Choosing the contest that would be a good fit for your book manuscript is a soft science. The partialities of the first readers, the potential of competing manuscripts, and the opinion of a judge are hardly predictable, but perhaps taking a look at the titles published by a sponsoring press could offer some insight into whether your writing would mesh with a publisher's catalogue. Below, we've taken a quick look at writers published by a few of the presses that have contests taking place in the coming months.

Ahsahta Press [2]
Sawtooth Poetry Prize, judged by Terrance Hayes
Representative Poets [3]: Sandra Alcosser [4], Dan Beachy-Quick, Brian Henry [5], Brenda Iijima, Rusty Morrison [6], Susan Tichy [7]

Dream Horse Press [8]
American Poetry Journal Book Prize, judged by J. P. Dancing Bear [9]
Representative Poets [10]: Amy Holman [11], Judith Skillman [12], Theodore Worozbyt

Ohio State University Press [13]
Prize in Short Fiction
Representative Fiction Writers: Paul Eggers, Trudy Lewis [14], Gerald Shapiro [15], J. David Stevens

Omnidawn Publishing [16]
Chapbook Competition, judged by Elizabeth Robinson
Representative Poets: Lyn Hejinian [17], Bin Ramke [18], Martha Ronk [19], Keith Waldrop [20], Rosmarie Waldrop [21]

Sarabande Books [22]
Morton and McCarthy Prizes, judged by Amy Gerstler [23] in poetry and Francine Prose in fiction
Representative Poets: Monica Ferrell, Kiki Petrosino [24], Jean Valentine [25]
Representative Fiction Writers: David Crouse, Alyce Miller [26], Paul Yoon

Starcherone Books [27]
Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, judged by Stacey Levine
Representative Fiction Writers: Peter Conners, Raymond Federman [28], Joshua Harmon, Janet Mitchell, Leslie Scalapino [29]

Tupelo Press [30]
Snowbound Series Chapbook Award, judged by Patricia Fargnoli [31]
Representative Poets: Theodore Deppe [32], Jennifer Militello, G. C. Waldrep, Joshua Marie Wilkinson [33]

In the video below (accompanied by eight others on YouTube [34]), Omnidawn Publishing's Ken Keegan opens a reading of four more of the press's poets: Gillian Conoley [35], Richard Greenfield [36], Donald Revell [37], and Michelle Taransky [38].