Contests, Grants, and Residencies Fall 2024 Writing Opportunities November 21, 2024 Share on Twitter (opens in a new tab) on Facebook (opens in a new tab) on Linkedin (opens in a new tab) via email As the holidays approach, many authors are looking ahead and thinking about what they can do with their work. To help, we’ve compiled a list of writing opportunities that are currently open for submission, including contests and small presses, as well as free, funded, and low-cost writing residencies. For more opportunities throughout the year, be sure to check the Contests section of our website each month. You can also sign up for our newsletter, where you’ll find plenty of opportunities with upcoming deadlines in each issue. Columbia Journal: Call for Pitches Deadline: Ongoing Columbia Journal seeks submissions of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, art, and translation, for both print and online. We’re in search of innovative, outward-looking voices, stories that break boundaries and language that lingers. To get a sense of the work we have published recently, we recommend reading the Spring 2021 issue of the Journal. Please submit up to 5 pages of poetry or up to 5,000 words of prose at a time. Print and Online: Submissions in multiple genres are okay. Eligibility: If you have studied at or taught in the Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program at any time in the past five years, you are ineligible to submit your original work. Current students/faculty are not eligible. Philadelphia Stories: Fiction Contest Deadline: December 1, 2024 This national short fiction contest that features a first place $1,000 cash award and three $250 runner-up cash awards. The winner stories will be published in the print issue of the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of Philadelphia Stories. We especially encourage writers from underrepresented groups and backgrounds to send their work. Fee: $20.00. Columbus Museum: Aminah Robinson Writer/Scholar/Researcher Residency Deadline: December 9, 2024 The Aminah Robinson Writer/Scholar/Researcher Residency, sponsored by the Columbus Museum, offers a three-month residency from May through July to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer at the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson home studio in the Shepard neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The resident is provided with a $15,000 stipend; a private room, studio, and bathroom; and access to Robinson’s art, archive, and library. African American poets, fiction writers, or nonfiction writers (including creative nonfiction writers) who are “interested in topics like those central to the work of MacArthur fellow Robinson, such as the documentation of African American culture and history or the centrality of African American women to sustaining community,” are eligible. To apply, submit up to 20 pages of poetry or prose, a bio, and a list of publications with a $15 entry fee. Accessibility accommodations include an accessible bathroom as well as ASL interpretation, assistive listening devices, transcriptions of talks, and closed captioning. Furious Flower Poetry Prize Deadline: December 15, 2024 Poets with no more than one published book are invited to submit up to three poems (no more than a total of 6 pages) for consideration for this prize. The winner and honorable mention receive $1500 and $750 respectively. Submission fee: $15 Narratively: 2024 Memoir Prize Deadline: December 19, 2024 From Monday, October 28, 2024, through Thursday, December 19, 2024, Narratively is accepting entries for our 2024 Memoir Prize. We’re on the hunt for revealing and emotional first-person nonfiction narratives from unique and overlooked points of view. Entries will be judged on a rolling basis in four rounds: the first three by experienced Narratively readers and staff, and the final by our incredible and generous guest judge, critically acclaimed writer Jami Attenberg! Center for Book Arts: 2025 Poetry Chapbook Contest Deadline: December 20, 2024 Center for Book Arts invites submissions to its annual Poetry Chapbook Program. The winning manuscript will be determined in May 2025 by our Guest Judge. As part of the competition award package, CBA commissions artists to design and produce a limited-edition of 100 chapbooks for the competition winner’s manuscript, a limited-edition of 100 chapbooks for a manuscript by the guest judge, and a limited-edition broadside of 100 for each runner-up featuring one poem from their respective manuscripts. The competition winner receives ten copies of their chapbook, a $500 honorarium, a $500 stipend to participate in a competition reading public program, a week-long stay at Millay Arts during their Wintertide Rustic Retreat season (valued at $480), and one copy of the guest judge’s chapbook as well as the runners-up’s broadsides. Application Fee: $30. The Poetry Society of America: Anna Rabinowitz Award for Poetry Deadline: December 31, 2024 The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work that was completed in the previous year and combines poetry with any other art or discipline. $1,000 is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work combining poetry and any other art or discipline. Fee: $10.
