Another contest that offers prizes in several formats: short story, essay, poetry, and interview.
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This contest specifies that you must submit a collection of short fiction. You can submit a novella for the award but it can’t stand alone; you must submit more than that one work.
From the Iowa Review.
A Room of Her Own (AROHO) offers several prizes. Here’s the information for their Orlando Prize.
Colorado Review offers $2,000 for a short story.
Contest: Regional Juvenile Author Laureate
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2013 PIEDMONT LAUREATE CALL FOR AUTHORS
Deadline: January 11
The Piedmont Laureate program has reopened its call for applications from authors of children’s literature for 2013. The range of literature has been expanded to target children of all ages, up to 18. Authors must be residents of Alamance, Durham, Orange, or Wake counties.
Contest: Emerging Southern Writer
EMERGING WRITERS CONTEST
Deadline: January 7
Award: $300 / $200 and invitation to Symposium
Fee: $15
Entries are now being accepted for the 2013 Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Contest. This year categories will feature fiction and poetry. The contest is open to writers who meet at least two of the following criteria: currently live in the South; are natives of the South; write about the South. Additionally, writers must have not yet published a full-length volume in the genre that they are entering. For example, writers are still eligible for the emerging fiction writers contest if published in volume form in nonfiction or poetry. Manuscripts of fiction considered: up to 5,000 words, typed and double-spaced. Poetry considered: a single poem, or up to five to be counted as a group, typed. Entry must not have been previously published in any form. Entry must not have previously won recognition in any other contest. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable.
Contest: Novel and Story Collection
FICTION CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Deadline: January 5
Award: $250, publication, 25 contributor copies
Fee: $15
We are pleased to announce the first ever Origami Zoo Chapbook Contest. The final judge will be the cataclysmic Matt Bell. Origami Zoo Press has published chapbooks by Laura van den Berg, Chad Simpson, BJ Hollars and Brian Oliu. Submit manuscripts of 40-80 pages. Both novellas and collections are welcome. It’s great if pieces of the manuscript have been previously published as standalone pieces or excerpts, as long as the manuscript as a whole has not been published.
Contest: Multiple Fiction Categories
PRESS 53 OPEN AWARDS
Deadline: March 31
Award: Five beautiful etched-glass awards (personalized award certificates for Second Prize and Honorable Mention) and publication
The sixth annual Press 53 Open Awards is now accepting submissions. Five Categories, three Winners in Each: Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short-Short Story, Short Story, Novella (Finalists and Winners Announced No Later Than June 28, 2013). Five Industry-Professional Judges. Thirteen opportunities for publication: First Prize, Second Prize, and Honorable Mention in Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short-Short Story, Short Story, and First Prize in Novella will be published in the 2013 Press 53 Open Awards Anthology.
Contest: Short Story
NELLIGAN PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION
Deadline: March 14
Award: $2,000 and publication
Fee: $15 ($17 to submit online)
Colorado Review is now accepting submissions for the 2013 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. This year’s final judge is Jim Shepard. The prize is given annually for the best short story under 50 pages.
Contest: Short Story
DORIS BETTS FICTION PRIZE
Deadline: February 15
Award: $250 and publication
The Doris Betts Fiction Prize awards $250 and publication in the North Carolina Literary Review to the author of the winning short story. Up to ten finalists will also be considered for publication. The contest is open to writers with North Carolina connections (who live or have lived in NC), members of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, or subscribers to the NCLR. The competition is for unpublished short stories up to 6,000 words. One entry per writer. No novel excerpts. No simultaneous submissions.
Here’s the database Poets & Writers maintains on grants and awards. It’s a general listing and so you have to search through for upcoming deadlines but it’s a great place to start.
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