Posts made in April, 2007

Five Fingers Review’s Poetry and Fiction Awards

www.fivefingersreview.org/contest.htm $500 prize in both categories. Theme: Camouflage Fiction: 5,000 word limit. Poetry: 3 poems, 10 page maximum. Deadline postmark June 1, 2007. $12 contest reading fee. Make check or money order payable to Five Fingers Review. Entries must have two cover sheets: one with your name and one without. Your name should not appear anywhere else on the manuscript. Entries should be typewritten or laser printed on...

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The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2008

web3.unt.edu/untpress/potential_authors.cfm#subvassar The winner of this annual award receives $1000 and publication by the University of North Texas Press. This year’s judge has asked to remain anonymous until the conclusion of the competition. Postmark deadline: November 15, 2007 Submit 50- to 80-page, typed manuscript, including an additional title page that does not bear the name of the poet. All pages indicating the poet’s...

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The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

www.ugapress.uga.edu/info_aup_submitfoc.html Each year the University of Georgia Press selects two winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of $1,000, and their collections are subsequently published by The Press under a standard book contract. The Press may occasionally select more than two winners. How winning manuscripts are selected: In the first round of the...

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The Writer’s Travel Scholarship

www.equivocality.net/writers-travel-scholarship The Writer’s Travel Scholarship is an annual writing contest, now in its third year. The winner receives a round-trip ticket to anywhere in the world. Really. This time around the event has special significance for me, because I am myself travelling again. I write these words from the remote village of Ghourma-Rharous, a town of 3000 on the Niger river in northern Mali. Despite the river,...

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IR’s 2007 ‘1/2 K’ Prize Guidelines

$1000 Honorarium and Publication Final Judge: Stuart Dybek www.indiana.edu/~inreview/general/prizes/microprizeguidelines07.html POSTMARK DEADLINE: June 8, 2007 Reading Fee: $15 Includes a year’s subscription. All entries considered for publication. All entries considered anonymously. Send no more than 3 pieces, 500 words maximum per piece. (That’s 3 short-shorts or prose-poems max per entry fee.) Each piece must be either a...

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