Posts made in December, 2007

THE THIRD GLASS WOMAN PRIZE

As before it will be awarded for a piece of short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose) written by a woman. Length: between 50 and 5,000 words. The prize for the third award is US $550 and online publication. Thanks to word of (cyber-) mouth, I no longer need to pay for advertisement! www.sigriddaughter.com/GlassWomanPrize.htm Subject is open, but must be of significance to women. My criterion is passion, excellence, and authenticity in the...

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Colorado Prize for Poetry: Submission Guidelines

coloradoreview.colostate.edu/CPP/sub.html 1. Manuscripts will be accepted from October 1, 2007, through the postmark deadline of January 11, 2008. The winner will be announced in May 2008. 2. The winning book-length collection of poems will be published by the Center for Literary Publishing and distributed by the University Press of Colorado in the fall of 2008. 3. There is a $25 reading fee, which includes a one-year subscription to Colorado...

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The Annual Tiger’s Eye Poetry Contest

tigerseyepoet.blogspot.com/ $500, $100, $50 Judge: Carol Aronoff Carol Alena Aronoff, Ph.D. is a psychologist, teacher and writer whose poetry has appeared in Comstock Review, Potpourri, Poetic Realm, Poetica, Mindprints, Dream Fantasy International, Beginnings, Hawaii Island Journal, In Our Own Words, Theater of the Mind, Animals in Poetry, From the Web, HeartLodge, Out of Line, Sendero, Buckle&, Iodine, Asphodel, Tiger’s Eye,...

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Literary Contests from the Fiddlehead

www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Fiddlehead/contest.html Prizes $1,000 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem $500 each for Two Runners-Up $1,000 for Best Story $500 each for Two Runners-Up Add it up that’s 4,000 Dollars Rules: General: No simultaneous submissions and no previously published (or accepted for publication) submissions. Do not include a SASE. Manuscripts will not be returned. No faxed or emailed submissions are allowed. The winning entries...

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Main Street Rag’s Annual Poetry Book Award

www.mainstreetrag.com/PoBkCont.html Winner of the 2007 MSR Poetry Book Award: The Goodbye You Dream of by Heather Davis (Alexandria, VA). Finalists/Runners up: Apparition Wren by Maureen Alsop (Palm Springs, CA) Deadpan by K.A. Holt (Fort Worth, TX) The Dream of Leaving by Sharon Leiter (Palmyra, VA) Dreaming of a Dependable Force by Timothy Mayo (Putney, VT) The Flower Sermon by David Manning (Cary, NC) Game Theory by James Himelsbach (New...

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