Topic: What is one unique way that you have connected with your grandkids? Take a look at the two tips we already have at "2 Ways to Better Connect With Your Grandchildren" to make sure that what you've done as a grandparent is different from what we already have. "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead con...

Deadline: 08-31-19

Our judges will be accepting manuscripts and awarding winners in four separate categories: Picture Book Fiction, Picture Book Nonfiction, Middle Grade & Young Adult Novels. *note: we are not accepting poetry, adult novels or "everything else...

The contests do not accept work previously published or having received awards in other competitions. Prizes include publication in the Seven Hills Review. Winners will receive a complimentary copy. We regularly nominate outstanding pieces for the Pushcart Prize consideration.

It's fun to tip our toes in the past, but can you make relatable to today's kids? This contest is your chance to show us your middle grade fiction chops in a historical setting. You pick the historical time frame and be sure the story is aimed at 5th-8th grade (10-14-year-olds). Your entry can be excerpted from any section of the novel b...

The California State Poetry Society offers monthly poetry contests. This contest is open to all poets, whether or not they are members of the CSPS. Reading fees are $1.50 per poem with a $3.00 minimum for members and $3.00 per poem with a $6.00 minimum for non-members. Entries must be submitted through the website or postmarked during the month of the contest in which they ar...

Members fee: $10    Nonmembers fee: $15
Prizes: $5 - $50

Deadline: August 20, 2019

20 categories to enter including Sonnet, Haiku, Shadowns, Humorous advice to newlyweds, Biographical, Third Times a Charm, Interactions, Animals, Word Power, Tanka, Roudeau, Shakespeare Sonnet, Dragons, Popular Music, and more.

Decision magazine's purpose is to set forth the Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ with such clarity that readers will be drawn to make a commitment to Christ; to encourage, teach and strengthen Christians to walk daily with Christ and to reach out to others for Christ; and to inform readers about the ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Decision magazine is published 11 times a year by the Billy Graham Evangelis...

Open to all writers: no expectations or limits regarding the amount of poetry a writer has published. Winner receives $3,000, publication, and 100 copies. Submit 40-80 pages. Accepting electronic & postal submissions July 1 to August 19, 2019. Entry fee $27.

19 categories for nonmembers to enter, more categories available for members, all for one fee of $15 (nonmembers) or $10 (members). Prizes range from $10 to $50.

Deadline is August 15, 2019

We encourage creativity as part of developing the character of Christ our Creator in each of us. So GET CREATIVE – in Photography, Poetry, and Coloring!

Three contests – Nine Winners – Each Quarter! Three age categories in each of the three contests: youth 6-11, teen 12 -18, adult 19+. Please note you can enter all three contests but just one entry per contest per quarter.

Summer Conte...

This year’s guest judge is Fernando A. Flores. Flores is the author of Tears of the Trufflepig and Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas. On stories: “There isn’t any one thing I ever look for in a story, but the ones that stay with me take some kind of risk, strive for something greater, unknown, undefined, and afterward leave you lost in the woods of what you read.”

100 categories to enter including free verse, blank verse, lyric, sonnet, haiku, rhymed, heroism, the beauty of Texas, animal companions, building/construction, you and me against the world, humor, Texas ranching life, windmills/wind power, humorous poem about parenting, narrative, native Texas birds, prose poem, an important disagreement, courage to speak the truth, moving, the bill o...

Prizes: Cash Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Places in each category. In addition, Best of Show will receive a complimentary pass to a future Rochester Writers’ Conference.

Deadline:  August 15, 2019

Number of Entries: Submit one (1) entry in any category for $1...

Deadline: August 15, 2019

Fees: Entry fee is $10 and covers one or all entries for non-members. ISFPC members may enter one to all contest categories for $7. Prizes range from $10 to $100. 23 Categories to enter.

Contest Deadline: August 15, 2019 (plus 3-day grace period)

Ruminate is a contemplative literary arts magazine helping you slow down, encounter poetry, stories, and art, and live awake. We invite you to enter our first broadside poetry contest! We will print the winning poem on a limited-edition letterpress broadside featuring an original image/design inspired by the text.

$12 entry fee (includes a digital copy of ...

Topic: What is one unique activity that you and your children did together that helped your children better understand one aspect of the Easter Story? Please view the short articles at https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/holidays/celebrating-the-easter-season/holy-week-and-easter-activities-for-the-whole-family and the downloads there to verify that your idea hasn't already been...

Deadline: August 2, 2019

Bethune & Son, "your location for gentlemen's quality outdoor & professional clothing, gifts and accessories with the distinct charm of South Texas living," is looking for short fiction (up to 5,000 words) for its third annual Texas Short Story Competition. Current theme: "Black Gold": "All stories must reference Oil in some way." First prize includes ...

The War Cry, now in its 137th year, represents the Salvation Army’s mission through news, profiles, commentaries and stories. It looks to bring people to Christ, help believers grow in faith and character, and promotes redemptive cultural practices from the perspective of Salvation Army programs, ministries and doctrines. Readership consists of those in and involved with The Salvation Army as well as th...

Louisville Literary Arts has sponsored the Writer’s Block Prize since 2013 in conjunction with the annual Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. Each year we rotate genres. The 6th annual Writer's Block Prize will be awarded in FICTION. Internationally acclaimed author, Garth Greenwell, will judge.

25 categories to enter including: Grandpa, Bring Attention ot Mental Health Issues, Petrarchan Sonnet, Pets, Grandparents, Teachers, Siblings, Suddenly, Star Trek, Facing Danger, An Invitation, A Job Well Done, Special People, Haiku, Mirror, Forgiveness, War and Peace, Ach...

Orison Books seeks to publish spiritually-engaged poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of exceptional literary merit. In our view, spiritual writing has little to do with subject matter. Rather, the kind of work we seek to publish has a transcendent aesthetic effect on the reader, and reading it can itself be a spiritual experience. Such work is not merely about spiritual contemplation, but it...

Deadline: August 1, 2019

Entry fee: $3 - $5 per poem   Prizes: $15 - $100

12 categories to enter including Michigan, humor, evening, family, nature, love, spiritual, animals, prose poem, family, and open theme.

Get out your beachwear, your hiking boots, or those wasp plagued picnics. Summer’s here and Pixie Forest Publishing is seeking short stories about a summer’s day outing that turns into an adventure! The adventure can be good or bad, as long as an actual event occurs that changes everything.

Maybe you find a troll in a cave, or help an ancient sea creature on the beach. Or perhaps a...

To celebrate twenty years of publication, we're going to revisit the past. There are no new first lines for 2019. Each issue will be comprised of original works based on past first lines.

Were you inspired by the fall 2008 first line (Roy owned the only drive-thru funeral business in Maine.) but didn't see the sentence until 2015? Or maybe you started writing a story for the spring 2005 issue (Life would be so much easier if I were ...

Deadline: July 31, 2019

From the Loudoun County (Virginia) Public Library: "Enter our seventh annual short-story contest…and earn a shot at cash prizes. Winners will be announced Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Eat Local Read Local Book Sale and Fair at the Cascades Library. An eBook featuring the work of the winners and honorable mentions will be posted on the library website." The cash prizes will be $200/$100/$50. NB: "Pl...

Topic: What is one unique way that you have connected with your grandkids? Take a look at the two tips we already have at "2 Ways to Better Connect With Your Grandchildren" to make sure that what you've done as a grandparent is different from what we already have. "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead con...

Deadline: 08-31-19

Our judges will be accepting manuscripts and awarding winners in four separate categories: Picture Book Fiction, Picture Book Nonfiction, Middle Grade & Young Adult Novels. *note: we are not accepting poetry, adult novels or "everything else...

The contests do not accept work previously published or having received awards in other competitions. Prizes include publication in the Seven Hills Review. Winners will receive a complimentary copy. We regularly nominate outstanding pieces for the Pushcart Prize consideration.

It's fun to tip our toes in the past, but can you make relatable to today's kids? This contest is your chance to show us your middle grade fiction chops in a historical setting. You pick the historical time frame and be sure the story is aimed at 5th-8th grade (10-14-year-olds). Your entry can be excerpted from any section of the novel b...

The California State Poetry Society offers monthly poetry contests. This contest is open to all poets, whether or not they are members of the CSPS. Reading fees are $1.50 per poem with a $3.00 minimum for members and $3.00 per poem with a $6.00 minimum for non-members. Entries must be submitted through the website or postmarked during the month of the contest in which they ar...

Members fee: $10    Nonmembers fee: $15
Prizes: $5 - $50

Deadline: August 20, 2019

20 categories to enter including Sonnet, Haiku, Shadowns, Humorous advice to newlyweds, Biographical, Third Times a Charm, Interactions, Animals, Word Power, Tanka, Roudeau, Shakespeare Sonnet, Dragons, Popular Music, and more.

Decision magazine's purpose is to set forth the Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ with such clarity that readers will be drawn to make a commitment to Christ; to encourage, teach and strengthen Christians to walk daily with Christ and to reach out to others for Christ; and to inform readers about the ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Decision magazine is published 11 times a year by the Billy Graham Evangelis...

Open to all writers: no expectations or limits regarding the amount of poetry a writer has published. Winner receives $3,000, publication, and 100 copies. Submit 40-80 pages. Accepting electronic & postal submissions July 1 to August 19, 2019. Entry fee $27.

19 categories for nonmembers to enter, more categories available for members, all for one fee of $15 (nonmembers) or $10 (members). Prizes range from $10 to $50.

Deadline is August 15, 2019

We encourage creativity as part of developing the character of Christ our Creator in each of us. So GET CREATIVE – in Photography, Poetry, and Coloring!

Three contests – Nine Winners – Each Quarter! Three age categories in each of the three contests: youth 6-11, teen 12 -18, adult 19+. Please note you can enter all three contests but just one entry per contest per quarter.

Summer Conte...

This year’s guest judge is Fernando A. Flores. Flores is the author of Tears of the Trufflepig and Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas. On stories: “There isn’t any one thing I ever look for in a story, but the ones that stay with me take some kind of risk, strive for something greater, unknown, undefined, and afterward leave you lost in the woods of what you read.”

100 categories to enter including free verse, blank verse, lyric, sonnet, haiku, rhymed, heroism, the beauty of Texas, animal companions, building/construction, you and me against the world, humor, Texas ranching life, windmills/wind power, humorous poem about parenting, narrative, native Texas birds, prose poem, an important disagreement, courage to speak the truth, moving, the bill o...

Prizes: Cash Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Places in each category. In addition, Best of Show will receive a complimentary pass to a future Rochester Writers’ Conference.

Deadline:  August 15, 2019

Number of Entries: Submit one (1) entry in any category for $1...

Deadline: August 15, 2019

Fees: Entry fee is $10 and covers one or all entries for non-members. ISFPC members may enter one to all contest categories for $7. Prizes range from $10 to $100. 23 Categories to enter.

Contest Deadline: August 15, 2019 (plus 3-day grace period)

Ruminate is a contemplative literary arts magazine helping you slow down, encounter poetry, stories, and art, and live awake. We invite you to enter our first broadside poetry contest! We will print the winning poem on a limited-edition letterpress broadside featuring an original image/design inspired by the text.

$12 entry fee (includes a digital copy of ...

Topic: What is one unique activity that you and your children did together that helped your children better understand one aspect of the Easter Story? Please view the short articles at https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/holidays/celebrating-the-easter-season/holy-week-and-easter-activities-for-the-whole-family and the downloads there to verify that your idea hasn't already been...

Deadline: August 2, 2019

Bethune & Son, "your location for gentlemen's quality outdoor & professional clothing, gifts and accessories with the distinct charm of South Texas living," is looking for short fiction (up to 5,000 words) for its third annual Texas Short Story Competition. Current theme: "Black Gold": "All stories must reference Oil in some way." First prize includes ...

The War Cry, now in its 137th year, represents the Salvation Army’s mission through news, profiles, commentaries and stories. It looks to bring people to Christ, help believers grow in faith and character, and promotes redemptive cultural practices from the perspective of Salvation Army programs, ministries and doctrines. Readership consists of those in and involved with The Salvation Army as well as th...

Louisville Literary Arts has sponsored the Writer’s Block Prize since 2013 in conjunction with the annual Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. Each year we rotate genres. The 6th annual Writer's Block Prize will be awarded in FICTION. Internationally acclaimed author, Garth Greenwell, will judge.

25 categories to enter including: Grandpa, Bring Attention ot Mental Health Issues, Petrarchan Sonnet, Pets, Grandparents, Teachers, Siblings, Suddenly, Star Trek, Facing Danger, An Invitation, A Job Well Done, Special People, Haiku, Mirror, Forgiveness, War and Peace, Ach...

Orison Books seeks to publish spiritually-engaged poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of exceptional literary merit. In our view, spiritual writing has little to do with subject matter. Rather, the kind of work we seek to publish has a transcendent aesthetic effect on the reader, and reading it can itself be a spiritual experience. Such work is not merely about spiritual contemplation, but it...

Deadline: August 1, 2019

Entry fee: $3 - $5 per poem   Prizes: $15 - $100

12 categories to enter including Michigan, humor, evening, family, nature, love, spiritual, animals, prose poem, family, and open theme.

Get out your beachwear, your hiking boots, or those wasp plagued picnics. Summer’s here and Pixie Forest Publishing is seeking short stories about a summer’s day outing that turns into an adventure! The adventure can be good or bad, as long as an actual event occurs that changes everything.

Maybe you find a troll in a cave, or help an ancient sea creature on the beach. Or perhaps a...

To celebrate twenty years of publication, we're going to revisit the past. There are no new first lines for 2019. Each issue will be comprised of original works based on past first lines.

Were you inspired by the fall 2008 first line (Roy owned the only drive-thru funeral business in Maine.) but didn't see the sentence until 2015? Or maybe you started writing a story for the spring 2005 issue (Life would be so much easier if I were ...

Deadline: July 31, 2019

From the Loudoun County (Virginia) Public Library: "Enter our seventh annual short-story contest…and earn a shot at cash prizes. Winners will be announced Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Eat Local Read Local Book Sale and Fair at the Cascades Library. An eBook featuring the work of the winners and honorable mentions will be posted on the library website." The cash prizes will be $200/$100/$50. NB: "Pl...