Writing Contests: December
Arleigh Burke Essay Contest
Deadline: December 1
Categories: Nonfiction
Fee: NONE
Prize: $5000, $3000, $1000
Details: Any subject relating to the mission of the Naval Institute: To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to national defense.
URL: http://www.usni.org/magazines/contests.asp
Posted/Updated: 2007
Cream City Review
Deadline: December 1
Categories: Poetry, Fiction
Fee: $10
Prize: $100 plus publication
Details: Stories must be no longer than 30 pages. Poetry entries consist of 3 - 5 poems. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as Cream City Review is notified in the event the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
URL: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/ccr/index2.html
Posted/Updated: 2007
Sonora Review Short-Short Story Contest
Deadline: December 1
Categories: Fiction
Fee: $10 per set of 1-3 stories
Prize: $100 + Publication
Details: For our purposes, 'short-short' means 1,000 words or less. Stories over 1,000 words will not be considered. No previously published works, or works forthcoming elsewhere. (NOTE: Says this is the current 2007 contest even though dates on page say 2006)
URL: http://www.coh.arizona.edu/sonora/contest.html
Posted/Updated: 2007
Ruth Stone Prize for Poetry
Deadline: December 10
Categories: Poetry
Fee: $15
Prize: $1000
URL: http://www.hungermtn.org
Posted/Updated: 2007
Boulevard Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers
Deadline: December 15
Categories: Fiction
Fee: $15
Prize: $1,500 and publication
Details: Open to all writers who have not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press. There is no maximum length.
URL: http://www.richardburgin.net/boulevard/id15.html
Posted/Updated: 2007
Chelsea Awards for Poetry & Short Fiction
Deadline: December 15
Categories: Poetry, Fiction
Fee: $15
Prize: The Chelsea Award
Details: Submit 4-6 poems. The entire entry should not exceed 500 lines. The editors look for overall excellence; it is not necessary that the poems be related thematically.
URL: http://www.chelseamag.org/awards/guidelines.asp
Posted/Updated: 2007
Fiddlehead Contest for Poetry and Short Fiction (Canada)
Deadline: December 15
Categories: Poetry, Fiction
Fee: $30
Prize: $1,000 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, $500 for two runners-up.
Details: Up to 3 poems; no more than 100 lines per poem No simultaneous submissions -- and no previously published Ñ or accepted for publication Ñ submissions.
URL: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Fiddlehead/contest.html
Contact: fiddlehd@unb.ca
Posted/Updated: 2007
John Lennon Songwriting Contest
Deadline: December 15
Categories: Poetry
Fee: $30
Prize: $1000 to $20,000 plus recording contracts
URL: http://jlsc.com/about.php
Posted/Updated: 2007
John Templeton Foundation Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays
Deadline: December 15
Categories: Scripts/Screenplays
Fee: Early: $50 / Late: $75
Prize: $25,000; $15,000; $10,000
Details: Eligibility: Fist-time writers, 18 years of age or older Objective: To further the influence of moral and spiritual values within the film and television industries. Seeking to promote a spiritually uplifting, redemptive worldview that will help inspire first-time screenwriters to produce compelling, entertaining, spiritually uplifting scripts that result in a greater increase in either man's love or understanding of the one true Triune Creator God.
URL: http://www.kairosprize.com
Contact: contact@kairosprize.com
Posted/Updated: 2007
Malice Domestic Grants for Unpublished Writers
Deadline: December 15
Categories: Fiction
Fee: NONE
Prize: $1000 grants
Details: Note that this is a grant, not a prize
URL: http://www.malicedomestic.org/grants.htm
Contact: grants@malicedomestic.org
Posted/Updated: 2007
PSA Poetry Awards
Deadline: December 15
Categories: Poetry
Fee: $15
Prize: $500
Details: A wide variety of awards and prizes
URL: http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-awards_gdln.html
Posted/Updated: 2007
Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Contest
Deadline: December 15
Categories: Scripts/Screenplays
Fee: $10 one-act, $15 full-length
Prize: $300 for Full-Length, $150 for One-Act; Workshop production for overall winner in our 2006-2007 season
Details: Finalists (5 full-length and 3 one-act) receive a public staged reading in NYC with a professional director and cast. No musicals or adaptations. Unpublished original work only. Not produced professionally in NY, NJ or CT. We seek plays that deal with socio-political issues in a highly theatrical context. Generally, we are not interested in musicals, adaptations, 'kitchen sink' dramas or blatant propaganda. We strongly encourage diversity in both writers and subject matter.
URL: http://www.reverieproductions.org/guidelines.htm
Contact: kimberly@reverieproductions.org
Posted/Updated: 2007
Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize
Deadline: December 15
Categories: Fiction
Fee: $15 for members, $25 for nonmembers
Prize: $1000 and possible publication
URL: http://www.ncwriters.org/programs/competitions/wolfe.shtml
Posted/Updated: 2007
Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize/Crazyhorse Fiction Prize
Deadline: December 16
Categories:
Fee: $15 for new entrants, $12 for renewing entrants
Prize: $2000 and publication
Details: please mail a manuscript of up to twenty-five pages of fiction or up to three poems (up to 10 pages poetry). All manuscripts must be original and unpublished.
URL: http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/prizes.html
Posted/Updated: 2007
Foster City International Writer's Contest
Deadline: December 17
Categories: Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Fee: $12 if received before 10/31, $17 thereafter
Prize: $100, $50 (per category)
Details: Fiction, children's short story, poetry, humorous piece/personal essay
URL: http://www.geocities.com/fostercity_writers/categoriesinfo.html
Posted/Updated: 2007
Tampa Review Prize for Poetry
Deadline: December 30
Categories: Poetry
Fee: $20
Prize: $1000 and hardback book publication
Details: Manuscripts must be previously unpublished. Some or all of the poems in the collection may have appeared in periodicals, chapbooks, or anthologies, but these must be identified.
URL: http://tampareview.ut.edu/tr_prize.html
Posted/Updated: 2007
ACCENTI Magazine Writing Contest (Canada)
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Nonfiction
Fee: $20 CDN
Prize: $1000, $250, $100 CDN and publication
Details: The topic is open, but must in some way reflect or make reference to Canada and Italy. Participants are encouraged to submit a journalistic-style article, previously unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Length: 1000 to 3000 words.
URL: http://www.accenti.ca/_bin/contests/nonfiction.cfm
Contact: contests@accenti.ca
Posted/Updated: 2007
Agatha Awards Books
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Books (Mystery)
Fee: NONE
Prize: Agatha Award
Details: For mystery novels; nominations must be submitted by publisher
URL: http://www.malicedomestic.org/agatha.htm
Contact: lsrutledge@mindspring.com
Posted/Updated: 2007
Amy Writing Awards
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Nonfiction
Fee: NONE
Prize: $1000 to $10,000
Details: Designed to recognize creative, skillful writing that presents in a sensitive, thought-provoking manner the biblical position on issues affecting the world today. To be eligible, submitted articles must be published in a secular, non-religious publication and must be reinforced with at least one passage of scripture.
URL: http://www.amyfound.org/amy_writing_awards/amy_writing_awards.html
Posted/Updated: 2007
Benjamin Franklin Awards
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Books
Fee: Yes
Prize: Ben Franklin Award
Details: Self published book award. Offered twice a year, for books published within the preceding six months.
URL: http://www.pma-online.org//bfa2007/2.aspx
Contact: info@pma-online.org
Posted/Updated: 2007
Cat Stories
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Nonfiction, Fiction
Fee: $10
Prize: $75, $50, $25
Details: 2500-7500 word stories, nonfiction or fiction, about cats.
URL: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=63079
Contact: mishael1830@insightbb.com
Posted/Updated: 2007
Franklin-Christoph Poetry Contest
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Poetry
Fee: NONE
Prize: $1,000 Grand Prize - $2450 total
Details: Enter up to 3 poems of not more than 100 lines each, any style. Submit online by email text or attachment or by mail.
URL: http://www.franklin-christoph.com/Writing/PoetryContest.html
Contact: clientservice@franklin-christoph.com
Posted/Updated: 2007
Griffin Poetry Prize (Can)
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Poetry
Fee: NONE
Prize: $50,000 to $100,000 CDN
Details: The prize is for the best collection of poetry in English published during the preceding year. Submissions must come from publishers.
URL: http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/rules.php
Contact: info@griffinpoetryprize.com
Posted/Updated: 2007
H.E. Francis Award Short Story Competition
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Fiction
Fee: $15
Prize: $1000
URL: http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/english/whatnewcontest.html
Posted/Updated: 2007
Heather Campbell Personal Essay Contest
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Nonfiction
Fee: NONE
Prize: $100
Details: We welcome unpublished personal essays. Entries may address any subject in harmony with our mission statement, which is that we seek to encourage literary talent, provoke thought and promote greater understanding and faith among Latter-day Saint women.
URL: http://segullah.org/submissions/prose/#essay
Contact: hcampbell_essay@segullah.org
Posted/Updated: 2007
Jefferson Press Prize
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Books
Fee: $35
Prize: $5,000 cash award publishing contract; four runners-up will win $500 each
Details: Recognizing a novel or collection of short stories of outstanding merit. The prize is open to any work of book-length fiction, by any writer who has never published a book and who is not under contract to do so. (Self-published titles accepted.)
URL: http://www.jeffersonpressprize.com/
Posted/Updated: 2007
Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Poetry
Fee: NONE
Prize: $500
Details: Given every three years. (Held 2007; next competition will be 2010.)
URL: http://www.reading.org/awards/Lee.html
Posted/Updated: 2007
Love Poem Contest
Deadline: December 31
Categories:
Fee: $15 for up to three poems
Prize: $200
Details: This contest is open to any English poet worldwide, new or experienced. Entries can be on any aspect of love, marriage and relationships. Do not feel that poems have to be 'slushy'; we look forward to reading poignant observations about the nature of basic human need, compassion, interaction and even loss. Humorous entries are also accepted. Poems should not exceed 600 words (ish.)
URL: http://tinyurl.com/2wsam8
Contact: press@theweddingguide.eu
Posted/Updated: 2007
Our Heavenly Father
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Nonfiction
Fee: $10
Prize: $75, $50, $25 and percentage of book sales
Details: How have your relationships with your earthly parents shaped your views of God? What comparisons/contrasts can you draw between your Heavenly Father and your earthly father (or mother, or both)? Again, stories should be between 2500 and 7500 words, double-spaced.
URL: http://www.authorsden.com/mishaelaustin
Contact: mishael1830@insightbb.com
Posted/Updated: 2007
Perigree Poetry Contest
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Poetry
Fee: $10 for three poems
Prize: Publication and nomination for the Pushcart Prize
Details: All poems must be original and unpublished. Perigree does not accept simultaneous submissions.
URL: http://www.perigee-art.com/frames/poetry_contestsubmit.php
Posted/Updated: 2007
Teen/Young Adult Short Story Competition
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Fiction
Fee: $10
Prize: $75, $50, $25
Details: 2500-7500 word stories written by, or for, readers ages 12-19.
URL: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=63079
Contact: mishael1830@insightbb.com
Posted/Updated: 2007
The Writer In The Machine
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Fiction
Fee: $5
Prize: Dynamic prize pool up to 80% of entry fees.
Details: Fiction contest with no word count or genre restrictions
URL: http://writerinthemachine.com
Contact: info@writerinthemachine.com
Posted/Updated: 2007
Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Poetry
Fee: NONE; entry limited to one poem, in English, unpublished
Prize: $500; three honorable mentions of $50
Details: What is poetry of the sacred? Poetry that expresses, directly or indirectly, a sense of the holy or that, by its mode of expression, evokes the sacred. The tone may be religious, prophetic, or contemplative. Please limit the poem to no more than 100 lines. Poems will be judged on literary excellence, spiritual tenor, and human authenticity.
URL: http://www.mertoninstitute.org/merton_prize.php
Posted/Updated: 2007
Thoroughbred Times Fiction Contest
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Fiction
Fee: NONE
Prize: $800
Details: Horse stories
URL: http://tinyurl.com/2omy6r
Contact: owens@thoroughbredtimes.com
Posted/Updated: 2007
X.J. Kennedy Award for Nonfiction
Deadline: December 31
Categories: Nonfiction
Fee: $10
Prize: $1000 and publication
Details: Creative nonfiction. As Judge Clark observes: 'Paper is flat and the world is round. Telling the truth about the world requires both discipline and imagination. The winner must display both.'
URL: http://www.rsbd.net/x__j__kennedy_award.htm
Posted/Updated: 2007
Zen Stories - 101 Years After (Italy)
Deadline: December 31
Categories:
Fee: 15Û
Prize: 1000Û
Details: The contest is open to participants of any nationality. The stories may be written in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese. Each participant should send an original story inspired by the subject "Zen stories - 101 years after". The aim of the contest is to collect stories reflecting the Zen Japanese culture which are inspired by the writers' personal Zen paths and imaginations. Each story should not be more than 200 words in length.
URL: http://www.lachiavedibronzo.it
Contact: stefano@lachiavedibronzo.it
Posted/Updated: 2007
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