Best Creative Writing Contests

To successfully add credentials to your writing portfolio, enter our best creative writing contest! We encourage writers to expand their creative genius and get published!

You will discover contests on the Internet that provide a cash award for their top finishers, but as a writer, you will have an opportunity to get publishing credits that will open doors for you that you had never previously imagined!

When you receive recognition for your writing, you establish yourself as an authority, and you can earn a passive revenue from articles and stories that you've written years after they're published. Amazing!

Many writing contests that offer cash rewards cover the cost of prize awards by charging an entry fee. This element sometimes discourages many writers who don't feel confident in their writing skills, but when you pay a fee, and you get something valuable in return, it is SO worth it.

What you want to look for in a writing contest is an opportunity to get your name out there as a published author. Sometimes you don't even need to be one of the top 3 winners! Several creative writing contests, like the one offered by The Writer's Mentor, acknowledges the top 10 or 20 entrants in the contest...what does that mean for you?

It means that even if you're not one of the top winners, your name, and the title of your entry still gets published everywhere on the Internet. Besides that, you can add that credit to your resume, as having receiving an "honorable mention" in a worldwide writing contest.

One thing you MUST pay attention to is that you, as the author, will retain the full and exclusive rights to the material you submit to ANY contest. This is SO important. You never want to forfeit your full exclusive rights in any writing contest.

The best writing contests will only require that you agree to a one-time non-exclusive print right. This is important so that you can still sell or place your work in other print or online mediums.

A top-quality writing contest will also offer a bonus feature of allowing you to read the top 10 entries in the contest. This enables you to learn what others have done or written that helped them become one of the winning authors in a contest. Of course, if you are one of the winners, you will proudly want others to read your work, but you will still retain 100% of the exclusive rights to your material.