There are lots of contest deadlines coming up over the next few days. Check the Poets & Writers, Inc. list of upcoming contests to see if there’s anything that fits any manuscripts you might have lying around.
There are dozens of contest here, for all levels of experience. Be sure to mark contests coming up in future months on your calendars!
From the Poets & Writers, Inc calendar of contest deadlines:
September 30
Birmingham-Southern College
Hackney Literary AwardChautauqua Literary Journal
Annual ContestsGlimmer Train Press
Short Story Award for New WritersUniversity of Iowa Press
Short Fiction AwardsUniversity of Massachusetts Press
Juniper Prize in PoetryJuniper Prize in Fiction
New Criterion
Poetry PrizeNew Issues Poetry & Prose
Green Rose PrizeOhio State University Press
Journal AwardPleiades Press
Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series AwardPudding House Publications
Give ’em Shelter Poetry Chapbook CompetitionRed Hen Press
Ruskin Art Club Poetry AwardSouthwest Review
Morton Marr Poetry PrizeUtah State University Press
May Swenson Poetry AwardUniversity of Wisconsin Press
Brittingham and Felix Pollak PrizesOctober 1
Black Warrior Review
Writing ContestsBoston Review
Short Story ContestJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic CreationChristopher Isherwood Foundation
Fiction FellowshipsAlice James Books
Kinereth Gensler AwardsMississippi Review
Poetry and Fiction PrizesMissouri Review
Editors’ PrizesSouthern Indiana Review
Mary C. Mohr Short Fiction AwardSycamore Review
Wabash Prize for PoetryZoetrope: All-Story
Short Fiction ContestOctober 2
Harvard University
Radcliffe Institute FellowshipsOctober 3
New York Foundation for the Arts
Artists’ Fellowships
Link to the P&W contest calendar