Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers 2025 ($1,500 prize) – YOA

Deadline: June 2, 2025

Applications are open for the Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers 2025. The Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers is an annual no submission charges contest with money prizes! Every yr the competition coordinator selects ten finalists from a pool of submissions from writers world wide. In addition to their money prizes, winners get featured at Flights of Foundry, an annual conference the place professionals from everywhere in the business come to debate all issues associated to the speculative arts.

Prizes

• First Place: $1,500
• Second Place: $750
• Third Place: $400

Eligibility

This contest is for writers who’re comparatively new to paid or incoming-incomes publication of speculative brief fiction in English. To be eligible for this contest, all 5 guidelines under should be true of you:

• You have printed a complete of lower than 4,000 phrases of paid or earnings-incomes speculative fiction in English.
• You have earned a complete of lower than USD $320 from these phrases.
• You have by no means been nominated for any award listed here as a significant award in speculative fiction.
• You aren’t a earlier winner of the Dream Foundry writing contest.
• No AI, machine studying, or giant language mannequin instruments had been used within the story besides for checking spelling and grammar.

Note that you’re on the honour system for judging your individual eligibility. However, they might disqualify any entrants with the intention to uphold the spirit of this contest’s objectives; such determinations of eligibility are determined by the Dream Foundry and aren’t open to debate or argument.

Application

• Submit one full and finalized story of as much as 10,000 phrases by way of the submission supervisor.
• All entries are closing. No revisions are accepted.
• No a number of submissions (don’t ship a couple of story.)
• Your submission should be beforehand unpublished on the time of submission, however simultaneous submissions (submitting the story to us whereas additionally submitting elsewhere) is allowed.
• Entries might be from any nation.
• All entries should be unique prose works in English. Plagiarism, poetry, tune lyrics, or tales that make the most of characters or settings from one other particular person’s works won’t be thought-about.
• The manuscript ought to be in normal manuscript format and ought to be titled and numbered on each web page, however the writer’s identify MUST BE DELETED from the manuscript file to facilitate honest judging.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Dream Foundry Contest.