Non-Fiction Contests

Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

www.graywolfpress.org Graywolf Press is pleased to announce the fourth annual Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. A $12,000 advance and publication by Graywolf in 2009 will be awarded to the best previously unpublished, full-length work of literary nonfiction by a writer not yet established in the genre. Robert Polito will serve as the judge. This prize seeks to acknowledge and honor the he great traditions of literary nonfiction, extending from...

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Guidelines for the 2008 Narrative Travel Writing Contest

TransitionsAbroad.com invites you to enter its 2008 Narrative Travel Writing Contest with a new $500 first-place prize. “Tourists are those who bring their homes with them wherever they go, and apply them to whatever they see… Travelers leave home at home, bringing only themselves and a desire to see and hear and feel and take in and grow and learn.” Gary Langer, Transitions Abroad, Vol. 1, #1 (1977) Professionals, freelancers...

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Best of Ohio Writer 2007 Contest Guidelines

Download Entry Forms Best of Ohio Writer 2007 Contest Guidelines Deadline: July 31, 2007 Sponsored by Ohio Writer Magazine and Poets’ & Writers’ League of Greater Cleveland $150 First Prize and $50 Second Prize Prizes awarded in each category. First-place winners published in a special edition of Ohio Writer. Announcement of winners and honorable mentions in the November/December issue of Ohio Writer. Categories: Fiction,...

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2008 Expatriate Writing Contest

www.transitionsabroad.com/information/writers/expatriate_writing_contest.shtml TransitionsAbroad.com invites you to enter its 2008 Expatriate Travel Writing Contest. Professionals, freelancers and aspiring writers are invited to write articles which describe their experience living abroad. Making the move to live abroad is for many the ultimate transition often the fulfillment of a liifelong dream, in other cases the result of chance and...

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Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contests

The Atlantic Monthly invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays for its 2007 Student Writing Contest. Categories Poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays. Prizes First $1,000 | Second: $500 | Third: $250 and one-year subscriptions to The Atlantic Monthly for seven runners-up in each category. ENTRANTS must be full-time undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled in an accredited...

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ALR Contests

American Literary Review announces its 2007 contests: Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry. The winner in each category will receive $1000 and publication in our Fall 2008 issue. Website: www.engl.unt.edu/alr/contest.htm For all genres: Include a cover page with author’s name, title(s), address, and phone number. Do no include any identifying information on subsequent pages except for the title of the work. Enclose a $15.00...

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