Contests

The 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award contest will open from January 20 through April 30, 2025. The contest is for short stories of no more than 8,000 words that depict adventure in any fantasy subgenre. Baen wants

Adventure fantasy with heroes you want to root for. Warriors either modern or medieval, who solve problems with their wits or with their weapons—and we have nothing against dragons, elves, dwarves, castles under ...Read More

Grist,  the online environmental magazine, has announced three winners for their Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors Short Story Contest. The contest asks authors to imagine “the future we want — futures in which climate solutions flourish and we all thrive.”

The winners are:

The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) has announced an open call for “original artwork combining fantasy and science fiction themes to be featured as its 2024 Illustration of the Year.”

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2025. The winner, to be announced in February 2025, will receive $750, and the winning artwork will be featured on the SLF website and social media “and used as a visual element of SLF’s ...Read More

The 2025 George R.R. Martin Screenwriting Grant is accepting submissions until December 15, 2024. Organized by the New Mexico Film Foundation, with support from the George R.R. Martin Literary Foundation, the competition is open to screenwriters from New Mexico.

The winning grant award for an individual screenplay is $5,000 and includes a mentorship introduction with a seasoned screenwriter. Two additional writers will receive a foundation membership and developmental mentorship with ...Read More

The Otherwise Fellowship is open to applications until December 15, 2024.

From the organizers of the Fellowship:

The Otherwise Fellowship (formerly Tiptree Fellowship) was established in 2015 to support and recognize new voices who are creating work that is changing our view of gender today. The Fellowship program seeks out creators who are striving to complete new works, particularly creators from communities that have been historically underrepresented in the science ...Read More

The New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) SF/F short story contest is now open to entries.

“The purpose of this contest is to encourage amateur and semi-professional writers to reach the next level of proficiency…. If you have received more than $1000 for your fiction writing from any source on the date you submit your story and/or have published, in any paying publication, a novel or multiple shorter works adding ...Read More

Submissions are now open for the Dream Foundry Emerging Writers Contest and Emerging Artists Contest.

The contest is run by The Dream Foundry. Finalists for the writing contest will be selected by contest coordinator Julia Rios, and winners will be selected by judges C.L. Polk and Valerie Valdes. Finalists for the art contest will be selected by coordinator Grace P. Fong, and winners will be selected by judges Jessica Cheng ...Read More

Submissions are now open for the third Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors short story contest.

The contest is run by Fix, Grist‘s “solutions lab,” and will be judged by authors Omar El Akkad and Annalee Newitz. They seek entries between 2,500 and 5,000 words that “envision the future of climate progress.” This year’s theme asks writers to “envision a future where humanity overcomes the climate crisis and builds ...Read More

The Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) has announced an open call for “original artwork combining fantasy and science fiction themes to be featured as its 2024 Illustration of the Year.”

The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2023, later than previously announced. The winner, to be announced in January 2024, will receive $750, and the winning artwork will be featured on the SLF website and social media.

For more information, including ...Read More

Submissions are now open for the third Imagine 2200 short story contest. The theme is “Climate fiction for future ancestors.”

The contest is run by Fix, Grist‘s “solutions lab,” and will be judged by authors Paolo Bacigalupi, Nalo Hopkinson, and Sam J. Miller. They seek entries between 3,000 and 5,000 words “that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress.”

First prize is $3,000, second prize $2,000, and third ...Read More

Winners of the Tolkien Society Awards 2023 were announced on April 1, 2023. The awards “recognize excellence in the fields of Tolkien scholarship and fandom, highlight­ing our long-standing charitable objective to ‘seek to educate the public in, and promote research into, the life and works of'” J.R.R. Tolkien. The society’s trustees choose the shortlist, with winners chosen by the membership.

Best Book

• WINNER: The Fall of Númenor, Brian Sibley,

The Jack L. Chalker Young Writers’ Contest is open to original science fiction and fantasy submissions by Maryland students “no younger than 14 and no older than 18 years of age.” First, second, and third prizes are $150, $100, and $50, respectively, and the deadline for submissions is March 31, 2023.

Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) and Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Tin House) are among the three finalists for The Story Prize, “honoring the author of an outstanding collection of short fiction.” Director Larry Dark and founder Julie Lindsey select finalists, and “three independent judges” select the winner. Both runners-up receive $5,000 and the winner receives $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl. The winner ...Read More