Contests, Grants, and Residencies Calls for Submissions April 2018 March 5, 2018 Share on Twitter (opens in a new tab) on Facebook (opens in a new tab) on Linkedin (opens in a new tab) via email Each month we curate a list of contests, fellowships, and other writing opportunities with approaching deadlines. Opportunities will be posted in the month prior to their deadlines, so that you have ample time to submit your work or applications. If you would like a contest, grant, fellowship, residency, or workshop to be added to our next Submissions post, please contact us. Include a link to your submission guidelines and the information we include in all our listings: deadline, entry fee, and prize. Fiction Contests Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award Eligibility: All writers Prize: $2,000 Entry fee: $16 Deadline: April 30, 2018 NonFiction Contests Red Hen Press Fiction Award Eligibility: All writers Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry fee: $20 Deadline: April 30, 2018 Poetry Contests Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Eligibility: Poets who have not had a full-length book of poetry published previously Prize: $5,000 + publication Entry fee: $25 Deadline: April 30, 2018 Translation Contests National Translation Award in Poetry Eligibility: Literary translators with translated works from 2017 Prize: $2,500 Entry fee: $30-50 Deadline: April 16, 2018 National Translation Award in Prose Eligibility: Literary translators with translated works from 2017 Prize: $2,500 Entry fee: $30-50 Deadline: April 16, 2018 Lucien Stryk Prize Eligibility: Translators with book-length translations of Asian* poetry or source texts from Zen Buddhism in in 2016 (*translations from Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean into English) Prize: $5,000 Deadline: April 16, 2018 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) Eligibility: Translators with books of fiction or literary non-fiction translated from Italian into English in 2016 Prize: $5,000 Deadline: April 16, 2018 Cliff Becker Book Prize Eligibility: Poets with unpublished manuscripts of translated poetry Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry fee: $25 Deadline: April 16, 2018 ALTA Travel Fellowship Eligibility: Emerging translators Prize: $1,000 Deadline: April 16, 2018 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship Eligibility: Emerging translators of color or translators working from an underrepresented diaspora or stateless language Prize: $1,000 Deadline: April 16, 2018 Multi-Genre Contests New Michigan/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest Eligibility: All writers (prose or poetry chapbooks are eligible) Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry fee: $20 Deadline: April 27, 2018 Writing Fellowships & Residencies Marguerite and Lamar Fellowship for Writers Eligibility: All writers Prize: $5,000 + residency in Carson McCullers’s childhood home Deadline: April 1, 2018 Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence Program Eligibility: Children’s book writers who have not published more than 3 books Prize: $20,000 & office space at the BPL’s Central Library Deadline: April 5, 2018 MacDowell Colony Eligibility: All writers Prize: 4-month residency Entry fee: $30 Deadline: April 15, 2018 Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents Eligibility: Parents of at least one child under 10 years of age Prize: $1,000 Entry fee: $15 Deadline: April 17, 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships Eligibility: Poets, ages of 21-31 Prize: $25,800 Deadline: April 30, 2018 Writing Workshops & Retreats (Please note these may be non-paying opportunities with additional fees such as tuition, room & board, etc.) Jack Jones Retreat Eligibility: Professional and emerging women writers of color Prize: Two-week retreat at Blue Sky Retreat Application fee: $35 Other fees: last year the cost was $1,050 (fellowships and travel stipends are available) Deadline: April 1, 2018 Tin House Summer Workshop Eligibility: All writers Prize: week-long intensive of workshops, seminars, panels, and readings Application fee: $40 Other fees: $1200 for tuition; $600 for room & board [scholarships are available; scholarship deadline: March 18, 2018] Deadline: April 29, 2018 For more information on contests, check out our how-to guides: Lit Mag Contests 101 Not a member? Subscribe to our mailing list to receive contests and other news directly in your inbox: Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash
