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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