Theme: “When Writing Made a Difference”
We want to know how someone’s words made a difference. You could address another author of years long past, whose writing affected you, a classroom or an entire population. You might talk about a mentor’s writing. Maybe your writing impacted someone else and altered one person’s life or the lives [...]
SLF travel grants are awarded to assist writers (speculative fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction) in their research. They are not currently available for academic research. Offers
one $800 travel grant annually, to be used to cover airfare, lodging, and/or other travel expenses. If awarded the grant, the recipient agrees to write a brief report of their [...]
Writers Conferences & Centers is conducting its annual competition to provide scholarships for writers who wish to attend a writers’conference, center, retreat, or residency. The scholarships will be applied to fees to attend any of the over 100 members of WC&C, an association of outstanding conferences, centers, retreats, and festivals for writers.
Deadline: March 30, 2010.
Prizes: [...]
America’s premier amateur philosophy contest, The Great American
Think-Off, releases its 2010 essay and debate question: “Do the
wealthy have an obligation to help the poor?” In writing essays
on this question, potential debaters may address individuals,
groups, or nations as the essayist determines. The Great Debate
will be held in New York Mills, Minnesota on Saturday, June 12,
2010 before [...]
Recently, Amazon.com and Penguin Group (USA) announced the third annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, an international competition seeking fresh new writing voices. CreateSpace will once again host the submission platform for the contest.
What should I do now?
1. Prepare your entry: Visit www.createspace.com/abna and review the submission guidelines, helpful tutorials, and official contest rules.
2. Sign up [...]
The Seventh Glass Woman Prize will be awarded for a work of short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose) written by a woman.
Length: between 50 and 5,000 words.
Prizes:
The top prize for the seventh Glass Woman Prize award is US $600 and possible
(but not obligatory) online publication; I will also award one
runner up prize of $100 [...]
We’re looking for fiction that is unique, stories with
characters we’ll remember, plots that leave us thinking.
The contest is open to anyone, any race, any country, any
continent. The only caveat? The main character must be of
African descent.
The contest runs from October 1 – December
31, 2009, winner announced February 1, 2010. Entries must
be 1,500 words or less. [...]
Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites is now accepting nominations for next year’s list. If you have a favorite writers’ site, please nominate it for the ‘Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Sites of The Year’!
To nominate a website for 2010, please send your nomination to: writersdig@fwpubs.com with “101 Websites” as the subject line. January1, 2010 is the [...]
Discovering New Mysteries is now accepting submissions of
original plays, screenplays, teleplays, and short stories
for both adult and youth audiences. A panel of professional readers will
blindly review the submissions and narrow the field to the
final mysteries, who-dunnits, cops-n-robbers, courtroom
dramas, thrillers, suspense or adventures.
Deadline: August 30, 2009
Entry Fee: NONE
Prizes: Nearly $20,000 in cash prizes for winners + [...]
Poems can be rhyming or non-rhyming, although we find
that non-rhyming poetry reads better.
Deadline: June 30, 2009
NO ENTRY FEE
Prizes: 1st prize: $300. 2nd prize: $150. 3rd prize: $50
Please visit www.sps.com/poetry/index.html for details.