As a reminder, please vote for which novel you would like to read for TWC's Summer Book Club by Thursday June 30th.
Here are some upcoming literary contests available for submissions in the next couple weeks.
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award
The Barbara Mandigo Peace Poetry Awards are a series of awards meant to encourage poets explore positive visions of peace and the human spirit.
• Winners receive a prize of $1,000 and publication on the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Website.
• Honorable mentions are awarded as well.
• The contest has three sections: Adult, Youth (13-18) and Youth (12 and under)
• The contest has a entry fee of $15 for three poems.
• Send two copies of a maximum of three poems. Each poem can be a maximum of thirty lines.
• Include name, address, email address , and telephone number on the upper right hand corner of one copy of the poems.
• The deadline of this contest is July 1,2011.
• Please visit the website for more details regarding submissions for this contest: http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/awards-&-contests/bmk-contest/
McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize
The Writer’s Center will offer a prize of $500 to honor a first novel of an American author, published during the previous year.
• Commercially published, small pressed published, and self published novels are accepted.
• Submit three copies of a novel published in 2010 by July 15, 2011.
• There is no entry fee for this contest.
• For more details visit our website: www.writer.org
Wags Revue: Summer Writing Contest
Wags Revue is accepting submissions in fiction , poetry , and essays. All submissions must be previously unpublished. The first prize is $1,000 and publication, the second prize is $500, and the third prize is $200.
• Writers may submit multiple poems, but the poems cannot exceed ten pages.
• Fiction and essay submissions may not exceed 10,000 words.
• Each entry must include the submission fee of $20.
• The deadline for the contest is July 15, 2011.
• For more details regarding submission of entries visit their website: http://www.wagsrevue.com/submit.php
F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference: Short Story Contest
The Potomac Review will give a fiction prize to a short story to residents of Washington D.C , Maryland , and Virginia. This is the 16th annual Short Story Contest.
• The winner receives a prize of $1000, publication in Potomac Review, and an invitation to speak at the 2011 F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference held in October.
• Three runner -ups receive $200 each.
• The contest has an entry fee of $25.
• Stories should be less than 3,000 words.
• All stories should have a cover letter that contains the writer’s name , address, and telephone number
• The deadline for this contest is July 16, 2011.
• For more details on guidelines for short story submissions visit: http://tinyurl.com/3tnv5rb
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Literary Contests, Prizes, & Call for Fiction Submissions
Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness
Call for Proposals: Panels, Workshops, Group Readings
We are the ones we have been waiting for. —June Jordan
Split This Rock invites proposals for panel and roundtable discussions, workshops, and themed group readings for our third national poetry festival, scheduled for March 22-25, 2012, in Washington, DC.
As people's movements erupt here at home and throughout the world in response to political repression and environmental degradation, the festival will consider the relationship of poets and poetry to power and to the challenges to power. Spit This Rock is especially interested in proposals that address these questions.
In this vein, Split This Rock welcomes proposals that celebrate the legacy of poet-activist June Jordan, as 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of her death. See the guidelines for more on June Jordan’s impact and Split This Rock.
Visit www.SplitThisRock.org for details on developing and submitting your proposal, guidelines, and the application form. Applications are due June 30, 2011.
2011 Graywolf Press Non Fiction Prize
Graywolf Press is giving a Non Fiction Prize to a work in progress of creative non fiction by a writer not yet established in that genre. They are looking for an innovative and promising literary nonfiction contest. They are looking for projects that play with form. Robert Polito, Director of the Graduate Writing Program at the New School will serve as a judge. There is no entry fee for this contest.
• Anyone who has published at least one book in any genre and lives in the United States is eligible.
• One submission per person will be considered
• The winner will receive a prize of $12,000 advance and publication by Graywolf Press
• Submit a one page cover letter which includes a one paragraph biographical description and a brief project description. Include previous publications in the biographical descriptions.
• Provide a 2 to 10 page overview of the project , explaining what has been completed in the project and what is still a work in progress.
• The actual manuscript should be a minimum of 100 pages (25,000 words)
• Submit an excerpt of at least 100 pages and a project description.
• For more details on the guidelines for this contest visit their website: https://www.graywolfpress.org/Company_Info/Submission_Guidelines/Graywolf_Press_Nonfiction_Prize/127/
The 2011 Shabo Award for Children's Picture Book Writers
Aspiring children’s picture book writers, here's one for you: It's a PDF.
This is the only contest the Loft in Minneapolis, one of our sister centers, administers that isn’t restricted to Minnesota residents. Last year, three of the eight winners came from out of state – two from New York, one from North Carolina.
Bellevue Literary Review: Prizes in Poetry and Prose
The Bellevue Literary Review is giving prizes to a poet, a fiction writer, and a creative non fiction writer for works dealing with health , healing, illness, the body, and the mind.
• The contest is divided into three categories: poetry, fiction, and creative non fiction.
• The prize includes $1,000 for each winner in the three categories and publication in the Bellevue Literary Review
• Entry for the competition is $15.
• Submit entries through the online submission system.
• Submit up to three poems totaling no more than five pages or at maximum 5,000 words for prose.
• Deadline for submissions is July 1, 2011.
• Visit their website for more details on guidelines regarding the contest: http://blr.med.nyu.edu/submissions/prizes
While we're at it, don't forget that The Writer's Center has the Undiscovered Voices Scholarship deadline of July 1, and the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns Prize deadline of July 15. Click on the links to learn more.
Bethesda Magazine Call for Fiction Submissions
Bethesda Magazine, that bastion of glossy greatness in Bethesda, is looking for original, previously unpublished fiction by Montgomery County residents, or residents of Washington DC, zip codes 20015 and 20016, which is part of our circulation area. Stories should be no longer than 4,000 words. Submissions should be sent in a word document to susan.coll@bethesdamagazine.com
Monday, June 13, 2011
Literary Contests & Prizes
Beginning today, we will provide information about different literary contests, scholarships, fellowships, and grants for writers around the world. We will provide links to the organizations sponsoring the contests. Please note that, as always, you should do your homework on each contest before submitting. By posting these links below, TWC is not actively endorsing the contests & prizes here. We're merely passing them on for others.
2011 Aesthetica Creative Works Competition
The 2011 Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is now open for entries! Aesthetica Magazine is inviting all artists, photographers, writers and poets to submit their work into the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition. Now in its fourth year, the competition is dedicated to celebrating and championing creative talent across the disciplines and welcomes entries from poets and writers working in short fiction.
• The Competition has three categories: Artwork & Photography, Poetry and Fiction
• Winners and finalists are published in the Aesthetica Creative Works Annual
• Winners of each category receive £500 prize money (apx. $800) plus other prizes.
• Entry to the Creative Works Competition is £10 (apx. $16).
• The entry fee allows the submission of 2 images, 2 poems or 2 short stories.
• The deadline for submissions is the 31st August 2011.
• Visit the website for more details: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm
New Millennium Awards
New Millennium Writings is accepting submissions of works that have not appeared in a print publication with a circulation of over 5,000 copies. Writers can submit poems, short stories, essays, and short- short stories for consideration.
• The writing competition has four categories: poems , short stories, essays, and short-short stories.
• The winner in each of the four categories receives $1,000 and publication in New Millennium Writings and on the journals website.
• Entry to the competition is $17.
• Multiple submissions are welcome, but each fiction or nonfiction piece is judged as a separate entry. Each entry must be uploaded as separate word documents.
• The short-short story may not exceed 1,000 words. The essays and the short stories may not exceed 6,000 words.
• Each poetry entry can include up to three poems , but may not exceed five pages.
• The deadline for submissions on the journal's website is June 17,2011.
• Visit the website for more details: www.newmillenniumwritings.com
Bechtel Prize
The Teachers & Writers Collaborative annually rewards the Bechtel Prize for an essay that relates to creative writing education or literary studies. Some potential topics include contemporary issues in classroom teaching and the intersection between literature and imaginative writing. Patricia Hampl, author of the acclaimed novel, The Florist’s Daughter, will judge the 2011 Bechtel PrizeThe winner of the Bechtel Prize wins $1000 honorarium and publication in the Teachers and Writers print magazine and website.
• Finalists receive $500. Their essays may be published in the Teachers and Writers Magazine.
• Submissions must be previously unpublished and may not exceed 3,500 words.
• Submissions will be judged anonymously. The author’s name and address must not appear anywhere on the essay.
• Two copies of the entry must be submitted. The submission must include a cover page with the authors name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, title of submission, and where the author learned about the Bechtel Prize. The other copy should just include a cover page with the title of the submission.
• Submissions must be typed, double-spaced and paginated.
• Entry into the contest is $20.
• The deadline to enter an essay for the Bechtel Prize is Thursday June 30,2011
• Visit the website for more details: http://www.twc.org/publications/bechtel-prize
Red Hen Press Short Story Award
The Red Hen Press Short Story Award was established in 2001 in order to celebrate the new century and new tradition of literature. The award is for an original short story.The contest is open to all writers.
• The story may not exceed twenty- five pages.
• The winner of this contest receives $1,000 and publication in the Los Angeles Review.
• Entry for this contest is $25.
• The deadline for submissions is Thursday June 30, 2011.
• More guidelines on this contest is found on their website: http://tinyurl.com/6gzshho
2011 Aesthetica Creative Works Competition
The 2011 Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is now open for entries! Aesthetica Magazine is inviting all artists, photographers, writers and poets to submit their work into the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition. Now in its fourth year, the competition is dedicated to celebrating and championing creative talent across the disciplines and welcomes entries from poets and writers working in short fiction.
• The Competition has three categories: Artwork & Photography, Poetry and Fiction
• Winners and finalists are published in the Aesthetica Creative Works Annual
• Winners of each category receive £500 prize money (apx. $800) plus other prizes.
• Entry to the Creative Works Competition is £10 (apx. $16).
• The entry fee allows the submission of 2 images, 2 poems or 2 short stories.
• The deadline for submissions is the 31st August 2011.
• Visit the website for more details: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm
New Millennium Awards
New Millennium Writings is accepting submissions of works that have not appeared in a print publication with a circulation of over 5,000 copies. Writers can submit poems, short stories, essays, and short- short stories for consideration.
• The writing competition has four categories: poems , short stories, essays, and short-short stories.
• The winner in each of the four categories receives $1,000 and publication in New Millennium Writings and on the journals website.
• Entry to the competition is $17.
• Multiple submissions are welcome, but each fiction or nonfiction piece is judged as a separate entry. Each entry must be uploaded as separate word documents.
• The short-short story may not exceed 1,000 words. The essays and the short stories may not exceed 6,000 words.
• Each poetry entry can include up to three poems , but may not exceed five pages.
• The deadline for submissions on the journal's website is June 17,2011.
• Visit the website for more details: www.newmillenniumwritings.com
Bechtel Prize
The Teachers & Writers Collaborative annually rewards the Bechtel Prize for an essay that relates to creative writing education or literary studies. Some potential topics include contemporary issues in classroom teaching and the intersection between literature and imaginative writing. Patricia Hampl, author of the acclaimed novel, The Florist’s Daughter, will judge the 2011 Bechtel PrizeThe winner of the Bechtel Prize wins $1000 honorarium and publication in the Teachers and Writers print magazine and website.
• Finalists receive $500. Their essays may be published in the Teachers and Writers Magazine.
• Submissions must be previously unpublished and may not exceed 3,500 words.
• Submissions will be judged anonymously. The author’s name and address must not appear anywhere on the essay.
• Two copies of the entry must be submitted. The submission must include a cover page with the authors name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, title of submission, and where the author learned about the Bechtel Prize. The other copy should just include a cover page with the title of the submission.
• Submissions must be typed, double-spaced and paginated.
• Entry into the contest is $20.
• The deadline to enter an essay for the Bechtel Prize is Thursday June 30,2011
• Visit the website for more details: http://www.twc.org/publications/bechtel-prize
Red Hen Press Short Story Award
The Red Hen Press Short Story Award was established in 2001 in order to celebrate the new century and new tradition of literature. The award is for an original short story.The contest is open to all writers.
• The story may not exceed twenty- five pages.
• The winner of this contest receives $1,000 and publication in the Los Angeles Review.
• Entry for this contest is $25.
• The deadline for submissions is Thursday June 30, 2011.
• More guidelines on this contest is found on their website: http://tinyurl.com/6gzshho
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