- 12/31/25: Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition (includes a short story category)
- 2/1/26: Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award
- 2/13/26: The Green Feather Award
- 2/13/26: The Tomorrow Prize
- 3/1/26: BSFS Poetry Contest

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Great twist with the last line!

- 2/20/26: Myong Cha Son Haiku Award
- 2/28/26: World Children's Haiku Contest - Regional Contest
- 5/1/26: San Francisco International Competition for Haibun
- 7/31/26: Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards

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also the IHS International Haiku Contest - closes 12/31/25

irishhaiku.com/haikucompeti...

Links to all of the above contests (as well as many limited contests -- only open to local residents, students, etc.) can be found here:

haiku-and-horror.blogspot.com/p/speculativ...

- 10/24/25: Upper Moreland Free Public Library Two Sentence Horror Story Contest

- 10/25/25: Monroe County Public Library Two-Sentence Horror Story Contest

- 10/7/25: Ypsilanti District Library Horror Short Competition - Week 1 (theme: "Hauntings")

- 10/20/25: Star Books & Literature - Khero Khata (Spooktober prompt: "Bhooter Adda")

- 10/20/25: Cromaine Library Two-Sentence Horror Story Contest

- Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy
- The Last Girls Club
- The Quarter(ly)
- Trembling With Fear (for short stories)

links to all of them here:
haiku-and-horror.blogspot.com/p/speculativ...

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Spot on! Love the wryness of this one