The Daisy Pettles Writing Contest for Women is now accepting submissions for the 2021 writing residency and grant awards. Deadline is 12/12/2020. The competition is … Read More “Daisy Pettles Women’s Writing Contest”
City Limits Publishing is proud to host the 2020 New Theatrical Works Competition and Festival. We are currently accepting submissions for short plays and full-length … Read More “City Limits Publishing 2020 New Theatrical Works Competition and Festival”
The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who enjoys expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful literary art of … Read More “Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest – SUMMER 2020”
The 35th Annual Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival is seeking submissions of original, unpublished One-Act plays for our 2020-2021 Writing Contest. This contest … Read More “Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Writing Contest”
The Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition invites writers to stitch together their own stories based on the opening and closing lines of well-known works of … Read More “Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition”
The Book Pipeline: Adaptation competition seeks published books, graphic novels, short stories, and plays for film and television adaptation. There are no genre restrictions, and … Read More “Book Pipeline: Adaptation”
Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, philosophical ruminations, stageplays, fragments, chapters, and excerpts are all acceptable. We are not concerned with genre distinctions—send us the best you … Read More “Lazuli Literary Group Writing Contest (Summer 2020)”
The year 2020 reminds us of the phrase: Hindsight is 20/20. So we invite you to look back on your life and tell us about … Read More “Mistakes Were Made”
There is a choice of four prompts for your entry. See the website: http://www.wildwords.org/competition The piece can be oral or written, fiction or non-fiction, prose … Read More “Wild Words Winter Solstice Competition”
Win a full-tuition scholarship to Interlochen Arts Academy! 1) The contest is open to students who are in grades 8–11 during the 2019-20 school year. … Read More “Virginia B. Ball Creative Writing Competition”
Here are the five components that should be in any truthteller’s toolkit. Read More “5 things a personal essay needs to succeed (and sell)”
“I want to write about the COVID-19 pandemic, but I’m worried literary journal editors are saturated with similar submissions.” Read More “Gigi Will Know: Are editors sick of COVID-19 pitches yet?”
Since conferences aren’t back on the table for most writers just yet, here are some online learning resources for craft-hungry scribes. Read More “Virtual learning opportunities for writers”
