be, in the context of historical fiction; do they play with, bend, or subvert the author's understanding of history? How does the writer go about researching and attributing history which folds into their fiction, and what unwritten contract of authenticity does the writer owe its reader? Explore these challenges with national bestselling author Lawrence Hill (The Book of Negroes, The Illegal) during a four day intensive on historical fiction.
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/1L1NtQs
BANFF Writing Studio
An ideal environment for artistic inspiration and growth, Writing Studio is structured to provide an extended period of uninterrupted writing time, one-on-one editorial assistance from experienced writers/editors, and an opportunity to engage with a community of working writers.
For more details, please visit http://bit.ly/1kfR4oU
30th Anniversary Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
March 30-April 3, 2016
The Festival takes place on one (usually) sultry weekend in March when the most illustrious and freshest names in the literary, theatrical, and cultural spheres descend on the French Quarter for five days of festivities.
For more details, please visit http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/festival
River Teeth Nonfiction Conference
The River Teeth Nonfiction Conference is pleased to announce Dinty W. Moore and Elena Passarello as the 2016 featured presenters!
The tentative dates for next year's conference are June 3-5, 2016.
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