Name for Submissions: The 2025 Black Orchid Novella Award Deadline: Might 31, 2025Prize: Publication + Recognition on the Black Orchid Banquet in NYC Thriller writers, take word: the distinguished Black Orchid Novella Award (BONA) is now accepting submissions. Sponsored by The Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock’s Thriller Journal (AHMM), this blind-judged competitors rewards an authentic,…
How will we construct belief in public well being programs—and the way will we restore it when it’s been fractured? LIGHT Journal invitations creatives worldwide to answer these questions via artwork, letters, tales, and poetry for his or her 2025 Open Name. They’ve centered this yr’s theme on belief as a cornerstone of public well…
Name for Submissions: 2026 Cave Canem Prize Deadline: Might 8, 2025 | Prize: $10,000 + Publication by College of Georgia Press Cave Canem invitations Black poets to submit their debut full-length poetry manuscripts for the 2026 Cave Canem Prize, an annual award devoted to supporting the careers of rising Black voices in poetry. This prestigious…
The Witsprouts Storytelling Prize 2025 Deadline: Might 31, 2025 | Prize: N500,000 The Witsprouts Undertaking is thrilled to announce the launch of the Witsprouts Storytelling Prize, a brand new contest devoted to reviving the highly effective custom of oral storytelling whereas spotlighting distinctive Nigerian storytelling expertise. This inaugural version is themed “Rebooting Legends and Reminiscences”…
The Waterston Desert Writing Prize 2025 Deadline: Could 1, 2025 | Prize: $3,000 + Public Studying in Oregon The Waterston Desert Writing Prize, established in 2014, celebrates literary nonfiction that displays a deep connection to abandon landscapes and ecosystems. Impressed by poet and writer Ellen Waterston—Oregon’s present Poet Laureate—the prize helps rising and established writers…
Deadline: Could 10, 2025 | Prize: ₦100,000 The Idumaese Alao Basis (IAF) invitations entries for the 2025 Idumaese Alao Prize for Literature, a poetry award established in reminiscence of Idumaese Alao to have fun daring, artistic voices and honor excellence in literary craft. This 12 months’s prize shall be judged by Osieka Osinimu Alao…
2025 CINTAS Basis Fellowship in Artistic Writing Deadline: Could 1, 2025 | Award: $25,000 USD The CINTAS Basis Fellowship helps early- and mid-career Cuban writers working in inventive writing, together with fiction, nonfiction, and different literary varieties. Since 1963, the Basis has uplifted lots of of Cuban artists and authors throughout disciplines and constructed a…
Deadline: April 30, 2025 | Grant: $500 + Digital Residency The Literary Laddership Fellowship is again for its fourth version, providing a transformative alternative for rising African authors to develop their craft, join with fellow writers, and advance their artistic tasks. Based in 2022 by award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa, this digital fellowship helps…
The Backyard Occasion Chapbook Contest returns in 2025, able to publish 4 distinctive manuscripts. This contest seeks poetry, prose, and hybrid works that break boundaries and go away a long-lasting impression. The successful chapbooks will…
The Wilbur and Niso Smith Basis has opened submissions for the 2025 Creator of Tomorrow Award, a world competitors that celebrates the subsequent technology of journey writers. Designed to encourage and elevate younger voices, the award…