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Actual literary competitions for 2019 for experienced and novice 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, amount of accepted works.

International competitions-2019

31.01. Annual International Internet contest "Family Glory Page". Works are accepted devoted to wars and conflicts, pages from the history of the family, fellow internationalists, 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 who wants to participate. Prizes: diplomas, gifts, publication for the winners. Submit your work to: [email protected]. There are formatting requirements. Genres: historical novel or stories, epics, fairy tales, folklore, epics, ballads, odes, poems, visions, fiction, fantasy. Themes:

• "Smeda". The basis should be a legend about a brave Bulgarian woman named Smeda, who in the 16-17 centuries, together with her 14 sons, founded the village, and then the city of Smyadovo.
• "Sofrata". Tell about the area of ​​Sofrata - an energetically charged stone plateau in the forest, on 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 (gateway) to another dimension.

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

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

15.04. International Literary story contest in the genre of fantasy XXII "Span of fantasy". Requirements for stories: in Russian; only fantasy (but in the broadest sense!); size from 7000 to 40000 characters without spaces; previously unpublished (including on the Internet).

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

Russian competitions-2019

10.01. Literary Prize"Antonovka. 40+". Participants: interested, who are 40 years old and over. If your works of art written in the best traditions of Russian literature and humane, just right to send them by e-mail [email protected] marked "Antonovka Prize". The award was established in memory of the poet, prose writer, playwright and critic Alexei Antonov. Nominations:

• "Poetry" (a selection of poems or a poem with a volume 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 "LitoDrama 2019"". Those who wish to participate. Previously unpublished plays are accepted. Acceptance of work: [email protected]. Eat additional terms. Nominations:

• "Plays" (on a free topic, 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, up to 140,000 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 the Assumption (February 14, 2019), one of the brothers-creators of modern Slavic alphabet. Those who wish to participate. Stories and poems are accepted. Topics: "Creators of the alphabet"; "Slavic alphabet"; "The meaning 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 5 author's sheets are allowed. It can be both separate completed works, and included in the series. Works proposed by the author for participation in the competition should not be placed in in electronic format on any of the trading platforms on the Internet. The following must be submitted to the competition: full text works, annotations and brief information about the author on email [email protected]. The subject of the letter should begin with the word "Competition". The results of the competition will be summed up on March 1, 2019. The main prize for 3 winners: a contract for the publication of the book by a publishing house, which provides for the placement of the work in all the leading online stores in the world, high percentages of royalties and other nice little things.

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

28.02. Big Book Award. Nominations: novels, short stories, collections of short stories and/or short stories, documentary prose, memoirs, author's translations. Conditions: manuscripts also participate. Prizes: up to 3,000,000 rubles.

01.03. National Agency for Press and Mass Media "Russian Literary Center" on a competitive basis accepts works in the regular literary and artistic almanac "NISERMI". Participants: willing, but undoubtedly talented. Participation without payment of the registration fee, but the selection will be tough. P Works are accepted 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. Requirements for texts: 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“Bereshchenie-2019″: an open, non-profit project aimed at supporting poetic creativity participants, promotion universal values. The theme of the competition is “Life is the most valuable thing in the world”. Poetic works on the topic of value are considered human life, the uniqueness of each human life. Competition prizes. Grand Prix: the winner will receive a summer VIP picnic set and a certificate for publishing an interview in Showbiz’24 magazine (Moscow). The winners of the competition will receive diplomas and souvenirs of the project. Also, the winners in the "Grand Prix" and "Sympathy of Bereshchenya" nominations will receive certificates for free audio recording of their works in a professional recording studio in their city of residence.

31.03 . Literary competition "Popadanets". Those who wish to participate. Previously unpublished novels with a volume of 400,000 characters or more are accepted, not marked 18+. Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, where main character- a man-a hitman, brave and decisive. love line may be absent or minor. Registration on the site is required. Prizes: honorary publication of the book.

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

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

10.04. Love story short story competition. Age of participants: 18+. The volume of the story: 8000-32000 characters. Texts written specifically for the competition and not previously published anywhere participate. Condition: indefinite publication on the website of the contest organizer. Criteria for evaluating stories: literacy, artistry, plot. Prizes: diplomas, money.

15.04. Literary competition "Your Fantasy on Amazon". Those who wish to participate, who write in Russian. Only new novels with 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, science fiction, LitRPG, realRPG. me: the volume of the novel is from 10 author's sheets. Prizes: a royalty-free publication in the publishing house “Litnet Publishing” with a circulation of at least 3,000 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: Writers' Union 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 shown during the Great Patriotic War the heroism of 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 of teenage writers "Teenager N". Nominations: "Dystopia"; "Fantasy"; "Young adult"; "Non-fiction"; "A story for high school". Prizes: discounts in the "Labyrinth" laptops, publication of the book of the winner in the publishing house "CompassGid" 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 technology on tomorrow. Nominations: "Sci-fi story" and "Futurological article". Only 1 work from 1000 to 20000 characters with spaces is accepted from one author.

Venues for the competition: "Samizdat" and "Proza.ru". Prizes: for laureates in each nomination - prizes with the symbols of "Wikipedia", works will be published in a special collection "WikiFuture"; finalists - diplomas from "Wikipedia" and Russian Union writers.

31.05. Competition "Electronic letter". Nominations: short stories, novels, novels with a volume of 4000 characters or more. Award nominations:

• "Best Writer"
• "Bestseller" (special nomination).
• Choice of Experts (special nomination).
• "Readers' Choice" (special nomination).

Prizes: promotion of book winners on all resources of the LitRes group of companies. Condition: only works published in electronic form on LitRes can participate.

31.12. Prizes newspapers "Litaratura and Mastatstva":

• Prize named after B. Mikulich - for the worst publication of the work of prose on the front pages of the newspaper "Lim";
• Prize named after A. Bachyly - for the most poetic publication on the front pages of the newspaper "LiM";
• Prize named after R. Byarozkin - for the worst literary and cover publication.

The creations at the contest are promoted by the editorial staff of the newspaper "Litaratura and Art" ( [email protected]) from the 1st student of 2019 with the titles "Prose", "Paezia", ​​"Krytyka". Information on the competition budze was overruled in the newspaper "Litaratura i mastastva" not later than 31st of studenzen 2020.

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Have you discovered the grain of writing talent in yourself and want to be appreciated? In this case, there are at least two scenarios. The first is that you gain patience and start bombing 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 young talent at your own expense. At the same time, get ready for long months of waiting - in most cases, publishers need from a month to three to review one manuscript.

Or the second option - you send 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 another, any competition of a wide scale is good opportunity light up. So keep it up! And especially for you, we have compiled a list the best competitions for young and promising!

1. International literary competition "Russian Prize" (150,000 rubles)

"Russian Prize" is the only Russian premium, which is awarded to a Russian-speaking writer living outside of Russia. The purpose of the competition is to preserve and develop the Russian language and support Russian-speaking writers of the world. The prize is awarded in three categories: "Large Prose", "Small Prose" and "Poetry". The winners are awarded prizes in the amount of 150 thousand rubles. There are no age restrictions for applicants for the award. 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 nominations "Novels", "Scenarios", "Plays" and "Song Lyrics", as well as "Coronation of Words for Children". Manuscripts of previously unpublished works are accepted for participation. The decision on the results of the competition is made by the jury. Winners receive cash prizes. Last year, the 1st prize in the nomination "Novels" was 20 thousand hryvnias, in the nomination "Scenarios" - 15 thousand, "Plays" - 10 thousand, "Song poetry" - 8 thousand. Also awarded a series special awards. Today the competition "Coronation of the word" 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 contribute to their promotion to the literary Olympus,” as stated on the publisher’s website. Authors over 18 years of age are allowed to participate. The place of residence does not matter. To participate, the author needs to apply on the page. At the end of the year, eminent representatives literary world choose one or more of the most interesting authors who will be offered special conditions for cooperation with the publishing house and presented with a nominal award.

4. Competition "Poet of the Year-2016"

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

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

The competition is held in three categories "Realistic story", " fantasy story"and" Fantasy story, fairy tale ". Winners in each nomination receive a monetary 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 at LITER-RM.RU

The competition is held in two age groups: from 12 to 27 years old inclusive and from 28 years old. 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). Subject, form and content of competitive works can be any. The details of the competition can be found.

7. International Literary and Pedagogical Competition "Kind Lyre" (Pedagogical Recognition Award)

The purpose of the competition is to increase the importance of modern Russian literature in the field of education younger generation and also to draw interest in the book as a source of morality. There are no restrictions for authors by age, citizenship, place of residence. The award is given in the following categories: Fiction- Jr school age"and" Fiction - no age limit. Competitive works must be written in prose in Russian, are not limited in subject matter and cannot be published earlier. 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 "Korneichuk Prize-2016"

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

The competition is one of the main events of the IV Odessa International Korneichuk Festival of Children's Literature, which is held as part of the XX International Book Fair "Green Wave". The winners in each nomination will receive diplomas, commemorative figurines and cash prizes in the amount of UAH 10,000.
Contest 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 novel genre. The volume of competition works is up to 2 thousand characters. Weekly best short story will be published on the L'officiel Online website. No prizes, winners and losers are expected. However, if the quality of the text is high, the editors promise to best author.
All details on the site.

10. 100% Fiction Science Fiction Competition

11. Literary competition of the publishing house "Smoloskip"

We wish you good luck writers!