Contests and Prizes for Novel Writers
The Newbery Medal honors the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
The Caldecott Medal honors the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
The Belpré Medal honors a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose works best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal honors the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children’s literature known as beginning reader books published in the United States during the preceding year.
The Sibert Medal honors the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.
(Laura Ingalls) Wilder Award - honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
Franz Kafka Prize - The criteria for winning the award include the artwork's "humanistic character and contribution to cultural, national, language and religious tolerance, its existential, timeless character, its generally human validity and its ability to hand over a testimony about our times."
The Writing Contests, Grants & Awards database includes details about the creative writing contests—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, and more—that we’ve published in Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it. Ours is the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.
EditFast will hold 3 novel writing contests every year. The novel writing contest is free to all and open to any topic apart from the exclusions listed below. The winners of the contests will be published in a hardback volume. In order to publish the novels, EditFast must reserve First Rights on all submissions.
NaNoWriMo is an annual (November) novel writing project that brings together professional and amateur writers from all over the world.
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William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition - Entries are accepted now in eight categories: Novel, Novella, book-length Narrative Non-Fiction, Novel-in-Progress, Short Story, Essay, Poetry, and Short Story by a High School Student. Overall goals of the competition are to seek out new, talented writers and assist them in finding literary agents and, ultimately, publishers for their work.
The Debut-litzer Award - Late Night Library, the all-hours home of debut books, announces The Debut-litzer Award for creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. The winners will be selected by judges in each genre: Paul Collins (nonfiction), Leslie Jamison (fiction), and Traci Brimhall (poetry). In addition to a $1,000 cash prize, each winner will be featured on Late Night Conversation and each book will be featured on Late Night Debut.