What’s New
Announcements about new contests, changes to contests, and news for the Winning Writers community
BRIO Literary Arts Awards
October 19, 2019
$5,000 prize, deadline change: received by December 16 | Visit source
Leonard L. Milberg ‘53 High School Poetry Prize
October 19, 2019
$500 prize, deadline change: received by November 29 | Visit source
Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History
October 18, 2019
$2,500 prize, deadline change: postmarked January 15 | Visit source
Write to Move Anthology
October 15, 2019
Call for submissions: received by December 1 | Visit source
Winning Writers Announces the Winners of the 27th Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
October 15, 2019
Barbara Milton and Margo Barnes won our 2019 fiction and essay contest | Visit source
Rider University’s High School Writing Contest
October 10, 2019
$100 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 20 | Visit source
Subscriber News: October 2019
October 7, 2019
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship
October 4, 2019
$2,000 prize, contest added: received by November 1 | Visit source
Lyric Poetry Award
October 4, 2019
$500 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 23 | Visit source
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
October 4, 2019
$1,000 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 23 | Visit source
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
October 3, 2019
$500 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 23 | Visit source
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
October 3, 2019
$500 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 23 | Visit source
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
October 2, 2019
$250 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 23 | Visit source
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
October 2, 2019
$2,500 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 23 | Visit source
George Bogin Memorial Award
October 2, 2019
$500 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 23 | Visit source
BeAnimal Autumn Writing Competition
October 1, 2019
Call for submissions: received by December 16 | Visit source
Slice Magazine “Persistence” Issue
September 30, 2019
Call for submissions: received by December 1 | Visit source
Ezra Jack Keats Children’s Book Award
September 30, 2019
$3,000 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 31 | Visit source
Four Quartets Prize
September 30, 2019
$21,000 prize, deadline change: received by December 23 | Visit source
J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award
September 30, 2019
$25,000 prize, deadline change: received by December 9 | Visit source
Washington State Book Awards
September 27, 2019
$500 prize, deadline change: received by December 2 | Visit source
Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
September 27, 2019
3,000 pounds prize, deadline change: postmarked October 31 | Visit source
Orwell Prize for Political Writing
September 27, 2019
3,000 pounds prize, deadline change: postmarked October 31 | Visit source
Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award
September 26, 2019
$1,000 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 15 | Visit source
Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers’ Award
September 26, 2019
10,000 pounds prize, deadline change: received by October 31 | Visit source
The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns
September 22, 2019
Call for submissions: received by January 31 | Visit source
Society of Classical Poets Translation Competition
September 20, 2019
$100 prize, contest added: received by December 31 | Visit source
Society of Classical Poets High School Poetry Competition
September 20, 2019
$100 prize, contest added: received by December 31 | Visit source
Arts & Letters Awards
September 19, 2019
C$1,000 prize, deadline change: received by November 15 | Visit source
Bala Kids/Khyentse Foundation Children’s Book Prize
September 19, 2019
$5,000 prize, deadline change: received by December 1 | Visit source
Arnold Adoff Poetry Awards
September 18, 2019
$500 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 1 | Visit source
Dylan Thomas Prize
September 13, 2019
30,000 pounds prize, deadline change: received by November 8 | Visit source
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
September 12, 2019
$2,000 prize, deadline change: received by November 15 | Visit source
Lilith Magazine Fiction Competition
September 12, 2019
$250 prize, deadline change: received by December 31 | Visit source
Subscriber News: September 2019
September 8, 2019
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Brooklyn Nonfiction Prize
September 7, 2019
$500 prize, deadline change: received by December 1 | Visit source
Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize
September 5, 2019
$1,000 prize, new contest: received by November 1 | Visit source
Women’s Prize for Fiction
September 2, 2019
30,000 pounds prize, deadline changes: received by September 13, September 23, November 11 | Visit source
Jody Mason Wins the 18th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
August 15, 2019
The winners of the 18th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers | Visit source
Marfield Prize/National Award for Arts Writing
August 14, 2019
$10,000 prize, deadline change: received by October 29 | Visit source
Subscriber News: August 2019
August 7, 2019
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Paul Torday Memorial Prize
August 7, 2019
1,000 pounds prize, deadline change: received by November 30 | Visit source
VCU Cabell First Novelist Award
August 1, 2019
$5,000 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 30 | Visit source
Frontier New Voices Fellowship
July 25, 2019
$500 prize, deadline change: received by October 31 | Visit source
Subscriber News: July 2019
July 8, 2019
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Subscriber News: June 2019
June 10, 2019
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing
June 7, 2019
C$25,000 prize, deadline changes: received by July 31, September 11, November 13 | Visit source
