Stories may be previously published or unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. Winner receives $1,000 and a bronze medallion. Finalists receive $100.

The Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction

A major, internationally renowned award for a single outstanding poem. First prize is £5,000, second prize is £2,000 and third prize is £1,000.

Poetry London Prize

Pieces may be previously published or unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. Winner receives $1,000 and a bronze medallion. Finalists receive $100.

The Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction

The March competition will be the final one we organise. Starting with the June competition future competitions will be run by Hobeck Books Limited, a publishing company based in Staffordshire.

The Henshaw Short Story Competition

Winners receive $1,000 and publication. $15 entry fee includes a copy of the latest issue of the journal.

Puerto del Sol Prose Contest

Puerto del Sol Poetry Contest

Fractured Lit is looking for flash fiction that lingers long past the first reading. We're searching for flash that investigates the mysteries of being human, the sorrow, and the joy of connecting to the diverse population around us.

fractured lit reprint prize

Five South Prizes honor excellence in writing and poetry and are awarded twice per year.

The Five South Prize in Poetry

The Waking is an online literary magazine and part of the Ruminate creative community that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.

The Waking's Flash Prose Prize

The Malahat Review invites writers to enter the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize. The contest is open to Canadian and international writers anywhere in the world.

Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize

Gasher Press is pleased to offer a $250 scholarship to an emerging poet currently submitting their first-book manuscript to help cover the submission costs for contests and open reading periods.

Gasher Journal First Book Scholarship

We are on the search for the best original short story written by a previously unpublished writer. Whether you have completed a writing course with us or not, this is your opportunity to devise a piece of short fiction that will be read by an expert panel of judges.

City Academy Short Story Writing Competition 2022

Everyone has a memoir in them. Go for it! Write a piece of your life, send it to Fish. This contest is an opportunity to have your memoir published.

Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize

Judged by the PRISM editorial board, our short forms contest is open to writers around the world. Send us your flash fiction and nonfiction, your hybrid forms and experimental work.

The Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms

The £2,000 Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award is open to writers worldwide, published and unpublished, and for stories on any topic up to 250 words.

Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction

The competition is open to original, unpublished and unbroadcast poems in the English language of 40 lines or fewer. The poem can be on any subject, in any style, by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world.

Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition

The YeahWrite Super Challenge is a fee-based 48-hour writing contest for prompted flash fiction or nonfiction. 1st round shortlist moves to the final round; every participant receives detailed, professional feedback. Winners receive cash prizes + anthology publication.

YeahWrite Super Challenge

In 2022, the Art of Unity Creative Award received 279 entries from 52 countries and 26 US States, including 90 from creators 18 and under.  

Art of Unity Creative Award

Established in 1984, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award introduces emerging writers to the New York City literary community. The prestigious award, which aims to provide promising writers a network for professional advancement.

Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award

NMW was launched in 1996 with a 15-word classified ad.

New Millennium Writing Awards

The Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Series welcomes manuscripts from all living writers, including non-US citizens, writing in English.

Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Contest

Lunch Ticket is honored to host The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts.

The Gabo Prize For Literature In Translation & Multilingual Texts

James River Writers and Richmond magazine recognize the writing talents and entrepreneurial skills of Virginia’s indie authors by continuing The Best Self-Published Novel Contest, which we started in 2014.

Best Self-Published Novel Contest

Everybody has a story to share. What's yours? Send us a true story about you, in 100 words or fewer - if it's chosen by our editors for publication in our print magazine, you'll be paid $100 unless we specify otherwise in writing. 

Reader's Digest 100 Word Stories

The winner will receive £100 and a trophy created by renowned artist Chantal Pitts.
There will be two runners up who will receive trophies created by Chantal.

Outsideleft Short Story Competition

The Boroondara Literary Awards are hosted by the City of Boroondara, in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Balwyn. Held annually by the Boroondara Library Service since 1999.

Boroondara Literary Young Writers’ Competition: Junior Category in Fiction

The prize-winning one-act play winner receives a $500 prize and travel support to attend the prize play production at the Georgia College campus (usually in March.) 

Arts & Letters Prize For Drama

Since its founding in 2010, the BOA Short Fiction prize has been awarded to ten of the most exciting and unique voices in American fiction. 

Boa Short Fiction Prize

Boroondara Literary Young Writers’ Competition: Senior Category in Fiction

More than seventy short-story collections have appeared in the Flannery O’Connor Award series, which was established to encourage gifted emerging writers by bringing their work to a national readership.

Flannery O’connor Award for Short Fiction

the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest is one of the most renowned fiction contests in the world. Featuring prominent guest judges and offering $3000 across five prizes, the contest delivers exciting new fiction from writers all over the world.

Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

The Daisy Utemorrah Award is for an unpublished manuscript of junior or YA fiction by a First Nations author. The 2023 Daisy Utemorrah Award is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people currently living in Australia.

Daisy Utemorrah Award

The NEW AMERICAN FICTION PRIZE is awarded each year to a full-length fiction manuscript, such as a story collection, novel, novella(s), or something that blends forms, like a novel in verse. 

New American Fiction Prize

The Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize is open internationally to writers over 18 who are working on an as-yet-unpublished novel.

The Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize

Submit self-published or hybrid-published books.

North Street Book Prize: Genre Fiction

Awarded by the University Centre Grimsby, our International Short Story Prize is back again with cash prizes, opportunities for publication, an awards ceremony and an inspiring new theme. 

Hammond House Short Story Competition

at Western Connecticut State University's MFA in Creative and Professional Writing. 
Books must have been published in 2022 to be eligible.

Housatonic Book Awards: Fiction

Housatonic Book Awards: Young Adult

The BPA First Novel Award is open to unrepresented and unpublished authors for a novel in any adult fiction genre.

Blue Pencil First Novel Award

Submit a story of no more than 200 words.

Dandy Writers Short Story Writing Contest

The Pinch Journal is pleased to announce the creation of The Page Prize in non-fiction.

Pinch Page Prize

Enter the Annual AWW International [Unpublished] Novel Contest! All submissions receive a timely, thorough, thoughtful critique. Winners receive money, certificates and notification on our site.

A Woman's Write Novel Contest

The Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction (The Lindisfarne Prize) is a literary prize which recognises outstanding writing in the genre of crime or thriller fiction.

Lindisfarne Prize

We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction.

Narrative Winter Story Contest

This contest is open only to emerging writers only who have not yet published a book with a print run over 1,500.

Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction

Our goal is promote flash fiction for both writers and readers and to bring the genre to a wider audience. Running a three-times-a-year rolling flash fiction award with substantial prizes and chance of publication gives writers a big incentive to create great flash.

Bath Flash Fiction Award (Summer)

Write The World Flash Fiction Competition

Each year, the Willie Morris Awards for Southern Writing honor some of the best literature telling rich, original stories about the U.S. South marked by a strain of honest optimism.

Willie Morris Awards: Fiction

Working with five agencies, our winner and honorable mentions earn agency review as well as publication. The winning story earns $3000. Second and third place runners up receive $300 and $200, respectively.

Summer Short Story Award for New Writers

Here's your chance to get a developmental edit by published and soon-to-be-published authors of your first 25 pages.

Hudson Valley Scribes Developmental Editing Contest

If your micro is chosen, you’re guaranteed $100, but you could win much more. In this competition you will have the opportunity to enter one, two, or up to four micros.

The Smokelong Grand Micro Contest

Winner will receive $1500.00 and publication in The Ocotillo Review Winter Edition for a story between 800 and 4200 words. All contestants will receive a copy of the journal and the finalists' entries will be considered for publication.

Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Prize

The Five South Prize in Short Fiction celebrates both emerging and established talent. This year's prize is  judged by Madeline Anthes. Applicants are invited to submit up to three flash fiction pieces in a single entry.

The Five South Prize in Short Fiction

One $15,000 Winner and ten $500 Finalists will be selected in an anonymous review by the editors of Rattle and printed in the Winter 2022 issue.

The Rattle Poetry Prize

A prize of $1,000 and publication in LAR given annually for an exceptional work of poetry. This season's judge is Joshua Rivkin.

Los Angeles Review Poetry Award

A prize of $1,000 and publication in LAR given annually for an exceptional work of fiction. This season's judge is Thea Prieto.

Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Award

A prize of $1,000 and publication in LAR given annually for an exceptional work of nonfiction. This season's judge is Chelsea Catherine.

Los Angeles Review Creative Nonfiction Award

We will announce four winners: one for fiction, one for nonfiction, one for poetry, and one for the bonus poem.
Those four winners will receive publication on our site.

Best 2022 of 2022

For any flash fiction that fits the theme.

Pigeon Review's First Annual Flash Fiction Contest

Lead & Pulp July Contest

Evocations Review is running an essay contest on the topic of reproductive freedom and what it means to you.

Evocations Essay Contest

Established in 2022, the Changes Book Prize awards $10,000 and publication to the author of a first or second collection of poems.

The Changes Book Prize

Rejected poems only. No entry fee. No long waits. Money, fame, ostriches. Brought to you by Chill Subs & Onwords

The Who Freakin' Cares Writing Contest for Poetic Rejects

The prize is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country who is aged 18 and over. It is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction.

Commonwealth Short Story Prize

The Fish Flash Fiction Prize is an opportunity to attempt one of the most interesting and rewarding tasks – to create, in a tiny fragment, a completely resolved and compelling story in 300 words or less. Top ten stories will be published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2023.

Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize

The £500 Golden Hare Award is open to all entrants to the Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award who are resident in Scotland. 

Golden Hare Award for Scottish Flash Fiction

Judge: Kirstin Valdez Quade. Prize: $1008.15. Send up to 3 pieces of up to 500 words each: prose poetry, micro-essays, flash fiction. All entries will be considered for publication. 

Robert J. DeMott Flash Contest

Button Eye Review is very excited to announce our first ever Flash Fiction Contest! We are happy to review submissions of all genres but are mostly looking for dark literary fiction, horror (and all it's subgenres), and dark fantasy.

Button Eye Review Dark Fiction and Horror Flash Fiction Contest

The Mogford Prize is an international award for short stories that have food and/or drink at their heart.  As such, we are only interested in short fiction that places food and/or drink at the centre of the narrative.

Mogford Prize for Food and Drink Writing

The Great River Writers Retreat winner is selected from an applicant pool of writers from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin across multiple genres, and allows the winner to spend a week working on a specific writing project they have underway.

Great River Writers Retreat

Winners receive $100, 10 copies of their chapbook, and publication in the following spring. 

Tiny Fork Chapbook Series Contest

This creative writing contest for U.S. military veterans and active duty personnel is hosted by The Iowa Review and made possible by a gift from the family of Jeff Sharlet (1942–69), a Vietnam veteran and antiwar writer and activist. 

The Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans

Pen, ink, pencil, charcoal, graphite, markers, mixed media, watercolor, oil, acrylic, fiber/fabric, collage, sculpture, scratchboard, digital art or other.
Inquire with other art mediums.

Indie It Press Image Contest

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognizes outstanding works that contribute to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of cultural diversity.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Our annual prize for the best translations from French to English.

French-American Foundation Translation Prize

Books written by authors based in Northern California and published for the first time in 2022 are eligible for nomination.

Northern California Book Awards

W. Somerset Maugham set up a fund in 1947 to enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience of foreign countries.

Somerset Maugham Awards

The Stanford Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation jointly award the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, a biennial competition for newly-published books.

William Saroyan International Prize For Writing

This is the eighth year of the prestigious Richell Prize and once again entries are open to unpublished writers of adult fiction and adult narrative non-fiction.

The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers

We are 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.

Bacopa Literary Review: Fiction

If writing micro-fiction is your thing, then look no further.

Micro Magic 2

Our annual contest awards prizes of $1,000 in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Winners and finalists will make up next summer's print issue of the national literary magazine Mississippi Review. 

Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction

Fabula Press hosts two short story competitions every year, for the two anthologies Aestas and Nivalis.

Fabula Press Short Story Contest

Proudly sponsored by the City of Fremantle and Fremantle Press, Western Australia’s most prestigious award for an unpublished work of adult fiction, narrative non-fiction or young adult fiction by an unpublished writer.

City of Fremantle Hungerford Award

A literary contest open to unpublished and independently published novelists.

First Novel Prize

Given to the best poetry book published the previous year.

Poetry By The Sea Book Awards

Expanded to include different types of scripts, our International Scriptwriting Prize is back again. Submit a script of your choice – theatre, radio, short film or television – for the chance to win. 

Hammond House Scriptwriting Competition

Ron Rash’s family has deep roots in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, and most of his writing reflects his connection to the region. Rash grew up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, home to Gardner-Webb University.

Broad River Rash Award: Fiction

Prizewinning stories will be published in the MTP Anthology (print book and ebook). The Anthology title will be based on the title of the winning entry.

Michael Terence Publishing Short Story Competition

Brand new in 2021. With two sub-categories, both writers and musicians can enter.
Submit song lyrics and/or an mp3 file of a performed song for the chance to win.

Hammond House Song Writing Competition

The prize includes a $2,000 cash award, publication of the winning manuscript, and a standard royalty contract. 

Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction

Submit the first five pages of your unpublished novel, book or novella. We love all genres. In fact, last year’s Grand Prize was awarded to a work of historical fiction. Ultimately we’re looking for beautiful writing.

The First 5 Pages Prize

Now in its ninth year, the BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University challenges young people in the UK aged between 14-18 years to submit stories of up to 1,000 words.

The BBC Young Writers’ Award With Cambridge University

The 'Flash Fiction' contest is up to 1,000 words, and the 'Short Story' is up to 2,500 words. Shaun Hutson is going to pick the lucky finalists from both. Our planned anthology will also feature one or two of his stories that have never been published.

Pulp Fictional Competition: Short Story Category

Nimrod Literary Award in Fiction

Offered annually to children’s picture book manuscripts written by new authors from historically marginalized groups with the intention of recognizing and amplifying new and diverse voices with underrepresented perspectives.

Own Voices, Own Stories Award

We asked our judges to select from all entries, in their respective categories, a First Prize winner, two Runners-Up, and a short list of Finalists.
The winning poem and short story, and our runners-up, will appear in an issue of Prime Number Magazine. 

Prime Number Magazine Awards For Short Fiction

Imagine! Literary Agents seeing your work…
Let your curiosity loose and start exploring with those two little words… What if?

The Yeovil Literary Prize for the Short Story

12 categories. You can enter multiple categories, but only one entry per category.
Is your unpublished writing project polished and ready for feedback? 

Writing Contest for Unpublished Work

Exceptionally international in scope, the prize supports writers who have not yet published a book-length work, with no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners of each category will receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication, and will be publishe

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