Open calls for submissions across writing contests, grants, fellowships and residencies, grouped by month from the soonest closing date to the latest. Every entry links directly to the organizer's official submission page and lists the prize or stipend where published. Data checked to 2026-11-02: see what was verified in the last 30 days.
Looking for open reading windows at literary journals or pitch events? Browse the literary magazines database for journals open for fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction submissions, or check writing conferences for upcoming event dates, scholarships and agent pitch sessions.
Free ICS feeds. Paste a URL into Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook once and every new deadline appears on its own. There is nothing to log into and nothing to unsubscribe from.
Prefer the step-by-step? The calendar page walks through each app.
The Thursday Deadline Digest rounds up the contests, magazine windows and residencies closing soon, across every genre, in one email a week. You also get a short welcome series and the occasional writing email. Free, and everything in it stays free on this site.
Prefer no email at all? Every genre is also acalendar feed you can subscribe to.
Each one is searchable and filterable in ways a single chronology cannot be. Refreshed on a schedule, not scraped once and left to rot.
Every open contest and grant in one list, soonest first.
Open the database→Fiction, essay and nonfiction contests, searchable by genre and fee.
Open the database→Poetry deadlines, fees and prizes, searchable.
Open the database→Grants and fellowships with deadlines and amounts.
Open the database→Which magazines are open, what they pay and how long they take.
Open the database→Residencies with deadlines, stipends and costs.
Open the database→Dates, costs, scholarships and agent pitch sessions. Dated by event, not by deadline, so they sit alongside the list above rather than inside it.
Open the database→Subscribe to any of these in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook.
Open the database→Fees, prizes and free-entry share across the whole contest database, charted and disclosed.
Open the database→While you wait for that email
Writers' Deadline Database, $29
Contest, grant, magazine, residency and conference deadlines as spreadsheets and calendar files you own.