Creative Writers Opportunities

CHAPTER ONE PRIZE https://gutsygreatnovelist.com/chapter-one-prize/ $20 ENTRY FEE. Submissions open Feb 1 – Mar 1. The Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize is awarded for an outstanding first chapter of an unpublished novel. First prize is $1,000; 2nd is $500; and 3rd is $250. The prize is open to anyone over 18 writing a novel in English in any genre for adult or YA readers. Winners announced Mar 15, 2022 on prize website and via social media.

Plus: opt to receive crucial feedback on your work Submit your best work of nonfiction in 2,000 words or less today! You could win publication in our magazine and opt to receive crucial feedback to improve your craft. Hurry, the entry deadline is February 28, 2022! Get feedback from professionals. We can provide detailed feedback with our add-on critique service regardless of where your submission places in our contest. Enter Now     Copyright © 2022 Madavor Med

Subject: The $12,500 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is open now!   Enter your short story in the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‍Australian Book Review Now open The 2022 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize  ‍ Prize money: $12,500 Closing: 2 May 2022 Judges: Amy Baillieu,  Melinda Harvey,  John Kinsella Australian Book Review welcomes entries to the  2022 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize , one of the world's leading prizes for an original short story. The prize – worth a total of AU$12,500 – is open to all writers writing in English.  The winner will receive $6,00

Etchings Press, a student-run publisher at University of Indianapolis, welcomes submissions for its annual contests: a chapbook of poetry, a chapbook of prose, and a novella. The deadline for all contests is Tuesday, February 1, 2022.  UIndy graduate and undergraduate students will read the submitted manuscripts and choose a winner in each category. The students will then edit, design, publish, and promote the chapbooks and the novella. Students are interested in editing and publishing authors in our region. The students are using the 370 miles between Flannery O'Connor's Milledgeville, Georgia, and William Faulkner's Oxford, Mississippi, as the relative mileage for regional literature. Using UIndy's campus on the southside of Indianapolis as a starting point, that distance makes a circle which includes all of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, most of Michigan, Tennessee, and West Virginia, and parts of Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, West Virg

Deadline February 28, 2022 Mary Blinn Poetry Prize 2022 Judge, Billy Lombardo After Hours launched the inaugural Mary Blinn Annual Poetry Prize in 2019.  Commemorating the outstanding work of Mary Blinn as a poet, visual artist and musician, the prize is awarded annually for outstanding works of poetry by writers who, like Mary Blinn, are deeply dedicated and passionate about their art and the crafting of fine poetry. One $200 Winner and three $50 Finalists will be selected in an anonymous review by After Hours editors with the final winning decisions made entirely at the discretion of our 2022 judge Billy Lombardo.  Winning entries are published annually in the Summer Issue of After Hours . Unlike our standard submi