Fiction Contests

Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation (cash award for a gay-themed, history-influenced novel – (awarded once every three years, alternating with screenwriting ad short fiction))
Deadline Nov. 30

Arrowhead Regional Arts Council career development grants for Minnesotan writers living in Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, or St. Louis
Deadline November 28

Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund (cash award for fiction)
Must be received by June 30, 2007 (deadline changes yearly)

AWP Award Series in the Novel
Submit January 1 – February 28

Bakeless Prize, Middlebury College
Submit September 15 – November 1

Barbara Deming Memorial Fund/Money for Women
Send during month of June; SASE for guidelines:
Susan Pliner, Executive Director
Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
Individual Artist Grants for Women
P.O. Box 309
Wilton, NH 03086

Bronx Writers’ Center emerging novelists award
Deadline October 1

Carolina Wren Press Prose by Women Award
Deadline December 1

Cintas Foundation fellowship for writers of Cuban descent
Deadline January 14

Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest
Deadline October 1

Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the arts individual artist grants for New York state western and central counties
Deadline January 15

Curbstone Press Miguel Mármol Prize
Deadline January 15

The Dana Portfolio Award (for those working in multiple genres)
Deadline October 31

Danahy Fiction Prize
Deadline November 1

Drue Heinz Literature Prize – University of Pittsburgh Press
Deadline June 30

The Ellen Meloy Fund Desert Writer Award
Deadline December 31

Flannery O’Connor Short Story Awards for Short Story (University of Georgia Press)
Deadline May 31

Gival Press Novel Award
Deadline May 30

The Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, AWP
Submit between January 1 and February 28

G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for short fiction, Bkmk Press
Deadline January 16

Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize
Deadline September 30

Hackney Literary Awards, Birmingham Southern College
Deadline September 30

The Hurston/Wright Foundation awards for writers of African in grad or undergrad schools
Deadline January 15

Jackson, Phelan, Tannenbaum Awards (for Calif.-born or current Calif. residents)
Deadline March 31

First Novel Fellowship, James Jones Literary Society
Deadline March 1

Juniper Prize for Fiction, University of Massachusetts Press
Submit August 1 – September 29

Katherine Anne Porter Prize – IN SHORT FICTION – stories, novella, or short-shorts
Submit July 1 – August 29

Kore Press Fiction Chapbook Competition for women
Deadline: October 31

Maine Community Foundation Martin Dibner Artist Grants
Deadline January 15

Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction Sarabande Books
Deadline February 15

Massachusetts Artist Grants
December 7

Michigan Literary Fiction Awards (University of Michigan Press)
Deadline July 1

Minnesota Artist Grants
Deadlines March 28, 2008 and November 30, 2007

NEA Translation Awards
Deadline January 9

Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships
Deadline Nov. 15

North Carolina Writers Network Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize
Deadline Dec. 1

Novello Literary Award for an original fiction or non fiction manuscript
Deadline May 1

Ohio State University Press Short Fiction Manuscript Prize
Deadline January 31

Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest
Submit during February

Parthenon Prize for Fiction from Cold Tree Press
Deadline, April 30

PEN Beyond Margins Awards for emerging poets, fiction, and creative non fiction writers of color
Deadline December 31

PEN Translation Fund
Deadline January 14

Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel
Deadline May 1

P & W Inc. Maureen Egen Writers Exchange focuses on a different state each year
Deadline December 1

Prairie Schooner Prize, University of Nebraska Press
Deadline March 15

Puffin Foundation awards for emerging writers
Deadline December 30

Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award (for books that have been rejected by mainstream pubs.)
Deadline November 15

Quarterly West Novella Competition
Submit october 1 to January 31

River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Deadline March 1

Santa Fe Writers Project First Novel Award
Deadline in late fall each year

Santa Fe Art Institute translation fellowship
Deadline December 1

Soul-Making Literary Contest, PEN/Nob Hill Branch
Deadline November 30

Spokane Prize for a Short Story Collection
Deadline May 15

Stanford University Libraries William Saroyan International Prize
Deadline January 31

Starcherone Press Prose contest for story collections, novels, or indeterminate prose works
Deadline February 15th

Tartt Fiction Award, Livingston Press
Deadline December 31

Thornton Writer Residency, Lynchburg College (fall term for fiction, spring for poetry)
Deadline March 15 – Call for guidelines: Patty Irwin, 434.544.8267

University of California Chicano / Latino Literary Prize
Deadline June 1 (alternates every four years (poetry, novel, drama, short story)

University of Iowa Press Short Fiction Awards
Deadline September 30.