{"id":5486,"date":"2018-08-03T06:09:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2018-08-03T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:28:48","slug":"18-free-writing-contests-with-cash-prizes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/18-free-writing-contests-with-cash-prizes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Free Writing Contests With Cash Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These are contests for writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays, as well as translators. The prizes range from $50 to \u00a320,000. There is also a prize for published translations, worth $200,000. None have an entry fee. — S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/div>\n
PEN\/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History
\n<\/strong>This grant is for a literary work of non-fiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. It is to help maintain or complete his or her ongoing project. Oral history must be a significant portion of the work and its research. Writers have to send in writing samples and transcripts as part of the application.
\nValue: $10,000
\nDeadline: 15 August 2018
\nOpen for: All writers
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Yale Drama Series: David Charles Horn Prize
\n<\/strong>This contest is for an original, unpublished full-length play in English, and is meant for emerging playwrights. Translations, musicals, adaptations, and children’s plays are not accepted.
\nValue: $10,000
\nDeadline: 15 August 2018
\nOpen for: All playwrights
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Penguin Random House UK: Harvill Secker Young Translators\u2019 Prize
\n<\/strong>This is for translators aged 18-34. This year the focus language is Bengali<\/strong> and entrants will translate the short story \u2018Half-Timer Pawre\u2019 (see website) by Shamik Ghosh<\/strong>, from his collection Elvis O Amolasundari.<\/em> They will accept mailed submissions only.
\nValue: \u00a31,000, mentorship
\nDeadline: 28 August 2018
\nOpen for: Translators of Bengali
\nDetails here<\/a> (scroll down).<\/div>\n
Pockets Annual Fiction Contest
\n<\/strong>Pockets is a Christian magazine for 6-12-year-olds. For this fiction contest, they want stories of 750-1,000 words. Their guidelines say, \u201cStories should contain lots of action, use believable dialogue, be simply written, and be relevant to the problems faced by this age group in everyday life. Children need to be able to see themselves in the pages of the magazine. It is important that the tone not be \u201cpreachy\u201d or didactic. Use short sentences and paragraphs. When possible, use concrete words instead of abstractions. However, do not \u201cwrite down\u201d to children.\u201d No stories about talking animals, inanimate objects, or biblical or historical fiction based on real events. Writers can send multiple stories. Entries can be emailed or posted.
\nValue: $500
\nDeadline: 15 August 2018
\nOpen for: All writers
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
World Congress of Faiths Essay Award
\n<\/strong>This award, for UK students, is for a 3,000-word essay titled \u2018Can interfaith dialogue achieve any lasting value for society?\u2019
\n<\/strong>Value: \u00a3300
\nDeadline: 28 August 2018
\nOpen for: Undergraduate or postgraduate students at a UK university
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Amazon: Kindle Storyteller Award
\n<\/strong>This is for writers in any genre, for a book published exclusively through Kindle Direct Publishing in both eBook and print formats. There is no limit to the number of submissions. The paperback version must be at least 24 pages long. For this contest, readers will play a significant role in selecting the winner \u2013 the award shortlist will be based on customer feedback of the entries (\u201cincludes sales, reads through Kindle Unlimited and reviews and other matters\u201d), followed by an evaluation by a judging panel. Read the FAQ and terms carefully.
\nValue: \u00a320,000
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018
\nOpen for: All writers
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Lee & Low Books: New Voices Award
\n<\/strong>This award is for writers of color and Native nations who are residents of the United States, and who have not previously had a children\u2019s picture book published. The work should address the needs of children of color and Native nations, aged 5-12, by providing stories with which they can identify and relate, and which promote a greater understanding of one another. Themes relating to non-traditional family structures, gender identity, or disabilities may also be included. Manuscripts can be fiction, non-fiction or poetry, and up to 1,500 words. Stories with anthropomorphic animals will not be accepted. Writers can send up to two manuscripts. They accept mailed submissions only.
\nValue: $2,000 and publishing contract, including advance and royalties; $1,000
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018 (postmarked)
\nOpen for: US writers of color and Native nations
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Aftermath Magazine: The End of Our World Short Story Contest
\n<\/strong>This short story contest \u201cis meant to raise people\u2019s awareness of what is happening to our (natural) world right now and what this may mean for the near future. We are looking for short stories dealing with the many existential issues facing us. No nonsense, no wild, impossible fantasies but strong, intelligent stories, based on facts, cautionary tales speculative, plausible and thought-provoking.\u201d Stories can be in English or Dutch, and 1,500-5,000 words long.
\nValue: $1,000, $300, $100; \u201cStories outside of the top three may still be published at our usual flat fee for $25.\u201d
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018
\nOpen for: All writers
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Platypus Press: Broken River Prize
\n<\/strong>This is a prize for a poetry chapbook. Manuscripts should be 20-40 pages.
\nValue: $250\/\u00a3200 and publication
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018
\nOpen for: All poets
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Lunch Ticket: The Diana Woods Award in Creative Non-fiction
\n<\/strong>This is an award for creative non-fiction, on any subject. Submit a piece of up to 5,000 words. All submissions to the award will be considered for publication in Lunch Ticket.
\nValue: $250
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018
\nOpen for: All writers
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Lunch Ticket: The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts
\n<\/strong>This award is for translators and authors of multilingual texts, in poetry or prose. Translators should include the original work with the translation, and a statement about the translation process. All submissions to the award will be considered for publication in other sections of Lunch Ticket. The prize honors \u201cGabo\u201d \u2013 Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
\nValue: $200
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018
\nOpen for: All writers
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
On the Premises Short Story Contest: Near-death experience
\n<\/strong>Write a short story in which one or more characters almost die, but don\u2019t. Stories should be 1,000-5,000 words long. The editors do not want children\u2019s fiction, exploitative sex, or over-the-top horror.
\nValue: $220, $160, $120, $60
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018
\nOpen for: All writers
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Cultural Weekly: Jack Grapes Poetry Prize
\n<\/strong>This is a prize for unpublished poems. Send up to three poems.
\nValue: $200 each for three winners, $50 each for six finalists
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018
\nOpen for: All poets
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Preservation Foundation Contest for Unpublished Writers
\n<\/strong>This is a contest for unpublished writers (see guidelines). This year the prizes will be for four categories of non-fiction: biographical, general, travel, and animal non-fiction. Read the terms carefully. All entries, regardless of whether they win or not, will be on their website in perpetuity.
\nValue: $200, $100, $50
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018
\nOpen for: Unpublished writers (see guidelines)
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Oklahoma Pagan Quarterly: 2018 Spooky Samhain Stories Contest
\n<\/strong>They want work on any of these three themes:
\nTrue Tales of Terror (1k-4k words), which are \u201ctrue experiences you\u2019ve witnessed. Ritual gone wrong? Cryptid got a little up close and personal? Alien attacks at night?\u201d;
\nSpooky Semi-True Stories (3k-6k words), which may be tall tales, or may not; or
\nFantastic Frights (5k-10k words), which are out and out fiction.
\nThey would prefer stories that use religion and\/or spirituality as an uplifting theme or a bridge towards a larger, thematic discussion, rather than being derogatory towards one specific religion.
\nValue: $100, $50, $25
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018
\nOpen for: All writers
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Planet: Essay Competition
\n<\/strong>This is an essay contest for writers under 30, on any subject, by this Welsh magazine. The essay should be 1,500-2,000 words. Their guidelines say, \u201cWe would welcome creative and unconventional ways of exploring the essay form as well as a more traditional style.\u201d Planet<\/em> features writing which is \u201cin-depth, yet sufficiently accessible for a non-specialist readership. What we are looking for most are lively, well-crafted essays which leave a lasting impression.\u201d They will accept mailed submissions only.
\nValue: \u00a3200
\nDeadline: 1 September 2018
\nOpen for: All writers under 30
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
The Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest
\n<\/strong>For this contest, poets are invited to write a Shakespearean or a Petrarchan sonnet. They accept hard copy submissions only.
\nValue: $50, $35, $15
\nDeadline: 1 September 2018
\nOpen for: All poets
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding
\n<\/strong>These are awards for translated, full-length published works of humanities or social sciences. There are various categories: from Arabic to English, English to Arabic, Arabic to German, German to Arabic, and an achievement award. All carry prizes of $200,000. There are translation achievement categories in other languages too, carrying awards of $100,000 each \u2013 to and from Arabaic in Bosnian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Swahili.
\nValue: $200,000 each for five categories and $100,000 each in 10 categories
\nDeadline: 31 August 2018
\nOpen for: Translators of published Arabic works
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n