AWP members can view our full list of curated opportunities on our Contests & Calls web page.
The Gasher Book Award for poetry manuscripts is open to any writer based in the United States, regardless of publication history.
Prize: $1,000
Entry fee: $25
Deadline: June 30, 2025
The International Amy McRae Award for Memoir is given to an exceptional work of memoir writing. The contest was created in celebration of the life of the wondrous Amy MacRae and in support of her living legacy to improve the outcomes of women with ovarian cancer.
Prize: CA$1,000
Entry fee: $25
Deadline: June 30, 2025
The Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction is an esteemed competition for unpublished collections of fiction. The contest is open for submissions of flash fiction, short stories, or novellas, with a total manuscript length of one hundred to two hundred book pages.
Prize: $1,000
Entry fee: $25
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Stories may be previously published or unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. True stories are welcome as long as they’re written in a narrative style.
Prize: $1,000
Entry fee: $15
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Now in its eleventh year, the North Street Book Prize will award one grand prize winner $10,000 and expert marketing services for a self-published or hybrid-published book.
Prize: $10,000
Entry fee: $85
Deadline: July 1, 2025
The Richard J. Margolis Award is given annually to a promising new journalist or essayist whose nonfiction work combines warmth, humor, and wisdom and sheds light on issues of social justice.
Prize: $10,000 and one-month residency at Blue Mountain Center
Entry fee: No fee
Deadline: July 1, 2025
The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $15,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine.
Prize: $15,000
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Loghaven Artist Residency offers fully funded artist residencies lasting between two and six weeks. Emerging and established writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting/scriptwriting are encouraged to apply.
Prize: $850 weekly living stipend and more
Entry fee: $25
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Washington Writers’ Publishing House is the longest continuously operative cooperative literary press in the United States. WWPH publishes writers from Washington, DC; Maryland; and Virginia through their annual manuscript contests. They seek book-length works of poetry, poetry in translation, and fiction.
Prize: $1,500
Entry fee: $28
Deadline: July 15, 2025
The Anthology Short Story Competition is open to original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. There is no restriction on theme or style.
Prize: €1,000 and publication
Entry fee: €12–18
Deadline: July 30, 2025
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