This is for teen writers of flash fiction (75-200 words) and short stories (1,000-2,500 words). Prizes are for three categories/age groups in each: Grades 6-8, 9-10 and 11-12.
Value: $250, $150, $100 in each category for short stories; $125, $75, $50 in each category for flash fiction
Deadline: 4 March 2018
Open for: Teen writers
Details here.
This is designed to find the adventure writers of the future. Writers must enter a piece of short fiction (1,500-5,000 words). The work must fall within what can be defined as adventure writing (see guidelines).
Value: £1,500
Deadline: 12 March 2018
Open for: Writers aged 21 and under
Details here.
BBC Radio 4: BBC National Short Story Award
This is for British nationals and UK residents, who have a prior record of publication in the UK (see guidelines). Send a story of up to 8,000 words.
Value: £15,000, four awards of £600
Deadline: 12 March 2018
Open for: British nationals and UK residents
Details here.
This is for a literary book of nonfiction, published or contracted (see guidelines), by Canadian citizens of permanent residents of Canada. Translations are eligible.
Value: CAD60,000; CAD5,000 for 3-5 shortlisted works
Deadline: First deadline of 14 March 2018
Open for: Canadian writers
Details here.
This is for a novel or short story collection, published or contracted (see guidelines), by Canadian citizens of permanent residents of Canada. Translations are eligible.
Value: CAD50,000; CAD5,000 for 3-5 finalists
Deadline: First deadline of 14 March 2018
Open for: Canadian writers
Details here.
This is awarded for the best piece of writing on Childhood (up to 2,500 words in any genre), which is the theme of the 2018 Alpine Fellowship Annual Symposium. The winner and two runners-up are invited to attend the Venice symposium. The award will be presented by poet John Burnside – see guidelines for the kind of writing he would like to read.
Value: £3,000
Deadline: 15 March 2018
Open for: All writers
Details here.
This contest, by West Chester University, is for undergraduate poets enrolled in a US college or university for poems composed in the traditional modes of meter, rhyme and received forms.
Value: $1,500, $500
Deadline: 15 March 2018 (Postmarked)
Open for: Undergraduate poets in the US
Details here (scroll down).
This contest, by West Chester University, is for undergraduate poets enrolled in a US college or university for unpublished, original haiku.
Value: $1,500, $500
Deadline: 15 March 2018 (Postmarked)
Open for: Undergraduate poets in the US
Details here (scroll down).
This contest, by West Chester University, is for undergraduate poets enrolled in a US college or university for original poems written in Spanish, and translations of English poems to Spanish.
Value: $500
Deadline: 15 March 2018 (Postmarked)
Open for: Undergraduate poets in the US
Details here (scroll down).
They want non-fiction essays (750-2,000 words) in either of these categories: Author Profile: exploring the life, writings and influence of a single short story writer; and We Recommend: personal recommendations of a collection, anthology, a group of short stories or a single short story. No short stories or creative non-fiction story submissions (i.e. personal life essays). Writers can submit up to three essays.
Value: £500, two prizes of £100
Deadline: 18 March 2018
Open for: All writers
Details here.
These prizes are for children’s literature by citizens of an African country and are in three categories: for early chapter books targeting readers aged 9-11; 7,000-10,000 words), for picture books (targeting readers aged 4-8; 500-1,500 words, no illustrations), and for illustrations (of children’s books; portfolios to be according to specifics in guidelines).
Value: $5,000 for each category
Deadline: 31 March 2018
Open for: Citizens of an African country
Details here.
This is a chapbook award and this year, it will focus on poetry. Submit a manuscript of up to 30 pages.
Value: $250
Deadline: 31 May 2018; fee-free submissions till 31 March 2018
Open for: All poets
Details here.
This is a contest for poetry. Submit a poem of 30 lines or fewer.
Value: $1,000
Deadline: 31 March 2018
Open for: All poets
Details here.
This is for new and amateur writers of new short stories or novelettes of science fiction or fantasy. Send stories of up to 17,000 words.
Value: $1,000, $750, $500 per quarter; one annual prize of $5,000
Deadline: 31 March 2018
Open for: New and amateur writers of science fiction and fantasy (see guidelines)
Details here.
This award supports and promotes a breakthrough, contracted nonfiction book intended for a mainstream audience that will catalyze conversations around the issues that Natan grapples with in its grantmaking (see guidelines). It is in two parts, $10,000 to be used during the writing process and $15,000 for marketing and publicity.
Value: $25,000
Deadline: 31 March 2018
Open for: All writers of contracted nonfiction books that fit the above theme
Details here.
This is a contest for high school students. Students are invited to submit poems which evoke humankind’s awareness of the natural world and nature as such.
Value: $200 each; a minimum of 7 winners
Deadline: 31 March 2018
Open for: High school students
Details here.
This is for a humor poem, of up to 250 lines.
Value: $1,000, $250, and 10 prizes of $100
Deadline: 1 April 2018
Open for: All poets
Details here.
This prize is for a proposed book of literary nonfiction that illustrates artistic excellence, sensitivity to place, and desert literacy – with the desert both as subject and setting. The writing sample (up to 10 pages) can be published, unpublished or work in progress.
Value: $2,000 and a four-week residency at Summer Lake, Oregon
Deadline: 1 April 2018
Open for: All writers
Details here.
This award is for an unpublished horror novella (45,000-50,000 words). All types of horror are welcome. All subgenres and forms of speculative fiction are welcome.
Value: $600 advance against royalties
Deadline: 15 June 2018
Open for: All writers
Details here.
