JULY AUGUST 2019 82GRANTS & AWARDSDeadlines
Journal of Experimental Fiction
KENNETH PATCHEN AWARD
A prize of $1,000 and publication by
Journal of Experimental Fiction/Depth
Charge Publishing is given annu-
ally for an innovative novel. Jason E.
Rolfe will judge. Submit a manuscript
of any length with a $25 entry fee by
July 31. Visit the website for complete
guidelines.
Journal of Experimental Fiction, Kenneth
Patchen Award, P.O. Box 6281, Aurora,
IL 60598. Eckhard Gerdes, Contact.
[email protected]
http://www.experimentalfiction.com/news/kenneth
-patchen-awardKore Press
POETRY PRIZE
A prize of $1,500, publication by
Kore Press, and 20 author cop-
ies is given annually for a poetry
collection by a woman, trans, or
gender-nonconforming poet. Erica
Hunt will judge. Using the online sub-
mission system, submit a manuscript of
48 to 100 pages with a $28 entry fee by
July 30. Some entry fee scholarships are
available. Visit the website for complete
guidelines.
Kore Press, Poetry Prize, 325 West 2nd
Street, Room 201, Tucson, AZ 85705.
(520) 327-2127.
korepress.orgLedbury Poetry Festival
POETRY COMPETITION
A prize of £1,000 (approximately
$1,300); a course at Ty Newydd, the
National Writing Centre of Wales;
and publication on the Ledbury Poetry
Festival website is given annually for
a poem. The winner is also invited to
read at the Ledbury Poetry Festival in
Ledbury, England, in July 2020; travel
expenses are not included. Daljit Nagra
will judge. Submit a poem of up to 40
lines with a £5 entry fee (approximately
$7), and £3.50 (approximately $5) for
each additional poem, by July 18. Visit
the website for the required entry form
and complete guidelines.
(SEE RECENT WINNERS.)
Ledbury Poetry Festival, Poetry
Competition, Master’s House, Bye
Street, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8
1EA, England. Sandra Dudley, Finance
Manager. [email protected]
http://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/ledbury-poetry
-competitionLeeway Foundation
ART AND CHANGE GRANTS
Project grants of up to $2,500 each are
given twice yearly to women and trans-
sexual, transgender, genderqueer, or
otherwise gender-nonconforming poets,
fiction writers, and creative nonfiction
writers in the Delaware Valley region
to fund art for social change projects.
Writers living in Bucks, Camden,
Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, or
Philadelphia counties who are 18 years
of age or older and who are not full-
time students in a degree-granting arts
program are eligible. Applicants must
identify a person, an organization, or a
business as a partner for their project.
Submit a project description and budget
with the required entry form by August- There is no entry fee. Visit the
website for the required entry form and
complete guidelines.
Leeway Foundation, Art and Change
Grants, Philadelphia Building, 1315
Walnut Street, Suite 832, Philadelphia, PA - (215) 545-4078. Sara Zia Ebrahimi,
Program Director. [email protected]
http://www.leeway.org
Masters Review
SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS
A prize of $3,000 and publication
in Masters Review is given twice yearly
for a short story by a writer who has
not published a novel (writers who have
published story collections are eligible).
The winning story will also be sent to
agents Victoria Cappello from the Bent
Agency, Sarah Fuentes from Fletcher &
Company, Andrea Morrison from Writ-
ers House, and Nat Sobel from Sobel
Weber Associates. Submit a short story
of up to 6,000 words with a $20 entry
fee by August 31. Visit the website for
complete guidelines.
Masters Review, Short Story Award for
New Writers, 70 SW Century Drive, Suite
100442, Bend, OR 97702.
[email protected]
mastersreview.com/short-story-award-for-new
-writersMunster Literature Centre
SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN SHORT STORY
COMPETITION
A prize of €2,000 (approximately $2,250)
and publication in Southword is given
annually for a short story. The winner
also receives a weeklong residency at
the Anam Cara Writer’s Retreat on the
Beara Peninsula in West Cork. Submita short story of up to 3,000 words with
a €18 (approximately $20) entry fee by
July 31. Visit the website for complete
guidelines.
Munster Literature Centre, Seán Ó
Faoláin Short Story Competition, Frank
O’Connor House, 84 Douglas Street,
Cork, Ireland.
http://www.munsterlit.ieNarrative
SPRING STORY CONTEST
A prize of $2,500 and publication in
Narrative is given annually for a short
story, a short short story, an essay, or
an excerpt from a work of fiction or
creative nonfiction. A second-place prize
of $1,000 is also awarded. The editors
will judge. Using the online submission
system, submit a work of fiction or crea-
tive nonfiction of up to 15,000 words
with a $26 entry fee by July 31. Visit the
website for complete guidelines.
POETRY CONTEST
A prize of $1,500 and publication in
Narrative is given annually for a poem
or group of poems. The poetry editors
will judge. Using the online submission
system, submit up to five poems with
a $25 entry fee by July 14. All entries
are considered for publication. Visit the
website for complete guidelines.
Narrative, 2443 Fillmore Street, #214, San
Francisco, CA 94115. Tom Jenks, Editor.
http://www.narrativemagazine.comNew Millennium Writings
NEW MILLENNIUM AWARDS
Four prizes of $1,000 each and publica-
tion in New Millennium Writings and on
the journal’s website are given twice
yearly for a poem, a short story, a short
short story, and an essay that have not
appeared in a print publication with a
circulation over 5,000. Submit up to
three poems totaling no more than five
pages, a short short story of up to 1,000
words, or a story or essay of up to 7,499
words with a $20 entry fee by July 31.
All entries are considered for publica-
tion. Visit the website for complete
guidelines. (SEE RECENT WINNERS.)
New Millennium Writings, New
Millennium Awards, 4021 Garden Drive,
Knoxville, TN 37918. Alexis Williams Carr,
Editor.
http://www.newmillenniumwritings.org