A six-month fellowship at the University of East Anglia, including a £10,000 (approximately $17,500) stipend, is awarded annually to a fiction writer or creative nonfiction writer who has not yet published a book. Submit a writing sample of no more than 2,500 words and a letter of reference to University of East Anglia, Charles Pick Writing Fellowship, School of Literature and Creative Writing, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom. No entry fee.
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Chattahoochee Review is awarded annually for a creative essay. All entries will be considered for publication. Submit an essay of up to 5,000 words to Chattahoochee Review, Lamar York Prize, Georgia Perimeter College, 2101 Womack Road, Dunwoody, GA 30338-4497. $12.00 entry fee includes a one-year subscription.
Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Iowa Review are given annually for works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Send 25 pages of prose to: The Iowa Review, 308 EPB, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. $15.00 entry fee.
A prize of $1,000 is given annually to an Ohio writer under 30 who has not published a book. Writers born in Ohio or who have lived in Ohio for a minimum of five years are eligible. Submit 10 to 60 pages of up to six works of fiction or creative nonfiction to Ohioana Library Association, Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, 274 East First Avenue, Suite 300, Columbus, OH 43201. (614) 466-3831. Linda Hengst, Director. ohioana@sloma.state.oh.us No entry fee.
A prize of $1,500 and publication by Ohio State University Press awarded annually for a collection of short fiction. Submit a manuscript of 150 to 300 pages of short stories, novellas, or a combination of the two to Ohio State University Press, Ohio State University Prize, 180 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1002. $20.00 entry fee.
NO CONTEST IN 2008. Offers $1000 and publication with Starcherone Books to story collections, novels, or indeterminate prose works of up to 400 pages. All finalists will be considered for publication with Starcherone Books. Please mail to: STARCHERONE FICTION PRIZE, Starcherone Books, P.O. Box 303, Buffalo, NY 14201-0303. Writers may also apply electronically. $30.00 entry fee.
Each year, the University of New Orleans grants full fee waivers for either the Madrid Summer Seminars or the Writing Workshops in Montpellier to one writer each in the genres of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction. The contest is open to anyone writing in English who has not yet published a book of 45 pages or more in the genre of application, except for University of New Orleans faculty and staff. See site for more info. Entry fee: $25.
A prize of $1,000 is given annually to honor a first novel published in the previous year. The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid trip to Richmond with his or her editor, agent, or publicist to participate in the Virginia Commonwealth University First Novelist Forum, which is designed to highlight the journey a new writer assumes in his or her quest to contribute to the literary world. Publishers and authors submit three copies of novels published in previous year to Virginia Commonwealth University, First Novelist Award, Department of English, P.O. Box 842005, Richmond, VA 23284-2005.
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