Category: Contests

It’s that time of year when wanna-be novelists can take the leap. NOvember NOvel WRiting MOnth is here. NANOWRIMO is a nonprofit organization that provides tools for writers to schedule a thirty-day writing marathon to produce a 50,000 word first draft by writing every day and recording the daily number of words achieved. NANOWRIMO began… Continue reading NANOWRIMO 2019

Arkansas writer Nancy Hartney’s flash fiction piece, “The Barn, Day after the Funeral,” earned the number two slot at WriterCon 2019 in Oklahoma City over the Labor Day weekend. Nancy has published two short story collections, Washed in the Water and if the creek don’t rise.Both books are available through Pen-L Publishers, Barnes and Noble,… Continue reading Nancy Hartney Winner at WriterCon 2019

Michelle Hannon, Executive Director of the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, has announced the availability of a new fellowship at the Colony. The award will go to a writer who is working on a short or long work of non-fiction focusing on mental illness, either that of the writer or of someone… Continue reading Two-week Residency at Dairy Hollow Available to Writer on Specialized Topic

Kaleidoscope is a publishing project for women, mostly online. Its purpose is to anthologize short stories and memoirs that capture a uniquely female experience. The current short story contest, “Summer Vacation,” ends August 8, 2019. The winner and honorable mentions will be announced on September 2, 2019. Read the submission guidelines here. Another Kaleidoscope submissions… Continue reading Kaleidoscope Short Story Contest for Women Only

Back in the Fall of 2017, ArkansasWriters reported that Arkansas was chosen as the 2018 participating state for the 2018 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award. Now we can announce the winners: Joshua Idaszak for fiction and Anushah Jiwani for poetry. Idaszak is a recent graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing and Translation at… Continue reading Winners of the 2018 Maureen Egen Award

Vallum, a contemporary poetry journal published twice a year in Montreal, has announced the deadline for the 2018 Vallum Poetry Award: July 15, 2018. First Prize is $750 and publication in Vallum. Second Prize is $250 and publication in Vallum. The 2018 contest judge is Liz Howard, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her debut… Continue reading Vallum Poetry Competition Deadline July 15 2018

For you Arkansas Poets who would like to win a poetry contest, here is a blueprint of how NOT to do it. Kate Lacy, Poets Northwest, submitted it to inspire fellow Arkansas poets. The next meeting of Poets Northwest is scheduled for Saturday, May 19, at 1 p.m. at the Springdale Public Library, 405 S Pleasant… Continue reading How Not To Win A Poetry Contest