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Month: January 2023

Potential Literary Contests

Whether you’re thinking of self-publishing your literary work or going the traditional route, every writer should consider submitting their polished manuscript into a literary contest (or as many as they are able to) prior to publishing. This additional step not only provides credential enhancements to the author’s name, but also increases their exposure to agents and editors along with free criticism, monetary prizes and not to mention unsolicited publicity!!

I have provided a list of popular literary contest that every author should submit their work to. There are many benefits in doing so but the timing and genre has to be right. Lucky for you I’ve done all the research, just be sure to read the entry rules and confirm whether your literary work qualifies prior to any submissions.

Benefits:

  • Get your unpublished literary work in front of potential agents and editors
  • Credential enhancement for marketing
  • Unsolicited publicity
  • Free criticism
  • Monetary prizes

List of Annual Literary Contests:

Acacia Fiction Prize

www.kallistogaiapress.org

Alice James Award

www.alicejamesbooks.org/submit

Annual Blue Lynx Prize

www.lynxhousepress.submittable.com

Bellingham Contest

www.bhreview.org

Briar Cliff Contest

www.bcreview.org

Cider Press Review Book Award

www.ciderpressreview.com

Charlotte Center for Literary Arts Awards

www.charlottelit.org/press/awards

Choeofpleirn Book Contest

www.choeofpleirnpress.com

Crosswinds Poetry Journal’s Annual Poetry Contest

www.crosswindspoetry.com

Courage to Write Grants

www.degrootfoundation.org

Country Chapbook Contest

www.opencountrypress.com

Creative Writing Contest by Onwards

www.onwords.io/contests

Dzanc Books Contest

www.dzancbooks.org

Event Magazine’s Nonfiction Contest

www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf

First Page Prize

www.firstpagesprize.com

Gifted Fiction Writers – Lilith Magazine

www.lilith.org/contest/writing-for-lilith

Grayson Books – Chapbook Contest

www.graysonbooks.com

Holden Vaughn Spangler Award

www.rcc.edu/muse

Inlandia Institute’s Eliud Martinez Prize

www.inlandiainstitute.org/books/the-eliud-martinez-prize

Mayday Creative Nonfiction Prize

www.maydaymagazine.com/contests

Miller Williams Poetry Prize

www.uapress.com

New Millennium Writing Awards

www.newmillenniumwritings.org

Novel Slices Contest

www.novelslices.com/contest

Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction

www.orisonbooks.com/submissions

Pangyrus Fiction Contest

info@pangyrus.com

Permafrost Book Prize

www.Permafrostmag.com

Rhino Founder’s Prize Contest

www.rhinopoetry.com

River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize

www.riverteethjournal.com

Slab’s 2023 Boggs Fiction Prize

www.slablitmag.org

Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition

www.soulmakingcontest.us

Tomaz Salamun Prize

www.verse.submittable.com

Vern Rutsala Book Prize

www.cloudbankbooks.com

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