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Daniel Varoujan Award
For an unpublished poem (not a translation) worthy of Daniel Varoujan, a poet killed by the Turks in the genocide which destroyed three-fourths of the Armenian population ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

National Book Awards
One Winner in each genre receives $10,000 for the best book chosen in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-16-2008.
PRIZES: $10,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $125.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

Michigan Literary Fiction Award
To qualify, contestants must have previously published at least one literary novel or story collection in English ... (more)
DEADLINE: 07-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

Oregon Literary Fellowships
Oregon Literary Fellowships provide fiscal support to writers and independent publishers throughout the state of Oregon ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-27-2008.
PRIZES: $2,500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

Literal Latte Poetry Awards
Send unpublished poems, 2,000 word max. All styles welcome ... (more)
DEADLINE: 07-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

Indiana Review 2008 1/2 K Prize
This year, Russell Edson will judge our annual prize for prose poems and short shorts of 500 words or fewer ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-09-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of $1,000, and their collections are published by The Press under a standard book contract ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-31-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition
A prize of $1,000 and publication will be awarded by Finishing Line Press for a chapbook-length poetry collection ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-30-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award
A first book of poems will be selected for publication from an open competition of manuscripts. The winner will receive a publication contract with Southern Illinois University Press, and will be awarded a $1000 prize ... (more)
DEADLINE: 07-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

34th Chicano/Latino Literary Prize
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Irvine invites submissions for the 34th Annual Chicano/Latino Literary Prize ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

BWC Literary Fellowships
The Literary Arts Fellowship and Residency program awards two nine-month fellowships annually to fiction writers, poets, playwrights, and screenwriters who reside in the Bronx ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-15-2008.
PRIZES: $5,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

Boston Review Poetry Contest
The winning poet will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in the November/December 2008 issue of Boston Review ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $20.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

The Bordighera Poetry Prize
The prize, consisting of book publication in bilingual edition by Bordighera, Inc., is dedicated to finding the best manuscripts of poetry in English ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-31-2008.
PRIZES: $2,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

The Richard J. Margolis Award
The Richard J. Margolis Award of Blue Mountain Center is a $5,000 prize, given annually to a promising new journalist or essayist ... (more)
DEADLINE: 07-01-2008.
PRIZES: $5,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 02-May-2008

The Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award
This12th annual competition awards $1,000 cash, publication in the Fall-2008 Award issue and five complimentary copies of that issue ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 17-April-2008

The Barrow Street Press Book Contest
The Barrow Street Press Book Contest award will be given for the best previously unpublished manuscript of poetry in English ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-30-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 17-April-2008

Bard Fiction Prize
The prize is intended to encourage and support young writers of fiction to pursue their creative goals and provide an opportunity to work in a fertile and intellectual environment ... (more)
DEADLINE: 07-15-2008.
PRIZES: $30,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 17-April-2008

The 2008 Autumn House Fiction Contest
The winners will receive book publication, $1,000 advance against royalties, and a $1,500 travel grant to participate in the 2009 Autumn House Master Authors Series in Pittsburgh ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-30-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 17-April-2008

The 2008 Autumn House Poetry Contest
The annual Autumn House Poetry Contest awards publication of a full-length manuscript and $2,500 to the winner ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-30-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 17-April-2008

The Leif and Inger Sjoberg Award
Awarded to an individual whose literature translations have not previously been published, includes a $1,000 award, publication of an excerpt in Scandinavian Review ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 17-April-2008

The 2008 ASF Translation Prize
The American-Scandinavian Foundation will award the twenty-ninth annual ASF Translation Prizes in the fall of 2008 for the best translations of poetry, fiction, drama or literary prose written by a Scandinavian author born after 1800 ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-01-2008.
PRIZES: $2,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 17-April-2008

Happy Hour Poetry Award
Contest open to all poets across the country and around the world. Maximum length: 40 lines per poem. Any topic ... (more)
DEADLINE: 07-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 17-April-2008

Akron Poetry Prize
Open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet will receive $1,000 and publication of his or her book ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-30-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 17-April-2008

Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition
Writer's Digest is now accepting entries in its 77th Annual Writing Competition. There will be 1,001 winners and more than $30,000 in cash and prizes ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-15-2008.
PRIZES: $3,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 01-April-2008

Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards
Writer's Digest is searching for the best self-published books of the past few years. More than $15,000 in prizes ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-01-2008.
PRIZES: $3,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $100.00.
Added: 01-April-2008

The Dream Quest One Poetry and Writing Contest
This competition welcomes anyone who loves to arrange words into beautiful art or to write a short story that is worth telling. And to all who have the ability to dream ... (more)
DEADLINE: 07-31-2008.
PRIZES: $500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $10.00.
Added: 20-March-2008

2008 River Styx International Poetry Contest
A prize of $1,500 and publication in River Styx is given annually for a group of poems. All entries will be considered for publication ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-31-2008.
PRIZES: $1,500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $20.00.
Added: 20-March-2008

The $4,000 Narrative Prize
The $4,000 Narrative Prize will be awarded annually for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, or work of literary nonfiction published by a new or emerging writer in Narrative ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-15-2008.
PRIZES: $4,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $20.00.
Added: 20-March-2008

Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize
One $1,000.00 prize winner receives publication in the Fall 2008 Issue; two honorable mentions receive $100.00 each ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 20-March-2008

The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
Poems must be original, unpublished in any medium (print or electronic), and not under consideration elsewhere ... (more)
DEADLINE: 07-01-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $4.00.
Added: 20-March-2008

Cave Canem Poetry Prize
First place winner receives $500, publication by Graywolf Press, 50 copies of the book and a 2009 feature reading ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-16-2008.
PRIZES: $500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 20-March-2008

The Idaho Prize for Poetry
Send manuscripts of 48 or more pages of poetry. $1000 cash prize, plus publication by Lost Horse Press ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 06-March-2008

Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest
The prize for the 2008 competition is a $1000 cash award, publication, ten books, and a reading at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 06-March-2008

Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2008 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition to vie for $2,000 in cash prizes ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-15-2008.
PRIZES: $2,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $17.00.
Added: 06-March-2008

Spokane Prize for Short Fiction
Winner will receive publication plus a $1500 cash prize. Finalists will each receive $50 worth of EWU Press books ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 06-March-2008

Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets
$1,000 and publication in Boulevard awarded for the winning group of three poems by a poet who has not yet published a book of poetry with a nationally distributed press ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 06-March-2008

The Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize
This poetry book series honors the memory of Richard Snyder (1925-1986), poet, fiction writer, playwright, and long-time professor of English at Ashland University ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 06-March-2008

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (Starts April 2008)
Established in 1975, this $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-15-2008.
PRIZES: $25,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 06-March-2008

James Laughlin Award
The James Laughlin Award is given to recognize and support a poet's second book ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-15-2008.
PRIZES: $5,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $0.00.
Added: 06-March-2008

4th Annual Gival Press Novel Award
Author will receive $3,000.00 and his/her novel will be published by Gival Press ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-30-2008.
PRIZES: $3,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $50.00.
Added: 19-February-2008

War Poetry Contest
Now in its seventh year, this contest seeks today's best poems on the theme of war. $5,000 in prizes ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-31-2008.
PRIZES: $2,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 19-February-2008

Guy Owen Prize Contest
$1000 and publication in SPR awarded to the winning poem selected by a distinguished poet ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-15-2008.
PRIZES: $1,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 19-February-2008

The 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize
The 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize is Omnidawn Publishing’s first annual contest for a first or second full-length collection of poems by a poet writing in English ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-30-2008.
PRIZES: $2,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $25.00.
Added: 19-February-2008

Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse
Poetry in traditional verse forms. First prize is $2,000 ... (more)
DEADLINE: 06-30-2008.
PRIZES: $2,000.00.
ENTRY FEE: $6.00.
Added: 11-February-2008

Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize
Winner will receive $300 cash award, publication in CALYX Journal, and a one-volume subscription ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-31-2008.
PRIZES: $300.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 11-February-2008

The Annual Dream Horse Press Poetry Chapbook Prize
The winner will receive $500 and 25 copies of a handsomely printed chapbook ... (more)
DEADLINE: 05-31-2008.
PRIZES: $500.00.
ENTRY FEE: $15.00.
Added: 29-January-2008

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