Getting around to posting more contests, finally

It’s that time of year again: find out where you’ll be spending your summer, and what you’ll be doing while there! It’s hardcore residency application crunch time! I’ve had a bunch of these to post for a while, so I am glad to get them off my plate and onto the blog. As always, they will be placed in their appropriate list at the right after I post them here. Have fun!

Poetry Residencies

Washington State poets, fiction and creative nonfiction writers: get $1500 bucks just to work on your stuff! Deadline is February 23.

Converse College Julia Peterkin Award: $1k plus travel expenses to fly your ass down to Converse College for a reading. Deadline February 15. Alternates yearly between fiction and poetry. Guess whose year it is…

Japan-US Friendship Commission US/Japan Creative Artists Residency: $5K and a five month stay in Japan for published poets, fiction and non fiction writers “to pursue activities of greatest relevance to their creative process. Which means: if you sit around watching TV to feed your muse, get ready to do it in Japan! Deadline February 1.

Marin Arts Council New Work Fellowships: $10K for you if you ave lived in Marin County for at least 12 consecutive months, and have a “proven track record” of publication in fiction, poetry, and/or creative nonfiction. Deadline January 31.

University of Mississippi Summer poetry residency: one-month stay and a $1500 honorarium for a poet working on a manuscript to live in Lawrence House, adjacent to Faulkner’s Rowan Oak. Deadline February 1.

Mississippi Arts Commission literary arts fellowships: $5k for Mississippi poets and fiction writers who are over 18 and NOT full-time students. Deadline March 1.

University of New Orleans writing contest for study abroad: for a poet, fiction and/or nonfiction writer who have not published a book in the genre in which they are applying, to stay in Italy for a summer with $4k cash! Woo! Deadline January 31.

Western Michigan University Prague Summer Program Fellowships: get picked to go on a four-week creative writing conference. open to folks who have published no more than one book. Deadline February 1.

Fiction Contests

Ohio State University Press Short Fiction Manuscript Prize: $1500 and publication by OSU Press for a collection of short fiction. Deadline January 31.

Stanford University Libraries William Saroyan International Prize: $12,500 for fiction and creative nonfiction manuscripts. Deadline January 31.

Fiction Residencies

University of East Anglia David T. K. Wong Fellowship. $51K (didn’t stutter) and a one-year stay as UEA for a fiction writer for your work which deals seriously with some aspect of the Far East. Deadline January 31.

University of East Anglia Charles Pick Writing Fellowship. $20K and a six month stay as UEA for a fiction writer who has not published a full-length book yet. Deadline January 31.

Published Work Awards

BALCONES CENTER FOR CREATIVE WRITING: $1,000 award for your fabulous poetry book published in the previous year. Deadline January 31.

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY BOOK AWARDS: $1,000 award for your fabulous poetry and fiction (yes, two awards!) book published in the previous year. Deadline March 1.

GOETHE-INSTITUT CHICAGO HELEN AND KURT WOLFF TRANSLATOR’S PRIZE: $10K and a stay at the literary colloquium in Berlin to honor an outstanding translation from German to English published in the US in the previous year. Deadline January 31.

LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA LITERARY AWARDS: $2500 for a book of fiction, poetry, and creative non fiction published in the previous year “with a Virginia theme or written by a writer born in Virginia or a resident of the state.” Deadline February 8.

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER JANET HEIDINGER KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION: $5K for “a book of fiction by a woman who is a US citizen published in the previous year.” Deadline February 1.

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FIRST NOVELIST AWARD: $1k for a novel published in the previous year. Deadline January 31.

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