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ServiceScape Short Story Award is Currently Accepting Submissions in 2023/ How To Apply (Prize: $1000)

ServiceScape Short Story Award is calling all short story writers for their 2023 contest. Are you a short story writer interested in gaining more exposure and a bigger audience for your creative work? Would an extra $1,000.00 USD in your pocket be a great for your creative growth? If so, ServiceScape Short Story Award 2023...

Quramo Writers’ Prize announces Longlist for 2023

The Quramo Writers’ Prize 2023 announces Longlist   The Quramo Writers’ Prize is a literary award for an unpublished work of fiction, open to new and emerging African writers. In addition to the above, the prize was set up by Quramo Publishing Limited. Also, it comes with a cash prize of ₦1,000,000 to the winner,...

F(r)iction 2023 Writing Contest / Call for Submission ($1600 + Publication)

  F(r)iction Writing Contest is for a literary anthology carefully curated to evaluate an important cultural topic from vastly different perspectives. From historical origins and nonfiction essays to the wildest reaches of fiction, poetry, comics, and art, each issue inspires this literary site to think differently. For its 2023 Writing contest, F(r)iction encourages all form...

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...

International Essay Contest For Young People (Prizes: Over $1000 + Certificates)

The  Gio Peace Foundation International  Essay Contest for Young People has opened for submissions for writers 25 years and below. The International Essay Contest for Young People is an annual essay contest organized in an effort to harness the energy, creativity and initiative of the world’s youth in promoting a culture of peace and sustainable...

Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Writing Contest(Prizes: $8700 + Publication)

Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Writing Contest is calling for short stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress.    Imagine 2200 celebrates stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress, imagining intersectional worlds of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope. Stories must be set between today and the year 2200,...

Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award is Open (Prize: £10,000)

The Deborah Rogers Foundation (DRF) writers award is currently open for first-time prose writers.   The Deborah Rogers Foundation (DRF) was set up in memory of Devorah Rogers whose particular genius lay in identifying and supporting talented young people, to continue to seek out and support emerging talent in the publishing world specifically by means of...