Category: Competition/Prizes

The Writers Room is awarding GHC10,000 to two Ghanaian playwrights to develop a new full-length play, along with dramaturgical support, mentorship, and a staged reading.

The competition is organized by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. The Colorado Prize for Poetry is an international poetry book manuscript contest. Manuscripts must be at least 48 pages but no more than 100 pages. They...

The competition is organized by Overland, an Australian literary and cultural magazine. Supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, and named after the late Neilma Gantner, the Sidney Short Story Prize seeks excellent short fiction of up to 3000 words themed...

The Calibre Essay Prize is an annual Australian Book Review essay-writing award. Entries must be a single non-fiction essay of 2,000 and 5,000 words. They accept non-fiction essays of all kinds: personal or political, literary or speculative, traditional or experimental....

The poem should be specifically based on the picture of the month. Rattle does not accept work that has been predominantly generated by artificial intelligence. All submissions are automatically considered for the annual Neil Postman Award for Metaphor, a $2,000...

The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets is now open! This is an opportunity for all African poets who haven’t published a full-length poetry collection. There are prizes to be won and you don’t want to miss it. Submission...

Project submissions for the 16th Durban FilmMart are now open! Showcase your feature films, documentaries, or series projects with Africans in one of the three key creative roles (writers, directors, and producers). Winners will be announced in May 2025. Deadline:...

Join the Pyros Performance Art Academy as they turn three! The theme of this edition is The Many Flirations of Time. How to enter: The Poem must be written by you. No plagiarism. Animated text videos are invalid. Entry must...

Pick Me Up Poetry is dedicated to showcasing the works of poets from around the world and providing a platform for their voices to be heard. With its growing audience, submitting poems to this website can offer numerous benefits to...

Welcome to the AVBOB online poetry project, a platform where all South African poets – whether expert or fledgling, professional or aspiring – are given an equal opportunity to shine. Regardless of whether one is a poet by profession or...