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Current literary competitions for 2019 for experienced and aspiring writers. Placed in accordance with deadlines (dates when the acceptance of works ends). The necessary information is indicated: nominations, age of participants, topics and genres, volume of accepted works.

International competitions 2019

31.01. Annual International Internet competition “Family Glory Page”. We accept works dedicated to wars and conflicts, pages from family history, compatriots-internationalists, and home front workers. This is a project for people of all ages and professions. Conditions: You must register on the site.

15.03 . Literary competition"History and Legends". Everyone is welcome to participate. Prizes: diplomas, gifts, publication for the winners. Send work to: [email protected]. There are design requirements. Genres: historical novel or stories, epics, fairy tales, folklore, epics, ballads, odes, poems, visions, fiction, fantasy. Themes:

• "Smeda". The basis should be the legend of a brave Bulgarian woman named Smeda, who in the 16th-17th centuries, together with her 14 sons, founded the village and then the city of Smyadovo.
• "Sofrata". Tell us about the area of ​​​​Sofrat - an energetically charged stone plateau in the forest, on the top of a mountain, where electronic devices stop working and even fail. According to one version, this is an ancient Thracian sanctuary. A Swedish scientist, having examined Sofrata, expressed a fantastic version that Sofrata is a transition (gate) to another dimension.

31.03. Contest short story"From Great to Ridiculous"(3000-5000 characters, weekly, send to [email protected]). Participants: aged 14 years and over. Prizes: winning stories are broadcast on radio “Gomel Plus” on Saturdays and Sundays at 18.15, the names of the winners are announced weekly in the organizer’s social groups. Radio broadcast on the Internet on the website http://radiogomelplus.by. You can familiarize yourself with the rules of the competition.

01.04. International poetry competition. Humorous poetry is accepted. Anyone can participate without restrictions on age, nationality and citizenship - who writes on English language. Prizes: money, publication.

15.04. International literary short story competition in the fantasy genre XXII “Flight of Fantasy”. Requirements for stories: in Russian; only fantasy (but really in a broad sense!); size from 7000 to 40000 characters excluding spaces; previously unpublished (including on the Internet).

15.07. Competition for applicants International Literary Prize them. I. F. Annensky (only manuscripts, poetry and prose). There are no age restrictions. Prizes: publication in magazines, possibly a prize.

Russian competitions 2019

10.01. Literary Prize"Antonovka. 40+" Participants: those who wish, who are 40 and more years. If your works of art written in best traditions Russian literature and humane, it’s time to send them by e-mail [email protected] marked “Antonovka Prize”. The prize was established in memory of the poet, prose writer, playwright and critic Alexei Antonov. Nominations:

• “Poetry” (a selection of poems or a poem of no more than 350 lines);
• “Prose” (stories or short stories up to 80 thousand characters);
• “Dramaturgy” (plays, including in verse);
• “Literary criticism” (reviews, articles, essays up to 40 thousand characters).

10.01. Literary competition “LithoDrama 2019”" Those who wish can participate. Previously unpublished plays are accepted. Acceptance of work: [email protected]. There are additional conditions. Nominations:

• "Plays" (on free topic, volume up to 140 thousand characters);
• “Free Space” (realistic plays, up to 140 thousand characters);
• “Plays for children and teenagers” (up to 100 thousand characters);
• “Prose Theater” (monologues, up to 20 thousand characters);
• “Plays without action (up to 100 thousand characters);
• “A Play for Nastya” (plays for actress Anastasia Obolenskaya from Belgorod, volume up to 140 thousand characters);
• “Fantastic plays” (up to 100 thousand characters);
• “Kazan History” (plays about Kazan, up to 140 thousand characters).

14.01. Competition in memory of St. Cyril– in honor of his 1150th anniversary of his Dormition (February 14, 2019), one of the brothers who created modern Slavic alphabet. Those who wish can participate. Stories and poems are accepted. Topics: “Creators of the ABC”; "Slavic alphabet"; “The significance of the creation of the Slavic alphabet”; "We and the Word"; “We write in Cyrillic,” as well as other related topics related to Slavic literature. Up to 5 works are accepted from one participant. Registration on the site is required. Prizes: diplomas, gifts.

31.01 . Non-fiction literature competition from the publishing house Animedia Company. Texts in Russian with a volume of at least 5 author's pages are allowed. These can be either individual completed works or part of a series. Works proposed by the author for participation in the competition should not be posted in in electronic format on any of the online trading platforms. You must send to the competition: full text works, annotations and brief information about the author by email [email protected]. The subject line of the letter must begin with the word “Competition”. The results of the competition will be announced on March 1, 2019. The main prize for 3 winners: a contract for the publication of a book by a publishing house, providing for the placement of the work in all leading online stores in the world, high percentages of royalties and other pleasant little things.

11.02. Competition "New Start" from Animedia Company. Nomination: novel ( modern prose, love story, thriller, detective, etc.). Prizes: a publishing contract, high percentages of royalties and many other pleasant little things. Conditions: the volume of the work is from 5 author's sheets, the novel should not be posted on trading platforms in the Internet.

28.02. Award " Big Book». Nominations: novels, novellas, collections of novellas and/or short stories, documentary prose, memoirs, author's translations. Conditions: manuscripts are also included. Prizes: up to RUB 3,000,000.

01.03. National Agency for Press and Media "Russian" literary center" on a competition basis accepts works in the regular literary and artistic almanac “NISERMI”. Participants: willing, but undoubtedly talented. Participation without payment organizational fee, but the selection will be tough. P We accept works in the following genres: short story; story; poems; feature article; essay; haiku; flash fiction and fan fiction; fairy tale or parable; other genres of small prose or poetic form. Text requirements: prose - from 800 to 25,000 characters; poetry - from 8 to 120 lines. The author can send one or more works corresponding to the specified volume in a single doc file, to the address: [email protected]. Prizes: publication.

31.03. Poetry competition“Bereshchenye-2019”: open, non-profit project aimed at supporting poetic creativity participants, popularization of universal human values. The theme of the competition is “Life is the most valuable thing in the world.” Are being considered poetic works on the topic of value human life, the uniqueness of every human life. Competition prizes. “Grand Prix”: the winner will receive a summer VIP picnic set and a certificate for publishing an interview in the magazine “Showbiz’24” (Moscow). The winners of the competition will receive Diplomas and project souvenirs. Also, the winners in the “Grand Prix” and “Sympathy of Bereshchenya” nominations will receive certificates for free audio recordings of their works in professional studio sound recordings in the city of your residence.

31.03 . Literary competition "Popadanets". Those who wish can participate. Previously unpublished novels with a volume of 400 thousand characters or more, without the 18+ mark, are accepted. Genres: adventure, fantasy, where main character- a hit man, brave and decisive. Love line may be absent or minor. Registration on the site is required. Prizes: royalty-free book publication.

05.04, until 19.00.New Children's Book Competition from the publishing house "ROSMEN". Register. Prizes: Grand Prize– a contract with the publishing house “ROSMEN”, the best works of the competition participants are published in an illustrated collection. Nominations:

• "Stories for the little ones"
• "Young Adult: Thriller. Mystic. Horror",
• "New children's illustration."

10.04. Short story competition “Love Story”. Age of participants: 18+. Story length: 8000-32000 characters. Participating texts are written specifically for the competition and have not been published anywhere before. Condition: unlimited publication on the website of the competition organizer. Criteria for evaluating stories: literacy, artistry, plot. Prizes: diplomas, money.

15.04. Literary competition “Your Fantasy on Amazon”. Those who wish to participate are those who write in Russian. Only new novels with a volume of 90-120 thousand words are accepted. Genres: epic, action or adventure fantasy. Registration on the site is required. Prize fund– 2500 dollars.

30.04. “Cyberpunk” from LitNet. Nominations: cyberpunk novel, fantasy, LitRPG, realRPG. I: the volume of the novel is from 10 author's sheets. Prizes: paid publication in the publishing house “Litnet Publishing” with a circulation of at least 3000 copies, there are other goodies.

30.04 . Competition “New Writers”. Nominations: prose (up to 30,000 characters), poetry (no more than 200 lines). Conditions: participation is paid. Prizes: up to 10,000 rubles. + publication in the almanac.

10.05. Open literary competition "Heroes of the Great Victory-2019" for the best literary story, essay, poem, song (text) of epic, historical and military-patriotic content. Organizers: Union of Writers of Russia, Russian Military Historical Society, Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, etc.
Any citizen can participate in the competition, regardless of citizenship and nationality. Age restrictions: no. The competition is held in order to preserve and perpetuate the memory of what was demonstrated during the Great Patriotic War heroism Soviet soldiers and the courage of Russian soldiers who defended the borders of the Motherland, as well as military personnel who participated in local wars and military conflicts.

15.05. All-Russian competition for teenage writers "Teenager N". Nominations: “Dystopia”; "Fantasy"; "Young adult"; "Non-fiction"; "A Tale for high school" Prizes: discounts in the Labyrinth, laptops, publication of the winner's book in the Compass Guide publishing house and 10 author's copies.

20.05. The non-profit partnership "Wikimedia RU" and the Russian Union of Writers launched the first literary futurological competition "WikiFuture". Topic: the future of Wikipedia and similar resources, global knowledge bases and the impact of wiki technologies on tomorrow. Nominations: “Science fiction story” and “Futurological article.” Only 1 work from 1000 to 20,000 characters with spaces is accepted from one author.

Venues for the competition: “Samizdat” and “Proza.ru”. Prizes: the laureates in each category will receive prizes with Wikipedia symbols; their works will be published in a special collection “WikiFuture”; finalists receive diplomas from Wikipedia and Russian Union writers.

31.05. Competition "Electronic letter". Nominations: stories, novellas, novels of 4000 characters or more. Award nominations:

• "Best Writer"
• “Bestseller” (special category).
• Experts' Choice" (special category).
• “Readers' Choice” (special category).

Prizes: promotion of winning books on all resources of the liters group of companies. Condition: only works published electronically on liters can participate.

31.12. Prizes newspapers "Literature and Mastatstva":

• Prize named after B. Mikulich - for the best publication of creative prose on the old pages of the newspaper “LIM”;
• Prize named after A. Bachyly - for the most impressive and pathetic publication on the old pages of the newspaper “LIM”;
• Prize named after R. Byarozkin - for the most brilliant literary and covert publication.

Creations in the competition are directly related to the electronic look of the editorial office of the newspaper “Literature and Arts” ( [email protected]) from the 1st student of 2019 with the signs “Prose”, “Paesia”, “Krytyka”. Information on the results of the competition will be published in the newspaper “Literature and Arts” for the 31st day of 2020.

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If you have not yet decided whether to participate in competitions, this article may be useful:

P.S. Do you participate in literary competitions? What do they give you? Share your thoughts. And I wish you, colleagues, easy keys and nimble mice!

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Have you discovered a grain of writing talent in yourself and want it to be appreciated? In this case, there are at least two options for the development of events. The first is that you gain patience and start bombarding publishing houses with a synopsis of your work and the text itself from morning until late at night for days on end in the hope that someone will want to publish it young talent at your own expense. At the same time, get ready for long months of waiting - in most cases, publishers take from a month to three to review one manuscript.

Or the second option - you submit your work to a prestigious competition. If everything goes well, you win and gain popularity, and now you are no longer chasing publishers, but vice versa. However, even if the victory goes to someone else, any large-scale competition is good opportunity light up. So go for it! And we have compiled a list especially for you best competitions for young and promising!

1. International literary competition “Russian Prize” (RUB 150,000)

"Russian Prize" is the only Russian prize, which is awarded to a Russian-speaking writer living outside of Russia. The goal of the competition is to preserve and develop the Russian language and support Russian-speaking writers around the world. The prize is awarded in three categories: “Large prose”, “ Short prose" and "Poetry". The winners are awarded prizes in the amount of 150 thousand rubles. There are no age restrictions for award applicants. It is important that both published and previously unpublished works can participate in this competition.

2. International literary competition “Coronation of the Word”

The competition is held in the categories “Novels”, “Film Scripts”, “Plays” and “Song Lyrics”, as well as “Coronation of the Word for Children”. Manuscripts of previously unpublished works are accepted for participation. The jury decides on the results of the competition. The winners receive cash prizes. Last year, the 1st prize in the nomination “Novels” amounted to 20 thousand hryvnia, in the nomination “Film Scripts” - 15 thousand, “Plays” - 10 thousand, “Song Poetry” - 8 thousand. A number of special prizes are also awarded. Today, the “Coronation of the Word” competition is one of the most prestigious in Ukraine.

3. Competition “Writer of the Year 2016”

The competition is held with the aim of “discovering new talented names and promoting their promotion to the literary Olympus,” as stated on the publishing house’s website. Authors over 18 years of age are allowed to participate. Place of residence does not matter. To participate, the author must submit an application on the page. At the end of the year, eminent representatives literary world will select one or more of the most interesting authors, who will be offered special conditions for cooperation with the publishing house and given a personal award.

4. Competition “Poet of the Year 2016”

5. International literary competition for one story at LITER-RM.RU

The purpose of the competition is to popularize literary creativity, find talented youth, and also determine the geography of authors who create in Russian. Participants can be Russian-speaking prose writers over 14 years old from anywhere in the world. The competition budget is 15 thousand rubles.

The competition is held in three categories: “Realistic story”, “ Fantastic story" and "Fantasy story, fairy tale." The winners in each category receive a cash reward in the amount of 3 thousand rubles, as well as a diploma. You can find out the details of the competition.

6. International competition of one poem on LITER-RM.RU

The competition is held in two age groups: from 12 to 27 years inclusive and from 28 years. The winner will get money prize in the amount of at least 2 thousand rubles (from 12 to 27 years old) or 3 thousand rubles (from 28 years old). The subject, form and content of competition works can be anything. Details of the competition can be found.

7. International literary and pedagogical competition “Good Lyre” (Pedagogical Recognition Award)

The purpose of the competition is to increase the significance of modern Russian literature in the field of education younger generation, as well as attract interest in the book as a source of morality. There are no restrictions for authors regarding age, citizenship, or place of residence. The prize is awarded in the following categories: “ Fiction- Jr school age" and "Fiction - no age limit." Competition works must be written in prose in Russian, are not limited in topic and cannot be published previously. The winners will receive diplomas, and the best works will be included in the final collection. Competition details: on the website.

8. International competition for the best work for children “Korneychukov Prize-2016”

The Korneychukov Prize is a competition for the best works for children that have not been published before, and a real chance for beginning children's authors. The works of the competition laureates attract the attention of major publishers in the country, which means that your story, tale, fairy tale or poem may soon find its reader. At the end of the competition, the organizers create a collection best works. The most striking works are also included in literary almanacs.

The competition is one of the main events of the IV Odessa International Korneychukov Festival of Children's Literature, which is held as part of the XX International Book Fair "Green Wave". The winners in each category will receive diplomas, commemorative statuettes and cash prizes in the amount of 10 thousand UAH.
Competition page.

9. Literary competition L’Officiel Online

Recently, the Ukrainian editorial office of the world-famous magazine L’Officiel launched a literary competition in the short story genre. The volume of competition works is up to 2 thousand characters. The best novella will be published weekly on the L’officiel Online website. There are no prizes, winners or losers. However, if the quality of the text is high, the editors promise to note best author.
All details on the website.

10. Science fiction novel competition “100% fiction”

11. Literary competition of the publishing house "Smoloskip"

We wish you good luck, writers!

Let's try to roughly divide the competitions into three groups:
- prestigious literary awards: “Big Book”, “Booker”, “National Bestseller”, genre awards such as “Wanderer”, etc.
- competitions held by publishing houses, such as “Manuscript of the Year”;
- network competitions.

Prestigious literary awards

Prestigious literary awards are intended for published authors and have a significant bonus fund, beautiful prizes to put on your shelf and attract a lot of media attention. Even being included in the longlist is already happiness and a reason to proudly announce this on the cover of the book. However, no award guarantees success with the reader.

It is very difficult to nominate yourself for such a competition, even if you published a book at your own expense - publishers, thick magazines or a panel of judges most often have the right to nominate.

Therefore, you can forget about these bonuses and calm down. It’s one of two things: either it will happen or it won’t, nothing depends on our efforts.

The exception is "Debut". But it has drawbacks - this is a prize for authors under 25-35 years of age.

Competitions held by publishing houses

These competitions are mainly aimed at aspiring authors and give them a great chance to get started writing career, get some initial push.

There are no prizes in them or they are purely symbolic, but they have one big, simply huge plus.

These are, by definition, fair competitions. The organizer, who is also the publisher, is vitally interested in finding new talented authors, so attention is paid to each text. As far as I understand, such awards have two main tasks. Firstly, promotion of the author - attracting the attention of the media and attracting the attention of readers with the inscription on the cover “Award winner so-and-so.” Therefore, only the text determines everything. There is no point in giving a push to a mediocre text - it will be a waste of time and money. No matter how much you kick a hedgehog, it will not fly like a bird. Secondly, the fee of a beginning author in our time cannot serve as any significant incentive to write new works. But this recognition and moral support - they play their role.

Finally, this is one of the few chances to publish a non-format work.

My personal experience very positive. Winning the Blogbuster competition allowed me to meet some amazing editors. Thanks to these acquaintances, my story was published, and the novel did not lie idle for months, but was read immediately, out of sequence. But you must understand that the victory of one text in the competition does not guarantee the publication of another; the only thing you can count on is attention to your application.

Then the novel became the winner of another publishing competition - “Manuscript of the Year”, thanks to which I already have something to fill the “Media about the novel” page on the book’s website.

Network competitions

Online competitions are exactly the case when participation is more important than victory. This will allow the novice author to save some time, since it will not allow him to step on the well-known rake.

Of course, not a single editor will take seriously your comment that the text took first place in the “Afftor, write escho” competition held by the “Young Star of Literature” portal.

The prize most often becomes Nice picture, on which is written “Winner of such and such a competition.” You can hang it on your blog or website.

The main thing a novice author needs from an online competition is reviews, feedback and reviews. The chance of getting a review or at least a detailed review from the editor of the publishing house who rejected you is close to zero. The majority of blog readers will either write “Thank you,” or “Drink yada,” or remain silent.

If you're lucky enough to make it to the finals of an online competition, you can sometimes get a review from a pro. If not, you will get feedback from people who are interested literary theory, read a lot and share their impressions in detail. This can be very useful to pay attention to your mistakes, shortcomings and advantages. At a minimum, someone will read your worst story to the end and rub your nose into at least one of the reasons for your failure. It's a kind of school.

You need to understand that online competitions are often won by strong “middle-of-the-road” stories—stories that are understandable and interesting to most judges, and that equally satisfy male and female tastes. In addition, long-existing competitions have their own established concepts about good story. Those. You need to understand that the judges of any competition are a certain target audience, a cross-section.

There is some risk of running into a not entirely friendly public and getting bogged down in an angry skirmish or some other holivar. But it is only your choice whether to react to such things or not.

Finally, it is very interesting to be a judge of the competition. Therefore, do not be afraid of lynching competitions. Of course, it takes time, but what practice it gives! Firstly, you will feel partly in the shoes of an editor reviewing gravity and understand how to interest him. Secondly, you will easily notice a dozen logs that you could not see in your own eye. Thirdly, you will get to know a huge amount cliches, and you will know how to avoid them.

Where to find out about competitions