Apr. 20 - Arkansas Writers Conference Contest - fiction, nonfiction, poetry, song lyrics
Apr. 21 - Poetry Society of Colorado: Double Etheree - a double etheree poem about what inspired you to write poetry
Apr. 23 - Focus on the Family: Fall Activities - 50-300 word articles
Focus on the Family: Candy - 50-300 word articles
Apr. 25 - Saturday Evening Post Limerick Laughs Contest - 5 line limerick written to their prompt
Apr. 29 - SCBWI Austin Annual Conference - for children's book writers and illustrators
Apr. 30 - Beneath the Rainbow Quarterly Contest - online journal of fiction, humor, essay, & poetry
Sequestrum Literature & Art Journal Contests - permit previously published work
2Elizabeths Romance & Women's Fiction Writing Contest - enter short fiction or poetry
California State Poetry Society Monthly Contest - theme is travel, history, mythology, other cultures
Finishing Line Press Poetry Chapbook Contest - submit 16-35 pages of poetry
California Writers Club Short Story Contest - up to 1000 words
Focus on the Family Magazine: Cleaning Up - 50-300 word articles
Focus on the Family Magazine: Brio Fiction: Hard Stuff - 800-1000 word articles
May 01 - Purpose Magazine: Beginnings - personal, true stores (350-650 words) & poems (up to 12 lines)
Pelican Book Group Christmas Holiday Extravaganza - novella length stories 15K to 25K
River Poets Journal: Immigrants - stories or poems of our ancestors
The Crucible: Poetry & Fiction Competition - up to 5 poems or fiction up to 5K words
Alabama Writers Conclave Writing Contest - fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, juvenile fiction
May 04 - Writer's Digest 87th Annual Writing Competition - 10 categories to enter
May 05 - Bonsai: A Journal of Haiku Poetry - 5/7/5 haiku, senryu, haibun, and haiga
May 15 - Rockford Writers Guild Spring "Relief" Prose Contest - submit up to 3 pieces, 1300 words or less each
Time of Singing Summer Poetry Contest - rhyming Christian poetry
Spider Magazine - fiction, poems, articles for ages 6-9; theme is Inventions
Ruminate Magazine Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize - submit up to 2 poems
Ladybug Magazine - ages 3-6; nonfiction, poetry, activities to the theme of Tell Me More
Poetry Society of New Hampshire Contest - poems up to 40 lines
Cricket Magazine - ages 9-14; fiction, nonfiction, poetry, activities; theme is Endless Summer
Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize - submit up to 4 poems
