by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 31, 2026 3:31 pm – 3:31 pm The Chautauqua Janus Prize will be awarded for the ninth time in 2026, celebrating an emerging writer’s single work of short fiction or nonfiction for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder readers’...
by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 31, 2026 3:20 pm – 3:20 pm Fiction Factory is accepting submissions for their First Chapter of a Novel + Synopsis Competition. Have you completed the first draft of your novel? Are you ready to pass it on to a fresh pair of eyes, to see if you are on the...
by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 31, 2026 1:00 am – 11:59 pm The Story Unlikely Annual Short Story Contest is back, and for their 5th year, the organizer is giving away $5,000. Story Unlikely is looking for great stories regardless of genre or author pedigree. Unlike other outlets, they...
by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 26, 2026 11:27 pm – 11:27 pm The Bridge Prize is presented by the School of Liberal Education at the University of Lethbridge. The Bridge Prize is a biennial short story writing competition that intends to inspire and motivate the next generation of...
by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 23, 2026 12:00 pm – January 25, 2026 11:59 pm The Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction is an international writing event that challenges writers to create an original piece of flash fiction based on two typical writing prompts plus one anti-prompt....
by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 15, 2026 12:59 am – 12:59 am The Rattle Chapbook Prize is organized by the Rattle, an American poetry magazine. The competition is open to writers worldwide. Each poet may submit 15 – 30 pages of poetry. Poems must be written in English. Individual poems...
