POETRY CONTEST

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	Sponsor and Award	Awards and Fees		Application Deadline
		Entry Fee	Award
1	Sixfold Short Story and Poetry Awa rds Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Sixfold are given quarterly for a group of poems and a short story. Using the online submission system, submit up to five ... Read complete »	$ 5.00	$ 1,000.00	01/24/2017
2	New Millennium Writings New Millennium Awards Four prizes of $1,000 each and publication in New Millennium Writings are given twice yearly for a poem, a short story, a short short story, and a work of nonfiction ... Read complete »	$ 20.00	$ 1,000.00	01/31/2017
3	Iowa Review Iowa Review Awards Three prizes of $1,500 each and publication in Iowa Review are given annually for works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Joyelle McSweeney will judge in ... Read complete »	$ 20.00	$ 1,500.00	01/31/2017
4	Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award A prize of $1,200, publication by Main Street Rag, and 50 author copies is given annually for a poetry collection. The editors and previous winners will judge. Submit a ... Read complete »	$ 25.00	$ 1,200.00	01/31/2017
5	Crazyhorse Literary Prizes Three prizes of $2,000 each and publication in Crazyhorse are given annually for a poem, a short story, and an essay. Ada Limn will judge in poetry, Justin Torres will ... Read complete »	$ 20.00	$ 2,000.00	01/31/2017
6	Winter Anthology Writing Contest A prize of $1,000 and publication in Winter Anthology is given annually for a group of poems, a story, or an essay. Donna Stonecipher will judge. Using the online ... Read complete »	$ 10.00	$ 1,000.00	01/31/2017
7	Balcones Center for Creative Writing Poetry and Fiction Prizes Two prizes of $1,500 each are given annually for a poetry collection and a book of fiction published during the previous year. Authors and publishers may submit three ... Read complete »	$ 30.00	$ 1,500.00	01/31/2017
8	Hippocrates Prize Open International Award A prize of £1,000 (approximately $1,200) and publication in the Hippocrates Prize anthology and on the website is given annually for a poem on a medical theme. Using the ... Read complete »	$ 9.00	$ 1,200.00	01/31/2017
9	Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Individual Artist Grants for Women Grants of up to $1,500 are given annually to feminist poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers who are citizens of the United States or Canada. The current round of... Read complete »	$ 25.00	$ 1,500.00	01/31/2017
10	Schaffner Press Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature A prize of $1,000 and publication by Schaffner Press is given annually for a poetry collection, a novel, a short story collection, an essay collection, or a memoir that ... Read complete »	$ 25.00	$ 1,000.00	01/31/2017
11	Writers at Work Writing Competition Three prizes of publication in Quarterly West are given annually for a group of poems, a short story or novel excerpt, and an essay or memoir excerpt. The winners also ... Read complete »	$ 20.00	$ 1,000.00	01/31/2017