The Witsprouts Storytelling Prize 2025 Deadline: Could 31, 2025 | Prize: N500,000 The Witsprouts Venture 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 Recollections”…
Deadline: Might 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 rejoice daring, inventive voices and honor excellence in literary craft. This 12 months’s prize might be judged by Osieka Osinimu Alao and…
Win $250 and a Letterpress Broadside Every year, Foundlings Press honors the legacy of acclaimed poet Ralph Angel by inviting poets from world wide to submit their most interesting unpublished work to The Ralph Angel Poetry Prize. Now in its fifth yr, the prize continues to raise rising voices with a novel alternative to see…
The Joe Ushie Poetry Prize is again, celebrating the enduring energy of poetry as a software for truth-telling, connection, and cultural transformation. Named after the acclaimed Nigerian poet and professor, this prize honors Professor Joe Ushie’s dedication to literary excellence and social justice. With a $500 (USD) award at stake, the prize invitations Nigerian…
Name for Submissions: The 2025 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize Submission Window: Could 1 – June 1Prize: $1,000 + Publication + Journey to Auburn College The Southern Humanities Overview is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, a $1,000 award that celebrates poems of witness and honors the legacy of the late poet…
The anthology The Finest Brief Tales options 20 rigorously chosen and compiled brief tales. The prize takes its title from the American brief story author William Sydney Porter, A.Okay.A, O. Henry greatest identified for the story ‘The Reward of Magi‘. For the 2025 O. Henry Prize, two Nigerian writers had been chosen for The Finest…
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…