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Short Story Contests Worth Your Time — Prizes, Fees, Deadlines

W riting contests are great ways to build your portfolio, and hone your writing skills. For emerging writers especially, the price to pay is usually quite small, while the rewards range from getting published to receiving thousands. Not a bad trade-off. The only reasonable downside is all the extra work…for well…all the extra rejection.  Ah, I’m only slightly kidding. Rejection is part of the journey. It’s the bumpy road that takes you from nobody to somebody. So even if you don’t win first prize, entering into contests can help you get better. This article looks at some of the best short story contests out there right now.

Benefits of Short Story Contests

Why submit to writing contests.

Whether you’re an up and coming writer or published author, writing contests provide great practice for honing your craft. 

They allow you to churn out material quickly to make each deadline. Pumping out work nearly on-demand to meet these deadlines strengthens your writing muscles and your ability to face the blank page.

Deadlines are helpful too. For any level writer. These contests help develop the habit of actually finishing something, and often. It’s also great practice for sticking to your own deadlines. 

Not to mention, another huge benefit of submitting to writing contests....getting comfortable with getting your work out there. Gone are the days of obsessing over every single word. Well, no, you’ll still probably do that, but at least now you’re not using stupid excuses to hide from rejection. 

For aspiring writers, this consistency helps find your voice. Some competitions even provide feedback on your writing which is priceless if you want to become a better writer.

While there are a variety of writing competitions, short story contests are great ways to develop your skills as a writer. The focus is on writing compelling narratives in a more condensed time frame ( not an easy thing to do) and if you can pull that off well, over and over again, you’re well on your way to becoming a writer people will want to read.

And while these short story contests are great practice, most often one contest will allow multiple mediums to write in — like poetry, non-fiction, etc. The contests below all include short story categories but may also include those other mediums. 

Note: these deadlines and details sometimes change. Be sure to check the accompanied websites for the latest terms. 

Short Story, Flash Fiction, & Poetry

F(r)iction’s summer 2021 contests.

An offbeat but provocative online mag that comes from Brink Literacy Project. This asks for works that push boundaries and take risks, a mag that boasts everything from comics to poetry.

For this contest, the short story is the main event with a prize of $1,000, but you’ll have the option of submitting flash fiction and poetry respectively. 

Short story writing contests

Top Prize — $ 2,100

Category(-ies)  — Short Story, Flash Fiction, Poetry

Entry Fee — $10

Additional Prizes — Flash Fiction $300, Poetry $300

Deadline — April (TBD)

Rolling Short Story Contests

The reedsy prompts contest(s).

If you subscribe to the Reedsy newsletter, each Friday you'll receive a writing prompt. You’ll have about a week to send it in, and you’ll get notified the next week if you’ve won! It’s a great weekly practice to commit to, and it’s completely free!

Free short story contests

Top Prize  — $50

Category(-ies)  — Short Story, Fiction

Entry Fee — Free

Additional Prizes — Publication on Reedsy

Deadline  —   Every Week!

Black Lawrence Press Short Story Contest 

The black river chapbook competition.

Black Lawrence Press runs the Black River Chapbook Competition twice each year for unpublished prose or poems between 16 and 36 pages in length. It’s open to brand new, emerging, or established writers.

Chapbooks receive an ISBN and are nationally distributed through Small Press Distribution, as well as their website and Amazon. 

Short story competitions

Top Prize — $ 500

Category(-ies)  — Short Story, Fiction, Poetry

Entry Fee — $ 15

Additional Prizes — Publication, + 10 copies of book

Deadline — May 31st, 2021

Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest

Writer’s digest short story competition.

The good ole Writer’s Digest! Send them your best short fiction in 1500 words or less. This one really celebrates the writer as the top 25 winners receive recognition. While the grand prize totals in at $3,000 cash, your short story published in Writer’s Digest mag’s September/October issue, and a paid trip to the annual conference, the other 24 winners get a little something too! 

*See their website for more details. Writer’s Digest hosts a variety of competitions across categories with varying deadlines.

Short fiction writing contests

Top Prize — $ 3,000

Entry Fee — $ 25-$30

Additional Prizes — Cash, Publication, Gift Cards

Deadline —  May 2022 (TBD)

Flash 500 Annual Competition

Annual short story contest.

Based in the U.K., this contest looks for any genre ranging from 1,000-3,000 words. It also gladly accepts stories written by or for children, which is a unique spin. The payments and fees are in British pounds on their site, but below is current approximate of the U.S. dollar exchange.

For more info, check their site. 

Short story contests

Top Prize —  $610

Entry Fee — $8

Additional Prizes — N/A

Deadline — February 28th, 2022

Tennesse Williams / New Orleans Literary Festival 

Twf very short fiction contest.

Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival hosts their Very Short Fiction Contest, asking for an original short story up to 1,000 words max. The top prize is $500 bucks with a VIP pass to the festival, a public reading at the festival, and a publication in the New Orleans Review , as well as other mentions on social media, their newsletter and website. 

Top Prize —  $500

Category(-ies)  — Short Story, Fiction, Flash Fiction

Entry Fee — $ 20

Additional Prizes — VIP Pass to Festival, Publication

Deadline —  October 2th, 2021

Rolling Fiction Competitions

Havok writing contests.

Each season, HAVOK puts out a new contest. Each season has a new theme. Short stories, flash fiction, thrillers are usually welcomed. The themes function as writing and story prompts for you.

There are 4 competitions each year, 1 for each season, and the next one is approaching fast on October 5th , but that being said, the next one is just around the corner. Season 4’s theme is Sensational. It’s a journey of the senses to immerse the readers in everything possible in the human experience. 

Check out their site for more info. 

Top Prize — $ 10

Category(-ies)  — Short Story

Additional Prizes — Publications and Gift Cards

Deadline —  Deadline per season, rolling

Reed Magazine Short Story Competitions

John steinbeck award for fiction.

This contest awards fiction up to 5,000 words. All entries are considered for publication. See website for more information on eligibility requirements.

short story contests

Top Prize —  $ 1,000

Additional Prizes — Publication

Deadline —  November 1st, 2021

Short Story Contest Offered by The Madison Review

Chris o’malley prize in fiction.

The entries open up on October 1st and the entries may be up to 30 pages, 1,000-7500 words (double spaced). This is an annual offering from The Madison Review, and also offers other opportunities for poetry. 

Top Prize — $ 1,000

Entry Fee — $ 10

Deadline —  January (TBD)

Pithead Chapel’s Short Story Contest

Larry brown short story award.

The fifth annual short story award with the top three winners receiving cash prizes and the 4th and 5th receiving copies Tiny Love: The Complete Stories by Larry Brown. Your short story must be less than 4,000 words.

Deadline —  October 31st, 2021

Emerging Writers Short Story Contest

Lorian hemingway short story competition.

This contest is open to those writers who have not yet been published in a nationally distributed magazine. Submissions must be less than 3500 words. The deadline is fast approaching, and by the time you read this, it may be passed. But this one is worth marking on your calendar. $1500 will be awarded for first place winner, and $500 for 2nd and 3rd place writers. 

Top Prize —  $ 1,500

Additional Prizes — Publication in Cutthroat Magazine

Deadline —  October 1st, 2021

Annual Contests to Watch

Raymond carver short story contest.

The Raymond Carver Short Story Contest is one of the best to submit to, bookmark it or write it down, but remember it! With great judges and over 3k in prizes, the contest yields some pretty great fiction. You can also submit to them regularly. See their website for more details. $2000 will be awarded for first place winner, and $500 for 2nd and $250 for 3rd place writers. 

Top Prize — $ 2,000

Additional Prizes — Publication 

Best Screenwriting Contests

If screenplays are your preferred writing medium, take a look at our next article which highlights the best screenwriting contests out there. See the requirements and deadlines to get your script noticed. 

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Columns > Published on May 10th, 2023

Thoughts From a Short Story Contest Judge

Header illustration by raúl gil for reedsy.

I’ve been helping judge the Reedsy Prompts contest since 2020. In this weekly short story contest, we supply five loosely themed prompts, and writers must base their stories on one of those five. Winners earn $250 and the chance to be featured in Reedsy’s anthology, Prompted .

Two things I’ve been thinking about when reflecting on my time as a judge are the arbitrariness of a story succeeding or failing in the eyes of its creator, and how writing to prompts affects the resulting stories.

“Winners” and “losers” are more arbitrary than you think

The way our contest works, judges whittle a longlist down to a shortlist, then we take a vote on the remaining stories. Each contest’s shortlist is made public, but our individual votes and tallies are not, since all shortlisted stories are considered equal.

Interestingly, that means that when a story finishes as a close second, its writer will have no idea that they almost won, or that they did “better” than the rest of the shortlist. Ultimately, they’ll just hear that their story did not win, but was shortlisted. They won’t know, for example, about the handful of judges who thought their story should have won, only to be narrowly outvoted.

The current shortlisting system exists for good reason; it streamlines the administrative process, making it possible to get the contest’s results out week on week, and it also gives equal fanfare to all shortlisted stories. If even one of the final judges saw something in a story that they liked enough to add to their top three, the writer is rewarded with a shortlist spot.

But at the same time, this system, whereby close seconds and personal comments aren’t included in the results, occasionally pains me. So many of the writers in the Reedsy Prompts community are new to creative writing or eager for their stories’ first publication , so I’d imagine many would love to know that they came tantalizingly close to a win (although I’m sure, for some, this would be torturous). Similarly, someone whose story made it to the longlist but not the shortlist won’t know that, and may assume their story ‘failed’ or was completely terrible.

To the writers who enter the contest, the judges’ decisions seem black and white: the best story, the good stories, and everyone else. But things aren’t so simple behind the curtain, as I hope every writer will remember — no writer can really know how close they got to being awarded a prize or making the shortlist.

Even for stories that don’t make it to the longlist, it’s very much true that we are just a bunch of humans with personal tastes and opinions. There are different things that speak to each one of us, and we are not the divine word of judgment: we are just a few people running a contest as thoughtfully and respectfully as we can.

The same is true of every literary magazine and writing contest out there. So many stories or books or poems won’t win awards by a narrow margin, emerging the “losers,” when that label misrepresents the experience of the judges as a purely negative one. Sadly, many writers will simply accept failure or rejection as their true worth, handed down to them by almighty judges.

All this to say: not winning a contest doesn’t make you a bad writer. It only means that the specific story you submitted , compared to the rest of submissions this specific time, did not agree with a set of specific judges’ very specific interpretation of what makes a story emotionally resonant or meaningful. Or perhaps it did, but another story chimed even closer with the judges’ predilections. Either way, you should keep trying.

Standing out with a prompt-based story is tough, but rewarding

Our prompts are pretty flexible, offering writers a few different ways to approach a first draft. Some prompts give a way in which writers must open or end a story (e.g., “Start your story with someone vowing to take revenge,” “End your story with someone saying: ‘What a day.’”), others provide a setting (e.g., “Set your story in a cat shelter”), or a phrase spoken by a character in the story (e.g., “Write a story that includes the phrase ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day.’”).

We’re constantly experimenting with different prompt formats, our aim being to offer writers multiple story seeds they can choose from. From a judge's standpoint, though, this sometimes means reading many submissions that begin or end with the same scene/sentence, or share inciting incidents and narrative arcs, which can get repetitive.

Everyone already knows that having a strong first line is imperative, but this is also true for second and third lines, especially if your first line is exactly the same as tens or hundreds of other stories. Sharing an opening doesn’t mean you no longer have to work to capture your reader’s attention — it just means that you do it a line later than you usually would.

I sometimes worry that our prompts can get too prescriptive, as with a prompt from last year that went “You are the only one in the supermarket during a blizzard. Feeling creeped out, you decide to leave, when suddenly you find a baby abandoned on the floor.” It’s a fun prompt, but once you read a few dozen stories featuring all the same story elements, you begin to wonder whether the prompt has actually helped writers come up with unique emotions, or hindered them by restricting them too much.

Well, the great thing about judging a short story contest is that I’m always surprised. 200 writers submitted takes on the above blizzard prompt, and one of them, Natalie Strawbridge, ended up winning the contest with a story titled ‘ Intro to Disaster Preparedness .’ Instead of foregrounding the blizzard, the supermarket, and the baby, Natalie set a motherless protagonist at the center of the story, and had the idea of a natural disaster take on a greater meaning.

My conclusion from reading so many stories over the past three years is that a story with a strong emotional core won’t struggle to overcome its similarities with other submissions — but the possibility of similarities is something that writers need to be conscious of while they’re writing. From a judge’s perspective, it’s an honor to find yourself reading a story that can take a prompt as demanding as the blizzard prompt above, share so much with 199 other submissions, and still stand out for the way it makes you feel. You’re left with so much respect for writers who manage to stand out — which leaves you with more respect for the practice of writing stories to prompts, too.

The surprising takes of Reedsy Prompts writers, and their ability to take a prompt in a direction we had never even considered, is one of the great joys of being a judge; we are constantly learning from the authors whose work we are reading.

About the author

Kleopatra Olympiou is a writer from Cyprus. She writes for the Reedsy blog , and holds an MA in Creative Writing from Durham University.

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Many of these novel writing competitions are very prestigious, and highly likely to lead to agent representation and / or publication. We have not included any competitions that do not present a satisfactory level of credibility and authority. https://www.novel-software.com/novel-writing-competitions/

THE NOVELRY

Not yet updated to 2024 https://www.thenovelry.com/blog/writing-competitions-2023

NYC MIDNIGHT

Screen Writing Competition kicks off March 2024 – register now. – Microfiction starts April 19. CLICK on Challenges in top Menu Bar http://www.nycmidnight.com 

2024 Free-entry International Writing Contests   The listed competitions are open to individuals, worldwide, or are restricted to a specific region. They may be targeted to individuals from the age of 18 (or 16) and above, or to those who haven’t attained the legal age (from 17 and below). https://owlcation.com/humanities/Free-International-Fiction-and-Non-Fiction-Entry-Contests

Not yet updated to 2024,  Writing competitions give poets and writers a great opportunity to hone their skills. Along with exciting prizes, they offer a wide variety of themes and challenges to help you write in newer, bolder ways.  At PaperTrue, we’ve always believed that writing competitions are more than just about winning. It’s a community experience where you can interact with fellow participants and learn from each other’s work. After all, a supportive network is extremely important to all poets and writers who want to make a career out of writing. https://www.papertrue.com/blog/writing-contests-2024/

PENCRAFT AWARD

PenCraft Book Awards is $500 cash. Two other cash prizes of $200 will also be awarded – one for best fiction and best nonfiction. Plus, each major winner receives a personalized award certificate and a high-resolution digital version of their PenCraft Book Award’s seal for their book or other marketing materials, as well as a web-optimized graphic version of the seal for websites, blogs, and social networking sites. A special national press release will be published about the top three winners. https://www.pencraftaward.com/authors-support/contest-entry-form/

POETS & WRITERS

2024 Writing Contests, Grants & Awards database includes details about the creative writing contests—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, and more—that we’ve published in Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it. Ours is the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.  Large database, sortable. https://www.pw.org/grants

Whether you are a published or unpublished writer, creative writing contests are a great way to get your work to a larger audience while also taking home some cash prizes and getting published https://proofed.com/writing-tips/5-creative-writing-contests-to-look-out-for-in-2023/

PUBLISH DRIVE

Free and paid19  writing contests for 2024.  Scroll down and check them out.  Unfortunately they don’t put the deadlines on the blurbs. Winning the competition is going to get your writing published. That is to say, it grants you a meeting with prospective readers, supports you in gathering momentum, and it is up to you how that opportunity is magnified. https://publishdrive.com/free-and-paid-writing-contests.html

PUBLISHERS ARCHIEVE

2024 list of book awards and contests by type and location.  Scroll down for list. https://publishersarchive.com/awards.html

PUBLISHING… AND OTHER FORMS OF INSANITY

This January there are more than three dozen writing contests calling for every genre and form, from poetry, to creative nonfiction, to completed novels. Prizes range from $100,000 to publication. None charge entry fees. Publishers Accepting Unsolicited Manuscripts: Agents Seeking Clients: https://publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/p/agents.html Writing Contests https://publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/p/free-contests.html https://publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/p/calls-for-submissions.html

PURE IN HEART STORIES

Pure in Heart Stories is a literary and art magazine for families, with a Christian worldview. Here you can find short stories, poetry, photography and art by adults, teens, and children—for readers 6 years old and beyond. Check submission guides for deadlines and publication dates. https://pureinheartstories.com/submissions/?fbclid=IwAR3_junzhFSXTwKnF995OXK9Zmt1g1ih_83lSnMwwrsIS0aza-EYfEiuYKU

REEDSY BEST WRITING CONTESTS

2024 Several contests listed keep scrolling.  Use the search option to find the most recent contests, and deadlines. https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/

SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS

The 2024 Writing Contest opens on Feb.19th.   The contest submission window is from February 19 – June 30, 2024. The entry form is here. The entry fee is $35 per entry and includes a copy of the 2024 SFWC Writing Contest Anthology that will feature the winning work. Entries must fit into one of the following categories: – Adult Fiction – Adult Nonfiction (including business and memoir) – Kidlit (includes Picture/Children’s/Middle Grade/YA Books) – PoetryEntries may have been self-published or not-yet-published but not traditionally published. Entries can be up to 1500 words in length (or less, but not more) and should be the first 1500 words of a novel or book, an essay, article, novella, short story, novelette, etc. For Poetry entries, you may submit up to three poems at a time in one document, as long as their total COMBINED word count is at 1500 or less. They will be judged individually.Grand Prize: A registration to the 2025 San Francisco Writers Conference.*Four Category Winners will receive a 2025 Summit Registration of their choice or an equivalent discount to the main conference.**Winners and finalists in each category receive publication of their entry in the 2024 SFWC Writing Contest Anthology. https://www.sfwriters.org/2024-writing-contest-overview/

SEJONG CULTURAL SOCIETY

The 2024 Writing Competition – Deadline: February 29, 2024 (11:59pm CDT) – Essay category – Focusing on introducing students and young adults to Korean culture and history through literature, our essay category utilizes folk tales and contemporary literature to explore Korean culture, past and present.

Adult division  (age 19-30 years): Contestants are to read Kim Bo-young’s short story “I’m Waiting for You,” and write an essay in response to the provided adult division prompt.

Senior division  (grade 9th – 12th): Contestants are to read Kim Bo-young’s short story “I’m Waiting for You,” and write an essay in response to the provided senior division prompt.

Junior division  (grade 8th and younger): Contestants are to write an essay in response to one of two provided prompts regarding a folktale of the contestant’s choice. Contestants must choose one of the stories listed on our folktales page. https://sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/current/index.php

SMART BLOGGER

Listings for  2024. So you want to compete in writing contests for prizes and recognition?  Writing contests are a fun way to evolve your writing skills — and, yes, cash prizes are a nice bonus.  But remember, the emphasis is on fun.  If cash is your primary goal, you should focus your time and energy on landing freelance writing jobs. FREE CONTESTS  https://smartblogger.com/writing-contests/#free-writing-contests CONTESTS WITH FEES  https://smartblogger.com/writing-contests/#writing-contests-with-fees

SOLSTICE A MAGAZINE OF DIVERSE VOICES

Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, is currently open for general submissions in all categories. Our guidelines are below.  Suspending submissions please check in a few weeks. https://solsticelitmag.submittable.com/submit

2024 How to Submit Creative Writing and Art to Stone Soup.  Stone Soup welcomes submissions from around the world by writers and artists ages 13 and younger. CONTESTS: https://stonesoup.com/contests/ Submissions:: https://stonesoup.com/how-to-submit-writing-and-art-to-stone-soup/

We publish personal essays, short stories, poems, and black-and-white photography in print and online in our monthly magazine.  We’re looking for narrative writing and evocative photography from all over the world. Send us work that maps the human landscape, where the light catches on the faintest joy, where darkness sometimes threatens to overwhelm, and where ✗ never marks the spot because the truth is never so simple. Essays, Fiction, Poetry https://www.thesunmagazine.org/submit/essays-fiction-poetry

WAXING AND WANING

Submissions open year-round – 1 online / 1 print release per year – Simultaneous submissions accepted (please let us know, however) – Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction,  & Short Films submissions $5 – Screenplays/Plays submissions $7 – Graphic Stories submissions $3 – Art submissions FREE- All submissions must be in proper manuscript format https://www.waxingandwaning.org/submit/

WEEKEND NOTES

2024. If you write short stories then you are a writer. Competitions are a great way to move from being a writer to being a published writer. I read once that there are more than 3,000 writing competitions offered across the world every year.  Enter something you’ve already written or pen something new over the Christmas holidays.  The following listings are summaries only and it is imperative that you always check the rules and terms and conditions on the competition website to ensure both you and your story are eligible to enter. For example most competitions exclude previously published or awarded stories and some have regional or age limits. https://www.weekendnotes.com/adelaide/competitions/

WINNING WRITERS

2024. Poetry, Fiction & Essay, and Self Published Book contests  Deadlines vary. https://winningwriters.com/our-contests

WILLIAM FAULKNER LITERARY COMPETITION

William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, on Jefferson Street in New Albany, Mississippi. Some of his notable awards were the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, the 1955 and 1963 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction and the 1951 and 1955 National Book Awards. Recognizing the significance of being the birthplace of one of the most celebrated writers in American Literature generally and Southern Literature specifically, we are proud to provide the William Faulkner Literary contest for aspiring writers. Deadlines vary: July 2024 https://williamfaulknerliterarycompetition.com/about/ Contest info:  https://williamfaulknerliterarycompetition.com/

WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS & LETTERS

Deadline March 2024 . The Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest. First-place winners in the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest will receive a one-week artist residency at Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point. Winners will receive $500 (first place), $250 (second place), and $100 (third place) and read their work at the 2023 Wisconsin Book Festival. First- through third-place winning stories will also be published in print and online issues of Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine. First-place winners in the Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest will receive a one-week artist residency at Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point. Submissions: https://www.wisconsinacademy.org/magazine/submissions Contests: https://www.wisconsinacademy.org/content/writing-contests

WRITE OR DIE MAGAZINE

Open for Fiction Submissions – see popup at bottom of screen. https://www.chillsubs.com/writeordie/submission-guidelines

WRITE THE WORLD

A list of upcoming competitions.  Scroll to the bottom for the latest and upcoming. https://writetheworld.org/#/competitions

THE WRITER MAGAZINE

Dear Readers: Jazztimes, Birdwatching, The Writer, and Diabetes Self-Management will be on hiatus until 2024 as we continue to transition these titles to streaming on The BeBop Television Network. You may enjoy available issues through digital download and Video On Demand below. https://www.writermag.com/contests/

THE WRITERS COLLEGE

2024 If you are looking to take your writing to the next level, then entering a writing competition often provides that extra impetus to refine your work.  This is by no means a full list of competitions. Some writing competitions require an entry fee. Others don’t. This seems to be the norm these days and there are credible competitions that require an entry fee. Always check that you are comfortable with sending money to the organizers if this is the case.  Click on More details here (link almost the same color as text) Scroll down for current contests https://www.thewriterscollege.com/short-story-writing-competitions

WRITER’S DIGEST

(must join to see all posts) Writers Digest is also running a contest for self-published authors in a variety of genres. Submissions accepted until April 4th All contests:  https://www.writersdigest.com/wd-competitions Annual Competitions:  https://www.writersdigest.com/wd-competitions/annual-competition

WRITERS OF THE FUTURE

Deadline March 31, 2024  Entries in the Writers of the Future Contest are adjudicated only by professional writers. Prizes of $1000, $750 and $500 are awarded every three months. From the four quarterly 1st Place winners each year, a panel of judges select one story as the grand prize winner. The writer of the grand-prize-winning story receives the L. Ron Hubbard Golden Pen Award and an additional $5000 cash prize.   https://www.writersofthefuture.com/enter-writer-contest/

WRITERS-EDITORS.COM

2024 A variety of contests and genres https://www.writers-editors.com/Writers/Contests/contests.htm

WRITING COMPLETIONS.NET

2024 Several contests, mixed genre, by various sponsors https://writingcompetitions.net/

WRITING CONTESTS.WORDPRESS.COM

2024 Listings updated regularly.  Scroll to CATEGORY in the left menu bar and then use the drop-down to select your category.   There is a really long list of categories. https://writingcontests.wordpress.com/

WRITING COMPETITIONS.net

2024 All the top writing contests.. A large list of writing contests. https://writingcompetitions.net/

WRITING DISTRICT

2024 Various contests listed. Scroll the page. https://thewritingdistrict.com/contests/

WRITING WORKSHOPS

https://writingworkshops.com/

YORICK RADIO PRODUCTIONS

Submissions open Feb 5 – Mar 5, 2024 https://yorickradioproductions.com/submissions/

02 ADVENTURE

Adventure writers competition.

Are you ready to enter the Adventure Writers Competition?  Good! Now hear this: we exist for one purpose only: to help all writers who enter get some feedback, get a chance to meet some industry people, use the experience as a stepping stone to further your writing career, and to validate that you can write good (joke intended). We just like to help people. All fees collected or donated are used to promote the entrants and the competition. No one here makes anything on this. Many lose money. Insane but true. We don’t even pay expenses. Submissions accepted Jan 1, 2024 – April 20, 2024 https://adventurewriterscompetition.com/entry-procedure.html

Pilot Your Own Adventure Writing Contest –  Supported by Flight Outfitters® The contest period for EAA’s 2023 Pilot Your Own Adventure Contest runs from January 13, 2023, to March 13, 2023 .  Each pilot has a story — what’s yours? Tell us the true story of how pursuing the dream of flight enabled you to do something that would have otherwise been out of reach. We want to hear how becoming a pilot and getting involved in grassroots aviation made a memorable experience possible for you. How did you pilot your own adventure? Tell us how flying helped you transform from dreamer to doer. https://www.eaa.org/airventure/eaa-airventure-news-and-multimedia/pilot-your-own-adventure

Novel Writing Competitions List FOR 2024. These competitions are for unpublished or self-published novels and novellas for international writers, plus a few for UK or US residents only. It’s a long list and accurate as far as possible, updated monthly, so bookmark this page! I can’t vouch for all these comps personally, but if you have experience of them, let us know in the comments. https://jesdavidson.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/novel-writing-competitions-list/

ONE YEAR ADVENTURE NOVEL

For students 19 and under. Every year, we run a free novel contest for our students. Any One Year Adventure Novel student under 20 who has a valid curriculum license and who finishes a novel that meets the course requirements can submit.  We don’t obligate students to enter, but writing contests for teens are great way for young writers to start sharing their writing with others—and stay motivated to finish their novel! We post every novel entry on the student forum for other students to read (unless the student requests to be omitted). Deadline AUG 15 2023 https://clearwaterpress.com/oneyearnovel/events/young-writers-novel-contest/

03 CHILDREN

Ncte – national council of teachers of english.

Now accepting submissions for Promising You Writers – Deadline FEB 1, 2024 https://ncte.org/awards/promising-young-writers/

The Best Children’s Writing Contests of 2024-2025– Writing competitions curated by Reedsy https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/children-s/

How to Submit Creative Writing and Art to Stone Soup.  Stone Soup welcomes submissions from around the world by writers and artists ages 13 and younger. All submissions must come to us via Submittable. We do not accept submissions by email or by post. https://stonesoup.com/how-to-submit-writing-and-art-to-stone-soup/

TCK PUBLISHING

Kids have big imaginations, and when it comes to creating stories or poetry, it’s that bold creativity that can even give them an advantage over their adult counterparts. They also tend to be braver when it comes to sharing their work. LIST OF WRITING CONTESTS FOR KIDS https://www.tckpublishing.com/?s=contest

WE ARE TEACHERS

A list of the Best Student Writing Contests for 2024-2025  Help your students take their writing to the next level.  When students write for teachers, it can feel like an assignment. When they write for a real purpose, they are empowered! Student writing contests are an easy and inspiring way to try writing for an authentic audience—a real panel of judges—and the possibility of prize money or other incentives. We’ve gathered a list of student writing contests below. From poetry to plays, essays to science fiction, there is something for everyone. See if any of them suit your curriculum, and get prepared to see some motivated students. Contests:: https://www.weareteachers.com/student-contests-competitions/

publishers accepting submissions https://writingworkshops.com/blogs/news/tagged/accepting-submissions

Writing is one of 10 artistic disciplines in YoungArts’ national competition. This discipline encompasses creative nonfiction, novel, play or script, poetry, short story and spoken word. T he 202 5  YoungArts application opens in June 202 4 . https://youngarts.org/discipline/writing/

YOUNG WRITERS

2024 Listings.  Young Writers was established in 1991 in a small warehouse in Eastern England and has blossomed into a worldwide brand! Today, Young Writers is still a modest family-run business, but on a much bigger scale than its humble beginnings.  We pride ourselves on encouraging young writers to read, write and enjoy poetry as well as creative writing. Having work published boosts confidence, nurtures creative talent and showcases creativity.

• ELEMENTARY –   https://youngwritersusa.com/contest/elementary
• MIDDLE & HIGH –  https://youngwritersusa.com/contest/middle-high
• ALL AGES: – https://youngwritersusa.com/contest/all-ages

04 FANTASY 🔴

The 2024 Book Pipeline: Unpublished contest is exclusively for unpublished manuscripts across six categories of fiction and nonfiction:  Literary, Mystery / Thriller, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Nonfiction Deadline: March 20, 2024 Various contests. https://bookpipeline.com/shop/unpublished-contest

PUBLISHERS ARCHIVE

Check the genre in the left margin. https://publishersarchive.com/scifi-fantasy-contests

QUARKNDAGGER.COM

We’ve put together a list of writing contests or places to publish short works. These channels are ideal for young adults (teens), especially those interested in writing sci-fi and fantasy. Scroll through, put it in your calendar and get writing. If you have any you’d like to add to the list, comment below. https://quarkndagger.com/19-writing-contests-and-publication-outlets-for-young-adults/ 

Fantasy writing contests https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/fantasy/

WRITER UNBOXED

Not yet updated to 2024. https://writerunboxed.com/

05 FLASH FICTION

15 flash fiction is a short fiction story, written with utmost brevity. Not more than 1000 words, and still offers characters, plots, settings, style and themes. With the access of the internet, flash fiction is becoming more popular, as many journals and online magazines are dedicated to the style. Link says 2021 but listings are 2024 https://www.henryharvin.com/blog/top-15-flash-fiction-contest-2021/

CHRISTOPHER FIELDEN

2024 This page lists flash fiction, micro fiction, sudden fiction, twitterage, twitterature, dribble, drabble, minisaga, nanotale, micro-story and very short fiction competitions, prizes and awards. Please read and make sure you fully understand the rules and the terms & conditions of each competition listed before entering. https://www.christopherfielden.com/short-story-tips-and-writing-advice/flash-fiction-competitions.php

FISH PUBLISHING

2024 List of contests https://www.fishpublishing.com/competition/flash-fiction-contest/

2024 PRIMAL FEARS HORROR SHORT STORY CHALLENGE -PRIZE: £1,000 | CLOSES: 19th Feb, 2024

For this short story challenge, all participants will be randomly assigned a horror sub-genre* and will receive a list of 20 primal fears. All participants will receive the same 20 primal fears. As soon as you receive your randomly assigned sub-genre and the list of primal fears, you’ll have until the closing time to write and submit a short story of any length up to 5,000 words. Your story should fit the sub-genre you were assigned and should be underpinned by one of the primal fears from the list. You get to choose the primal fear that will underpin your story. https://www.globesoup.net/horror-short-story-challenge-2024

Contests: https://www.globesoup.net/writing-blog/best-flash-fiction-contests

THE COMPANY

Not yet updated to 2024.  It’s a new quarter, which means we have a new writing contest! This time we want your best short stories on the theme “Breakthrough.”  This contest is free to enter and it’s open to everyone. https://writers.company/

Since 2002, NYC Midnight has hosted hundreds of inspiring competitions for storytellers around the world.  Participants are challenged to create original stories, screenplays, or films using assigned elements under time constraints.  If you enjoy a creative challenge, check out our upcoming competitions. • Short Story Challenge • Screenwriting Challenge • Flash Fiction Challenge • Microfiction Challenge/ • Short Screenplay Challenge http://www.nycmidnight.com

Several contests for listed. https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/

STREETLIGHT

STREETLIGHT’S 2023 SUMMER FLASH FICTION CONTEST Up to 500 of your best, previously unpublished words. Any subject.  Multiple submissions are fine — one work per entry. This is a blind contest. Please remove all personal information from the story pages. We encourage simultaneous submissions but if your piece is accepted elsewhere, inform us. Link says 2023 but lists are 2024 https://streetlightmag.com/2023-flash-fiction-contest/

The TCK Publishing Contest is an international short story contest established in 2021. Each year’s prizewinner receives a $1,000 honorarium and publication of his or her short story on the TCK Publishing website. https://www.tckpublishing.com/submission-guidelines/

WOW! Women On Writing Quarterly Flash Fiction Contest

WE NOW HAVE TWO CONTESTS – WOW ! Women On Writing hosts two quarterly contests: one for fiction writers and one for nonfiction writers. We’ve hosted the flash fiction contest since 2006, and the essay contest since 2017. We look forward to reading your work. https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/contest.php Quarterly Flash Fiction Contest Quarterly Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest

AMERICAN SHORT FICTION

We are thrilled to announce that the brilliant Dantiel W. Moniz—author of the acclaimed story collection Milk, Blood, Heat—will judge our 2024 American Short(er) Fiction Prize. The prize recognizes extraordinary short fiction under 1,000 words. The first-place winner will receive a $1,000 prize and publication. Previous winners of the Short(er) Fiction Prize have gone on to be anthologized in places such as The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. All entries will be considered for publication. https://americanshortfiction.org/submityourwork/the-shorter-fiction-prize/

BOULEVARD MAGAZINE

Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers – $1,000 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning essay by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press. Open for submissions:  Oct. 2023 Deadline January 31, 2024 https://www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-contest

CHANTICLEER BOOK REVIEWS

Various listed contests for 2024 https://www.chantireviews.com/category/contests/

Several contests for listed, use the search options. https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/fiction/

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

2024 Great American Fiction Contest – In its two centuries of existence, The Saturday Evening Post has published short fiction by a who’s who of great American authors, including Ray Bradbury, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Louis L’Amour, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Tyler, and Kurt Vonnegut, among so many others. “This contest is a tribute to the Post’s legacy of featuring the most renowned American fiction writers,” says Steven Slon, editorial director and associate publisher for The Saturday Evening Post. “Our goal is to continue the tradition of finding and featuring compelling stories and the authors behind them.” The winning story will be published in the January/February 2023 edition of The Saturday Evening Post, and the author will receive $1,000. Five runners-up will each receive $200 and will also have their stories featured online. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/fiction-contest/

07 HISTORICAL FICTION

The historical fiction company.

ENTER THE HFC 2024 BOOK AWARDS — No erotica.  Deadline March 31,2024   YES, you can submit an unpublished manuscript to the contest! Guess what else you can do? You can now self-publish with our ALL-INCLUSIVE self-pub package OR use our hybrid publishing package under our imprint to publish your manuscript. At Historium Press, our submissions process is a two-tiered process which gives you feedback to get your project ready for publication—from reviewers who are in the business, as well as our internal editorial staff. If your novel is ready, we’ll give you the go ahead. If it is not ready, the evaluation will detail weaknesses and suggest the next steps to ensure a quality manuscript.

We are looking for manuscripts in the following genre: Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Historical Mystery, Historical Biography, Historical Literary, Historical Time Travel/Time Slip, Historical Fantasy, Historical YA/Teen, Historicals for Children, Altenate Historical, Cozy Historicals, Historical Non-Fiction https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/book-awards/award-submission

THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION

Honouring the achievements of the founding father of the historical novel, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world. The winner receives £25,000 and shortlisted authors each receive £1,500. Since it was founded fourteen years ago by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Prize has awarded over £300,000 to writers and brought over 150 great novels to wider public attention.  Deandline October 31, 2023 https://www.walterscottprize.co.uk/

Listings updated regularly.  Scroll to CATEGORY in the left menu bar and then use the drop-down to select your category.  There is a really long list of categories. https://writingcontests.wordpress.com/category/historical-fiction/

08 MYSTERY - SUSPENSE

Do you like writing short cozy mysteries? If so, we would love to invite you to submit your work for potential inclusion in our second Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology.  Submission deadline for Volume 2: March 31, 2024. Who can participate: Anyone at least 17 years of age, including emerging authors and never-published writers. Information below contest award image. https://warmmugofcozy.com/anthology-submission/

Listed by genre: https://writingcontests.wordpress.com/category/mystery-suspense-romance-thriller/

2024. Select publishers and agents get first look at the top selection for each category, including Katherine Tegen Books, Creative Artists Agency, and Verve Publishing. Literary, Mystery / Thriller, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Romance / Women’s Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Picture Books, Nonfiction.    htps://bookpipeline.com/shop/unpublished-contest

2024. Anyone who has participated in writing events before–such as NaNoWriMo–knows how effective it can be to write against the clock, and that’s where writing contests come in! These contests can be a great way to develop your skills, challenge yourself against other writers, and, above all else, win an award for your work. https://blog.kotobee.com/writing-contests-2024/

2024 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Best First Novel Competition  – Welcome to the 2023 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Best First Novel Competition.  Please read all of the rules and guidelines before submitting your entry. You can find the complete rules and guidelines at  us.macmillan.com/minotaurbooks/writing-competitions.   To enter, you must complete this form and upload an electronic file of your Manuscript. – Only electronic submissions, uploaded through this entry form, will be considered; do not mail or e-mail manuscript submissions to Minotaur Books.   Deadline:December 15,2023 https://us.macmillan.com/minotaurbooks/submit-manuscript/

“The Mysterious Case”. We chose this theme because it’s broad enough to include all genres and fuel your creativity. To respect the theme of the contest, the main character or characters of your entry must have a suspenseful investigation with a mystery in the plot. This event must occur in the story before the end of the fourth chapter and must be mentioned in your book description.Deadline April 2, 2023 https://neovel.io/contest/the-mysterious-case-contest

 Mystery – Suspense Contests Listed for 2024 – more may be added. https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/suspense/

09 NON-FICTION 🔴⭐

Writer’s Calendar –  I have linked to 2024 dates. howeve, they only have the droip0downh selection to 2022 but you may have to manually forward the calendar.  I have emailed them asking them to update the date range. The AWP Writer’s Calendar contains a list of upcoming events for writers; deadlines for grants, awards, and calls for submission; and deadlines for AWP contests and programs. Certain calendar listings, such as AWP and WC&C events, are available to all users. Become a member today to begin exploring our listings of grants, awards, and publication opportunities. https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/writers_calendar?year=2024&month=02&item_types%5B%5D=WCC_ENTRY&item_types%5B%5D=CALENDAR_ITEM

AUTUMN HOUSE PRESS

🔴⭐2024 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize Is Now Open.  The submission period closes April 30, 2024 (Eastern Time). We will announce the finalists and the winner of the contest by August 1, 2024. The winner will receive book publication, a $1,000 honorarium, and a $1,500 travel/publicity grant to promote their book. https://www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/nonfiction/?mc_cid=eb8172a50c&mc_eid=f81dd88185

​Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers – $1,000 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning essay by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press. Deadline JAN 31 2024 https://www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-contest

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL

Check the list for what they are currently accepting and deadlines. https://www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/possible-book-topics

2024 Below are tables listing various essay contests and other non-fiction writing competitions, prizes and awards. Some are academic, some offer scholarships and others are just for fun.  Please read and make sure you fully understand the rules and the terms & conditions of each competition listed before entering. https://www.christopherfielden.com/short-story-tips-and-writing-advice/essay-contests-and-non-fiction-writing-competitions.php

CNFC – CREATIVE NONFICTION COLLECTIVE

2024 CNFC-HLR nonfiction contest Now open.  Closes February 2024 The Humber Literary Review (HLR) and the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society (CNFC) have joined forces to bring you a Canada-wide creative nonfiction contest. Winners will be announced in the spring of 2024. https://creativenonfictioncollective.ca/cnf-contest/

Inspired by the mission and role of the town common, an egalitarian gathering place, The Common aims to foster the global exchange of diverse ideas and experiences. As such, we welcome and encourage submissions from writers who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, LGBTQIA+-identifying, immigrant, international, and/or otherwise from communities underrepresented in U.S. literary magazines and journals. We seek stories, essays, poems, and dispatches that embody a strong sense of place: pieces in which the setting is crucial to character, narrative, mood, and language. We receive many submissions about traveling in foreign countries and discourage writers from submitting conventional travelogues in which narrators report on experiences abroad without reflecting on larger themes. https://www.thecommononline.org/submit/

Newfound Prose Prize – The Newfound Prose Prize is awarded annually to a chapbook-length work of exceptional fiction or creative nonfiction. The work may be in the form of a long story or essay or a collection of short pieces (60 pages max). Other than the page limit, the only formal requirement is that some aspect of the work must inform or explore how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding.  Submission:  1 5 SEP 2022 thru 15 MAR 2023 https://newfound.org/prose-prize/

REEDY.COM/ NON FICTION CONTESTS

A large list of non-fiction contests for 2024. https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/non-fiction/

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Australian book review.

The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is one of Australia’s most prestigious prizes for a new poem. The Prize – open to all poets writing in English – is named after the great Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010). The Prize was first awarded in 2005 (Stephen Edgar) and was renamed in 2011, following Peter Porter’s death. Past winners include Tracy Ryan, Judith Bishop, and Anthony Lawrence.  The 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize is now open for entries until 9 October 2023 with a total prize money of $10,000. Closed for 2024 entries Poetry: https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/peter-porter-poetry-prize Essay:  https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-programs/calibre-prize/2024

Welcome to the most comprehensive list of creative writing competitions, short story competitions, and various events for writers. Each item on our list includes basic information about max word count, associated fees, submission deadlines, and the maximum prize that can be won. Clicking on an item opens a new page featuring a more detailed description and a link to the organizer’s submission page. Events that are free to enter are highlighted.  Scroll to view contests. https://dystopianstories.com/writing-competitions-contests/

CREATIVE WRITING INK POETRY PRIZE

The Creative Writing Ink Poetry Prize 2023 is open to writers across the globe, untilMay 31st 2023 at 4pm (GMT).  Poems do not need to follow any particular theme or genre, but must be written in English.  Poetry should not exceed 42 lines. https://creativewriting.ie/competitions/

DREAM QUEST ONE – POETRY & WRITING CONTEST

Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest – WINTER 2023-2024 – Deadline: March 31, 2024 All poems must be written or translated into the English language, 30 lines or fewer, and must be neatly hand printed or typed, using single or double line spacing, on any subject, theme, style, shape, or form. All entries must be original works.  All short stories may be on any subject or theme, written or translated into the English language. For example, any fiction, non-fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, diary, screenwriting, stage plays, and journal entries are accepted. Contestants will enter their short stories neatly hand-printed or typed, using single or double line spacing, within a maximum of (5) pages or less. All entries must be original works. https://www.dreamquestone.com/rules/enter-now

HAMMOND HOUSE INTERNATIONAL

Our 2023 Writing Competition offers over £2000 in cash prizes, a televised Award Ceremony and the opportunity to be published in our annual anthologies. Sponsored by the University Centre Grimsby, this annual writing competition, now in its seventh year, attracts entries from up to 30 countries around the world.  Submission Deadline: 30th September 2023      RULES       CATEGORIES :    Short Story – Poetry – Scriptwriting – Songwriting 2024 International Literary Prize Opens Feb 24, 2024 – Closes Sep 30, 2024 https://www.hammondhouse.org.uk/2024-literary-prize

2024 The Short Fiction Contest. The contest is open to all writers who have not yet published a book of fiction. Submissions must be 3000 words or fewer. The final judge will be acclaimed author Danielle Evans. The Kenyon Review will publish the winning short story, and the author will be awarded a scholarship to attend the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Additional info on the Writers Workshops is available here.    Every Year Jan 1 through Jan 31 Short Fiction Contest: https://kenyonreview.org/contests/short-fiction/ Short NonFiction Contest: https://kenyonreview.org/submit/short-nonfiction-contest/ Short Poetry Contest: https://kenyonreview.org/submit/poetry-contest/

300+ Writing Contests You Need to Enter in 2021 – If there’s one thing we need these days, it’s consistency. Something that proves not everything has changed. Something that gives you a bout of comfort given the current circumstances. So what better way to do that than to know 2021 comes with a host of writing contests for people of all ages from all around the world? Sort by Genre and Month https://blog.kotobee.com/writing-contests-2024/

THE ANZALDUA POETY PRIZE The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize is awarded annually to a poet whose work explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. Special attention is given to poems that exhibit multiple vectors of thinking: artistic, theoretical, and social, which is to say, political.  Deadline 15 SEP 2023 https://newfound.org/poetry-prize/

Since 2002, NYC Midnight has hosted hundreds of inspiring competitions for storytellers around the world.  Participants are challenged to create original stories, screenplays, or films using assigned elements under time constraints.  If you enjoy a creative challenge, check out our upcoming competitions. • Short Story Challenge • Screenwriting Challenge • Flash Fiction Challenge • Microfiction Challenge/ • Short Screenplay Challenge http://www.nycmidnight.com 

POETRY MAMA

2024 Free poetry contests to enter..  Looking for online publishers, poetry contests or magazine for submissions is quite a monotonous and tiresome process in itself , let alone the chances of finding relevant info. But not anymore.  Here you’ll find monthly updated contests and submission portals that’ll help you grow as beginners and support your writing career at the same. Every contest is provided with all the information you need to know before submitting to it. Poets from all nationalities can take part in the poetry contests without worrying about submission fee. So, go writers. https://poetrymama.com/poetry-contests/

POETS & WRITERS WRITING CONTESTS, GRANTS & AWARDS

The Writing Contests, Grants & Awards database includes details about the creative writing contests—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, and more—that we’ve published in Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it. Ours is the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.  Sort by Genre, date, etc., using their filter https://www.pw.org/grants?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_Y29xan-5QIVGKSzCh3cQwAmEAMYAiAAEgJXqvD_BwE

Several contests listed. https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/poetry/

TCK PUBLISHING SHORT STORY CONTEST

The TCK Publishing Flash Fiction Contest is an international short story contest established in 2021. Each year’s prizewinner receives a $1,000 honorarium and publication of his or her short story on the TCK Publishing website. List of contests:  https://www.tckpublishing.com/2024-poetry-awards-contest/ general submissions: https://www.tckpublishing.com/submission-guidelines/

🔴⭐ Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (no fee)  Now in its 23rd year, this contest seeks today’s best humor poems. No fee to enter. Submit published or unpublished work. $3,750 in prizes.  Please submit one humor poem during August 15, 2023-April 1, 2024 https://winningwriters.com/our-contests

Several contests listed…. scroll to find them. https://www.writermag.com/contests/

WOC THIS WAY FOR POETRY

Closed until late February. https://wocthiswayforpoetry.wordpress.com/guidelines/

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE WRITERS

As the name suggests, we are a group of writers from around the world who love – and write – contemporary romance and contemporary romantic fiction of all sorts. Our members write all contemporary sub-genres from spicy to inspirational, young adult to adult, real-world to paranormal, and more. Contemporary Romance written or published in the previous calendar year.  Unpublished and Published Divisions, Categories include:Contemporary Romance (Long, Mid, Short), Romantic Suspense, Women’s , Fiction/Chick Lit, Young Adult/New Adult, Erotica, Contemp. Speculative Romance (Fantasy, Paranormal, Sci-Fi)  DEADLINE MARCH 31. 2003 https://contemporaryromance.org/2023-stiletto-contest/

L ove Inspired Suspense  is actively seeking submissions! Check out our editors’ wishlist. If you have a contemporary inspirational romantic suspense of about 55,000 words, we invite you to submit.

Our editors are acquiring stories for a new romance line coming to Harlequin in January 24 –  Afterglow Books!  Aimed at a broad readership, including the under-35 romance reader, we’re looking for spicy romances grounded in relatable character journeys. Everyone deserves a love story that’s true to who they are.

LEAGUE OF ROMANCE WRITERS

The League of Romance Writers would like to announce our upcoming Romance Writing Contest, The 2023 Emily. The contest will open for submissions on September 1, 2023, and close on October 2, 2023.  Finalists will be decided by our First Round judges, and we have an awesome line-up of agent and editor judges, who will decide the winner in each category. The winners will be announced at a fun ceremony in February 2023, at which winners receive Emily Pins and learn if an agent or editor has requested to see more of their manuscript.   Opens September 1, 2024 https://leagueromwriters.com/theemily/contest-information/

NEW JERSEY ROMANCE WRITERS

​The Golden Leaf is awarded annually for excellence in published romantic fiction. All published authors are welcome to enter books published from  June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023.  You do not have to be a member of NJRW to take part. https://www.njromancewriters.org/golden-leaf-2023.html

ORANGE COUNTY ROMANCE WRITERS

OCRW is very excited that the Book Buyers Best contest is running in 2023. However, we are greatly saddened that the Orange Rose Contest for unpublished authors will be on hiatus for 2023. The Orange Rose has been an exemplary contest providing authors with valuable feedback and contacts for many years. We are hopeful that 2024 will see a resurgence of energy and put the Orange Rose back on target! See below for our 2022 finalists. https://ocromancewriters.org/contests/orange-rose-contest/

PACIFIC NORTHWEST WRITERS ASSOCIATION

Writing contest with several genre, for both published and non-published authors.  Site is a little hard to read and some items are underlined that are not links, however some bold items are actually hyperlinks. https://www.pnwa.org/page/writingcontest

2024 CONTESTS. Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Humor, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Novel, Poetry, Romance, Science Fiction, Science Writing, Thriller, Young Adult

https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/romance/

ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA

No contests at this time.  They do have workshops and events listed.

https://www.rwa.org/Online/Events/Chapter_Events.aspx

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The 2024 Book Pipeline: Unpublished contest is exclusively for unpublished manuscripts across six categories of fiction and nonfiction: https://bookpipeline.com/shop/unpublished-contest

THE LIGHT BRINGER PROJECT

Submissions Open The Tomorrow Prize & The Green Feather Award The Omega Sci-Fi Project invites Los Angeles County high school students to submit their short science fiction stories to The Tomorrow Prize. The Tomorrow Prize encourages young writers to use sci-fi to explore the diverse issues humanity wrestles with, spark creative solutions, and unite the worlds of art and science. https://www.lightbringerproject.org/science-fiction-competitions

MITHILA REVIEW

Inviting submissions for a special global Hopepunk issue of science fiction (and fantasy) devoted to positive and powerful character-driven stories that imagine an open and inclusive tech-empowered democratic future for all people, species and countries on Earth.

Mithila Review is a readers-supported international journal of science fiction and fantasy established in 2015. We have published the best of speculative fiction, poetry, non-fiction and conversations with new, emerging, and Hugo-winning authors over the years. You can read all our issues for free here on our website or on your favorite reading device. https://mithilareview.com/submission-guidelines/

The 28th annual Parsec Short Story Contest will open on January 1st and close on March 31st, 2024. The 2024 Contest theme is “AI mythology” We ask that authors try and incorporate both concepts into their speculative work. This can be conveyed in the setting, plot, characters, dialogue; the only limit is your imagination. The theme must be integral to the story in some way and not just mentioned in passing. https://parsec-sff.org/short-story-contest/

Here you can find a large list of publishers as well as a list of awards and contests. https://publishersarchive.com/scifi-fantasy-contests

PRO WRITING AID

No updated to 2024 dates.  If you love writing science fiction and fantasy, submitting your work to a contest can be a fantastic way to progress on your writing journey.  With luck you can get your stories published, achieve literary recognition, and even win cash prizes. We’ve compiled a list of 23 legitimate, high-quality science fiction and fantasy writing contests that you can enter in and 2023. https://prowritingaid.com/science-fiction-writing-contests

So far 58 science fiction Fantasy contests listed. https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/science-fiction/

ENTER THE WRITER CONTEST – 2nd Quarter 2024 This Contest will run from January 1, 2024, through March 31, 2024. Deadline is 11:59 p.m. March 31, 2024 Pacific Standard Time. https://www.writersofthefuture.com/enter-writer-contest/

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Full spectrum features.

Full Spectrum Features will produce and exhibit three artist-led scripted short films that showcase community resilience and rebuilding. Too often, stories about underrepresented communities only center on their trauma, suffering, and pain. We also want to spotlight stories that showcase joy, healing, and peace as acts of resistance. https://www.fullspectrumfeatures.com/community-storytellers

LA SCREEN PLAY AWARDS.COM

SUBMISSIONS:  This is the only screenplay competition founded by a team of working Hollywood professionals with more than 1,000 produced credits and a century of collective industry experience.  Our roster of Senior Judges includes multiple Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and WGA Award Winners. Feature Screenplay   https://lascreenplayawards.com/feature-screenplay/ TV Script   https://lascreenplayawards.com/tv-script/ Short Screenplay   https://lascreenplayawards.com/short-screenplay/   https://lascreenplayawards.com/

Screen Writing Competition kicks off March 2024 – register now. CLICK on Challenges in top Menu Bar http://www.nycmidnight.com 

PAGE INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITING AWARDS

All Contests:   https://pageawards.com/the-contest/

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Several contests listed.  Use the sorting options to find deadlines. https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/

15 SHORT STORY / ESSAY / ANTHOLOGY 🔴

Do you like writing short cozy mysteries? If so, we would love to invite you to submit your work for potential inclusion in our second Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology.  Submission deadline for Volume 2 :  March 31, 2024. SROLL BELOW 2023 AWARD IMAGE https://warmmugofcozy.com/anthology-submission/

Welcome to the most comprehensive list of creative writing competitions, short story competitions, and various events for writers. Each item on our list includes basic information about max word count, associated fees, submission deadlines, and the maximum prize that can be won. Clicking on an item opens a new page featuring a more detailed description and a link to the organizer’s submission page. Events that are free to enter are highlighted. https://dystopianstories.com/writing-competitions-contests/

Essays, Short Stories, Novelettes, and Novellas Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the Best New SHORTS in FICTION We have five categories: One solo entry per genre division is $45 (one Short Story, one Novelette, one Novella, or one Essay)  Collections – three categories – an additional $54 per collection ($99 per collection entry) : https://www.chantireviews.com/category/contests/

Below are tables listing various short story competitions. Some are based in the UK, some are global. Some contests are of high renown (like the BBC Short Story Award or the Bridport Prize), offering huge prizes, and some are lesser known, but offer great opportunities for newer writers to become published authors. I will try and keep this list up to date, but please check the rules and dates on the different competition websites before entering.   PLEASE NOTE:  Most of the competitions listed on this page accept entries from writers living anywhere in the world. The country each competition is run from is listed so you know which global market you are submitting to. https://www.christopherfielden.com/short-story-tips-and-writing-advice/book-and-novel-competitions.php

CREATIVE WRITING INK

2024 .  Stories do not need to follow any particular theme or genre, but must be written in English.  Maximum word count is 3000 words.  1st prize: £1000, plus a free creative writing course of the winner’s choice and publication on our site.  2 runners-up: £200 each.  Entry fee: £9.  Final judge: Lucie Brownlee. Various competitions to choose from. https://creativewritingink.co.uk/competitions/

CREATIVE WRITING NZ

The Creative Writing NZ Short Story Prize 2024 is open for entries from January 30th, 2024.  The deadline for receipt of all entries is 11.59pm(NZST) on April 30, 2024.  Entries will only be accepted through Duosuma. https://creativewriting.co.nz/competition/the-creative-writing-nz-short-story-prize-2024/

Gotham always has a writing contest (or two) going. These contests are a great way to stretch your talent and imagination, and we dangle nice prizes to give you extra motivation. Check out our current contests. And it’s worth a look at the winners and finalists in our past contests; the quality of work always amazes us. https://www.writingclasses.com/contests

Update: The next free Update: The next free 7 Day Story Writing Challenge will begin on 26th Feb. But before that, why not try our… 2024 PRIMAL FEARS HORROR SHORT STORY CHALLENGE   now open.  WE WILL ACCEPT ALL KINDS OF HORROR STORIES FOR THIS CHALLENGE, FROM THE SLIGHTLY CHILLING TO THE OUTRIGHT HORRIFYING.  PRIZE: £1,000 – DEADLINE: 23:59 (UK time) 19th Feb, 2024 Words: 5,000 (max) https://www.globesoup.net/horror-short-story-challenge-2024

GOTHAM WRITERS

2024 Writing Contests – Gotham always has a writing contest (or two) going. These contests are a great way to stretch your talent and imagination, and we dangle nice prizes to give you extra motivation. Check out our current contests. And it’s worth a look at the winners and finalists in our past contests; the quality of work always amazes us. https://www.writingclasses.com/contests

CATEGORIES:   Short Story – Poetry – Scriptwriting – Songwriting https://www.hammondhouse.org.uk/writing-competitions

KNIGHT WRITING PRESS

Romancing the Rainbow – ANTHOLOGY –  There are tons of boy meets girl stories that we see, all the time, from the moment we can start paying attention. From famous novels and movies to TV shows and commercials. And for the people those stories are applicable to, they are “lessons” or templates for those kinds of interactions, for how the boy and girl can or should or could interact, even when fictitious and obviously untrue.  DEADLINE DEC 1, 2023 https://knightwritingpress.com/open-and-upcoming-submissions

The 28th annual Parsec Short Story Contest will open on January 1st and close on March 31st, 2024.   The 2024 Contest theme is “AI mythology”  We ask that authors try and incorporate both concepts into their speculative work. This can be conveyed in the setting, plot, characters, dialogue; the only limit is your imagination. The theme must be integral to the story in some way and not just mentioned in passing. https://parsec-sff.org/short-story-contest/

Here you can find a large list of publishers as well as a list of awards and contests. short story contests:  https://publishersarchive.com/short-story-contests https://publishersarchive.com/scifi-fantasy-contests

Several contestsf listed keep scrolling. NEW Enter our short story competition – Submit a short story based on one of 5 weekly prompts. Winners get $50 and will feature on our app! Sign up to get this week’s prompts. https://https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests

500 Word Contest Make every word count and submit your best work in 500 words or less! Enter your best writing in any genre – fiction OR nonfiction – that falls under 500 words for a chance to win the grand prize: $1,000 and publication in our magazine.  Do you have what it takes? Enter today. SUBMIT YOUR BEST WORK NOW – FINAL DEADLINE TO SUBMIT IS MAY 16, 2023 https://www.writermag.com/the-writer-contests/500-word-contest-2023/

WRITER MAGAZINE

Not updated to  2024. https://www.writermag.com/the-writer-contests/essay-contest/

The Writing District List of Contests https://thewritingdistrict.com/contests/

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Building u – student opportunities.

For Students by Students.  A large filterable list of things for students, including writing contests.  THERE IS A CLEAR NEED to identify and address factors that most significantly impact the odds of successful outcomes for high school students as they move forward in their present and make plans for their postsecondary future.  INDEPENDENT RESEARCH in both Canada and the US suggests that the biggest factors contributing to successful postsecondary outcomes are: awareness of and good information around relevant options, and self-determined decision-making and planning. https://building-u.com/opportunities/

KET EDUCATION

The 2024 KET Young Writers Contest will launch on January 1 and run through March 31. If your writers would like to get started ahead of time, the contest categories, rules and rubrics are available below. Need some inspiration? https://education.ket.org/young-writers-contest/

Now accepting submissions for the Promising Young Writers – Deadline FEB 15, 2024 https://ncte.org/awards/promising-young-writers/

Where young writers can find print and online literary magazines to read, places to publish their own works, and legitimate contests. Some publish only young writers, some publish all ages for young readers. For specific submission guidelines, visit the publication’s website. Ages can include elementary, teen, or early college. This is an ad-free resource: publications and writing contests listed here have not paid to be included. This guide is maintained by Editor Denise Hill, a teacher who loves to encourage young writers. Contestes listed for 2024, monthly, updated regularly. Scroll down to DEADLINE DATES and choose month. https://www.newpages.com/young-writers-guide/young-writers-guide-to-contests/

NORTH SOUTH FOUNDATION

The primary goal of NorthSouth Foundation contests is to foster the spirit of competition and learning among the youth. Parents and children should focus on the joy of learning and interacting with other writing participants rather than on the possible outcome of the contest. Specifically, the NorthSouth Foundation Essay contest is intended to encourage writing skills, which demand quick thinking, good organization of ideas and cohesive writing style.  In addition to all the general contest rules stated by North South Foundation, the following rules are applicable for Essay Writing Bee (Leadership In Writing) Competition. There are 3 levels of competition in Essay Bee:Essay Writing Level 1 (EW1): Grades 3, 4 and 5 Essay Writing Level 2 (EW2): Grades 6, 7 and 8 Essay Writing Level 3 (EW3): Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 https://northsouth.org/public/LandingPage/Contest

For students 19 and under. Every year, we run a free novel contest for our students. Any One Year Adventure Novel student under 20 who has a valid curriculum license and who finishes a novel that meets the course requirements can submit.  We don’t obligate students to enter, but writing contests for teens are great way for young writers to start sharing their writing with others—and stay motivated to finish their novel! We post every novel entry on the student forum for other students to read (unless the student requests to be omitted).  Deadline AUG 15 2023 https://clearwaterpress.com/oneyearnovel/events/young-writers-novel-contest/

The Best Children’s Writing Contests of 2022 – Writing competitions curated by Reedsy https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/children-s/

A list of the Best Student Writing Contests for 2024-2025.   Help your students take their writing to the next level.  When students write for teachers, it can feel like an assignment. When they write for a real purpose, they are empowered! Student writing contests are an easy and inspiring way to try writing for an authentic audience—a real panel of judges—and the possibility of prize money or other incentives. We’ve gathered a list of student writing contests below. From poetry to plays, essays to science fiction, there is something for everyone. See if any of them suit your curriculum, and get prepared to see some motivated students. https://www.weareteachers.com/?s=CONTESTS

Young Writers was established in 1991 in a small warehouse in Eastern England and has blossomed into a worldwide brand! Today, Young Writers is still a modest family-run business, but on a much bigger scale than its humble beginnings.  We pride ourselves on encouraging young writers to read, write and enjoy poetry as well as creative writing. Having work published boosts confidence, nurtures creative talent and showcases creativity.

• ALL AGED: –  https://youngwritersusa.com/contest/all-ages

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The 2024 Book Pipeline: Unpublished contest is exclusively for unpublished manuscripts across six categories of fiction and nonfiction:  Literary Mystery / Thriller, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Nonfiction https://bookpipeline.com/shop/unpublished-contest

New Memoir Award.   We all have a story to tell about ourselves, the good, the bad and the how did I end up there? Our memoir award celebrates the life story, a fragment in time or rear view mirror look at what was and now is. https://bridportprize.org.uk/memoir-award-coming-soon/

GIRLS WRITE NOW

Contest sources for youth.  Scroll down for 2024 contests. https://girlswritenow.org/resource/writing-contests/

HANGING LOOSE MAGAZINE

(Year Round)  This magazine invites high school students to submit their poetry or short stories for publication as well as payment if selected. This is open to high school students ages 9-12. Visit their page for more information https://www.hangingloosepress.com/submissions/

Where young writers can find print and online literary magazines to read, places to publish their own works, and legitimate contests. Some publish only young writers, some publish all ages for young readers. For specific submission guidelines, visit the publication’s website. Ages can include elementary, teen, or early college. This is an ad-free resource: publications and writing contests listed here have not paid to be included. This guide is maintained by Editor Denise Hill, a teacher who loves to encourage young writers. Sort Deadline by Month: Scroll down and select Month. https://www.newpages.com/writers-resources/young-writers-guide-to-contests

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

Not yet updated to 2024.  STUFF FOR THE TEEN AGE, FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS, FOR TEACHERS 25 Writing Contests and Publication Opportunities for Teens  by Marianna Vertsman, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) Have to scroll down the page to see the Contests. https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/10/26/writing-competitions-young-adults

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEENS

• TEEN INK : is one of the most popular and diverse writing spaces to get published in high school. The broad categories for publication reflect the diversity of writing that this lively online magazine celebrates. Some publication categories include: community service, travel and culture, the environment, health, reviews of TV shows and video games, and college essays, among the more traditional poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. https://www.teenink.com/submit
• AGNI : Not yet updated to  2024  is Boston University’s well-respected journal. It appears in both print and online. AGNI submissions are not limited to high school writers, but the journal is known to accept and publish lots of work by new writers. Get published in high school at AGNI and you’ve taken an important step to becoming a writer in the real world! Find them online at: http://www.bu.edu/agni/submit.html
• THE ADROIT JOURNA L: CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS. is run by high school students, college students, and emerging writers. Adroit publishes within “over 21” and “under 21” categories, so your writing will appear alongside great work by writers of any age. Adroit publishes fiction and poetry, and includes art and photography. http://www.theadroitjournal.org/
• EMBER : CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS  only published twice a year, but this beautiful and dreamy journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction appeals to all age groups. Although it doesn’t exclusively publish young writers, submissions from writers and artists ages 10 to 18 are strongly encouraged. Submissions open in February of 2021. For more details, visit them online at: http : //emberjournal.org/
• POLYPHONY LIT :  invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from high school students worldwide. Student editors provide feedback to all submissions, including the ones not accepted for publication. Scroll down for 2024 dedlines. https://www.polyphonylit.org/copy-of-submit

SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS

Are you a visionary? Are you an original thinker? The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards has been empowering young talent since 1923. This competition is  open for grades 7th –12th and has a submission period from September – December. http://www.hotdishmagazine.com/submit.html

SELECT YOUTH CONTESTS

• HOT DISH MAGAZINE , an online journal serving up a bubbling mixture of poetry and fiction by teens (grades 9–12), wants your voice to be heard! We award cash prizes for fiction, poetry, and the Hot Dish Challenge. Our submission period is October-January. Visit us at http://www.hotdishmagazine.com/submit.html
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• THE LUMIERE REVIEW – CLOSED  is a literary magazine dedicated to shining the light on all voices (particularly young creatives) through poetry, prose, and art. We’ll be running our first annual writing contest for poetry and prose, which will be open for submission from December 1st to January 15th. Updates will be made on our social media accounts (@lumierereview on twitter and instagram). https://lumierereview.com/contest.

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An Annual Writing Contest For T ampa Bay Area High Schools – he Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Award seeks to nurture and recognize the creativity and talent of young writers in the Tampa Bay area. It was established to encourage aspiring authors to explore the genres of science fiction and fantasy and to experiment with the short story format.  Entries are judged by a panel of experts including professional fantasy and science fiction authors and Tampa Bay Times staff. https://clients.tampabay.com/2024/writing-contest/home/index.html

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– We welcome any content, written by real writers who show an understanding and expertise in a chosen topic. – Submissions must be useful for building stronger writing platforms, practical or technical, that readers can use immediately or tag for future. – Previously published work relating a specific topic from the suggested list, is acceptable. – WWW cannot work with agency writers and cannot accept submissions that include political or religious views. https://womenwritingthewest.wordpress.com/about-2/www-blog-submission-guidelines/

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10th year, sponsored by Winning Writers and recommended by Reedsy. Submit self-published and hybrid-published books in eight categories. Grand prize of $10,000. Category winners each receive $1,000. Gifts for everyone who enters, and everyone who enters online will receive a brief commentary from one of the judges (5-10 sentences). Entry fee: $79. Final judges: Jendi Reiter and Ellen LaFleche. Submit online or by mail by July 1. Learn more at winningwriters.com/northnpc24 .

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What is Reedsy & Is It Worth It for Book Publishing in 2024?

G one are the days when writers struggled to get their books published. In 2024, writers can self-publish using different platforms. In this article, we will talk about Reedsy , a platform that can be used for complete book writing from starting to publishing. So, without further ado, let’s dive straight into it.

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What is reedsy, 1. becoming a better writer, 2. using reedsy to type your book, 3. services provided by reedsy.

• 4 .Payment of Services

5. Reedsy Discovery

Is reedsy worth it.

Book writing is a complex and lengthy process, but Reedsy simplifies it. From manuscript to something presentable, there are a lot of stages, and Reedsy will help you in all of them. It is a platform full of resources required, may it be book editors , marketers , publishers , or AI writing tools that take your writing to the next level. Just make an account, have a general idea, and start writing your dream book.

How To Use Reedsy

There is no specific method for using Reedsy as it is a vast resource. You can start by writing your book or using its services in between for second opinions, or just use the platform for publishing your book.

Let’s say you are a newbie in book writing and want to get a general idea of the prerequisites. You can utilize the free courses available on the platform. These 10-day courses will guide you regarding the basics of book writing, organizing your content, bringing ideas to words, etc. Once these courses are completed, you will feel more confident while writing.

Other than these courses, there is also a dedicated blog section on the platform. This includes well-written blogs mostly about grammar, literature, writing tips, and whatnot. Whether you are a writer using Reedsy or a user without an account, you can access these blogs free of cost.

Reedsy has a built-in writer that you can use to type your book, and honestly, it is much better than MS Word . It is simpler to write here due to the minimalistic interface; your work automatically gets organized into paragraphs, heading quotations, etc.

Also, it is extremely productive if you wish to collaborate with other people (known as collaborative editing ), as they can easily add comments and make changes while keeping everybody on the same page.

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Your writing is backed up constantly to avoid any data loss , and copies of revisions are also available in case you make a mistake. The AI tools help correct grammatical errors and suggest enhancements to your text to make it more interesting and readable.

If you have already begun writing in MS Word or some other app, the text can be imported and fixed accordingly. Also, it is free and easy to export your content in PDF file format directly onto Amazon , Apple iBooks , etc.

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The features mentioned above can simply be considered some value-added features. The website’s main goal is to connect you to different professions related to book writing and publishing. These include Editors, Designers, Publicists, Marketers, Ghost Writers, and Web Designers. These are crucial while writing a book as they transform your manuscript into a reader-friendly, market-ready book.

• Editors: Good writing can still be improved, and editors help refine your work. On top of that, Reedsy’s collaborative editing improves the workflow further if you chose to write on it.
• Designers: Visuals complement your text. Not every writer is a digital artist, so hire a designer to create relevant art or translate your vision into digital illustrations for your book.
• Publicists: Once your book is done, it needs a publicist. Their role is to promote your book through media, interviews, events, and social media, enhancing its public image.
• Marketers: Great writers aren’t always great marketers. A marketer offers strategies to boost your book’s sales. While not always essential, their expertise can be advantageous.
• Ghost Writer: If you have a book idea but struggle to pen it, a ghost writer can outline it for you, giving you a foundation to build upon.
• Web Designers: A dedicated book website can foster reader interaction, discussions, and even opportunities for merchandise or contests. Consider hiring a web designer to craft this online space.

4. Payment of Services

Of course, all services mentioned are paid as a person performs them. Simply click on the service you need, which will reveal the list of all the available professionals. You can view their profile , see their past work , and decide if they are right for you. Then, simply request a quote from them, settle down on a price, and begin your collaboration.

All the people listed are certified by Reedsy, and your work is protected from misuse due to their confidentiality laws. Any payments done through Reedsy are completely secure and hassle-free.

Another hidden gem on the Reedsy platform is Discovery . After completing the process, you can publish your book on Reedsy Discovery. This part of the platform has many users who like to read newer works. They will purchase your book, read it, and leave a review. This will give you a reader’s insight into your book before its main launch.

There is also a dedicated Blog section here, which is beneficial for both readers and writers. It has blogs related to the best books and the different services that are available through which you can read books.

Now that you have seen how Reedsy works and the different services available on it let’s see if it’s worth using. In our opinion, Reedsy is worth it. We had a great time using and exploring Reedsy. You do not get the feeling of having to learn to use the platform due to the user-friendliness. For the most part, the platform is free while giving you access to extraordinary tools.

The people on the platform are experienced individuals, making your book-writing experience better. The customer support is very responsive and effective. Overall, it was a great experience, and we would suggest writers to give the platform a try.

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In conclusion, we found the platform working exceptionally well. The reviews, especially those on Reddit , were all in favor of Reedsy. So, if you are a book writer, use Reedsy on your journey and enhance your writing process. If you found this review helpful, share it with your loved ones. Until next time. Ciao

Reedsy is a platform that assists writers in the entire book-writing process, from manuscript creation to publishing. It provides resources such as book editors, marketers, publishers, and AI writing tools to simplify the complex journey of writing a book.

Reedsy offers free 10-day courses covering the basics of book writing, content organization, and translating ideas into words. The platform’s blog section provides valuable insights into grammar, literature, and writing tips.

Reedsy connects writers with various professionals, including Editors, Designers, Publicists, Marketers, Ghost Writers, and Web Designers. These services are crucial in refining manuscripts, designing book covers, and promoting books.

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