Calls for Submissions March 2025

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

Ann Petry Award
Eligibility: Black writers
Prize: $3,000
Deadline: March 31, 2025

Nonfiction Contests

Hazel Rowley Prize
Eligibility: First-time biographers writing in English
Prize: $5,000 + an agent’s reading of the manuscript + a year’s membership in BIO
Entry fee: $25
Deadline: March 1, 2025

Poetry Contests

Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award
Eligibility: Poets who have previously published at least one full-length book of poems and are citizens or residents of the U.S.
Prize: $2,000 + publication
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: March 15, 2025

Translation Contests

Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
Eligibility: Translators with book-length translations Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, or Vietnamese into English poetry or source texts from Zen Buddhism in previous calendar year
Prize: $10,000
Deadline: March 17, 2025

Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA)
Eligibility: Translators with books of fiction or literary non-fiction translated from Italian into English in previous calendar year
Prize: $5,000
Deadline: March 17, 2025

ALTA First Translation Prize
Eligibility: Translators with a full-length debut literary translation published in the previous calendar year
Prize: $2,000
Deadline: March 17, 2025

Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize
Eligibility: Translators with works published between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025
Prize: £3,000
Deadline: March 31, 2025

Writing Fellowships & Residencies

National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships
Eligibility: Writers with substantial publications from Jan 1, 2015-Mar 12, 2025 (see eligibility for details)
Prize: $50,000
Deadline: March 12, 2025