Hidden River Arts hosts competitions and awards to encourage diverse writing from independent writers.  Please visit our blog where all of our book awards and our Hidden River Review awards are listed, and where the winners of our awards are announced.  There are three categories on our blog menu bar, with drop-down menus: Book Awards, Script Awards and Hidden River Review Awards.

We offer a variety of book awards, script awards, short story, poetry and essay awards in order to support a wide variety of writers and writing genres. Each winning manuscript receives a monetary award as well as either publication or (in the case of the Hidden River Playwrighting Award) a public scripted reading of the winning manuscript.  

Links to Upcoming Awards:
Blue Mountain Award - an open-genre novel award - Deadline 11/15/19
The Hidden River Art Short Play Award - December 12/01/19
Tamaqua Award for an Essay Collection - Deadline 12/31/19
The Sandy Run Novella Award - Deadline 1/15/20
Tuscarora Novel Award for Historical Fiction - Deadline 1/15/20

More of our 2020 Awards can be found at our blog. 

We will shortly be expanding to offer awards in other creative areas: music, film, and visual art.  These will be announced on our blog as well.