Increase Your Chances Of Winning Writing Contests
Winning writing contests can provide several advantages to writers. For starters it’s a great way to
get your name in print and in front of potential readers. It can also provide professional credits for
your writing portfolio, and prize rewards to augment your income.
Just participating can get new writers into a writing regiment, grow confidence, and provide practice,
practice, practice.
Whatever your reason for entering a writing contest just be realistic about your expectations. The
odds of winning are not terrific, but there are certainly plenty of things you can do to improve those
odds, and stack them in your favor...
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Caution: The listing of contests by eBook Crossroads is not
an endorsement of the contests or sites on which they are shown.They are
posted for information only, so please use your own discretion.
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Grub Street Book Prize
awarded three times annually to writers outside
New England publishing a second, third (or beyond) book; no first-time book
authors eligible. Award: $500 and Friday night reading/book party plus Saturday
"craft class" in Boston, with accommodations, travel and meals covered. Winning
book must be available for sale. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: Fiction, October 14, 2006;
Poetry, Febvruary 15, 2007; Nonfiction, June 15, 2007.
Literary Awards
First annual Literary Awards for Authors of Self-Published and Small Press Books
will showcase books produced by small press, independent book publishers, or
self-published by authors. This year, submissions will be accepted in four categories,
two in fiction and two in non-fiction. Entry fee: $30.00. Prize $150.00
Deadline: October 30, 2006
Dark Tales Summer/Autumn 06 Short Story Contest
for speculative and horror fiction.
Word limit: 3000. Entries can be paid for online and emailed. Entry fee: £3; £1.50
for subscribers. Awards: £100, £30, £10; £5 for other shortlisted entrants. All
winners published in Dark Tales magazine, and all receive a free copy.
Deadline: October 31, 2006.
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
for a poetry collection of 60-95 pages. Award: $1,000
plus publication. Entry fee: $20. Deadline: October 31, 2006.
Shining Star Amateur Poetry Contest.
Awards: $1000, $400, $200, $100. Entry fee: $10
for two poems. Free haiku contest. Poets retain the rights to their poems.
Deadline: October 31, 2006.
La Belle Lettre's Fall Fiction/Non-Fiction contest
Holiday theme, word limitation
of 5,000. Awards: $100, $50, $25 plus critique. Entry fee: $6.00. Deadline:
November 1, 2006.
15th annual Paul Gillette Writing Contest
for unpublished writers of short stories and
book-length fiction. Judges include agents and editors for the final round of judging.
Awards: First place winners receive registration to the 2007 Pikes Peak Writers Conference
or $100 cash; others receive $50, $30. Entry fee: $30-$40. Deadline: November 1, 2006.
WD Popular Fiction Awards Short Story Competition
Awards: $2,500 cashplus $100 worth
of Writer's Digest Books plus a manuscript critique and marketing advice from a Writers'
Digest editor or advisory board member; $500 cash, books and manuscript critique; books.
Entry fee: $12.50. Deadline: November 1, 2006.
First Annual Kalliope Short Fiction Contest
must be unpublished. Entry fee: $15.
Deadline: postmark of November 1, 2006.
The Chameleon Theatre Circle
is accepting submissions for its 8th annual New Play Festival.
All submissions must be original works that have not been produced. The company is accepting
10-minute plays, one-acts and full-length features, including musicals. Submit three copies
of the script with a cover letter. No entry fee. Deadline: November 13, 2006.
Ramble Underground
an international fiction quarterly, is hosting its semi-annual Short
Fiction Contest. Awards: Winning submission wins 50% of the collected entry fees. 2nd and
3rd places receive honorable mentions. All three top stories published in the Winter '07
issue. Entry fee: $6. Deadline: November 15, 2006.
Prarie Fire Contest
Three contests, one for fiction, one for poetry and one for creative non-fiction.
Entry fee: $27. This entitles you to a one-year (4 issues) subscription to Prairie Fire magazine.
Awards: First prize $1,000, Second prize $500 and third prize $250
Deadline for all contest entries: November 30, 2006.
7th Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition
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Maximum length 1,500 words.
Awards: $3,000, 1,500, $500, $100. Entry fee: $12. Deadline: December 1, 2006.
Cream City Review
annual Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry contests. Awards: $100 plus publication.
Entry fee: $10 per story (no longer than 30 pages) or 3-5 poems. Deadline: December 1, 2006.
Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry
The award is given annually for an unpublished poem. Submit up to three poems
totaling no more than six pages with a $15 entry fee, which includes a copy of
the prize issue. One grand prize of $1,000 and publication, along with two
Honorable Mentions, published in Hunger Mountain: The Vermont College Journal
of Arts & Letters. Deadline: December 10, 2006 >/p>
ReadMyWords.com short fiction contest
2,500 words maximum. Awards: $150 to $25. Entry fee: $5.
Deadline: December 15, 2006.
Writer's Digest Poetry Awards.
Prizes: $500, $250, $100, $25, gift certificate for Writer's
Digest Books. Entry fee: $10 for first poem and $5 for each additional poem. Deadline:
December 20, 2006.
Illuminations Speculative Fiction Writing Contest 2006
Science Fiction Short Story - The highest scored entry will receive a $25 prize,
and all submissions will be considered for inclusion in volume two of Beacons of
Tomorrow, our short fiction anthology. $25.00 prize to the highest scored entry.
Entry Fee: $5.00. Deadline: December 31, 2006
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Ongoing Writing Contests and Listings |
ByLine Magazine Contests
Various with monthly deadlines.
Canadian Writers Journal
Semi-annual Short Fiction Contests.
L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future® Contest
Quarterly contests with an Annual grand prize winner
Romance Writing Contests
Monthly contests for unpublished Romance writers.
Writer's Digest
Ongoing Contests
The Burry Man's Writers Center
Contests, reading series, competitions, festivals, funding for screenplays.
Done Deal
Listing of screenwriting contests
10 Warning Signs that a Writing Contest Is A Loser
Most writers consider entering writing contests at some point in their career.
Writing contests can provide many perks: Having your work published, receiving monetary rewards,
getting those all important credits for your writing resume, the thrill of winning and more can
be at hand...
You can find hundreds of writing contests online. Most are legitimate, some are even
prestigious, but many may be fake. So how do you decide which contests to enter and which to avoid?
Following are some tips to assist you in evaluating the legitimacy of contests you may be thinking
of entering.
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