Creative Writers Opportunities

SUBJECT LINE: $500 Prize for 2024 Poetry by the Sea Book Award The 2024 Poetry by the Sea Book Award  for outstanding poetry collection of 2023 is now open for submissions. There is a $500 prize , and this year's Final Judge is Jane Satterfield. Submissions close on March 1, 2024. Link: https://poetrybytheseaconference.org/poetry-by-the-sea-book-awards/ Details: 1. Authors or publishers may nominate books. Book must have been published in 2023. Note: Books may contain individual translated poems but books in translation are not eligible. Only full-lengths books are eligible (not chapbooks). 2. Books must be submitted by pdf, using the Submittable  link. Please attach a pdf of the book and one of the cover to the Submittable form. [Note: Contest submissions are now fully digital which is a CHANGE from previous years.] 3. The entry fee of $50 is payable through Submittable [You do not need a Paypal account to enter]. Entries that are not accompanied by

GUTSY GREAT NOVELIST CHAPTER ONE PRIZE https://gutsygreatnovelist.com/chapter-one-prize/ $20 ENTRY FEE. Deadline March 1, 2024. The Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize is awarded for an outstanding first chapter of an unpublished novel.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 will be announced March 29, 2024.

Dear Writer, Slippery Elm 's 2024 print issue is open for submissions, and we're looking for your work!  Prizes of $1000 will be awarded for poetry and prose, and all entries will be considered for publication. Michael Czyzniejewski will judge in Prose, and Paula J. Lambert  will judge in Poetry. Submit up to three poems or 5,000 words of prose via Submittable  by February 1.  General (non-contest) entries are always free, but it's only $15 to enter the contest, and all entrants receive a copy of our 2024 issue.  Visit our website  for past issues and online-exclusive content, and see our Submittable  page for complete submission guidelines.  Check us out in Facebook  and follow us on Twitter @SlipperyElmLJ  for author bios and other updates. And if you'd rather not receive these occasional e-mails, just reply and let us know.  An "unsubscribe" in the subject or message body works. Thanks, and we hope you'll check us out and