Posts made in January, 2008

EVENT Creative Non-Fiction Contest #21

event.douglas.bc.ca/community/event-magazine/contestdetails.html $1,500 Three winners will each receive $500 plus payment for publication in Event 37/3. Other manuscripts may be published. Final Judge: TBA Our past judges include: Keath Fraser, Myrna Kostash, Andreas Schroeder, Sharon Butala, Tom Wayman, Di Brandt, Terry Glavin, Karen Connelly and Charles Montgomery. Writers are invited to submit manuscripts exploring the creative non-fiction...

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2008 Robert Watson Poetry Award

www.springgardenpress.com/contests.html Spring Garden Press and The Greensboro Review invite submissions for the Robert Watson Poetry Award chapbook competition. Submission must be received between 1 October and 2 April. The winning manuscript will be announced in September 2008 and will be awarded with the publication of a beautifully designed, letterpress-printed, limited-edition chapbook. The edition is limited to 500 copies, fifty of which...

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Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest

www.winnningwriters.com/tomstory Sixteenth year. Fourteen cash prizes totaling $5,250. Top prize $2,000. Seeks short stories, essays and other works of prose, up to 5,000 words. Winning entries published online. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Fee per entry is $12, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: March 31. Judges: J.H. Reid, D.C. Konrad. Submit online or mail to Winning Writers Attn: Tom Howard Short Story Contest...

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Phyllis Smart Young Prize in Poetry & Chris O’Malley Prize in Fiction

The Madison Review hosts the Phyllis Smart Young Prize in Poetry and the Chris O’Malley Prize in Fiction annually. The best unpublished short story and best group of three unpublished poems will each be awarded $1,000.00 and publication in the spring issue of The Madison Review. The Madison Review accepts short-fiction and poetry of all creative forms and content. * All submissions must be received by February 1st, 2008. To be considered,...

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THE PRISM INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL SHORT FICTION CONTEST

$2,000 GRAND PRIZE 3 RUNNER-UP PRIZES OF $200 EACH prism.arts.ubc.ca/contests.html All winning stories will be published in the 2008 PRISM Summer Fiction Contest Issue and receive an additional payment of $20 per printed page (in Canadian dollars or the U.S. equivalent). Entry deadline: January 31, 2008. Go to prism.arts.ubc.ca/forms/fiction_contest_form.pdf for required entry form and contest guidelines

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