Opportunities for writers
Bennington Young Writers Award 2024/ How to Apply ($1750 + Scholarships)
Bennington College has a unique literary legacy, including twelve Pulitzer Prize winners, three U.S. poet laureates, four MacArthur Geniuses, countless New York Times bestsellers, and two of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. In celebration of this legacy, Bennington launched the Young Writers Award to promote excellence in writing at the high school level. […]
Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024/ How to Apply (Prize: £15000)
Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024 is coming soon! The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a contest that seeks talented writers who go on to inspire their communities. It promotes the best new writing from across the Commonwealth, developing literary connections worldwide. Further more, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of […]
Owl Canyon Hackathon Contest is Currently Open/ How to Apply (Prize: $3500)
Owl Canyon Hackathon Contest is now open! Deadline is September 2nd, 2023! Owl Canyon Press Hackathon Contest provides paragraphs #1 and paragraphs #50A and #50B for the alternative endings (the image below shows this), and the writer team creates the other 48 paragraphs (i.e., paragraphs 2-49) to complete the story. Therefore, Writing teams (2 authors […]
Noema Magazine Is Currently Accepting Literary Pieces/How To Submit (Pay: $1 per word)
Noema Magazine is an award-winning magazine that is devoted to exploring the transformations sweeping our world. They are known to publish essays, interviews, reportage, videos and art on the overlapping realms of philosophy, geopolitics, economics, technology and culture. Are you a writer with compelling content about philosophy, technology, culture, geopolitics, economics, governance and more? Bring […]
The Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction(Prize: $250)
The Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction is Currently Open to Essay Writers. The Barnhill Prize honors Anne’s generous spirit of support for all who love to read and write. Anne impacted on people with her writings. Anne’s works were naturally compelling and that was what made them stand out. Her unlimited generosity in sharing her […]
The Yale Drama Series 2024/ How to Submit (Prize: $10000 + Publication)
The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2024 playwright competition. The winning play will be selected by the series’ current judge, Jeremy O. Harris. The Yale Drama series aims at publishing serious works that contribute to a global understanding of human affairs, Yale University Press aids in the discovery and dissemination of light and […]
Orion’s Belt Submissions / How to Submit (Payment: $.08 per word)
Orion’s Belt Submissions are currently open for speculative poetry, prose and art. Orion’s Belt is a literary speculative-fiction online magazine. They specialize in the strange and poignant and awe-inspiring, stories that have a cosmic scale and intimate personal stakes. Currently, they publish fiction and poetry, one story and one poem per month. All submissions must […]