Writing Competitions
Cabell First Novelist Award The First Novelist Award honors the best debut novel published during a calendar year. The author receives a $5000 prize, travel expenses to Richmond, and 5-star accommodations ... (more) DEADLINE: 01-15-2009.PRIZES: $5,000.00.ENTRY FEE: $.00.
Texas Institute of LettersThe Texas Institute of Letters has issued its call for entries in twelve categories for the best works published in the year 2008. This year’s awards will carry a monetary value of $21,450 ... (more) DEADLINE: 01-09-2009.PRIZES: $21,450.00.ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
2009 AWP ( Association of Writers and Writing Program)
Annual ConferenceFebruary 11-14, 2009
South Carolina Fiction ProjectThis annual writing competition, sponsored by The Post and Courier and the South Carolina Arts Commission, calls for previously unpublished short stories of 2,500 words or less ... (more) DEADLINE: 01-15-2009.PRIZES: $500.00.ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Joyce Osterweil Award for PoetryThe Osterweil Award recognizes the high literary character of the published work to date of a new and emerging American poet of any age and the promise of further literary achievement ... (more) DEADLINE: 01-16-2009.PRIZES: $5,000.00.ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Ohioana Poetry AwardAward of $1,000 to an author whose body of work has made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to poetry ... (more) DEADLINE: 12-31-2008.PRIZES: $1,000.00.ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Doris Betts Fiction PrizeThe Doris Betts Fiction Prize awards the first-place winner with a prize of $250. Winners and finalists will be considered for publication in the North Carolina Literary Review ... (more) DEADLINE: 02-01-2009.PRIZES: $250.00.ENTRY FEE: $20.00.
The Editors' Prize ContestThe Editors' Prize Contest is now accepting entries, with $1,000 awarded in each genre. Poets can upload four poems per entry. Fiction writers may submit one story of 10,000 words ... (more) DEADLINE: 01-07-2009.PRIZES: $1,000.00.ENTRY FEE: $16.00.
Hurston/Wright Award for College WritersThe Hurston/Richard Wright Award for College Writers has been established by novelist Marita Golden to honor excellence in fiction writing by students of African descent enrolled full time as an undergraduate or graduate student in any college or university in the United States ... (more) DEADLINE: 01-15-2009.PRIZES: $1,000.00.ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
H. E. Francis Short Story CompetitionManuscripts must be unpublished and may not exceed 5000 words in length. Multiple submissions are acceptable. Award: $1000 prize ... (more) DEADLINE: 12-31-208.PRIZES: $1,000.00.ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Prize of $1000.00 will be awarded for a single, unpublished poem that has not won first prize in any national competition. A Regional Prize of $250.00 will be awarded ... (more) DEADLINE: 01-15-2008.PRIZES: $1,000.00.ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Colorado Prize for PoetryEach year’s prizewinner receives a $1,500 honorarium and publication of his or her book by the Center for Literary Publishing ... (more) DEADLINE: 01-12-2009.PRIZES: $1,500.00.ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
The John Ciardi Prize for PoetryPrize: $1,000 and publication for the best book-length collections of poetry in English by a living author ... (more) DEADLINE: 01-15-2009.PRIZES: $1,000.00.ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
The G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short FictionPrize: $1,000 and publication for the best book-length of short fiction in English by a living author ... (more) DEADLINE: 01-15-2009.PRIZES: $1,000.00.ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
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