Literary contests from the USA
Students who have won one of our 2014 University & College Poetry Prizes and who were twenty-three years old or yo...
Submissions for The G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction should be approximately 125- 300 pages, double spaced.
Poetry manuscripts for The John Ciardi Prize for Po...
Full-length books of fiction and non-fiction are eligible. Eligible books must be in English and published in the United States as a self-published work or as a work p...
To be eligible, you must submit a full-length work of fiction, including a novella published as a freestanding entity.
All eligible submissions must be writt...
Open to any poet writing in English, age 18 or older, regar...
Eligible submissions include an unpublished manuscript of short stories; two or more novellas (a novella may ...
Capture the essence of Erma’s writings, and you could win $...
The Hugos are World awards. Works are eligible when they are first publishe...
The awards are administered by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), with help from over 150 book publishing professionals includ...
Authors, illustrators, publishers and self-publishers of Christian books written in English and intended ...
The manuscript must be a collection of short stories in English of at least 150 word-processed, double-spaced pages. We do not accept e-mail submissions. ...
The winner receives $1000, book publication, and 100 copies of the published book, as well as distribution with our other spring titles through our partner UPNE (Uni...
Entries are not returned and must be unpublished. Winners will have their entries posted on www.brashcyber.com. All other rights belong to the authors. Humor is s...
The National Indie Excellence Awards exists to help establish independent publishing as a str...
The written entries should be no longer than 500 words and must be on any outdoor-oriented topic and can include, for example: fishing, boating, archery, shooting, hunting, field trials, sporting ...
The Next Generation Indie Book Awards was established to recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books in over 70 different categories, for the ye...
Manuscripts that have been self-published or published online will not be accepted.
Open to English-writing, U.S. residents who have not yet published a novel. ...
The Psychopomp Magazine Short Fiction Contest recognizes outstanding pieces of fiction that push the boundaries of genre and/or form. Surprise us! Show us some...
To apply, a translator must submit four copies of a proposal describing the work-in-progress, the app...
All genres of scholarship on the causes, conduct, and effects, broadly defined, of the Civil War are eligible. This includes, b...
To be eligible for this year’s prize, a book must either be set in Vermont, published by a Vermont...
Categories include Western Traditional novel, Historical nov...