Open Directory - Arts: Writers Resources: Playwriting: Contests

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Arts Live Theatre - Non-profit, professional children's theatre located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Sponsors Youth One-Act Playwrighting Contest. Cash prized offered.
Backdoor Theatre New Play Project - Competition for Playwrights. For unproduced works.
Drinking & Writing Festival and 10 minute Radio Play Contest - Top three winners are awarded cash prizes and winning plays are produced and recorded live at The Neo-Futurists Theater in Chicago and then aired on the Drinking and Writing Brewery Radio Show.
Helford Prize - $10,000 prize in playwriting, offered by Jackson University. Open to U.S. residents.
Kansas City Women's Playwriting Festival - Creating more opportunities for emerging female playwrights to produce their work.
Lebanon Community Theatre Play Writing Contest - Annual one-act play writing contest on a different theme each year. Monetary and other prizes.
Midwest High School Playwriting Competition - Open to all Midwest USA high school students. Winners receive a reading with Crossroads Repertory Theatre and a scholarship to study theater at ISU.
Moxie Films - Established to facilitate the work of under-served artists, including playwrights. Sponsors annual playwriting contest.
Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Contest - Annual national contest for full-length and one-act stage and radio plays. Administration fee charged.
Stormy Weather Players New Plays Festival - Community theatre group in Cornwall, NY. Short plays by new writers preferred.
TrapDoor Ensemble Playwright Competition - Winner receives $500 and guaranteed production. Proceeds benefit the TrapDoor Ensemble Youth Outreach program.
VSA Art Playwright Discovery Award - Individuals with disabilities are invited to submit an original one-act script that documents the experience of living with a disability.

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3-Day Novel Contest - Held annually on Labor Day weekend. Rules, survival guide, prizes, and past winners.
A Woman's Write - Writing contest for women seeks a story, memoir or book chapter on a given theme. Deadline; December 31, thence monthly. Entry fee: $7. First prize: $70.
Annual APEX Awards for Publication Excellence - An annual competition for writers, editors, publications staff, and both business and non-profit communicators.
Arizona Authors Association Awards - AAA requires entries for unpublished poetry, short stories, essays/articles, and novels. Cash prizes of $100 in each category, plus publication, are offered. Deadline: July 1, annually. Entry fees vary from $10 (poetry) to $30 (novels).
Associated Writing Programs Awards - Annual awards of $2,000 (plus publication) are offered for original, unpublished, book-length work in each of three categories: novels, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Reading fee: $20. Deadline: February 28. Open to U.S. residents only.
AwardWeb - Information on major literary awards throughout the USA and other countries, particularly focusing on (though not limited to) science fiction and fantasy.
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - San Jose State University sponsors this yearly challenge "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels". No entry fee. Official deadline: April 15.
Communicator Awards, The - Annual competitions honoring excellence in all areas of communication, with separate categories for print (177 sub-categories), video (216 sub-categories) and audio (140 sub-categories).
Flyway - 6th Annual Flyway Sweet Corn Prize. $150 and a book bag of Iowa sweet corn for top entries in each category: fiction, nonfiction (maximum: 4,000 words) and poetry. Reading fee: $18. Deadline March 1st.
Milkweed Editions - Milkweed Editions is a non-profit publisher of literature for adults and young adults based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Milkweed National Fiction Prize is awarded annually for the best fiction manuscript submitted by an author not previously published by Milkweed.
Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction and Non-Fiction - Humorous stories and essays up to 750 words are required. Reading fee: $5. Deadline: December 1. Cash prizes total $850.
Painted Bride Fiction and Poetry Contests - Literary short stories (maximum 5,000 words) and poetry are sought in contests sponsored by Rutgers University. Reading fees: $10 and $5 respectively. Deadline: September 30. $1000 prize in each category, plus publication in PBQ.
Park Publications U.K. - Publishers of the magazines, "Scribble" and "Countryside Tales", holding quarterly competitions for original, unpublished short stories and poems, some open, some limited to specific themes.
Peralta Press Writing Awards - Annual contest seeks poetry (maximum: 30 lines), short stories and non-fiction (both maximum: 2,000 words). Minimum entry fee: $10. Cash prizes total: $750. All entries considered for publication. Deadline: August 15.
Pomegranate Words Writing Contests - Offers free monthly contests for poetry and fiction. Open worldwide, but to teenagers only.
Pronghorn Press Publishing - Promotes annual prose (up to 5,000 words) and poetry (no more than 60 lines) contests relating to contemporary life in three specific regions, namely, the Rockies, the Desert Southwest, and the Northwest Coast.
SAY Writing Contests - Writing contests open to all types of entries including essays, short stories, and poetry. Maximum length: 700 words. Entries are published in a book and readers determine the winners.
Santa Fe Writers Project - SFWP provides resources for authors and features online fiction as well as an annual writing contest for prose, both fiction and non-fiction, including short stories, essays and sample chapters of novels. $6,000 in cash prizes. Deadline: mid-January.
Sarabande Books - Poetry & Short Fiction Contests - Open to U.S. citizens only, Sarabande offers an annual $2,000 prize for both poetry (minimum 48 pages) and short fiction (minimum 150 pages).
The New Writer Magazine Annual Prose and Poetry Prizes - Offers prize money totalling 2,500 pounds for essays (maximum 2,000 words), short stories (maximum 4,000 words), serials or novellas (up to 20,000 words), and poetry (maximum 100 lines). Closes November 30. Modest entry fees.
The University of Michigan Press - Annual awards, worth $1,000 each and publication, for literary fiction in the form of both a novel and a short story collection. Entrants must have at least one publication credit in the realm of literature. No entry fee. Deadline: July 1.
Tickled by Thunder fiction magazine - Sponsors quarterly poetry contests (closing February 15, et seq) and an annual fiction contest (closing February 15). A $10 subscription to the quarterly magazine offers one free entry to both contests.
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing - An annual prize of $12,500, this award is intended to encourage new writers who have recently published a work of fiction or memoirs.
Word Smitten Annual Literary Fiction Contest - Offers a prize of $1,010 for the best on-line submission of literary (no genre) fiction totaling exactly 1,010 words. Reading fee: $15. Deadline: July 1.
Writer's Digest Writing Competitions - Offers $25,000 in prize money for original, unpublished work in ten categories including poetry, short stories, plays, television scripts, articles, and children's fiction. Deadline: mid-May. Also provides separate annual awards for short short stories, screenplays and self-published books.

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