Writing Contest Deadlines – May-July, 2009

From Poets & Writers Magazine:

May 15 Boulevard Emerging Poets Contest Lost Horse Press Idaho Prize for Poetry Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition May 18 New Letters Literary Awards May 30 Gival Press Novel Award May 31 University of Georgia Press Flannery O’Connor Awards Glimmer Train Press Short Story Award for New Writers New England Poetry Club Daniel Varoujan Award Oberlin College Press FIELD Poetry Prize Sonia Raiziss-Giop Foundation Bordighera Poetry Prize River Styx International Poetry Contest Winning Writers War Poetry Contest The Writer Short Story Contest June 1 American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prizes Boston Review Poetry Contest University of California Chicano/Latino Literary Prize Emergency Press Book Contest Indiana Review ’1/2 K’ Prize Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grants June 12 Artist Trust Literature Fellowships Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship

June 15 Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize University of Akron Press Akron Poetry Prize Bitter Oleander Press Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award Mexico FIL Prize in Romance Languages National Book Foundation National Book Awards Pulitzer Prizes Prizes in Letters Southern Poetry Review Guy Owen Prize Towson University Prize for Literature June 17 New Millennium Writings New Millennium Awards June 26 Literary Arts Oregon Literary Fellowships June 30 ABZ Press First Book Prize Astraea Foundation Lesbian Writers Fund Autumn House Press Poetry and Fiction Contests Barrow Street Press Book Contest Bridport Arts Centre The Bridport Prize Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition Glimmer Train Press Fiction Open Hidden River Arts William Van Wert Fiction Award Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Individual Artist Grants for Women University of North Texas Press Katherine Anne Porter Prize Omnidawn Publishing Poetry Prize

University of Pittsburgh Press Drue Heinz Literature Prize Snake Nation Press Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award Teachers & Writers Collaborative Bechtel Prize July 1 Alehouse Press Happy Hour Poetry Award Blue Mountain Center Richard J. Margolis Award Comstock Review Muriel Craft Bailey Award Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award St. Francis College Literary Prize July 3 Frost Place Resident Poet Award July 15 Bard College Bard Fiction Prize Literal Latté Poetry Award Narrative Magazine Poetry Contest Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards The Story Prize