With the South Carolina Academy of Authors, SCWA co-sponsors an annual writing contest for SC writers in fiction and poetry.
POETRY
Carrie McCray Nickens Fellowship
Deadline: December 15, 2019
Award is $1500, two tickets to the 2020 SCAA induction (with hotel accommodation if necessary), and a SCAA Induction awards brunch in your honor the following morning. Entry Fee is $20.00, payable online with PayPal. There is no restriction on form or content. Submit up to 5 unpublished poems (totaling no more than 10 pages).
This year’s final judges will be Ashley M Jones.
Applicants must be full-time residents of South Carolina and must not have won this Fellowship in the previous three years. To enter:
- upon receipt of payment, please email your poems as a file attachment (Word or PDF) to: scaapoetryfellowships@gmail.com,
- include a cover page with your name, home address, email, and phone number. Your name should not appear elsewhere on the poems,
- indicate on the cover sheet which contest you are entering (“McCray Nickens Fellowship”).
Fiction
Coker Fellowship in Fiction
Deadline: December 15, 2019
Award is $1500, two tickets to the SCAA induction (with hotel accommodation if necessary), and a SCAA Induction awards brunch in your honor the following morning. Entry Fee is $20.00, payable online with PayPal. There is no restriction on content, but submissions may not exceed 15 pages double-spaced and must be either one original, unpublished short story or one excerpt from a longer, unpublished work.
This year’s final judge will be David Joy.
Applicants must be full-time residents of South Carolina and must not have won this Fellowship the previous three years. To enter:

- upon receipt of payment, please email your poems as a file attachment (Word or PDF) to: scaafictionfellowships@gmail.com
- include a cover page with your name, home address, email, and phone number. Your name should not appear elsewhere on the poems,
- indicate on the cover sheet which contest you are entering (“Coker Fellowship”).