Writers & Readers Common Grounds Readings When Announced
Note: All submissions for 2024 are publication only with a submission fee of $5.00
Submissions are all currently open for 2024
Note that you may submit before the submission deadline, but work will not be read until all submissions are in after the deadline.
We do not accept submissions from writers who have their own pay for view/purchase web site for their work.
Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail Photo Submission Deadlines:
Birding - May 31, 2024,
Wild Food Supermarket - June 30, 2024,
Insects, Flora, Fungi - December 31, 2024
Bug City: Buggy Poetry in the Shape of a Bug - Contest for kids up to age 18 - Publication & $20 Award
Submission Deadline: June 31, 2024
Prairie Poetry Prize: Prairie Sampler Anthology
Submission Deadline: August 19, 2024 - Publication & $20 Award
Carol Bly Post Card Fiction Contest:
Submission Deadline: September 16, 2024 - Publication & $25 Award
Winter in Variations: Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest -
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2024 - Publication & $25 Award
*All submission opportunities must be in English are open to all who live in the contiguous 48 United States.
* All submissions must be submitted via Submittable with a $5.00 fee
* All winning entries will be published online
* No submissions will be accepted via email
* Please include contact information and bio with your submissions
* Submissions that don't follow the guidelines will not be considered
* Writers Rising Up reserves the right to declare no winner or winners
* Writers own all rights to their writing
* Winners only must submit (color optional) head shot, and four high quality jpeg images that will be published on our NEW blog. https://weyoumewrite.blogspot.com/
* Award to one winner only in each category.
* You can submit to multiple submission opportunities at WRU only.
* You cannot submit your work to WRU and other contests simultaneously.
* Art and photos can be included in all contests
* Must be original writing and or work by artist/photographer included as part of submission
To submit you must open a Submittable Account
Publication & $20 Award
Submission Deadlines:
Birding: May 31, 2024
Wild Food Supermarket: June 30, 2024
Insects, Flora, Fungi: December 31, 2024
- Photos must be taken at the Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
- Must include date, hour, and biome details of the photo.
- Must be an original, unpublished photo.
- Submit with name, contact info, and a short bio.
- The submission process includes a $5.00 submission fee.
- Photographers own all rights.
- Writers Rising Up reserves the right to declare no winners
- Photos to be published on at Birders Rising Up Blog: https://bidersrisingup.blogspot.com/
- $20 Award for winner
- Award to one winner only in each category.
- You can submit to multiple submission opportunities at WRU only.
- You cannot submit your work to WRU and other contests simultaneously.
- Photos only, no art.
- Must be your original photos only as your submission.
Submission Deadline: June 31, 2024
Eden Prairie Hometown Celebration and Buggy Poetry Contest
Come on over and meet the neighbors: seed carrying ants and nocturnal beetles with luminescent tummies...
- Write 1 poem for each bug; that's ten poems
- Poems must be in the shape of bugs (Shaped Poems). View some examples.
- See Pinterest URLs for examples of Shaped Poetry at the Pinterest URLS at our Events and Contests Link.
- Some Synonyms for bugs
- Must be original unpublished work.
- Submit with name, contact info and a short bio.
- Writer owns all rights
- Selected poems will be published on our winning writers page.
- Submission Fee: $5.00
- Poems published at Writers Rising Up
- We do not accept submissions from writers who have their own pay for view/purchase web site for their work
- $25 Award for winner
- Award to one winner only in each category.
- You can submit to multiple submission opportunities at WRU only.
- You can not submit your work to WRU and other contests simultaneously.
- Art and photos can be included.
- Must be original writing and or work by artist/photographer included as part of submission.
Submission Deadline: August 19, 2024
One poem each for each prairie grass on the list...
Indian Grass
June Grass
Little Bluestem
Prairie Cord Grass
Prairie Dropseed
Sideoats Gramma
Switchgrass
- Poems no more than 20 lines based on these Prairie Grasses
- Must be original unpublished work.
- Submit with name, contact info and a short bio.
- The submission process includes a $5.00 submission fee..
- Writer owns all rights
- Writers Rising Up reserves the right to declare no winners
- Work to be published on our winning writers page.
- We do not accept submissions from writers who have their own pay for view/purchase web site for their work
- $20 Award for winner
- Award to one winner only in each category.
- You can submit to multiple submission opportunities at WRU only.
- You can not submit your work to WRU and other contests simultaneously.
- Art and photos can be included.
- Must be original writing and or work by artist/photographer included as part of submission.
Submission Deadline: September 16, 2024
- Entry Fee: $5.00 (only one entry per writer)
- Theme related to place, inner struggles and relationships
- Must be original unpublished work consisting of six 250 word postcards
- Winner or winners to be published on our winning writers page.
- Writer owns all rights
- Writers Rising Up reserves the right to declare no winner
- We do not accept submissions from writers who have their own pay for view/purchase web site for their work
- $25 Award for winner
- Award to one winner only in each category.
- You can submit to multiple submission opportunities at WRU only.
- You can not submit your work to WRU and other contests simultaneously.
- Art and photos can be included.
- Must be original writing and or work by artist/photographer included as part of submission.
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2024
- Submission of six poems, no longer than 20 lines each NOTE: NO Submission will be accepted without SIX poems.)
- Write poems about witnessing some every-day occurrence in winter
- Must be original unpublished work.
- Winner or winners to be published online on our winning writers page.
- Writer owns all rights
- Writers Rising Up reserves the right to declare no winner
- We do not accept submissions from writers who have their own pay for view/purchase web site for their work
- $25 Award for winner
- Award to one winner only in each category.
- You can submit to multiple submission opportunities at WRU only.
- You can not submit your work to WRU and other contests simultaneously.
- Art and photos can be included.
- Must be original writing and or work by artist/photographer included as part of submission.