Launch Pad Contest This is the third year for our contest for unpublished novelists. Our aim is twofold: to help budding writers gain experience and hone their craft; and to lift the Grand Prize winner’s novel out of the slush pile and onto the desk of the right publishing professional. The Grand Prize will be a hand-blown glass rocket award (subject to change). But here’s the real prize: Novel Rocket will help the winner connect with one or...

Guidelines for the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest Now in its eleventh year. We seek today’s best humor poems. Total cash prizes of $3,600 will be awarded, with a top prize of $1,500. This contest is free to enter. Click here to read winning entries from the past. Submission Period Entries accepted August 15, 2011-April 1, 2012 How to Submit Your Entry We accept entries online. Click here to submit your entry now. There is no fee to...

Winning Writers’ Sports Poetry & Prose Contest http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/sports/sp_guidelines.php Guidelines for the Sports Poetry & Prose Contest This new contest seeks today’s best poetry and prose on sports-related themes. We will award $5,000 in prizes. Submit online. Introduction Whether you’re a player or a fan, or the kid who counted the minutes till gym class was over, sports can bring out the best and...

WritersType Competitions First Chapter, Short Story, & Flash Fiction http://www.writerstype.com/ WritersType.com sponsors three annual contests in the categories of First Chapter, Flash Fiction, and Short Story. In each category, the monthly winner receives $25 honorarium, comments from our readers, and publication on our site. Each month, the top two submissions in each category advance to the annual competition. Annual Prize: a total of...

To Whom This May Concern at Writing Contests, I’m following up on behalf of the ANA Alliance for Family Entertainment (AFE) regarding their first annual writing contest, which you covered here last October. There were so many great submissions and so the final winner did not get announced until this week. Megan Angelo, a journalist and aspiring screenwriter, took home the winning prize of $5,000 plus the opportunity to be mentored by TV icon...

Talking and reading about other people’s childhoods, sadness, happiness and aspirations can help us to cope with our own ups and downs, but shared experience is seldom there to support us when our life is nearing its end or when people close to us are dying. This is why the Dying Matters Coalition is running a new creative writing competition about dying, death and bereavement. Anyone touched by dying, whether directly or as a relative, friend,...

Sky Arts is offering five young artists £30,000 each to fund their work for a full year as part of the Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund – in association with IdeasTap. We’ve just announced the two winners of round one, and now we’re on the lookout for three more talented artists to fund. Sky Arts recognises that there’s an incredible amount of young talent in the arts today, but finding a way to get your work made is an ever-present challenge....