Art Grants

• Individual Artist Fellowship - The Individual Artist Fellowship program is highly competitive. Individual Artist Fellowships in the amount of $13,000 will be awarded annually. Artistic excellence is the sole criteria. ^pop (Added: 6-May-2008 Hits: 596 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

Fiction Writing Contests

• THE HOPWOOD AWARDS - Avery Hopwood, who graduated from University of Michigan a century ago and went on to become the most commercially successful playwright of the 1920s, began an endowment that became the Avery and Jude Hopwood Awards. The awards, the nation's oldest such contest, have nurtured young fiction writers from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller in the 1930s to current best selling novelist Elizabeth Kostova, who won her Hopwoods in 2003 and 2004. Total Hopwood contest prizes totaled $119,500 while the related contests awarded prizes of $25,550. ^pop (Added: 19-Oct-2006 Hits: 2706 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Nelson Algren Awards - The Nelson Algren awards are for short fiction. Submissions must be written by an American and must be unpublished. One $5,000 prize and three runner-up prizes of $1,500 are awarded. The award is given in memory of Chicago author Nelson Algren. Stories must be typed and double-spaced, between 2,500 and 8,000 words. ^pop (Added: 16-Sep-2007 Hits: 2213 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award - PEN New England accepts submissions for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for books. The award of $8,000 is presented for a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction. Eligible titles, which must be the first published book length work of fiction by an American citizen or resident, published in the United States, may be submitted by publishers, agents, or the authors themselves. ^pop (Added: 10-Dec-2007 Hits: 775 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - The Directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation each year choose three noted writers of fiction to select the winner and four finalists for the Awards among the approximately 300 novels and short story collections submitted. The winner, or “first among equals,” receives $15,000; each of the others receives $5,000, making PEN/Faulkner the largest peer-juried award for fiction in the United States. All five authors read from their works at the Award ceremony and celebration held at the Folger Shakespeare Library each May. ^pop (Added: 10-Dec-2007 Hits: 675 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Wallace Stegner Fellowship - Unique among writing programs, Stanford offers ten two-year fellowships each year, five in fiction and five in poetry. All the fellows in each genre convene weekly in a 3-hour workshop with faculty. ^pop (Added: 2-Jan-2008 Hits: 655 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Iowa Short Fiction Awards - The Iowa Short Fiction Awards are given to a first collection of fiction in English and are administered through the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The honors are national in scope and have been given since 1969. Award-winning manuscripts will be published by the University of Iowa Press under the Press’s standard contract. ^pop (Added: 4-Apr-2008 Hits: 764 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

Poetry Contests

• THE RUTH LILLY POETRY PRIZE - THE RUTH LILLY POETRY PRIZE honors a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. Established in 1986 by Ruth Lilly, the annual prize is sponsored and administered by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. Over the last twenty years, the Lilly prize has awarded over $1,000,000. ^pop (Added: 19-Oct-2006 Hits: 857 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest - The Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest accepts original poems of any length, style or theme. Both published and unpublished works are accepted. 30 cash prizes totaling $3,500 will be awarded. First prize: $1,000. Second prize: $400. Third prize: $200. ^pop (Added: 18-Feb-2007 Hits: 1806 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

Writing Contests

• EPIC NEW VOICES WRITING COMPETITION - EPIC established the New Voices writing competition to encourage reading and writing among middle school and high school students and to promote e-book literacy in public and private schools. The contest is open to students attending public, private, or home schools, and each entrant was permitted to submit one entry in each category. The grand prize winner receives cash prizes. ^pop (Added: 19-Oct-2006 Hits: 869 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It

• THE CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE FOR LITERARY NON-FICTION - THE CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE FOR LITERARY NON-FICTION is the largest prize of its kind in Canada and has contributed significantly to the recognition of the genre. The prize was founded to commemorate the life and work of the late Charles Taylor, one of Canada’s foremost essayists and a prominent member of the Canadian literary community. Grand prizewinner receives $25,000. ^pop (Added: 19-Oct-2006 Hits: 1235 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) | Detail | Visit Website | Rate It