Contests, Grants, and Residencies Calls for Submissions January 2024 December 8, 2023 Share on Twitter (opens in a new tab) on Facebook (opens in a new tab) on Linkedin (opens in a new tab) via email Fiction Contests Cai Emmons Fiction AwardEligibility: All writersPrize: $5,000 + publicationEntry fee: $25Deadline: January 15, 2024 The Masters Review Short Story Award for New WritersEligibility: Emerging writers onlyPrize: $3,000 + publication + agency reviewEntry Fee: $20Deadline: January 28, 2024 Nonfiction Contests Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert WritersEligibility: Emerging, mid-career or established writers are all welcome to applyPrize: $5,000Entry Fee: $15Deadline: January 15, 2024 Fund for Investigative Journalism GrantEligibility: Journalists with a letter of commitment from a publication for a specific storyPrize: up to $10,000Deadline: January 29, 2024 Poetry Contests 92Y Discovery/Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry ContestEligibility: Poets who have not published a full-length poetry collectionPrize: $1,000 + publicationEntry Fee: $15Deadline: January 12, 2024 Colorado Prize for PoetryEligibility: All poetsPrize: $2,500 + publicationEntry Fee: $28 online; $25 by mailDeadline: January 14, 2024 Tampa Review Prize for PoetryEligibility: All poetsPrize: $2,000 + publicationEntry fee: $25Deadline: January 31, 2024 Translation Contests French-American Foundation Translation PrizeEligibility: Translations published for the first time in the U.S. between January 1 and December 31, 2023Prize: $10,000Deadline: January 12, 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Translation FellowshipsEligibility: Translators published between 2009 and January 18, 2024Prize: up to $25,000Deadline: January 18, 2024 Multi-Genre Contests Mississippi Review PrizeEligibility: All writers except current of former students or employees of the University of Southern MississippiPrize: $1,000 + publicationEntry Fee: $16 online; $15 by mailDeadline: January 1, 2024 Iowa Review AwardsEligibility: All writers and poetsPrize: $1,500Entry Fee: $20Deadline: January 31, 2024 Writing Fellowships & Residencies Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative WritingEligibility: New writers of any age and backgroundPrize: $15,000. Residency in the San José area is expected during the academic year.Deadline: January 5, 2024 Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative WritingEligibility: Writers working on their first bookPrize: $55,500 + travel + health and life insuranceDeadline: January 5, 2024 YaddoEligibility: Any artist, except those enrolled in full time undergrad or graduate programsPrize: 2-week to 2-month residenciesApplication Fee: $30Deadline: January 10, 2024
