Contests, Grants, and Residencies Calls for Submissions April 2019 March 7, 2019 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. Fiction Contests C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize Eligibility: Emerging writers (w/no published books of fiction) in thirteen Southern states. Prize: $10,000 + book publication Entry fee: $25 Deadline: April 16, 2019 Nonfiction Contests Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant Eligibility: Creative nonfiction writers under contract with a publisher & at least two years into their contract Prize: $40,000 Deadline: April 22, 2019 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, 2019 Translation Contests Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize Eligibility: Translators with book-length translations of Asian* poetry or source texts from Zen Buddhism in in 2018 (*translations from Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean into English) Prize: $5,000 Deadline: April 15, 2019 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) Eligibility: Translators with books of fiction or literary non-fiction translated from Italian into English in 2018 Prize: $5,000 Deadline: April 15, 2019 ALTA Travel Fellowship Eligibility: Emerging translators Prize: $1,000 Deadline: April 15, 2019 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 15, 2019 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Eligibility: Translators with works published between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019 Prize: £3,000 Deadline: April 23, 2019 Multi-Genre Contests New South Writing Contest Eligibility: Writers who have not published a book of prose or poetry Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry fee: $15 Deadline: April 15, 2019 New Michigan/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest Eligibility: All writers (prose or poetry chapbooks are eligible) Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry fee: $20 Deadline: April 26, 2019 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, 2019 MacDowell Colony Eligibility: All writers Prize: 4-month residency Entry fee: $30 Deadline: April 15, 2019 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, 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships Eligibility: Poets, ages of 21-31 Prize: $25,800 Deadline: April 30, 2019 Writing Workshops & Retreats (Please note these may be non-paying opportunities with additional fees such as tuition, room & board, etc.) Hua Hin Retreat Eligibility: All writers Prize: week-long writers’ retreat in Thailand Other fees: $975 for retreat; $330-$435 for lodging Deadline: April 5, 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop Eligibility: All writers Prize: week-long intensive of workshops, seminars, panels, and readings Application fee: $30 Other fees: $1,600 for tuition; $300 for room & board [scholarships are available; scholarship deadline: March 3, 2019 for most] Deadline: April 7, 2019 Photo by Vesela Vaclavikova on Unsplash
