Contests, Grants, and Residencies Calls for Submissions April 2020 March 6, 2020 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 PrizeEligibility: Emerging writers (w/no published books of fiction) in thirteen Southern states. Prize: $10,000 + book publication Entry fee: $25 Deadline: April 1, 2020 Nonfiction Contests Whiting Creative Nonfiction GrantEligibility: Creative nonfiction writers under contract with a publisher & at least two years into their contract Prize: $40,000 Deadline: April 20, 2020 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, 2020 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 21, 2020 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 21, 2020 ALTA Travel Fellowship Eligibility: Emerging translators Prize: $1,000 Deadline: April 21, 2020 Multi-Genre Contests New South Writing ContestEligibility: Writers who have not published a book of prose or poetry Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry fee: $18 Deadline: April 1, 2020 New Michigan/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest Eligibility: All writers (prose or poetry chapbooks are eligible) Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry fee: $20 Deadline: April 30, 2020 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, 2020 MacDowell Colony Eligibility: All writers Prize: 4-month residency Entry fee: $30 Deadline: April 15, 2020 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, 2020
