
Each month we curate a list of contests, fellowships, and other writing opportunities with approaching deadlines. Opportunities will be posted in the month prior to their deadlines, so that you have ample time to submit your work or applications.
Fiction Contests
Ernest Gaines Award for Literary
Excellence
Eligibility: Rising African-American
authors w/novels or short story collections published in 2019
Prize: $15,000
Deadline: August 15, 2019
New Visions
Award (Middle
Grade & YA)
Eligibility: Unpublished writers, who identify as POC or native
Prize: $2,000 + publication
Deadline: August 31, 2019
Nonfiction Contests
Constance
Rooke Creative Nonfiction Contest
Eligibility: All writers
Prize: $1,000 CAD
Entry fee: $35 CAD for Canadian entries, $40 USD for U.S. entries, and $45 USD
elsewhere. Additional entries are $15 CAD per submission.
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction
Eligibility:
All writers
Prize: publication by University of Iowa Press
Entry fee: $10
Deadline: August 15, 2019
Poetry Contests
Grayson
Books Poetry Prize
Eligibility: All poets writing in
English
Prize: $1,000 + publication
Entry fee: $25
Deadline: August 15, 2019
Omnidawn Open
(Poetry Book Contest)
Eligibility: All poets
Prize: $3,000
Entry fee: $27
Deadline: August 19, 2019
Eugene Paul
Nassar Poetry Prize
Eligibility: Poets residing in Upstate
New York
Prize: $2,000
Deadline: August 31, 2019
Multi-Genre Contests
1/2 K Prize
Eligibility: All writers
Prize: $1,000 + publication
Entry fee: $20
Deadline: August 15, 2019
Barthelme Prize for Short Prose
Eligibility:
All writers
Prize: $1,000 + publication
Entry fee: $20
Deadline: August 15, 2019
New Voices Award (Picture Books)
Eligibility: Unpublished writers, who ID as POC or native
Prize: $2,000 + publication
Deadline: August 31, 2019
Writing Fellowships & Grants
Delaware
Division of the Arts Individual
Artist Fellowships
Eligibility: Delaware residents
Prize: $3,000 - $6,000
Deadline: August 1, 2019
PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship
Eligibility: Unpublished writers (see
website for more details)
Prize: $1,000 + mentorship + classes
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Leeway
Foundation Art and Change Grant
Eligibility: Women and trans*
artists living in the Delaware Valley area
Prize: up to $2,500
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Writing Residencies
Yaddo
Eligibility: All writers not enrolled
in undergraduate or graduate programs
Prize: 2 – 8 week residency
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: August 1, 2019
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