Some summer writing contests to keep in mind for 2008
July 31st:
Kore Press First Award (for a woman’s first book of poetry) Prize: $1000, 48-70 page restriction, submit and pay online here. (if you send $45 you get your manuscript entered and copies of the three most recent winners, but just entrance is cheaper)
August 1st
Bellevue Literary Review(prizes for fiction, poetry and nonfiction) Naomi Shihab Nye will judge in poetry, Rosellen Brown in fiction, and Natalie Angier in creative nonfiction.Prize: $1000. Submit up to 3 poems (no more than 5 pages) or a piece of prose under 5000 words. Entry fee: $15 (an extra $5 will get you a year’s subscription to BLR also). Full submission guidelines here.
Rattle Poetry Prize (single poem). Prize: $5000 (and $100 to ten runner-up poems). Entrance fee: $16 (which gets you a year’s subscription to the tome that is Rattle, and you send up to four poems. Guidelines for online and postal submissions here.
August 15th
Chamber Press Chapbook Contest. Prize: $1000. Entry fee: $15. Length Restrictions: Up to 24 pages. Judged by Steve Orlen (who teaches in UA- Tuscon, and Warren Wilson’s MFA programs) . Full submission guidelines here.
August 29th
Katherine Anne Porter Prize (University of North Texas Press’s contest for book-length collection of short fiction) Prize: $1000. Entry fee: $25. Length restrictions: 100-200 pages. Click here for full submission guidelines.