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Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest 2021

Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest 2021

The contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book.

The entry fee is $24. The fee includes a 1-year subscription to Ploughshares.

The winning story, essay, and poems will be published in the Winter 2020-21 issue of Ploughshares.
Each winning author will receive $2,000.
2021-05-15
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition

Entrants must be 18 or older.

Fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid narratives are considered. Word count: 400 words or fewer.

Entry fees: $6 for one micro, $10 for two micros, $16 for up to four micros.

Grand Prize: $1,500
Second Place: $500
Third Place: $300
Finalists: $100
2021-05-16
The Masters Review Flash Fiction Contest

The Masters Review Flash Fiction Contest

The competition is open to emerging writers.

You may submit stories under 1000 words.

$20 entry fee allows submit up to two stories (each under 1000 words).

The winning writer will be awarded $3000 and publication in The Masters Review. Second and third place will be awarded $300 and $200, respectively, as well as publication in The Masters Review.
2021-05-30
Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2021

Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2021

The competition is open to anyone who has not published a book-length work of fiction, life writing, or poetry, except for self-published works or poetry chapbooks.

The prize is judged in three categories: Fiction, Poetry and Life Writing.

A single entry costs £10, two entries are £16.

The winners of each category will receive £1,000.
2021-05-31
The Bridport Prize 2021

The Bridport Prize 2021

The competition welcomes entries from writers across the globe writing in English, aged 16 years old and over.

The competition has four categories: poetry, short stories, flash fiction and novel.

Entry fees: from £9 to £20.

Over £19,000 in prize money.
2021-05-31
The Bath Novel Award 2021

The Bath Novel Award 2021

The Bath Novel Award is a prize for unpublished, self-published and independently published writers worldwide.

Novels can be in any genre written for adult or young adult readers.

The entry fee is £28 per novel.

The winner will receive a cash prize of £3,000.
2021-05-31
Boston Review 2021 Writing Contests

Boston Review 2021 Writing Contests

The Boston Review, an American political and literary magazine, has announced two contests:
• Annual Poetry Contest
• Aura Estrada Short Story Contest

There is an entry fee of US$20 for writers from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe.
Contestants outside U.S., Canada, Western Europe, and those experiencing hardship may enter free of charge.

The first prize winner in each contest receives US$1,000.
2021-06-01