Listed by month. Deadlines may change.
JANUARY
1/1
Mississippi Review
Mississippi Review Prize (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
1/5
Frost Place
Chapbook Competition (Poetry)
1/9
Poets & Writers
Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award (Poetry, Fiction)
1/10
Unterberg Poetry Center
Discovery Poetry Contest
1/14
Colorado Review
Colorado Prize for Poetry
New Ohio Review
Editors’ Prize (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
1/15
BkMk Press
G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction (Book)
John Ciardi Prize for Poetry (Book)
Hidden River Arts
Sandy Run Novella Award
Literal Latté
K. Margaret Grossman Fiction Award
New American Press
New American Poetry Prize
Permafrost
Book Prize
PRISM
Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction
Rattle
Chapbook Contest (Poetry)
Third Coast
Poetry and Fiction Contests
University of Rochester
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (Fiction)
WOMR/WFMR Community Radio
Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest
1/25
StoryQuarterly
Nonfiction Prize
1/30
North Carolina Writers’ Network
Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize
1/31
Autumn House Press
Rising Writer Contest (Poetry)
Balcones Center for Creative Writing
Balcones Book Prizes (Poetry, Fiction)
Black Lawrence Press
Big Moose Prize (Fiction)
Caine Prize for African Writing
Caine Prize for African Writing
Chattahoochee Review
Lamar York Prizes (Fiction, Nonfiction)
Crazyhorse
Crazyhorse Prizes (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Fish Publishing
Short Memoir Prize
Iowa Review
Iowa Review Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Little Tokyo Historical Society
Short Story Contest
Masters Review
Short Story Award for New Writers
Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
Grants (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Mixed Genre)
Ohioana Library Association
Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant
Schaffner Press
Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature (Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction)
Winter Anthology
Writing Contest (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
FEBRUARY
2/1
American Short Fiction
American Short(er) Fiction Prize
Beyond Baroque
Poetry Contest
Binghamton University Center for Writers
John Gardner Fiction Book Award
Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award
Breakwater Review
Fiction Contest (Fiction)
Colgate University
Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship (Poetry, Fiction)
CutBank
Montana Prizes (Fiction, Nonfiction)
Patricia Goedecke Prize (Poetry)
Passaic County Community College Poetry Center
Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize
Paterson Poetry Prize
Paterson Prize for Books for Young People
Southern Indiana Review
Michael Waters Poetry Prize
Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts
Philip Roth Residencies (Fiction, Nonfiction)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Levis Reading Prize (Poetry)
2/8
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Devil’s Kitchen Reading Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
2/10
James Madison University
Furious Flower Poetry Prize
2/12
Library of Virginia
Literary Awards
2/14
Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine
Poetry Prize
2/15
Academy of American Poets
Ambroggio Prize
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
Center for Fiction
New York City Emerging Writers Fellowship
Geist
Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest
Hidden River Arts
Willow Run Poetry Book Award
Milkweed
Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry
Ruminate
William Van Dyke Short Story Prize
Salem State University
Claire Keyes Poetry Prize
Sarabande Books
Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
WB Yeats Society of NY
Yeats Poetry Prize
2/25
Omnidawn
First/Second Book Poetry Contest
2/28
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Award Series (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Fish Publishing
Flash Fiction Prize
Glimmer Train
Fiction Open
Very Short Fiction Contest
Hidden River Arts
Tamaqua Award for a Collection of Essays
National Poetry Series
Open Competition
Paz Prize for Poetry
Public Poetry
Poetry Contest
Red Hen Press
Women’s Prose Prize (Fiction, Nonfiction)
Tupelo Press
Snowbound Chapbook Award (Poetry)
MARCH
3/1
Ahsahta Press
Sawtooth Poetry Prize
Alabama State Council on the Arts
Literary Fellowships
Broadside Lotus Press
Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
Center for Documentary Studies
Documentary Essay Prize
Hidden River Arts
Tuscarora Award for Historical Fiction
Hunger Mountain
Creative Nonfiction Prize
Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize
International Young Writers Prize (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Katherine Paterson Prize for YA and Children’s Writing
Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
Mississippi Arts Commission
Artist Fellowships (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama)
Selected Shorts
Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing
Fellowships (Poetry, Fiction)
42 Miles Press
Poetry Award
3/4
Artist Trust
Fellowship Awards
BOA Editions
American Poets Continuum Series
3/6
National Endowment for the Arts
Creative Writing Fellowships (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
3/7
Persea Books
Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award
3/14
Colorado Review
Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction
StoryQuarterly
Fiction Prize
3/15
Bellingham Review
Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
49th Parallel Award for Poetry
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
Literary Awards (Fiction, Nonfiction)
Fourth Genre
Steinberg Essay Contest
Hidden River Arts
Eludia Award (Fiction)
Hidden River Review
Trilogy Awards: Nonfiction, Poetry, and Very Short Fiction
Hub City Writers Project
South Carolina Novel Prize
James Jones Literary Society
First Novel Fellowship
Literal Latté
Food Verse Contest
Missouri Review
Miller Audio Prize (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Humor, Documentary)
Prairie Schooner
Book Prizes (Poetry, Fiction)
Southampton Review
Frank McCourt Memoir Prize
Tor House
Robinson Jeffers Poetry Prize
Verse
Tomaž Šalamun Chapbook Prize
Washington College
Hodson Trust–John Carter Brown Library Fellowship
The Word Works
Washington Prize (Poetry)
3/31
Arts & Letters
Arts & Letters Prizes (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama)
Banipal Trust for Arab Literature
Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
Black Lawrence Press
Hudson Prize (Poetry, Fiction)
Bosque Press
Bosque Fiction Prize
Cave Canem Foundation
Poetry Prize
Fish Publishing
Poetry Prize
Frost Farm Poetry
Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry
Elixir Press
Antivenom Poetry Award
Hidden River Arts
Alcott Award for Young Adult Fiction
Blue Mountain Novel Award
Indiana Review
Fiction Prize
Poetry Prize
Lascaux Review
Poetry Prize
Loft Literary Center
McKnight Artist Fellowships
Narrative
Winter Story Contest
Press 53
Flash Fiction Contest
Prime Number
Awards for Poetry and Short Fiction
Restless Books
Prize for New Immigrant Writing (Fiction, Nonfiction)
APRIL
4/1
Gemini Magazine
Short Story Contest
Orison Books
Prizes in Poetry and Fiction
Pinch
Literary Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Poetry International
Poetry International Prize
Saturnalia Books
Poetry Prize
Southeast Missouri State University Press
Cowles Poetry Book Prize
Tusculum Review
Poetry Chapbook Prize
Winning Writers
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Writing Ranch
Waterston Desert Writing Prize (Nonfiction)
Zone 3 Press
Creative Nonfiction Book Award
First Book Award for Poetry
4/5
Cleveland State University Poetry Center
First Book Poetry Competition
Essay Collection Competition
Open Book Poetry Competition
4/7
Four Way Books
Levis Prize in Poetry
4/10
Oberon Poetry Magazine
Poetry Prize
4/15
American Literary Translators Association
ALTA Travel Fellowships
Italian Prose in Translation Award
Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
National Translation Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama)
Florida Review
Editors’ Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast Prizes (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Hidden River Arts
Panther Creek Book Award in Nonfiction
Hub City Writers Project
C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize
New Southern Voices Poetry Prize
Kundiman
Kundiman Poetry Prize
New Ohio Review
Contests (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
New South
Writing Contest (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Pen Parentis
Writing Fellowship for New Parents
Slope Editions
Book Prize (Poetry
Spoon River Poetry Review
Editors’ Prize
University of Arkansas Press
CantoMundo Poetry Prize
Etel Adnan Poetry Prize
4/19
Southeast Missouri State University Press
Proud to Be (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Interview)
4/22
Omnidawn
Single Poem Broadside Poetry Contest
4/26
New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM
Chapbook Contest (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Ninth Letter
Ninth Letter Literary Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
4/30
Ashland Poetry Press
Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize
Beloit Poetry Journal
Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry
Finishing Line Press
New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition
Friends of Falun Gong
Poetry Contest
Ghost Story
Supernatural Fiction Award
Glimmer Train
Family Matters (Fiction)
Short Story Award for New Writers
Marsh Hawk Press
Poetry Prizes
Mudfish
Poetry Prize
Nimrod International Journal
Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction
Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry
Poetry Foundation
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
Red Hen Press
Nonfiction Award
Trio House Press
Louise Bogan Award (Poetry)
Trio Award for First or Second Book (Poetry)
Tupelo Press
Berkshire Prize (Poetry)
University of Iowa Press
Iowa Poetry Prize
University of Pittsburgh Press
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Winning Writers
John H. Reid Essay Prize
Tom Howard Fiction Prize
Writer’s Center
McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize
Zone 3 Press
Zone 3 Literary Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
MAY
5/1
Atlanta Review
Poetry Competition
Breakwater Review
Peseroff Poetry Prize Contest (Poetry)
Elixir Press
Fiction Award
Leapfrog Press
Fiction Award
Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society
William Faulkner– William Wisdom Competition (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Pleiades Press
Editors Prize for Poetry
Southwest Review
David Nathan Meyerson Fiction Prize
Sow’s Ear Poetry Review
Chapbook Contest
Telluride Institute
Fischer Prize (Poetry
Wick Poetry Center
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
5/6
Writer’s Digest
Annual Writing Competition (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama)
5/15
Academy of American Poets
James Laughlin Award
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Carve Magazine
Raymond Carver Short Story Contest
Crook’s Corner Book Prize
Book Prize
Georgia Review
Loraine Williams Poetry Prize
Hidden River Arts
Prophecy Creek Award for Speculative Fiction
Leeway Foundation
Transformation Awards
Lost Horse Press
Idaho Prize for Poetry
Lynx House Press
Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry
Ploughshares
Emerging Writer’s Contest (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
PRISM
Grouse Grind Lit Prize for Very Short Forms
Ruminate Magazine
Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize
St. Francis College
Literary Prize
5/20
New Letters
Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction
Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry
Robert Day Award for Fiction
5/31
Anhinga Press
Anhinga–Robert Dana Prize for Poetry
Backwaters Press
Backwaters Prize (Poetry)
Black Lawrence Press
The Black River Chapbook Competition (Poetry, Fiction)
BOA Editions
Short Fiction Prize
Bridport Arts Centre
Flash Fiction Prize
Novel Award
Poetry Prize
Short Story Prize
CutBank
Chapbook Contest (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Del Sol Press
First Novel Competition
Indiana Review
Don Belton Fiction Reading Period
Masters Review
Flash Fiction Contest
Southern Poetry Review
Guy Owen Prize
University of Georgia Press
Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
JUNE
6/1
Atlanta Review
Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets
Boulevard
Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets
The Iowa Review
Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Southern Humanities Review
Auburn Witness Poetry Prize
6/3
Writer’s Digest
Poetry Awards
Popular Fiction Awards
Short Story Competition
6/4
Salamander
Fiction Prize
6/15
American Short Fiction
Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize
American-Scandinavian Foundation
Translation Competition
Bitter Oleander Press
Library of Poetry Book Award
Narrative
Narrative Prize (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama)
New American Press
New American Fiction Prize
Philadelphia Stories
Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction
Pulitzer Prizes
Prizes in Letters
Towson University
Prize for Literature (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama)
University of Akron Press
Akron Poetry Prize
Willow Springs Books
Spokane Prize for Short Fiction
6/17
Omnidawn
Poetry Chapbook Contest
6/20
Maine Arts Commission
Maine Artist Fellowship
6/24
Artist Trust
Grants for Artist Projects
6/25
Great Lakes Colleges Association
New Writers Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
6/30
Autumn House Press
Fiction Contest
Nonfiction Contest
Poetry Contest
Barrow Street Press
Poetry Book Prize
Bauhan Publishing
May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize
Boston Review
Aura Estrada Short Story Contest
Poetry Contest
Cider Press Review
Poetry Book Award
Engine Books
Fiction Prize
Hidden River Review
William Van Wert Award for Fiction
Lascaux Review
Flash Fiction Prize
Literal Latté
Short Short Contest
Los Angeles Review
Literary Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Mid-American Review
Fineline Competition (Flash, Prose Poetry)
Milkweed
Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
Moth Magazine
International Short Story Prize
Tupelo Press
Broadside Prize (Poetry)
University of Canberra
Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
University of North Texas Press
Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
University of Pittsburgh Press
Drue Heinz Literature Prize (Fiction)
Winning Writers
North Street Book Prize (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
JULY
7/1
Claremont Graduate University
Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award
Winter Tangerine
Winter Tangerine Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
7/8
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Poetry Competition
7/9
Literary Arts
Oregon Literary Fellowships
7/13
North Carolina Humanities Council
Linda Flowers Literary Award (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
7/15
Breakwater Review
Peseroff Prize Poetry Contest
Comstock Review
Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest
Literal Latté
Poetry Award
Narrative
Poetry Contest
Nimrod International Journal
Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers (Poetry, Fiction)
PRISM
Creative Nonfiction Contest
Rattle
Poetry Prize
Santa Fe Writers Project
2040 Book Award (Fiction, Nonfiction)
Story Prize
Story Prize
Word Works
The Tenth Gate (Poetry)
7/30
Emrys Press
Chapbook Prize (Poetry)
Hidden River Arts
Hawk Mountain Short Story Collection Award
Key West Literary Seminars
Emerging Writer Awards (Poetry, Fiction)
7/31
Bosque Press
Bosque Poetry Prize
Crazyhorse
Crazyshorts! (Flash)
Journal of Experimental Fiction
Kenneth Patchen Book Award
Munster Literature Centre
Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Prize
Press 53
Award for Poetry
AUGUST
8/1
Orison Books
Orison Anthology Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry
PEN America
Emerging Voices Fellowship
Prairie Schooner
Creative Nonfiction Contest
8/15
Hippocampus Magazine
Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Writers
Indiana Review
1/2 K Prize (Poetry, Fiction)
Red Hen Press
Novella Award
8/19
Omnidawn
Lake Merritt Poetry Book Contest
8/30
Hidden River Arts
Thomas Paine Award (Nonfiction)
8/31
Black Lawrence Press
St. Lawrence Book Award (Poetry, Fiction)
Blue Mesa Review
Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction Contests
Cincinnati Review
Robert and Adele Schiff Awards in Poetry and Prose
Gulf Coast
Barthelme Prize for Short Prose
Masters Review
Short Story Award for New Writers
Red Hen Press
Quill Prose Award (Fiction, Nonfiction)
SEPTEMBER
9/1
Black Warrior Review
Black Warrior Review Contest (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash)
Naugatuck River Review
Narrative Poetry Contest
9/10
Artist Trust
LaSalle Storyteller Award (Fiction)
Literary Arts
Oregon Book Awards
9/15
Gulf Coast
Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing
Lascaux Review
Creative Nonfiction Prize
Real Simple Magazine
Life Lessons Essay Contest
Red Hen Press
Fiction Award
Winning Writers
Margaret Reid Poetry Prize
Tom Howard Poetry Priz
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing
Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry
9/30
Anhinga Press
Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
Boulevard
Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers
CutBank
Big Sky, Small Prose: Flash Contest (Fiction, Nonfiction)
Fairy Tale Review
Awards in Poetry and Prose
Literal Latté
Essay Awards
Masters Review
Flash Fiction Contest
Southwest Review
Marr Poetry Prize
University of Arkansas Press
Miller Williams Poetry Prize
OCTOBER
10/1
Missouri Review
Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Southeast Missouri State University Press
Mighty River Short Story Contest
Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest
Southern Indiana Review
Mary C. Mohr Awards (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction)
Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts
Stadler Fellowships (Poetry)
10/15
Omnidawn
Omnidawn Open (Poetry)
PRISM
Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize
10/22
Omnidawn
Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest
10/28
New Letters
Publication Award in Fiction
10/31
Barren Magazine
Flash Fiction Prize
Black Lawrence Press
Black River Chapbook Competition (Poetry, Fiction)
Comstock Review
Chapbook Contest (Poetry)
Elixir Press
Poetry Awards
Indiana Review
Blue Light Books Prize
Creative Nonfiction Prize
Persea Books
Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize (Poetry)
Red Hen Press
Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
Tupelo Press
Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize
NOVEMBER
11/1
Academy of American Poets
Walt Whitman Award
Autumn House Press
Chapbook Contest (Poetry)
Southeast Missouri State University Press
Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel
Sow’s Ear Poetry Review
Poetry Contest
11/15
Carve Magazine
Prose and Poetry Contest
Philadelphia Stories
Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry
Pleiades Press
Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize
Robert C. Jones Short Prose Book Contest
Ruminate Magazine
VanderMey Nonfiction Prize
11/16
The Normal School
Bradley & Stucky-French Essay Prize
North American Review
James Hearst Poetry Prize
Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize
Sonora Review
Flash Prose Contest (Fiction, Nonfiction, Prose Poetry)
Nonfiction Contest
11/30
Beloit Poetry Journal
Chad Walsh Chapbook Series (Poetry)
BOA Editions
A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Emrys Press
Poetry Contest
Fish Publishing
Short Story Prize
Masters Review
Fall Fiction Contest
Poetry International
C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize
University of Georgia Press
Georgia Poetry Prize
DECEMBER
12/5
National Endowment for the Arts
Translation Projects (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama)
12/15
Mid-American Review
James Wright Poetry Prize
Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize
12/31
Bauhan Publishing
Monadnock Essay Collection Prize
Black Caucus of the American Library Association
Book Award
Boulevard
Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers
Florida Review
Leiby Chapbook Contest (Fiction, Nonfiction)
Lascaux Review
Short Fiction Prize
Michigan Quarterly Review
Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize
Moth Magazine
Poetry Contest
Press 53
Award for Short Fiction
Tupelo Press
Dorset Prize (Poetry)
ROLLING SUBMISSIONS
Memphis
Very Short Story Contest
PANK Magazine
Big Books Contest (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Novel, Multigenre)
Little Books Contest (Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid)
Press 53
53-Word Story Contest
Rattle
Ekphrastic Challenge