SouthWest Writers stays active in the writing community by sponsoring annual contests and events that support, encourage, and reward writers of all experience levels.
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.
Annual Writing Contest
SouthWest Writers holds a competition every year which challenges writers to create outstanding short stories or articles, prose and poetry. The categories change somewhat from year to year. The 2025 contest begins June 1 – Click Here for more information.
Past Contest Winners and Information
2024 Contest
2023 Contest
2022 Contest
2021 Contest
2020 Contest
2019 Contest
Past SWW Writing Competitions/Challenges
2004–2014 Annual Book Writing Contests
2010–2015 Bimonthly Writing Contests Short stories and poetry