AWP members can view our full list of curated opportunities on our Contests & Calls web page.
The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award honors an outstanding debut novel published in the preceding calendar year.
Prize: $5,000
Entry fee: No fee
Deadline: December 30
This award honors the best fiction set in a period when the United States was at war.
Prize: $5,000
Entry fee: No fee
Deadline: December 31
The second annual Kevin McIlvoy Book Prize is open for submissions of unpublished books of prose—novels, memoirs, narrative nonfiction, essay and story collections, and hybrid works.
Prize: $2,500
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: December 31
The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence recognizes rising African-American fiction writers of excellence at a national level. The work of fiction (novel or collection of short stories) that must be published between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024.
Prize: $15,000
Entry fee: No fee
Deadline: December 31