Aug. 04 - Travel Touchstones: Mining the Magic of Travel Memories Class - online class with Rhonda Wiley-Jones
Focus on the Family Magazine: Childhood Fears - 50-300 word articles
Aug. 12 - Missouri State Poetry Society Summer Contest - 4 categories to enter
Aug. 14 - Bible Advocate: Together - nonfiction & poetry
Focus on the Family Magazine: Long-Distance Relationships - 50 to 300 word articles
Aug. 15 - Poetica Publishing Anthology: Spiritual Poems Connected to Nature - individual line limited to 60 characters
Sequestrum Genre Fiction Issue - up to 12K words
Sequestrum Sonnet & Haiku Issue - up to 4 poems
Poetry Society of Texas Annual Contest - 100 categories to enter
Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest - prose up to 5 pages; poetry up to 30 lines
Poets' Roundtable of Arkansas Annual Contest - 19 categories to enter for one fee
Indiana State Federation of Poetry Clubs - 23 categories to enter for one fee
Aug. 17 - FACES Magazine: Fun for All - world culture & geography for ages 9-14; fiction & nonfiction
Aug. 18 - Poetry Society of Colorado Poetry Contest: August - Petrarchan or Shakespearean Sonnet; 14 lines
Aug. 20 - Kallisto Gaia Press Short Chester B. Himes Fiction Prize - 1000-4200 words
Kallisto Gaia Press Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize - up to 3 poems
Aug. 21 - Focus on the Family Magazine: No Worries - 50 -300 word articles
Aug. 25 - Saturday Evening Post Limerick Laughs Contest - 5-line limericks
Aug. 28 - Focus on the Family Magazine: A New Kind of School Tips - 50-300 word articles
Aug. 29 - Saturday Writers: August Prose & Poetry Contests - 2020 word limit for prose; 50 line limit for poetry
Aug. 30 - Gulf Stream Summer Contest - fiction, poetry, & creative nonfiction
Aug. 31 - California State Poetry Society Monthly Contest: August - humor, satire, the joy of life
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, Amazing Coincidences, & the Unexplainable - nonfiction up to 1200 words
An Anthology of Honest Spiritual Literature - poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction
Louisiana State Poetry Society Fall Festival Contest - 7 categories to enter
The Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction - up to 5000 words
Tallahassee Writers Association Seven Hill Literary Penumbra Poetry & Haiku Contests - fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Gemini Magazine Flash Fiction Contest - up to 1000 words
Inkitt Midsummer Mystery Contest - minimum of 7500 words
WOW! Women on Writing Summer Flash Fiction Contest - 250-750 words
Cultural Weekly's Jack Grapes Poetry Prize - submit up to 2 poems
Rate Your Story Annual Writing Contest - PB fiction, PB nonfiction, MG & YA novels
Sept. 01 - The War Cry: Suffering - Salvation Army Magazine, fiction & nonfiction
Bethlehem Writers Roundtable: Migration - fiction, memoir, & poetry
Parabola Literary Journal: Wellness - essays, poetry, photography