What we’re looking for: best character description, fiction or nonfiction, published or unpublished, up to 150 words Prizes: 15 winners with a first prize of $500 Fee: $10 per entry Deadline: postmarked by May 15, 2008 Sponsored by: Writing for Money; full details are at www.writingformoney.com

announces its Spring “Lasting Impressions” Book Review Contest. What we’re looking for: Is there a book that has remained front and center on your bookshelf—or in your mind—even though you read it ages ago? A book that made a lasting impression on you? It might be fiction or non-fiction, something you read as a child or an adult, but it somehow made you think, changed you, taught you something, or otherwise has remained important to you through...