There is still one week left to submit your genre-bending nonfiction, poetry chapbook, or novel-in-progress, as well as a handful of other types of work. For those sparked into action by a fast-approaching deadline, a list of contests with closing dates in the coming week appears below. Happy submitting.
Closing on Friday, October 30 are:
DIAGRAM's Hybrid Nonfiction Contest
Inkwell's Poetry and Short Fiction Competitions
Wyoming Arts Council's Blanchan/Doubleday Memorial Awards in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
The Saturday, October 31 deadlines are:
American Poetry Review's Honickman First Book Prize
Dana Awards for a group of poems, a short story, or a novel or novel-in-progress
Elixir Press's Poetry Awards
Glimmer Train Press's Family Matters for a story about family
Graywolf Press's Nonfiction Prize for a work-in-progress
Kore Press's Short Fiction Award
The Ledge Press's Poetry Chapbook Competition
Margie's Strong Medicine Poetry Award
North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize
Ohio University Press's Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
PEN/Faulkner Foundation's Award for Fiction for novels or short story collections published in 2009
Poetry Society of the United Kingdom's National Poetry Competition, which is open to international submissions
Truman State University Press's T. S. Eliot Prize for a poetry collection (not to be confused with the Poetry Book Society's T. S. Eliot Prize)
University of Arkansas Press's Miller Williams Poetry Prize for a poetry collection
The Writing Site's Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction