Contests, Grants, and Residencies Calls for Submissions April 2017 March 9, 2017 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 will feature a curated batch 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 (e.g. January 2017 Calls for Submissions is posted in December; all opportunities will have January deadlines). If you would like a contest, grant, fellowship, residency, or workshop to be added to our next Submissions post, please contact us. Include a link to your submission guidelines and the information we include in all our listings: deadline, entry fee, and prize. Fiction Contests Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award Eligibility: All writers Prize: $2,000 Entry fee: $16 Deadline: April 30, 2017 Poetry Contests New Southern Voices Poetry Prize Eligibility: Southern poets with no more than one previously published full-length collection Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry fee: $25 Deadline: April 17, 2017 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, 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize Eligibility: All poets Prize: publication Entry fee: $20 Deadline: April 30, 2017 Translation Contests National Translation Award in Poetry Eligibility: Literary translators with translated works from 2016 Prize: $2,500 Entry fee: $30-50 Deadline: April 7, 2017 National Translation Award in Prose Eligibility: Literary translators with translated works from 2016 Prize: $2,500 Entry fee: $30-50 Deadline: April 7, 2017 Lucien Stryk Prize Eligibility: Translators with book-length translations of Asian* poetry or source texts from Zen Buddhismin in 2016 (*translations from Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean into English) Prize: $5,000 Deadline: April 7, 2017 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) Eligibility: Translators with books of fiction or literary non-fiction translated from Italian into English in 2016 Prize: $5,000 Deadline: April 7, 2017 Cliff Becker Book Prize Eligibility: Poets with unpublished manuscripts of translated poetry Prize: $1,000 + publication by White Pine Press Entry fee: $25 Deadline: April 7, 2017 ALTA Travel Fellowship Eligibility: Emerging translators Prize: $1,000 Deadline: April 7, 2017 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship Eligibility: Emerging translators of color or a translators working from an underrepresented diaspora or stateless language Prize: $1,000 Deadline: April 7, 2017 Multi-Genre Contests Sonora Review Contest Eligibility: All writers Prize: $1,000 Entry fee: $15 Deadline: April 15, 2017 New Michigan/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest Eligibility: All writers (prose or poetry chapbooks are eligible) Prize: $1,000 + publication Entry fee: $19 Deadline: April 28, 2017 Mary Lynn Kotz Award Eligibility: Authors of books of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry published in 2016 whose main focus/topic is the visual arts Prize: Recognition at Virginia Literary Awards Gala Deadline: April 28, 2017 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, 2017 Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence Program Eligibility: Children’s book writers who have not published more than 3 books Prize: $20,000 & office space at the BPL’s Central Library Deadline: April 14, 2017 MacDowell Colony Eligibility: All writers Prize: 4-month residency Entry fee: $30 Deadline: April 15, 2017 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, 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships Eligibility: Poets, ages of 21-31 Prize: $25,800 Deadline: April 30, 2017 Members, for more information on lit mag submissions, check out our how-to guides: Lit Mag Submissions 101 and Escape the Slush Pile Not a member? Subscribe to our mailing list to receive more info like this:
