Posts made in November, 2008

Scribophile December Poetry Contest

Flex your poetic muscle with the Scribophile December Poetry Contest! This month’s challenge is to write a Rondeau: a short, 15-line rhyming poem. Read more about rondeaus at our contest page. Any theme will be accepted. 1st prize is a $50 Amazon.com gift card. Entry is free and submissions will be accepted through Dec. 31, 2008. The URL is here: www.scribophile.com/contests Note that the December contest will only be visible on Dec. 1....

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Folded Word Press Contest

Entries taken from January 2nd to February 2nd folded.wordpress.com/contest Folded Word Press is pleased to announce their first contest. “The Paper Plane Prize” is for the best piece of writing (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, comics etc all genres all forms of writing considered) received during our contest submission period. Since all submissions will also be considered for publication in Shape of a Box we are asking for...

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Freshwater Call for Submissions

Freshwater, Asnuntuck Community College’s poetry journal, is accepting submissions for our landmark tenth anniversary issue to be published in May 2009. www.acc.commnet.edu/documents/2009FreshwaterPoetryJournalSubmissions.pdf Deadline: December 15, 2008 To celebrate ten years of Freshwater, we are offering a $200 Editors’ Prize for Outstanding Poem. Submit no more than 5 poems, with name, address, and e-mail address on each poem,...

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Call for submissions: NEW PLAINS REVIEW theme issue

The NEW PLAINS REVIEW seeks writing on the theme of “Service” for its spring 2009 issue. We invite you to interpret “service” broadly: military and community service, school service requirements, jury duty, all forms of volunteering, religious services, food service, customer service, serving a subpoena or tennis ball, etc. We’re interested in poetry, fiction, essays and creative nonfiction that is thoughtful and compelling, and we’ll reprint...

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TheNextBigWriter Contest

Dear Sir or Madam, Below is information on TheNextBigWriter’s Times Are Tough Droubble/Drabble writing competition. Thank you in advance for providing a link: Take a look at the picture below: It is of a homeless man leaning against a storefront during the Great Depression. Write about this man and the picture. What is he doing there? Where is he? Who is he? Why is he there? Why is he homeless? These are some of the questions open to...

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