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9/20 – California dreaming contests
This week in writing contests, we’ve got a few cool California contests up our sleeves. Maybe it’s the thrill of living on a fault line, or the smell of the sea, or maybe we’ve just seen The Big Lebowski one too many times. Whatever the case, we’ve got a serious case of California fever, and we won’t rest until you’ve
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9/14 – Canadian writing contests
This week we’re back from our Labor Day holidays, reinvigorated and ready to tackle a few foreign markets. Check out these excellent, high-profile (and big money!) Canadian contests. Just remember that all your entry fees must be in the form of Canadian dollars—and all your prize money will
8/30 – Two ab-fab UK short story competitions
God bless America, but we do love us some UK prize money! With the British Pound Sterling currently equal to roughly $1.50 in U.S. cold hard cash, winning a nice solid £100 is almost like winning the lottery. (Okay, so it’s about $155, but that’s $55 more than a straight-up U.S. prize of
8/23 – Literal Latte Ames Essay Award
Essayists! Heed the call for submissions at Literal Latté and win big. With a first prize of $1,000, that’s might big bank. Second prize nets $300 and third prize snags $200, so it’s definitely worth your while to slave away over a hot keyboard to find just the right words for this week’s
8/16 – 3 High-Paying Summer’s-End Writing Contests
This week’s contest all have deadlines of August 31 or September 1—dates that are coming up fast! Can you believe the summer has flown by so quickly? Personally, I’ll be glad to escape the 100-degree heat of August in Austin (presuming, of course, that things actually start to cool down
8/9 – Memoir (and) Prize for Memoir in Poetry or Prose
Been working on your memoirs? This week’s contest is for all you autobiographers out there, and features some sweet prize money from the Memoir (and) peeps. With no entry fee, it’s a great opportunity to get your work circulating. Visually inclined writers may also want to submit a photo
8/2 – Jerry Jazz Musician New Short Fiction Contest
If you like jazz and short fiction, then this week’s contest is beboppin’ down your door. Jerry Jazz Musician, an online magazine dedicated to “bringing you the goods on the greats,” is offering a $100 prize for the best short story
7/26 – H.G. Wells Short Story Competition + WOW Summer Flash Fiction Contest
This week’s first writing contest seems to have a spot of science fiction to its rules and regulations, but as it has recently extended its deadlines, we wanted to include it in our list. Additionally, we’ve also got a small entry fee competition open to all writers (not just women, despite
7/19 – Claudia Del Balso’s Summer Writing Contest and 9th Annual FundsforWriters Essay Contest
This week we’ve got a summer writing contest that will keep you cool with free entry, and a nice (but non-monetary) compensation, plus a contest whose deadline is far enough off in the hazy distance of autumn that you can enter multiple times for maximum possible success—with both free and paid
7/12 – WritersWeekly 24-Hour Short Story Contest
Our Writing Contest of the Week features contests that are: Inexpensive for the broke-ass artist to enter. We look for contests that cost $20 or less and prefer no-fee contests. Offering decent cash-money prizes. What’s decent is open to interpretation, but significant compensation to us is at
