Writing Contests
Our Writing Contest of the Week section features contests that are:
- Inexpensive for the broke-ass artist to enter. We typically look for contests that cost $25 or less to enter, and prefer no-fee contests.
- Offering decent cash-money prizes. What’s decent is open to interpretation, but significant compensation to us is at least twice the entry fee, preferably more. Minimum prizes should award at least $50 to all winners.
- Going to raise a writer’s profile with publication on a legit site with a decent readership. Maybe you’ll be published on someone’s personal blog, but you’ll get $100 for it and rights to the story revert back to you. That’s still damn good, in our opinion, though of course we’d all love to make it big-time at a site visited by thousands of readers per day.
Barring these standards, we’ll also include contests where prizes are non-monetary, but still beneficial to writers, i.e. books or otherwise writing-related prizes, so long as there’s no entry fee and the contest’s rules aren’t overly punishing. After all, why slave over a perfectly constructed piece only to have all your rights taken over by a contest that’s never gonna do anything with it?
Partners & Promotions
Got a contest you want to promote on our site? Get in touch using our handy contact form with all the deets!
Want to partner up on a writing contest you’re sponsoring? If you meet the above criteria, we’re interested in hearing more. Contact us, and we’ll do lunch.
