Contest

Submit 3 pieces of flash fiction of up to 1,500 words each OR a story of up to 4,000 words. First place winners receive $1,000 and publication.

Submit 3 pieces of flash nonfiction of up to 1,500 words each OR an essay of up to 4,000 words. First place winners receive $1,000 and publication.

Submit 1-3 poems. First place winners receive $1,000 and publication.

The winning stories are featured in an anthology edition and the winning and shortlisted writers receive cash prizes.

What if the big bad wolf was a person who had a past? Or what if Snow White wasn’t so perfect on paper? 

Our simple definition for sense of place is: figuring out the reality of where you are, and how you perceive that reality, and what your perception of that reality means to you.

Whether you draw inspiration from folklore, sci-fi, the natural world, lived experiences, or the abstract, we’re desperate to know: what do(es) creatures conjure up for you? 

We’re looking for poems rich and robust in language, technique, and form that pay homage to the natural world and all of the small marvels that occur in nature. We’re also interested in poems that observe geography and the landscape of home. 

We define holiday stories as those that involve any holiday from US Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day, or stories that reference those holidays. (There are many such holidays, so let your imagination fly.)

This is a call for your meditations, your forensics, your elegies, your wanderings on the possibilities of ongoing and intersecting geographies. How do we write an evolving ecology that supports mutability? What will be the future forms of our habitations?

Entries may be on any topic.

We want to see your best work, regardless of form, style, or subject matter.

First Prize: £200 plus publication in a future edition of the New Contexts anthology & invitation to read the winning poem at a future Contextual virtual poetry reading event.

Misfortune is a universal human experience that can sometimes shape our lives in important ways. We invite you to craft work that explores adversity, setbacks, personal tragedies, unexpected challenges, and the resilience of humans.

For haiku inspiration, look closely at everything around you in nature, at home, at school, and at work.

Please send us your verses, whether they cling to classic cliffs or dance on the edge of new waves. Together, let’s craft a tapestry of haiku that honors tradition and propels it into the future.

Every year, we look forward to this prize, for which emerging and established poets are considered in equal measure and as a result are often published side by side in Frontier Poetry.

Submissions must be written, made up of 100% dialogue/speech.

We want your most creative and resonant flash and microfictions. Send us those pieces that hum with life, velocity, and intimacy.