2014-11-21

Below are over 125 writer awards  and contests available to writers. Listed is the name of the organization and the website where information can be found about their offerings. An additional list of other awards/contests/grants will be shared -- with more details on each award -- next month.

Academy of Poets

www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/walt-whitman-award

Alice James Books

www.alicejamesbooks.org

American Academy in Berlin

www.americanacademy.de/home/fellows

American Antiquarian Society

www.americanantiquarian.org/artistfellowship.htm

American Literary Review

www.americanliteraryreview.com

American Poetry Review

www.aprweb.org/aprhonickman-first-book-prize

American Scandinavian Foundation

www.amscan.org

Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship

www.amylowell.org

Arrowhead Regional Arts Council

www.aracouncil.org

Artist Trust

www.artisttrust.org/index.php/for-artists/money

Asheville Poetry Review

www.ashevillepoetryreview.com

Autumn House Press

www.coalhillreview.com

Balcones Center for Creative Writing

www.austincc.edu/crw/html/balconescenter.html

Baton Rouge Area Foundation

www.ernestjgainesaward.org

Bellingham Review

www.bhreview.org

Binghamton University

www.english.binghamton.edu/cwpro

Black Balloon Publishing

www.blackballoonpublishing.com

Booktrust

www.booktrust.org.uk/prizes

Boston Review

www.bostonreview.net/contests

Briar Cliff Review

www.bcreview.org

Brick Road Poetry Press

www.brickroadpoetrypress.com

Brooklyn Film and Arts Festival

www.filmbrooklyn.org

California State University

www.csufresno.edu/english/mfa/levine/index.shtml

Carlow University

www.carlow.edu/Dobler_Poetry_Award.aspx

Center for Book Arts

www.centerforbookarts.org

Center for Fiction

www.centerforfiction.org

Chautauqua Institution

www.ciweb.org/prize

Coffee-House Poetry

www.coffeehousepoetry.org/prizes

Colorado Review

www.nelliganprize.colostate.edu

Comstock Review

www.comstockreview.org

Crazyhorse

www.crazyhorse.edu

Creative Nonfiction

www.creativenonfiction.org

Cutthroat

www.cutthroatmag.com

Dana Awards

www.danaawards.com

Dogwood

www.dogwoodliterary.com

Ellen Meloy Fund

www.ellenmeloy.com

Elixir Press

www.elixirpress.com

Fence Books

www.fenceportal.org

Fiction Collective Two

www.fc2.org

Fine Arts Work Center

www.fawc.org

Fish Publishing

www.fishpublishing.com

Flipped Eye Publishing

www.flippedeye.net/venture

Fordham University at Lincoln Center

www.fordham.edu/pol

Fourteen Hills Press

www.14hills.net

Gemini Magazine

www.gemini-magazine.com

Gival Press

www.givalpress.com

Glimmer Train Press

www.glimmertrain.org

Griffin Trust

www.griffinpoetryprize.com

GrubStreet

www.grubstreet.org

Gulf Coast

www.gulfcoastmag.org

Hackney Literary Awards

www.hackneyliteraryawards.org

Harvard University

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/fellowships

Hurston/Wright Foundation

www.hurstonwright.org

IMPAC

www.impacdublinaward.ie

Indiana Review

www.indianareview.org

Iowa Review

www.iowareview.org

Lambda Literary Foundation

www.lambdaliterary.org

Lascaux Review

www.lascauxreview.com

The Ledge Press

www.theledgemagazine.com

Les Figues Press

www.lesfigues.com

Literal Latte

www.literal-latte.com

Loft Literary Center

www.loft.org

Los Angeles Review c/o Red Hen Press

www.losangelesreview.org

Los Angeles Times

www.latimes.com/bookprizes

Lotus Press

www.lotuspress.org

Measure Press

www.theformalist.evansville.edu/contest.html

Mid-American Review

www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/midamericanreview/contests.html

Missouri Review

www.missourireview.com

Narrative

www.narrativemagazine.com

National Federation of State Poetry Societies

www.nfsps.com

National Poetry Review Press

www.home.comcast.net/-jpdancingbear/TNPRPress1.html

New Criterion

www.newcriterion.com

New Issues Poetry & Prose

www.wmich.edu/newissues

New Ohio Review -

www.ohio.edu/nor

New Rivers Press

www.newriverspress.com

New South

www.newsouthjournal.com

New York Public Library

www.nypl.org/csw

Nightboat Books c/o Kazim Ali Creative Writing Program

www.nightboat.org

North American Review

www.northamericanreview.org

Northern Colorado Writers

www.northerncoloradowriters.com

Oberon Foundation

www.oberonpoetry.com

Ohio State University Press

www.ohiostatepress.org

Ohio University Press

www.ohioswallow.com/poetry_prize

Omnidawn Publishing

www.omnidawn.com/contest/fiction

Passaic County Community College

www.pccc.edu/poetry

PEN New England

www.pen-ne.org

Persea Books

www.perseabooks.com

Perugia Press

www.perugiapress.com

Pleiades Press

www.ucmo.edu/pleiades/lmwt

Poetry Foundation

www.poetryfoundation.org

Poetry Society of the United Kingdom

www.poetrysociety.org.uk

Press 53

www.press53.com/award_for_short_fiction.html

Publishing Triangle

www.publishingtriangle.org

Pulitzer Prizes

www.pulitzer.org

Real Simple

www.realsimple.com/lifelessonscontest

Red Hen Press

www.redhen.org

Reed Magazine

www.reedmag.org

River Teeth

www.riverteethjournal.com/contests

Robert Frost Foundation

www.frostfoundation.org

Rubery Book Award

www.ruberybookaward.com

Ruminate

www.ruminatemagazine.org

San Jose State University

www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/fellows

San Miguel Writers Conference

www.sanmiguelwritersconference.org

Schaffner Press

www.schaffnerpress.com

Silverfish Review Press

www.silverfishreviewpress.com

Sixfold

www.sixfold.org

Southeast Missouri State University Press

www.6.semo.edu/universitypress

Southewest Review - Southern Methodist University

www.smu.edu/southwestreview

Sow's Ear Poetry Review

www.sows-ear.kitenet.net

Sozopol Fiction Seminars

www.ekf.bg/en

Spark

www.sparkanthology.org/contests/all

Tampa Review

www.ut.edu/tampareview

Three Percent

www.besttranslatedbook.org

Tony Quagliano International Poetry Fund

www.hihumanities.org/tony-guagliano-poetry-award

Truman State University Press

www.tsup.truman.edu

Tucson Festival of Books

www.tucsonfestivalofbooks.org

Tupelo Press

www.tupelopress.org/sunkengarden.php

University of Iowa Press

www.uiowapress.org

University of Louisville - English Department

www.louisville.edu/english/creative-writing/contests

University of Massachusetts Press

www.umass.edu/umpress/juniper.html

University of Notre Dame

www.latinostudies.nd.edu/institute-centers/letras-latinas

University of North Texas Press

www.untpress.unt.edu/contest

University of Pittsburgh Press

www.upress.pitt.edu/prizes.aspx

University of Texas at Austin

www.utexas.edu/ogs/Paisano

University of Wisconsin Press - English Department

www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/poetryguide.html

Walker Percy Center for Writing & Publishing

www.loyno.edu/wpc

Washington College

www.washcoll.edu/centers/starr/fellows.php

Washington Writers' Publishing House

www.washingtonwriters.org

Whitefish Review

www.whitefishreview.org

White Leaf Press

www.wildleafpress.com

Winning Writers

www.winningwriters.com/tompoetry

Yale University Press

www.youngerpoets.org

Zocalo Public Square

www.zocalopublicsquare.org

Zoetrope All Story

www.all-story.com/contests.cgi

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