Deadline February 28, 2022. Submit a previously unpublished, chapbook-length poetry manuscript with a table of contents. There is no mandatory page count. Chapbook manuscripts should number between 20 and 36 pages, but no manuscript will be rejected simply because it’s a little bit shorter or longer. The Snowbound Chapbook Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies...

Remember the theme, Our Earthly Home, is a guideline to help you generate a story! These topics are meant to help not hinder your writing! We are just looking for anything that even hints at our monthly theme. Such as the story can take place on a moun...

$25 ENTRY FEE. Deadline February 28, 2022. The Women’s Prose Prize is for previously unpublished, original work of prose. Novels, short story collections, memoirs, essay collections, and all other forms of prose writing are eligible for consideration. Submit 25,000-word minimum (approximately 150 pages, double spaced, Times New Roman 12pt font) to 80,000-word maximum. One award of $1,000 and book publication by R...

ASK introduces kids to the joys of thinking and questioning scientifically, and presumes them to be active members of the international community of knowledge-seekers. The ideal ASK article is an engaging nonfiction story (or cartoon) that is concrete, s...

Missouri State Poetry Society Winter Contest 2022
http://mostatepoetry.com/winter.html

Deadline: Postmarked February 26, 2022

Poems may be 40 or fewer lines. They may be unpublished or previously published if the poet retains the rights to the poem. Poets may enter each category as many times as they wish. No poems will be returned.

Categories:

* Rhymed verse or blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter), any subject, serious or humorous
* Free verse, any subject, serious or humorous
* Humorous...

What - Pitch Your Picture Books on Twitter

Why - Agents and Editors on Twitter Can See It!

When - Our next #PBPitch will be Thursday, February 17th, 2022!

Pitch your PBs on twitter using #PBPitch. Pitch manuscripts only ONCE in the morning and ONCE in the Evening. (Once before 2pm and once after.) If you are an author/illustrator, you can attach an image to your PB manuscript pitch.

Two categories for nonmembers to enter: Childhood, and Love/Marriage.

Prizes range from $50 - $200, one prize for each category.

Entry fee is $5 per poem. All winning poems are published.

Third Wednesday Literary Journal Annual Poetry Contest
https://thirdwednesdaymagazine.submittable.com/submit

Entry fee: $6.00. Enter up to 3 poems. Deadline: Feb. 15, 2022. Three prizes of $100.

Non-prize poems will be considered for inclusion in an issue of Third Wednesday as a regular submission with the author's permission.  Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please be a good poetry citizen and inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

23 categories to enter, prizes range from $10-$75. Entry fee is $3 per poem or $30 to enter all categories.

All entries must be received no later than February 5, 2022.

The storyshares library is home to a unique collection of easy to read, hard to put down books specifically created to engage teens & adults who struggle with reading, written at a 1st - 5th grade reading level (RL) with clear language, but mature content.

Contest closes: February 1, 2022. Story length between 1,000 and 15,000 words

Our contest includes awards for short stories and texts in the following four categories:

Postmark deadline: Feb. 1, 2022

Entry fee: $5 plus $3 per poem for poem no longer than 40 lines

Prizes range from $10 to $100. 23 categories for nonmembers to enter on a wide variety of themes and forms.

Ruminate is an award-winning quarterly literary arts print magazine engaging the Christian faith. Ruminate publishes poetry, short stories, photography, visual art reproductions, short fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, essays, reviews, and interviews. We accept online submissions year-round. Ruminate also sponsors four contests each year--our p...

Rayna sat in front of the mirror removing her makeup and wondered who she would discover underneath. Remember, all stories must start with the appropriate first line, and you cannot change it in any way unless otherwise indicated.

Fiction: All stories must be written with the first line provided. The line cannot be altered in any way, unless otherwise noted by the editors. The story should be between 300 and 5,000 words (this is more like a...

No entry fee. Deadline January 31, 2022. Submit one poem of no more than 30 lines inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. First Place High School: $300. First Place Collegiate: $300. First Place Post-College: $300. Best Overall Poem: $500.

We publish only nonfiction in Readers Write. Feel free to submit your work under "Name Withheld" if it allows you to be more honest, but be sure to inclu...

From: https://www.writers-editors.com/Writers/Contests/contests.htm

Deadline: February 1, 2022.

CatsCast is looking for fun speculative cat stories! A CatsCast story should leave cat-loving listeners a little happier after listening than they were before.

Specifically, we’re looking for speculative fiction stories about cats. “Cats” in this context are, well, cats — but since this is a speculative fiction podcast, they don’t have to be exactly the same species as the housecats we...

California Federation of Chaparral Poets 
https://www.chaparralpoets.org/PDFs/AdultContest22.pdf

Categories Titles are not counted as part of line limits Line Limit:

Deadline February 28, 2022. Submit a previously unpublished, chapbook-length poetry manuscript with a table of contents. There is no mandatory page count. Chapbook manuscripts should number between 20 and 36 pages, but no manuscript will be rejected simply because it’s a little bit shorter or longer. The Snowbound Chapbook Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies...

Remember the theme, Our Earthly Home, is a guideline to help you generate a story! These topics are meant to help not hinder your writing! We are just looking for anything that even hints at our monthly theme. Such as the story can take place on a moun...

$25 ENTRY FEE. Deadline February 28, 2022. The Women’s Prose Prize is for previously unpublished, original work of prose. Novels, short story collections, memoirs, essay collections, and all other forms of prose writing are eligible for consideration. Submit 25,000-word minimum (approximately 150 pages, double spaced, Times New Roman 12pt font) to 80,000-word maximum. One award of $1,000 and book publication by R...

ASK introduces kids to the joys of thinking and questioning scientifically, and presumes them to be active members of the international community of knowledge-seekers. The ideal ASK article is an engaging nonfiction story (or cartoon) that is concrete, s...

Missouri State Poetry Society Winter Contest 2022
http://mostatepoetry.com/winter.html

Deadline: Postmarked February 26, 2022

Poems may be 40 or fewer lines. They may be unpublished or previously published if the poet retains the rights to the poem. Poets may enter each category as many times as they wish. No poems will be returned.

Categories:

* Rhymed verse or blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter), any subject, serious or humorous
* Free verse, any subject, serious or humorous
* Humorous...

What - Pitch Your Picture Books on Twitter

Why - Agents and Editors on Twitter Can See It!

When - Our next #PBPitch will be Thursday, February 17th, 2022!

Pitch your PBs on twitter using #PBPitch. Pitch manuscripts only ONCE in the morning and ONCE in the Evening. (Once before 2pm and once after.) If you are an author/illustrator, you can attach an image to your PB manuscript pitch.

Two categories for nonmembers to enter: Childhood, and Love/Marriage.

Prizes range from $50 - $200, one prize for each category.

Entry fee is $5 per poem. All winning poems are published.

Third Wednesday Literary Journal Annual Poetry Contest
https://thirdwednesdaymagazine.submittable.com/submit

Entry fee: $6.00. Enter up to 3 poems. Deadline: Feb. 15, 2022. Three prizes of $100.

Non-prize poems will be considered for inclusion in an issue of Third Wednesday as a regular submission with the author's permission.  Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please be a good poetry citizen and inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

23 categories to enter, prizes range from $10-$75. Entry fee is $3 per poem or $30 to enter all categories.

All entries must be received no later than February 5, 2022.

The storyshares library is home to a unique collection of easy to read, hard to put down books specifically created to engage teens & adults who struggle with reading, written at a 1st - 5th grade reading level (RL) with clear language, but mature content.

Contest closes: February 1, 2022. Story length between 1,000 and 15,000 words

Our contest includes awards for short stories and texts in the following four categories:

Postmark deadline: Feb. 1, 2022

Entry fee: $5 plus $3 per poem for poem no longer than 40 lines

Prizes range from $10 to $100. 23 categories for nonmembers to enter on a wide variety of themes and forms.

Ruminate is an award-winning quarterly literary arts print magazine engaging the Christian faith. Ruminate publishes poetry, short stories, photography, visual art reproductions, short fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, essays, reviews, and interviews. We accept online submissions year-round. Ruminate also sponsors four contests each year--our p...

Rayna sat in front of the mirror removing her makeup and wondered who she would discover underneath. Remember, all stories must start with the appropriate first line, and you cannot change it in any way unless otherwise indicated.

Fiction: All stories must be written with the first line provided. The line cannot be altered in any way, unless otherwise noted by the editors. The story should be between 300 and 5,000 words (this is more like a...

No entry fee. Deadline January 31, 2022. Submit one poem of no more than 30 lines inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. First Place High School: $300. First Place Collegiate: $300. First Place Post-College: $300. Best Overall Poem: $500.

We publish only nonfiction in Readers Write. Feel free to submit your work under "Name Withheld" if it allows you to be more honest, but be sure to inclu...

From: https://www.writers-editors.com/Writers/Contests/contests.htm

Deadline: February 1, 2022.

CatsCast is looking for fun speculative cat stories! A CatsCast story should leave cat-loving listeners a little happier after listening than they were before.

Specifically, we’re looking for speculative fiction stories about cats. “Cats” in this context are, well, cats — but since this is a speculative fiction podcast, they don’t have to be exactly the same species as the housecats we...

California Federation of Chaparral Poets 
https://www.chaparralpoets.org/PDFs/AdultContest22.pdf

Categories Titles are not counted as part of line limits Line Limit: