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Announcements about new contests, changes to contests, and news for the Winning Writers community
Bethesda Urban Partnership Poetry Contest
November 25, 2025
$350 prize, deadline change: received by January 13 | Visit source
Bethesda Urban Partnership Essay Contest
November 25, 2025
$500 prize, deadline change: received by January 13 | Visit source
Discoveries Prize
November 25, 2025
5,000 pounds prize, deadline change: received by January 12 | Visit source
Encore Award
November 25, 2025
15,000 pounds prize, deadline change: received by November 30 | Visit source
Bechtel Prize
November 25, 2025
$1,000 prize, deadline change: received by January 11 | Visit source
Stop the Hate: Youth Speak Out Essay Contest Grades 6-10
November 25, 2025
$400 prize, deadline change: received by January 15 | Visit source
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award
November 25, 2025
$250 prize, deadline change: received by December 15 | Visit source
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
November 25, 2025
$2,500 prize, deadline change: received by December 15 | Visit source
Lyric Poetry Award
November 25, 2025
$500 prize, deadline change: received by December 15 | Visit source
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
November 25, 2025
$500 prize, deadline change: received by December 15 | Visit source
George Bogin Memorial Award
November 25, 2025
$500 prize, deadline change: received by December 15 | Visit source
Four Quartets Prize
November 25, 2025
$21,000 prize, deadline change: postmarked December 15 | Visit source
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award
November 25, 2025
$500 prize, deadline change: received by December 15 | Visit source
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
November 25, 2025
$1,000 prize, deadline change: received by December 15 | Visit source
Lit Fox Award
November 25, 2025
$1,500 prize, deadline change: received by January 15 | Visit source
RSL Christopher Bland Prize
November 25, 2025
10,000 pounds prize, deadline change: received by December 5 | Visit source
Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize
November 25, 2025
200 pounds prize, deadline change: received by December 1 | Visit source
Gotham Book Prize
November 25, 2025
$50,000 prize, deadline change: received by November 30 | Visit source
Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing
November 25, 2025
$500 prize, deadline change: received by December 31 | Visit source
McGovern Center Writing Awards in Fiction
November 14, 2025
$500 prize, contest added: received by December 1 | Visit source
Neville Dawes First Book Prize for Emerging Caribbean Poets
November 10, 2025
$1,000 prize, contest added: received by December 1 | Visit source
After the End Poetry Contest
November 10, 2025
200 pounds prize, contest added: received by December 1 | Visit source
Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize
November 10, 2025
200 pounds prize, deadline change: received by December 1 | Visit source
Gulliver’s Travel Grant
November 10, 2025
$1,000 prize, contest added: received by November 30 | Visit source
Subscriber News: November 2025
November 8, 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Jane Martin Poetry Prize
October 22, 2025
1,000 pounds prize, deadline change: received by December 1 | Visit source
Eldredge Books: “Fashionably Late 2” Anthology
October 16, 2025
Call for submissions: received by November 28 | Visit source
The Fiddlehead: “Disability: The Revolution!” Issue
October 16, 2025
Call for submissions: received by November 30 | Visit source
Shelby Stewart and Bea Chang Win the 33rd Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
October 15, 2025
Press release announcing the winners of the 33rd annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest sponsored by Winning Writers | Visit source
Subscriber News: October 2025
October 6, 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Sinister Wisdom: Reproductive Justice and Lesbianism Issue
October 3, 2025
Call for submissions: received by March 31 | Visit source
Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition
October 3, 2025
$10,000 prize, deadline change: received by December 14 | Visit source
Friends of American Writers Literary Awards
October 3, 2025
$2,500 prize, deadline change: received by December 13 | Visit source
J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award
October 3, 2025
$25,000 prize, deadline change: received by December 4 | Visit source
One Teen Story Teen Writing Contest
October 3, 2025
$500 prize, deadline change: received by December 1 | Visit source
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
October 2, 2025
$2,000 prize, deadline change: received by November 25 | Visit source
Blanket Gravity Magazine
September 25, 2025
Call for submissions: received by January 10 | Visit source
Grayson Books: Connecticut Poetry Anthology
September 24, 2025
Call for submissions: received by December 1 | Visit source
Subscriber News: September 2025
September 7, 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Jeff Carter Wins the 24th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
August 15, 2025
Winners of our 24th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest | Visit source
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
August 10, 2025
$10,000 prize, deadline change: received by December 31 | Visit source
Natan Notable Books Award
August 9, 2025
$5,000 prize, deadline change: received by December 31 | Visit source
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
August 9, 2025
C$25,000 prize, deadline changes: received by September 10, November 5, January 7 | Visit source
Subscriber News: August 2025
August 4, 2025
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
