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Reading list: Winners of the 2023 Valley of Words Book Awards in English and Hindi languages
The literary award picks fiction, non-fiction, books for young adults, and books for children.
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Announcing the winner of the 2023 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
Her essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared on the Best American Essays Notable list as well as in literary magazines such ...
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WANTED: Your Movie Script! The Kairos Prize Screenwriting Competition
Is WANTED: Your Movie Script! The Kairos Prize Screenwriting Competition ... fbpx. LAST week to submit your script for the standard deadline of the ...
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EBRD launches 2024 Literature Prize
Award celebrates new translated literature from countries where the Bank invests ... finalists. The eventual winner will be announced at an awards ...
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Win $1,250 in the Vermont Writer’s Prize literary contest
Entries are being accepted now, and the deadline is Jan. 1, 2024. They ... More details, including how to submit, are available online at ...
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Upcoming Contest Deadlines

Writer’s Digest Self-Published eBook Awards
Writer’s Digest’s 9th Annual Self-Published E-book Awards honors the best self-published e-book(s) in eight of the most popular categories with $5...
Deadline: 2023-10-06

Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award
The Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award is a literary program designed for young readers and based in Atlantic Canada. Thousands of children in ...
Deadline: 2023-10-13

Jake Adam York Prize
The Jake Adam York Prize is a collaboration between Copper Nickel & Milkweed Editions. It is open to all poets in the US who have published no mor...
Deadline: 2023-10-15

New Letters Editor’s Choice Award
We’re looking for work that experiments, that crosses the traditional boundaries of genre and form.

Enter your hybrid work - your lyric ...
Deadline: 2023-10-16

Elizabeth Venart Prize
The Elizabeth Venart Prize recognizes the unique barriers to literary creation faced by women and other marginalized genders—in particular the lack ...
Deadline: 2023-10-20

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