SouthWest Writers stays active in the writing community by sponsoring annual contests and events that support, encourage, and reward writers of all experience levels.
The 2024 SouthWest Writers Annual Writing Contest closed for submissions on July 7. Awards were presented during SWW’s annual business meeting, which coincided with our 40th Anniversary Party on Saturday, October 12, 2024, and the contest anthology is now available for purchase through the SWW office and on Amazon.
Annual Writing Contest Winners
2019 thru today – These contests feature fiction and non-fiction prose, and poetry.
2024 Contest
2023 Contest
2022 Contest
2021 Contest
2020 Contest
2019 Contest
ONGOING Monthly Sage News Challenges:
Every month the SouthWest Sage newsletter offers a challenge for members to hone their skills in various writing styles. These are published in the Sage e-newsletter. Anthologies containing these stories, poems and other writing advice are created every few years with the best of the Sage. The next one will feature prose pieces from 2019-2024. To participate in the challenges check the Sage Challenge page of this website the first week of each month.
Past SWW Writing Competitions/Challenges
2004–2014 Annual Book Writing Contests
2010–2015 Bimonthly Writing Contests Short stories and poetry