Calls for Submissions October 2024
September 12, 2024
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
Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition
Eligibility: All writers
Prize: $1,000 + publication
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: October 1, 2024
Nonfiction Contests
River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Contest
Eligibility: All writers
Prize: $1,000 + publication
Entry fee: $27
Deadline: October 31, 2024
Poetry Contests
APR/Honickman First Book Prize
Eligibility: U.S. writers who have not published a book-length collection of poems
Prize: $3,000 + publication
Entry fee: $25
Deadline: October 1, 2024
Alice James Award
Eligibility: Emerging & established poets
Prize: $2,000 + publication
Entry fee: $30
Deadline: October 11, 2024
Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
Eligibility: All writers
Prize: $3,000 + publication
Entry fee: $25
Deadline: October 31, 2024
Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry
Eligibility: Female poets who have yet to publish a full-length book of poems
Prize: $1,000 + publication + residency
Deadline: October 31, 2024
Multi-Genre Contests
Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize
Eligibility: All writers
Prize: $5,000
Entry fee: $25
Deadline: October 1, 2024
American Literary Review Awards
Eligibility: All writers
Prize: $1,000 + publication
Entry fee: $15
Deadline: October 1, 2024
Writing Fellowships & Residencies
Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship
Eligibility: Early-career writer of fiction who has not yet published a book and is not currently nor has ever been enrolled in an MFA program
Prize: $2,000, manuscript review, free tuition for all One Story online classes, free admission One Story’s week-long summer writers’ conference
Deadline: October 9, 2024
Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship
Eligibility: All US-born poets (or with parent born in the US)
Prize: $74,000
Deadline: October 15, 2024
Dora Maar Fellowship
Eligibility: Midcareer professionals in the arts and humanities
Prize: residency at Dora Maar House
Entry Fee: $25
Deadline: October 15, 2024