
Sally Buckner Emerging Writers’ Fellowship › The Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition awards the winner publication in storySouth and $200. Submissions accepted: January 15 – March 1 The winner receives $1,000 and possible publication in The Thomas Wolfe Review. Honors internationally celebrated North Carolina novelist, Thomas Wolfe. Submissions accepted: December 1 – January 30 The winning entry will be considered for publication by Ecotone. The first-, second-, and third-place winners will receive $1,000, $300, and $200 respectively. Subjects may include traditional categories such as reviews, travel articles, profiles or interviews, place/history pieces, or culture criticism. The Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition encourages the creation of lasting nonfiction that is outside the realm of conventional journalism and has relevance to North Carolinians. Submissions accepted: November 15 – January 15 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition › The winner receives $1,000 and possible publication of the winning entry in The Carolina Quarterly. The contest is administered by the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill. The Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize honors Harriet Jacobs and Thomas Jones, two pioneering African-American writers from North Carolina, and seeks to convey the rich and varied existence of Black North Carolinians.

Submissions accepted: November 1 – January 2 Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize › Up to ten finalists will be considered for publication in the North Carolina Literary Review.

The Doris Betts Fiction Prize awards the first-prize winner $250.

Submissions accepted: September 15 – October 31 The Network awards writers more than $4,000 annually in prizes through the following competitions: Doris Betts Fiction Prize ›
