MAY 2017
Genre: Any
Theme: Annual contest
Website: Writer’s Digest
Deadline: May 5, 2017
Entry Fee: Yes, but the amount isn’t written
Prize: $5,000
Genre: Nonfiction
Theme: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
Website: Chicken Soup for the Soul
Deadline: May 15, 2017
Entry Fee: None
Prize $200
Genre: Nonfiction
Theme: Positively Happy
Website: Chicken Soup for the Soul
Deadline: May 31, 2017
Entry Fee: None
Prize: $200
Genre: Fiction
Theme: None
Website: Glimmer Train
Deadline: May 31, 2017
Entry Fee: $2
Prize: $700
JUNE 2017
Genre: Short Story Fiction (Unpublished writers only!)
Theme: N/A
Website: Glimmer Train
Deadline: June 30, 2017
Entry Fee: $18
Prize: First place – $2,500
Genre: Nonfiction
Theme: My Crazy Family
Website: Chicken Soup for the Soul
Deadline: June 30, 2017
Entry Fee: None
Prize: $200
Genre: Short short fiction
Theme: N/A
Website: Literal Latte
Deadline: June 30, 2017
Entry Fee: $10 (for up to 3 shorts)
Prize: First – $500
Please be sure to read through the guidelines for each contest. Information may change.
Do you know any other contests with deadlines coming up? 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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Writing Contests
Thank you thank you for this list 🙂
Of course! It’s not long this month, but I had a hard time finding contests, lol.
Thanks, Rachel, for this information. 🙂 — Suzanne
Me pleasure. 🙂
Thanks, Rachel! 🙂 Sharing…
Thank you!
You are awesome. 🙂
Thanks. 🙂
I need to start submitting more consistently.
So do I. I get into a good groove and then fall out of it shortly after.
Same. I get into it for a little while and then go cold.
I blame time and other commitments.
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Check out these noteworthy writing contests for May and June courtesy of Rachel Poli’s blog.