Writing Magazine April 2020

COMPETITION GUIDE 2020

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American Literary Review
Awards
Short stories, up to 8,000 words, creative
non-fi ction, up to 4,000, and poems, up to 3
Prizes: $1,000 and publication, each category
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 1 October

Anton Chekhov Award for Flash
Fiction
Short stories , 500-1,500 words
Prizes: $1,250, 3x$100
Entry fee: $16
Closing date: 1 October

Mary C Mohr Awards
Short fi ction and creative non-fi ction, up to
30 pages, poetry, up to 10 pages
Prizes: $2,000 and publication, each category
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 1 October

Mighty River Short Story Contest
Stories, max 30 pages
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 1 October

Miller Williams Poetry Prize
Poetry manuscripts, 60-90 pages
Prizes: $5,000 and publication
Entry fee: $28
Closing date: 1 October

Missouri Review Jeffrey E Smith
Editor’s Prize
Fiction and non-fi ction, up to 8,500 words,
any number of poems, up to 10 pages
Prizes: $5,000 in each category
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 1 October

Patricia Dobler Poetry Award
Up to 2 poems, each up to 75 lines, by US
women aged over 40
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 1 October

Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Poems up to 70 lines
Prizes: Aus$7,000, 4x$500
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 1 October

Psychopomp Short Fiction Award
Short stories, 6,000 words max, pushing
the boundaries of genre/form
Prizes: $500 and publication
Entry fee: $10
Closing date: 1 October, TBC

Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest
Flash fi ction up to 500 words
Prizes: $500 and publication
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 1 October

Virginia Prize for Fiction

For unpublished novels, at least 45,000

words, by women

Prizes: development and publication of the

winning novel

Entry fee: £25

Closing date: 1 October, TBC

Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction

Competition

Short stories, 1,000-5,000 words

Prizes: $1,000, $500, $250 and publication

Entry fee: $15

Closing date: 1 October, TBC

Imison Award

For original radio plays by new writers

Prizes: £3,000

Free entry

Closing date: 4 October

Tinniswood Award

Original broadcast radio drama scripts

Prizes: £3,000

Free entry

Closing date: 4 October

Dalkey Creates Festival Prize

Short stories up to 2,000 words; poems up

to 30 lines

Prizes: €1,000 in each category

Entry fee: €15

Closing date: 6 October

London Short Story Prize

Short stories up to 5,000 words by writers

with London postcodes

Prizes: £1,000, 2x£250

Entry fee: £10

Closing date: 7 October, TBC

KSP Writers Centre Poetry

Competition

Poems, up to 50 lines, by Australian

residents or citizens

Prizes: Aus$300, $150; $100, $50 for youths

Entry fee: $10, $15 for 2, $20 for 3

Closing date: 9 October

Sustainable Societies: Short Film

Short fi lms (between 3 and 20 minutes)

touching on ideas of sustainable living

Prizes: £500, £200, £100, 3 x £50

Free entry

Closing date: 10 October, TBC

Gerald Cable Book Award

Poetry collections, over 48 pages

Prizes: $1,000 and publication

Entry fee: $25

Closing date: 15 October

Jake Adam York Prize

Poetry collections, over 48 pages

Prizes: $2,000 and publication

Entry fee: $25

Closing date: 15 October

Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica

Graphic Short Story Prize

Graphic short stories

Prizes: £1,000 plus publication; £250

Free entry

Closing date: 11 October, TBC

Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction

Chapbook Contest

Single fantastical or magic realist stories, or

collections, totalling 7,500-17,500 words

Prizes: $1,000 and publication

Entry fee: $18

Closing date: 12 October

Arkansas International

Emerging Writers Prize

Short stories, up to 7,500 words, by writers

who have not had a book published

Prizes: $1,000 and publication

Entry fee: $20

Closing date: 13 October, TBC

Writers Digest Popular Fiction

Awards

Short stories, up to 4,000 words in the

genres mystery/crime, horror, romance, SF/

fantasy, thriller/suspense or YA

Prizes: $2,500, 6x$500; plus vouchers,

consultations, publication

Entry fee: $30

Closing date: 14 October, TBC

Calvino Prize

Fiction, up to 25 pages, in the style of Italo

Calvino

Prizes: $2,000 and publication, $300

Entry fee: $25

Closing date: 15 October

Event non-fi ction contest

Creative non-fi ction, max 5,000 words

Prizes: Can$1,500, $1,000, $500; publication

Entry fee: $34.95

Closing date: 15 October

Poets Out Loud Prize

Poetry collections

Prizes: 2x$1,000 and publication

Entry fee: $28

Closing date: 15 October, TBC

Prism Pacifi c Spirit Poetry Prize

Up to three poems, max 100 lines each

Prizes: Can$1,500, $600, $400

Entry fee: International entries $45

Closing date: 15 October, TBC

Tennessee Williams New

Orleans Literary Festival

Plays (one-act, entry fee $25, closing date

1/10, prize $1,500), poetry (2-4, max 400

words total, $15, 15/10, $1,000), fi ction

(up to 7,000 words, $25, 1/10, $1,500) and

fl ash (up to 500 words, $10, 15/10, $500)

Prizes: all prizes include VIP festival passes

Entry fee: $10-$25