Terrain.org Annual Contest: Poetry, Fiction & Nonfiction
Deadline: September 7, 2026
Submit your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for more than $4,500 in prizes: $1,000 to the winner in each genre and $200 to finalists. All submissions are also considered for publication. Entry fee: $20.
2026 Judges
Todd Boss, Poetry • Joe Wilkins, Fiction • Lia Purpura, Nonfiction
Founded in 1997, Terrain.org is the world’s longest-publishing online literary journal of place and is proudly advertisement-free. Work published in Terrain.org has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology and has won the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award. Terrain.org is the 2024 AWP Small Press Publisher Award winner.
