Contests are a wonderful way to motivate yourself to complete and project and send it out into the world. Who knows what may happen if you do? These upcoming submissions opportunities comes to us by way of the Authors Guild:

AWP Prize for the Novel
Eligibility: All authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence
Prize: $2,500 + publication by the New Issues Press
Entry Fee: $30 (nonmembers); $20 (members)
Deadline: February 28, 2023

Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction
Eligibility: All authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence
Prize: $5,500 + publication by Red Hen Press
Entry Fee: $30 (nonmembers); $20 (members)
Deadline: February 28, 2023

NONFICTION CONTESTS

Sue Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Eligibility: All authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence
Prize: $2,500 + publication by the University of Georgia Press.
Entry Fee: $30 (nonmembers); $20 (members)
Deadline: February 28, 2023

Hazel Rowley Prize
Eligibility: First-time biographers writing in English
Prize: $5,000 + an agent’s reading of the manuscript + a year’s membership in BIO
Entry fee: $25
Deadline: March 1, 2023

Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award
Eligibility: Early-career nonfiction writers
Prize: $12,500
Deadline: March 2, 2023

POETRY CONTESTS

Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
Eligibility: All authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence
Prize: $5,500 + publication by University of Pittsburgh Press
Entry Fee: $30 (nonmembers); $20 (members)
Deadline: February 28, 2023

Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award
Eligibility: Poets who have previously published at least one full-length book of poems and are citizens or residents of the U.S.
Prize: $2,000 + publication
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: March 7, 2023

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