Call for Submissions

Spencertown Academy Arts Center announces its eighth annual Young Writers’ Contest in conjunction with the Academy’s Festival of Books.

Entries for Gulf Coast Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry are now open. The contest awards $1,500 and publication in Gulf Coast to the winner in each genre. [Deadline: April 16, 2023]

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace. [Deadline: March 3, 2023]

America Media is the sponsor of the annual Foley Poetry Award and will award a $1,000 prize for one poem of 45 lines or fewer. [Deadline: March 31, 2023]

The Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest welcomes submissions of stories and essays of any theme up to 6,000 words each. [Deadline: April 30, 2023]

The Hudson Valley Writers Guild & Upstate Artists Guild are excited to work together again on this collaboration of poets and visual artists.

The Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction provides a cash prize and publication for a book-length collection of short fiction. [Deadline: January 28, 2023]

The Edmund Keeley Book Prize is awarded to an academic book dealing with modern Greece or a Hellenic theme published originally in the English language.

Tupelo Press awards the Snowbound Chapbook Award annually for the best previously unpublished, chapbook-length poetry manuscript. [Deadline: February 28, 2023]

The Herbert Simon Book Award is given for significant contributions to public administration scholarship. [Deadline: March 1, 2023]

The Orwell Prizes, named in memory of George Orwell, the British journalist, novelist, and essayist, aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics. [Deadline: January 16, 2023]