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Announcements about new contests, changes to contests, and news for the Winning Writers community
French-American Foundation Translation Prizes
November 26, 2025
$10,000 prize, deadline change: received by January 12 | Visit source
BRIO Literary Arts Awards
November 26, 2025
$5,000 prize, deadline change: received by January 2 | Visit source
Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest
November 26, 2025
$10,000 prize, deadline change: received by January 20 | Visit source
Pegasus Poetry Book Prize
November 26, 2025
$10,000 prize, contest added: received by January 26 | Visit source
Charles S. Longcope Jr. Writers and Artists Grant
November 26, 2025
$5,000 prize, contest added: received by February 15 | Visit source
Start a Riot Chapbook Prize
November 26, 2025
$3,000 prize, contest added: received by December 1 | Visit source
Athenaeum Literary Award
November 26, 2025
$1,000 prize, contest added: postmarked by December 1 | Visit source
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
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
