Contest Update

Hi all. Adding a few more contests to my list. I’ll post here and on the separate pages for posterity. Thanks for stopping by, and GOOD LUCK!

Fiction Contests

Novello Literary Award: $1K prize and publication by Novello press with standard royalty contract for an original fiction or non fiction manuscript. Deadline May 1.

Poetry Residencies

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Summer workshops. If you have a lot of cash, you can go if you sign up early. But if you want to go for free, they have a few scholarship opportunities. Deadline April 18.

Poetry Contests

University of Arkansas Miller Williams Poetry Prize. This year is the inaugural year! You get $5K. Open to all “excellent” books of poetry. Submit September 1 – October 31. I imagine submitting outside this deadline will result in your manuscript being thrown in the garbage.

Omnidawn Press, founded by someone who went to Mills, is having a Poetry Contest for first or second book. Deadline June 30.

Seven Kitchens Press Robin Becker Chapbook Prize for The Gay! LGBTs, your deadline is May 15!

Zone 3 Press first book award competition. Their website is kind of a nightmare. Their deadline is May 1.

Published Work Awards

THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
“A £60,000 prize designed not only to richly reward the best young writer in the world but also to serve as a focus for and incentive to all young writers throughout the English-speaking world.”
Deadline April 30

JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD
“The James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a poet’s second book. Only manuscripts already under contract with publishers are considered for the James Laughlin Award.”
Deadline May 15

AMERICAN LITERARY TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD
“To be eligible for the award, a translation must have been published during the preceding calendar year by a U.S. or Canadian publisher and must be a book-length work, in English, of fiction, poetry, drama, or creative non-fiction (literary criticism and philosophy are not eligible)”
Deadline March 31

PATERSON POETRY PRIZE and PATERSON FICTION PRIZE
Sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College.
Deadlines February 1 and April 1, respectively.

THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR
Make ‘em laugh.
Deadline April 1.

WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARDS
“…given for outstanding books published by Washington authors the previous year…”
Deadline April 1.

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