Inkitt.com Call for Novel Submissions

What You Win

• $300 USD
• Contest winner badge on cover picture and promoted on special Novel Contest Winners list
• Eligible for a future publishing deal

About Us

Inkitt is a new boutique publishing house. Our first novel launched mid-2016, and since then, we’ve published over 50 novels.

Curious to know more? Read what our published author, Lauren Garcia, says about Inkitt here

Check out our past winners here

Terms of the contest:

• Submissions close on December 31st, 2018

 

• 1 winner will be selected
• Due to the volume of submissions, it could take up to three months (*Subject to Change*) for the winner to be announced
• The winner is going to be determined by Inkitt based on reader engagement, with votes also counting for 20% of the final decision
• You must own all rights
• No entry fee
• All genres except fan fiction accepted
• Multiple entries are allowed
• Novels must be in English
• You retain all rights to your stories while posted on Inkitt
• Previously or currently self-published books are accepted
• If you win, you must be willing to extend your manuscript to the mandatory word count if your word count is below our requirements
• Required word counts per genre:
• Erotica – 20,000
• Romance – 40,000
• Mystery – 60,000
• Thriller – 60,000
• Horror – 60,000
• Sci-Fi – 80,000
• Fantasy – 80,000
• YA – 40,000

How to enter, visit:

https://www.inkitt.com/novelcontest?utm_source=affiliate_writelife

Nineteenth Annual Young Lions Fiction Award

Below, please find the award’s guidelines.  You may submit online or using the submission form. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Young Lions Office at 212.930.0885 or younglions@nypl.org

Young Lions Fiction Award

To be considered for this prize, the candidate must meet the following requirements:

• The writer must be age 35 or younger at the time of the book’s publication during 2018.
• The book must be written for adults (no children’s or YA).
• He or she must be a citizen of the United States.
• The work must be either a novel or a collection of short stories published between January 2018 and December 2018.  We will accept submissions in galley form for works to be published after the submission deadline of Friday, August 31, 2018.

The publisher must submit all books.  Authors may not submit their work on their own.

2019 Young Lions Fiction Award Submission Form

Visit the website: https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/awards/young-lions-fiction-award/submission-form

$50,000 for a 3rd to 5th published work of fiction

About the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize

The biennial $50,000 Literary Prize is sponsored by St. Francis College to offer its support and encouragement to the literary community and mid-career authors who have recently published their 3rd to 5th work of fiction.

• Self-published books and English translations are considered.
• The next Prize will be for work published between June 2017 and May 2019.

Deadline for Prize Submissions: May 15, 2019
Shortlist Announced: August 15, 2019
Winner Awarded: BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL GALA, SEPTEMBER 2019.

2019 SFC Literary Prize Jury: TBA

2017 SFC Literary Prize Jury (read more about the jurors below):

• • Ellen Litman (University of Connecticut)
  • Jeffery Renard Allen (University of Virginia)
  • Rene Steinke (Fairleigh Dickinson University)

To Enter, Please Submit 5 Copies of the Work to:

SFC Literary Prize
St. Francis College
180 Remsen Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Questions?: Email: Professor Ian MaloneyOpens a New Window.

The other writers on the 2017 Short List were:

• Amina Gautier, The Loss of All Lost Things
• Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
• Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
• Selah Saterstrom, Slab
• Deb Olin Unferth, Wait Till You See Me Dance

2017 Jury

• Ellen Litman (University of Connecticut)
• Jeffery Renard Allen (University of Virginia)
• Rene Steinke (Fairleigh Dickinson University

Past Winners

2017: Dana Spiotta, Innocents and OthersOpens a New Window.
(Jury: Ellen Litman, Jeffery Renard Allen, René Steinke)

2015: Maud Casey, The Man Who Walked AwayOpens a New Window.
(Jury: Sigrid Nunez, Erin McGraw, Daniel Torday)

2013: David Vann, DirtOpens a New Window.
(Jury: Peter Cameron, Jonathan Dee,Kate Christensen)

2011: Jonathan Dee, The PrivilegesOpens a New Window.
(Jury: Rick Moody, Darcey Steinke, Francine Prose)

2009: Aleksandar Hemon, Love and Obstacles Opens a New Window.
(Jury: Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Ben Marcus

Call for Submissions: An International Poetry Anthology in English

 

 Magnum Opus

An International Poetry Anthology in English

 (Submit Your Only One Poem i.e. Master Piece)

(It’s simply a waste of time and labour if poem is submitted without reading the complete submission guidelines!)

Submission Deadline: 31 Dec 2018 (Midnight) 

Publication Expected: 2019 

Publisher: Authorspress, New Delhi, India 

Editor: Dr. Vivekanand Jha

 

Theme

A poem can be of any theme but it should be your magnum opus.

Submission Requirements

It is requested to submit your magnum opus poem.

To submit work, please:

• Send only one poem, of no more than 50 lines at magnumopuspoem@gmail.com
• Poem should originally be written in English. No translation, please.
• Include a bio in maximum 100 words.
• Submission of more than one poem shall be rejected without intimation.
• Save MS word file with your name, paste your bio, email id and poem into it. Send it as an email attachment.

Selection

Mere submission of one’s magnum opus won’t qualify for the poem to be included in the anthology. Editor reserves the right to select the poem suiting the aim of the anthology and his decisions will be final. Final selection will be made after the deadline for submission is over. Decisions for selection or rejection will be intimated to the individual in due course of time. It’s no use making a query in between.

Dimension

We will be accepting submissions from poets all over the world.

Copyright and Acknowledgement

Copyright of the selected poem shall remain with the author. It is natural that being one’s best poem it may have published previously at more than one place. We would mention the acknowledgment of the first publisher only. If a poem is submitted to us it would be deemed that either the poet holds necessary copyright or he has taken due permission from its first publisher.

Availability

The anthology will be listed on various online stores and like other books of Authorspress this collection too will be made available worldwide through authorized distributors and sub-distributors. The anthology will be published in both print and electronic format.

Compensation

The contributors physically living in India irrespective of their country of origin will get a free print copy whereas those living overseas will get a free eBook which will be available with us in various forms and formats.

​Circulation

We shall leave no stone unturned to reach the best contemporary poets all over the world. But if every poet, in the possession of this call for submissions, forwards to his fellow or friend poets, things will be pretty easier for us and it will be very helpful for the future health of poetry as well. Hence it is our humble request to forward this call to the emails at your disposal.

Looking forward to your submissions!

Best wishes!

 

Dr. Vivekanand Jha

Editor