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Rosebud Contests for Writers

Rosebud sponsors three biennial writing contests, each with a $1,000 award to the winner, plus occasional extra competitions. Entries are considered independently of Rosebud submissions (though winners and some runners-up will be published in the magazine) and each requires a $10 entry fee. Click below for  current contest details.

• The Shelley Award:   CLOSED.    WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!

  Next contest begins 2011

           The Mary Shelley Award for Imaginative Fiction, successor to the popular Ursula K. Le Guin Award.

• Stafford Award: OPEN  Contest deadline is June 15, 2010  Click Here for more information.

  Click here for info on the last The William Stafford Award for Poetry, named in honor of the inspiring poet and judged by his student R. Virgil Ellis, Associate Editor of Rosebud.

   

   

• The Kennedy Award:  CLOSED.    WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!

  Next contest begins 2011.
  

  The X. J. Kennedy Award for Nonfiction, named for one of America's most respected writers and editors, judged by Rosebud editor and VOICE OVER columnist Roderick Clark and by Cambridge Book Review editor Robert Wake.

   

  Ready to submit your material?  Click here for instructions on how.