January 2017
Genre: Fiction
Theme: Family Matters
Website: Glimmer Train
Deadline: January 2, 2017
Entry Fee: $18
Prize: First place – $2,500
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, or Poetry
Theme: N/A
Website: Glass Mountain Magazine
Deadline: January 9, 2017
Entry Fee: $5
Prize: $100
Genre: Fiction
Theme: N/A
Website: Literal Latte
Deadline: January 15, 2017
Entry Fee: $10 for one entry or $15 for two entries
Prize: First place – $1,000
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, or Poetry
Theme: N/A
Website: Women’s National Book Association
Deadline: January 15, 2017
Entry Fee: $20 for non-members, $15 for members
Prize: $250
Genre: Fiction
Theme: N/A
Website: The Masters Review
Deadline: January 15, 2017
Entry Fee: $20
Prize: $2,000
Genre: Short Short Story
Theme: N/A
Website: Writer’s Digest
Deadline: January 16, 2017
Entry Fee: $25
Prize: First place – $3,000
Genre: Nonfiction
Theme: Dreams, Premonitions, and the Unexplainable
Website: Chicken Soup for the Soul
Deadline: January 31, 2017
Entry Fee: None
Prize: $200
Genre: Nonfiction
Theme: Stories About Cats/Dogs
Website: Chicken Soup for the Soul
Deadline: January 31, 2017
Entry Fee: None
Prize: $200
February 2017
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, or Poetry
Theme: Sentence starter – use the first line given
Website: The First Line
Deadline: February 1, 2017
Entry Fee: None
Prize: $25-$50 for fiction, $5-$10 for poetry, and $25 for nonfiction
Genre: Poetry
Theme: Love
Website: Don’t Talk To Me About Love
Deadline: February 14, 2017
Entry Fee: $20 for 1-3 poems
Prize: First place – $1,000
Genre: Fiction
Theme: N/A
Website: Glimmer Train
Deadline: February 28, 2017
Entry Fee: $18
Prize: First place – $2,500
Genre: Flash Fiction
Theme: N/A
Website: WOW! Women On Writing
Deadline: February 28, 2017
Entry Fee: $10
Prize: First place – $350
Please be sure to read through the guidelines for each contest. Information may change.
Are you thinking of submitting to any of these contests? Let me know in the comments below! Good luck if you do!
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Good to know. Thanks for the information!
You’re welcome. Good luck if you enter any!
Thank you! This is so helpful.
Are you going to submit to any?
I want to.
I hope you do. 🙂
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Here’s a great list of writing contests courtesy of Rachel Poli
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Rachel Poli has provided us with this early year’s writing contests for the first two months of 2017.
Thank you Rachel!! You’re great!
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Thanks to Rachel Poli for these writing competitions.
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