Fugue Annual Writing Contest
Sponsor – University of Idaho
Deadline Date – 16-Apr-2025
Funding – $1,000.00 USD
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Every year, Fugue hosts an Annual Writing Contest, publishing winners in both prose and poetry and awarding them $1,000 each.
The Annual Writing Contest will accept entries in two categories, prose and poetry.
Prose Contest submissions should include no more than one short story, or, one essay per submission. Poetry contest submissions should include 1 to 3 poems per submission.
Submissions fees are $20 and multiple submissions are allowed.
Contest winners in both categories will receive $1,000 prizes and publication in the 2026 print issue. All entries are considered for publication.
Annual Writing Competition
Sponsor – Writer’s Digest
Deadline Date – 05-May-2025
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The Writer’s Digest annually awards prizes for entries in each of several writing categories.
The Writer’s Digest supports writing prizes in each of the following categories:
- Inspirational/Spiritual;
- Memoirs/Personal Essay;
- Nonfiction Essay or Article;
- Genre Short Story (Mystery, Romance, etc.);
- Mainstream/Literary Short Story;
- Rhyming Poetry;
- Non-rhyming Poetry;
- Humor;
- Children’s/Young Adult Fiction.
All contest entrants must be aged 18 years or older or over the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which they reside.
One Grand Prize winner will receive the following:
- $5,000 in cash;
- An interview with them in Writer’s Digest (Nov/Dec 2025 issue) and on WritersDigest.com;
- A paid trip to the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference, including a special trophy presentation at the keynote;
- A coveted Pitch Slam slot at the Writer’s Digest Conference where the winner will receive one-on-one attention from editors or agents;
- Publication of their winning piece on WritersDigest.com.
Additional awards are as follows:
- The First place winner in each category will receive $1,000 in cash and publication of their winning piece on WritersDigest.com;
- The Second place winner in each category will receive $500 cash;
- The Third place winner in each category will receive $250 in cash;
- The Fourth place winner in each category will receive $100 in cash;
- The Fifth place winner in each category will receive $50 in cash;
- The Sixth through Tenth place winners in each category will receive a $25 gift certificate for writersdigestshop.com.
- All top winners will also receive:
- Their names and the title of their winning piece listed in Writer’s Digest and on WritersDigest.com;
- A one-year subscription (new or renewal) to Writer’s Digest magazine;
- A one-year subscription to Writer’s Digest Tutorials;
- 20% discount off of purchases made at Writer’s Digest University;
- A special graphic recognizing their winning status.
- All Honorable Mentions receive:
- Their names and the title of their selected piece listed on WritersDigest.com;
- 20% discount off of purchases made at Writer’s Digest University;
- A special graphic recognizing their winning status.
Bacopa Literary Review Creative Nonfiction Contest
Sponsor – Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG)
Deadline Date – 05-May-2025
Funding – $200.00 USD
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Bacopa Literary Review offers an annual creative nonfiction contest.
Bacopa Literary Review publishes publish true stories, written beautifully, and based on the author’s experiences, perceptions, and reflections in the form of personal memoir or literary essay (for example, nature, travel, medical, spiritual, food writing).
Submissions may be up to 2,500 words.
The prize consists of a $200 Award and $100 Honorable Mention Award.
Bacopa Literary Review Formal Poetry Contest
Sponsor – Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG)
Deadline Date – 05-May-2025
Funding – $200.00 USD
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This year’s annual Bacopa Literary Review writing contest will feature five categories: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Free Verse Poetry, Formal Poetry, and Visual Poetry.
- Fiction (up to 2,500 words): Bacopa Literary Review is looking for engaging and original pieces of short fiction capable of capturing and engaging the reader. Unique descriptions, vivid language, and original ideas are appreciated. Use precise language, make sure your work is as polished as possible before submitting, and most of all, enjoy the writing process!
- Creative Nonfiction (up to 2,500 words): We publish true stories, written beautifully, and based on the author’s experiences, perceptions, and reflections in the form of personal memoir or literary essay (for example, nature, travel, medical, spiritual, and food writing).
- Formal Poetry (1-3 poems): Sonnets, villanelles, pantoums, haiku, and other established forms. We are seeking words that illuminate the human condition, tell us something new, or just entertain. Send us your best. Please note the specific form of each poem you submit. All voices are welcome, and we are interested in reading poems on all themes and subjects.
- Free Verse Poetry (1-2 poems): Free verse, visionary poems, the strange and unusual. Absurd, thoughtful, experimental, political, romantic, funny, entertaining. Give us your best work, unfettered, unrestrained, free from forms-or make up your own form. All voices are welcome, and we are interested in reading poems on all themes and subjects.
- Visual Poetry (1 poem): We are seeking visual poems. At the moment we can only accept images in black and white that can fit within a 6 x 9-inch page size. Textual imagery, calligraphy, font, concrete, blackout, found, shaped syntactic and non-syntactic, asemic–the visual aspect should be integral to the poem. Surprise us! Please submit only one visual poem.
- WAG Member Submissions: 1 piece in any of the above categories.
Bacopa Literary Review does not accept previously published material in any category of submissions. Applicants who won an award or received an honorable mention last year will not be eligible for either the prize or honorable mention in any of this year’s categories.
The prize consists of a $200 award and $100 honorable mentions in each of five categories. One 2025 Best of WAG Award for Writers Alliance members in each category will also be awarded. Awardees will be highlighted in the journal itself, featured in the sponsor’s Editors Blog and social media, and invited to read at their annual journal debut event, as well as being considered for the cash awards in their submissions’ categories.
Poetry London Prize
Sponsor – Poetry London
Deadline Date – 30-Jun-2025
Funding – $6,450.00 USD
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The Poetry London Prize is a major, internationally renowned award for a single outstanding poem. Entries must be in English, the author’s own unaided work, and not a translation of another poet. Entries must not have been previously published or self-published, in print or online, or have won a prize in another competition. The maximum length is 80 lines, not including titles or blank lines.
Entries must be in English, the author’s own unaided work, and not a translation of another poet. Entries must not have been previously published or self-published, in print or online, or have won a prize in another competition. The maximum length is 80 lines, not including titles or blank lines.
The competition is open to poets anywhere in the world.
Prizes are as follows:
- First Prize £5,000;
- Second Prize £2,000;
- Third Prize £1,000;
- plus publication in Poetry London.
Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
Sponsor – University of Georgia Press
Deadline Date – 31-May-2025
Funding – $1,000.00 USD
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The University of Georgia Press invites submissions for a contest of short fiction collections. Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of $1,000, and their collections are subsequently published by the University of Georgia Press under a standard book contract.
The award recognizes outstanding collections of short fiction. Collections may include long stories or novellas (est. length of a novella is 50-150 pages). However, novels or single novellas will not be considered. Manuscripts should be 40,000-75,000 words in length.
The competition is open to writers in English, whether published or unpublished. Previous winners of this award are not eligible to win again. Writers must be residents of North America. Authors may submit more than one manuscript to the competition for consideration as long as no material is duplicated between submissions. Each submission will require a separate entry fee.
The author of the winning manuscript receives a cash award of $1,000, and the collection is subsequently published by the University of Georgia Press under a standard book contract. The winner has ten days to accept the award and ten days to sign the contract once it is received. The winning manuscript is subject to some degree of editorial development with the series judge, but authors should not expect to be able to substantially change their manuscript after notification of award.
International Poetry Competition – Haiku Section (Adults)
Sponsor – New Zealand Poetry Society
Deadline Date – 31-May-2025
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The New Zealand Poetry Society offers International Poetry Competition – Haiku Section for original work of the entrant.
The competition is open to members and non-members, worldwide, with members receiving an entry fee discount. Entries should not be submitted for publication anywhere else until after August 31, 2025, Aotearoa New Zealand time as they may be considered for inclusion in the annual anthology.
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
Sponsor – American Historical Association
Deadline Date – 15-May-2025
Funding – $1,000.00 USD
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The American Historical Association offers the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize annually for a distinguished book published in English in the field of European history. The Adams Prize and the Leo Gershoy Award (also bestowed by the AHA) are widely considered to be the most prestigious prizes in the field of European history. The prize is offered on a rotating basis: in even years for books on European history from ancient times to 1815; in odd years for books on European history from 1815 through the 20th century. The current prize amount is $1,000.
In 2025, books on European history from 1815 through the 20th century, an author’s first book, will be eligible for the competition. Books published in English bearing a copyright of 2023 or 2024 are eligible for the 2025 prize. Since the prize is designed especially to encourage scholars who have not yet obtained an established reputation, the entry must be the author’s first substantial book. Textbooks in the strict sense of the word are not eligible, but a work of wide scope which interprets a major period or area would certainly qualify. Pamphlets, anthologies, edited works, and other small-scale efforts will not qualify.
Nomination submissions may be made by an author or by a publisher. Publishers may submit as many entries as they wish. Authors or publishers may submit the same book for multiple AHA prizes.
The current prize amount is $1,000. Entries will not be returned. Recipients will be announced on the AHA website in October 2025 and recognized during a ceremony at the January 2026 AHA annual meeting in Chicago.
Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing
Sponsor – Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Deadline Date – 01-Jun-2025
Funding – $1,000.00 USD
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The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) announces the annual juried competition for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. The sponsor seeks graceful, accessible ethnographic writing which deeply explores its subject and contributes in innovative and engaging ways to the genre(s) of ethnography and the field of humanistic (and/or post-humanistic) anthropology.
Eligible ethnographic genres for both prizes include single or co-authored book-length monographs, narratives, historical accounts, biographies, memoirs, dramas, and creative ethnography (including nonfiction, fiction, and poetic works); as well as single-authored collections of essays, short prose, or poems (sorry, no edited collections with multiple contributors).
Only books copywrited in 2023 or 2024 will be eligible. If the work is in translation to English, we allow 2 extra years from the original publication date; therefore a book published in its original language no earlier than 2022 would be eligible. Books must have been peer-reviewed independently of its author(s).
Books may be entered into the competition by authors, publishers, book editors, or colleagues. No formal letter of nomination is needed.
Publishers are encouraged to limit their submissions to ten books per publisher.
A $1,000 first-place, a $500 second place and a $250 third-place prize will be awarded in autumn of 2025 (either via online SHA awards ceremony, or in person at the American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans, November 19-23, 2025).
CT Sea Grant Arts Support Awards Program for Artists
Sponsor – Connecticut Sea Grant
Deadline Date – 16-May-2025
Funding – $1,000.00 USD
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Connecticut Sea Grant, through its competitive funding program the Arts Support Awards Program, will award up to $1000 to an artist or group of artists. The winning submission will be selected on the basis of aesthetic quality, relevance to coastal and marine environments and Connecticut Sea Grant themes, as well as its potential reach and impact on the wider public and new audiences.
This funding opportunity is aimed at funding new work or a body of new works. These funds may be used to pay for supplies, services, and other costs associated with producing works of art, exclusive of self-compensation (salary and travel).
Eligible genres and applicants include:
- Writers;
- Visual arts;
- Audio/music/composers;
- Other: video, film, digital media, puppetry, installation, performance, dance, conceptual art, interactive multi-media and related work.
Artists or groups of artists who live in Connecticut, or non-Connecticut artists whose work is related to Connecticut’s coastal and marine environments and/or Long Island Sound are eligible for funding consideration. All artistic disciplines are eligible. Previous recipients of Sea Grant Arts Awards are not eligible for five years.
Connecticut Sea Grant, through its competitive funding program the Arts Support Awards Program, will award up to $1000 to an artist or group of artists. The funds must be used within one year of receiving the award and cannot be used to reimburse for expenses that were incurred prior to the start of the award period.
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