Every dated opportunity this site tracks, in one chronology, soonest first. Until now you had to open four databases and hold the calendar in your head. This is that calendar, written down. Data checked to 2026-10-26: see what was verified in the last 30 days.
Two honest notes about what is in this list. Conferences are not in it: they are dated by when the event runs, not by when a door shuts, so they sit beside this list as a linked database rather than inside it. And the magazine database records reading windows as text rather than as dates, so magazines do not yet appear here either. When they carry a closing date, they will show up in this list automatically.
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.