Writing Competition on Theme of "Climate Change": Changing Skies

Send us your creative nonfiction writing (prose only; no poetry for this contest) about climate change! How has it affected you? People you know? If it's about climate change, we want to read it.

First Prize: $500

Second Prize: $200

Deadline: Sep. 18, 2023

Written Submissions

• Please remove your name from your submission and file name to ensure an anonymous selection process for all writing submissions.

• Submissions must be in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, double spaced. Indicate space breaks, if any, with a hashtag: #.

• Submissions must be sent as a Word file (.doc or .docx). Do not submit PDFs.

• All citations, if any, must be done in Chicago footnote style.

• All submissions are free.

• ONE piece per submission. Submissions containing collections or multiple titles will not be considered.

• Submissions must be climate change-oriented (broadly construed).

• We consider all work for Print or Online publication, including podcasts. The deadline for annual print issues is each Spring for publication in the Fall. Submissions after that deadline will be considered for the next Print issue, or Online.

• We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere, through Submittable, and pull the piece. We publish only previously unpublished work and obtain First North American Serial Rights: all rights revert to you as soon as we publish your work first. We may then republish or excerpt your work unless you request that we not do so.

*We reserve the right to not award any prize money if we do not receive a sufficient volume of quality submissions. 

Submit your entry here.