Poets & Writers – September 2019

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GRANTS & AWARDS

REED MAGAZINE

Gabriele Rico Challenge in Creative

Nonfiction

Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry

John Steinbeck Fiction Award

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE

UNIVERSITY PRESS

Nilsen Literary Prize

SOW’S EAR POETRY REVIEW

Poetry Prize

WASHINGTON COLLEGE

Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship

November 4

ALICE JAMES BOOKS

Alice James Award

November 15

NIGHTBOAT BOOKS

Poetry Prize

PERUGIA PRESS

Poetry Prize

WASHINGTON WRITERS PUBLISHING

HOUSE

Poetry and Fiction Prizes

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Yale Series of Younger Poets

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ELIXIR PRESS

Poetry Award

FINISHING LINE PRESS

Open Chapbook Competition

HIDDEN RIVER ARTS

Tamaqua Award

INDIANA REVIEW

Blue Light Books Prize

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW

James Hearst Poetry Prize

PEN/FAULKNER FOUNDATION

Award for Fiction

PERSEA BOOKS

Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize

POETRY SOCIETY OF THE UNITED

KINGDOM

National Poetry Competition

RED HEN PRESS

Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award

RIVER TEETH

Literary Nonfiction Prize

TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

Literary Awards

TUPELO PRESS

Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS

Vassar Miller Prize

November 1

ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS

Walt Whitman Award

AUTUMN HOUSE PRESS

Poetry Chapbook Prize

BRIAR CLIFF REVIEW

Writing Contests

BRICK ROAD POETRY PRESS

Book Contest

CUTTHROAT

Writing Awards

FICTION COLLECTIVE 2

Catherine Doctorow Innovative

Fiction Prize

Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest

MALAHAT REVIEW

Open Season Awards

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS/NEW ORLEANS
LITERARY FESTIVAL
Fiction Contest

ZOETROPE: ALL-STORY
Short Fiction Competition

October 15
AMY LOWELL POETRY TRAVELING
SCHOLARSHIP

A PUBLIC SPACE
A Public Space Fellowships

CONDUIT BOOKS & EPHEMERA
Marystina Santiestevan
First Book Prize

COPPER NICKEL
Jake Adam York Prize

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY AT LINCOLN
CENTER
Poets Out Loud Prizes

SAN DIEGO POETRY ANNUAL
Steve Kowit Poetry Prize

SILVERFISH REVIEW PRESS
Gerald Cable Book Award

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS/NEW ORLEANS
LITERARY FESTIVAL
Poetry Contest

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
Calvino Prize

October 21
COFFEE-HOUSE POETRY
Troubadour International Poetry Prize

OMNIDAWN PUBLISHING
Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest

October 24
SIXFOLD
Short Story and Poetry Awards

October 31
AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW
Honickman First Book Prize

CLOUDBANK BOOKS
Vern Rutsala Book Prize

COMSTOCK REVIEW
Jessie Bryce Niles Poetry
Chapbook Contest

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Anatomy of Awards
This issue’s Deadlines section
lists a total of 111 contests,
sponsored by 75 organizations,
offering an estimated
$2,417,513 in prize money.
A little over 78 percent of that
total ($1,887,500) is being
awarded by just three sponsors:
the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation,
Harvard University, and the
New York Public Library.