The deadline for the One-Act Play Contest of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival is approaching.The postmark deadline for submissions is November 1, 2009. Details of contest are as follows: * Grand Prize – $1,500 * Staged reading at the 24th annual Festival: March 24-28, 2010 * Full production at the 25th annual Festival: March 23-27, 2011 * VIP All Access Pass to attend both the 2010 and the 2011 Festival ($1,000 value)...
Posts made in October, 2009
Judge: Peggy Shinner “Nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible.” –Lee Gutkind We agree. NDR seeks pieces that activate the compelling bits of “real” life. We welcome hybrid essays, ones that expose the insides of things to risk making language do new things. Personal essays are welcome, too. Use a slice of memoir, but use also a dose of...
Narrative Magazine Fall Story Contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another...
Narrative is calling on writers, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers, between eighteen and thirty years old, to tell us a story. We are interested in narrative in the many forms it takes: the word and the image, the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary. Awards: First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, and Third Prize is $300, and ten finalists will receive $100 each. The prize winners and...
SLS is pleased to announce its 2010 unified (SLS-Montreal, SLS-Lithuania, and SLS-Kenya) literary contest, held this year again in affiliation with Fence. We are excited this year to have Mary Gaitskill judging the contest fiction, and Mary Jo Bang judging the poetry. Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in Fence, as well as the participating literary journals in Canada, Lithuania and Kenya....
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