Contests
The 10th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition
The 10th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition is accepting entries! We’re looking for fiction that’s bold, brilliant … but brief. Send us your best in 1,500 words or less. But don’t be too long about it! The deadline is December 1, 2009.
The Grand-Prize winner will receive $3,000 (that’s $2 or more per word).
For guidelines, prizes and to enter online, click here.
Plus, the 1st- through 25th-place manuscripts will be printed in the 10th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection. Click here to learn more about this special collection and to reserve
your copy today.
WritersMarket.com fiction contests for July
Bard Fiction Prize is intended to encourage and support young writers of fiction to pursue their creative goals and to provide an opportunity to work in a fertile and intellectual environment. Deadline is July 15. The winner receives $30,000 and appointment as writer-in-residence at Bard College for one semester.
National Writers Association Short Story Contest is intended to encourage fiction writers and to recognize those excel in this form. Deadline is July 1. Charges $15 fee. This contest awards prizes for 1st place ($200), 2nd place ($100), and 3rd place ($50).
Writers’ Journal Annual Romance Contest is previously unpublished romance fiction. Deadline is July 30. There is a $7 reading fee. This contest awards prizes for 1st place ($250), 2nd place ($100), and 3rd place ($50).
