Contests

Deadline: January 5, 2011
2011 Indie Publishing Contest
A group of judges approved by the San Francisco Writers Conference management team will select the top 25 entries in the following categories: fiction, nonfiction/memoir, children's/young adult and poetry. Writers should submit up to the first 5,000 words of a complete, unpublished manuscript, short story, essay or poem. The Grand Prize winner will receive an indie publishing contract, mentoring from a literary agent, a video book trailer and more.

Deadline: 5th of every month
Writers' Forum Ongoing Short Story Competition
Prizes range from a minimum 1st prize £300, 2nd prize £150 and 3rd prize £100 with an annual trophy and a cheque for £1,000 for the best story of the year. The competition is open to all nationalities but entries must be in English.

Deadline: 15th of every month
Writers' Forum Ongoing Poetry Competition
Poets are invited to enter their unpublished poems for a competition to be held in each issue of Writers' Forum. There will be a first prize of £100 and three runner-up prizes all published in the magazine.

Deadline of submissions in each category: January 25, 2012.
2011 Los Angeles Book Festival Open for Entries
The Los Angeles Book Festival is now accepting entries for this year’s best published works from around the world.

The 2011 Los Angeles Book Festival considers submissions in categories including but not limited to non-fiction, fiction, children's books, cookbooks, science fiction, business, spiritual, photography/art, poetry, foreign language, romance, and genre-based works published on or after Jan. 1, 2008. In addition to winning top spot in each category, you also have the chance of bagging the Festival Author of the Year award.

Please note: These contests are not affiliated with, sponsored or supported by AuthorHouse.