AWP members can view our full list of curated opportunities on our Contests & Calls web page.
AJB is accepting full-length poetry manuscripts postmarked or via Submittable until October 17. Entrants must reside in the US. Additional manuscripts may also be chosen for publication as the Editor’s Choice.
Prize: $2,000
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: October 17, 2025
The Publishing Laboratory at the University of New Orleans seeks to bring innovative publicity and broad distribution to authors. This prize seeks full-length works of fiction (novels and short story collections).
Prize: $10,000 advance
Entry fee: $28
Deadline: August 31, 2025
The Iowa Short Fiction Award is an annual prize awarded to a collection of stories. Writers who have yet to publish a book-length volume of fiction are eligible to apply, and winning manuscripts are published by the Iowa Press.
Prize: Publication under standard royalty agreement
Entry fee: $20
Deadline: August 31, 2025
The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize celebrates flash fiction, encouraging new voices and showcasing creativity in under one thousand words. This biannual competition is open to international writers.
Prize: £1,000 ($1,340)
Entry fee: £7–£15 ($9.38–$20.11)
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Oxford Poetry awards the annual Oxford Poetry Prize for a single poem in the English language.
Prize: £1,000 ($1,340)
Entry fee: £10 ($13.40)
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Dogwood are given annually for a poem, a short story, and an essay.
Prize: $1,000
Entry fee: $10
Deadline: September 5, 2025
Since 2016, The Masters Review has paired emerging writers with some of the industry’s top literary agents. They welcome submissions of previously unpublished fiction or creative nonfiction for the prize of $3,000, publication, and agency review.
Prize: $3,000
Entry fee: $20
Deadline: September 7, 2025
The American-Scandinavian Foundation annually awards four translation prizes for outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose written by a twentieth- or twenty-first-century Nordic author.
Prize: $2,500
Entry fee: No fee
Deadline: September 15, 2025
A prize of $1,500 and publication by the Santa Fe Writers Project is given to a book of fiction or creative nonfiction.
Prize: $1,500
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: September 15, 2025
The Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction seeks submissions of creative nonfiction, which includes memoirs, chronicles, personal essays, humorous perspectives, literary journalism—anything the author has witnessed, experienced, or discovered.
Prize: $1,000
Entry fee: $15
Deadline: September 30, 2025
The twenty-third annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest will award one poem for the Tom Howard Poetry Prize and one poem for the Margaret Reid Prize. There will be $12,000 total in prizes.
Prize: $3,500 per prize
Entry fee: $20
Deadline: October 1, 2025