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Throughout the year, organizations across the globe hold a variety of writing competitions. It’s a good idea to keep track of these contests, so you can prepare accordingly and participate in them. Writing contests are a great way to get in some writing practice, especially since the rewards they offer are so enticing! Your competitive drive and the pressure of deadlines force out your writing brainworms, stringing words together into passages. Before you know it, you’ve written that poem or that essay you were struggling with for ages!
As editors who care deeply about your writing careers, we at PaperTrue make sure to send out these timely reminders, so you get enough time to start working on your manuscript, and eventually enter these contests. Start digging into your Google notes then, or your Google docs, or wherever it is that you store your diamonds-in-the-rough, because we’re back with another list of writing contests!
While we can expect novel writing competitions to be in full swing in December, short fiction seems to be the mood for November. This month, our list heavily features short story contests, while poetry and nonfiction competitions are harder to come by. For the sake of our poets and essayists, however, we have searched long and hard, and come up with the following mixed contests:
Mixed Contests
Onyx Publications Winter Contest
Held by Onyx Publication, this contest considers fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and flash fiction. It is open to all styles, genres, and types of writing.
Prizes: $350, $150, $50, and others
Entry Fee: $7.50
Closing Date: 08 November 2021
So To Speak Contests
“Our mission is to amplify voices of BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ people, women, neurodivergent people, people of different religions or none, migrants, refugees & immigrants (regardless of citizenship), and incarcerated writers.” This contest has free submissions for Black and Indigenous writers!
Prizes: $500 per category
Entry Fee: $9 per category
