Posts made in April, 2010

2010 HILLERMAN MYSTERY COMPETITION

DEADLINE: June 1, 2010 GENRE: Novels OPEN TO: Authors with No Published Books: The Competition is open to any professional or non-professional writer, regardless of nationality, who has never been the author of a published mystery, and is not under contract with a publisher for publication of a mystery. DETAILS: Murder or another serious crime or crimes is at the heart of the story, and emphasis is on the solution rather than the details of the...

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THE SMORIES PRIZE

Smories.com is an exciting, independent and free online channel for kids (3 – 8 years old) to watch great new stories being read by other kids. Click here to start watching. If you have an unpublished children’s story, you can submit it here. We are offering US$1,500 worth of prize money for the 5 best stories submitted each month. The current competition closes 30 April 2010. You can submit from anywhere in the world. Submission is...

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The New Writer Magazine Prose and Poetry Prizes 2010

Prose and Poetry Prizes 2010 from The New Writer magazine Closing date: 30 November 2010 Established in 1997, one of the major annual international competitions for short stories, novellas, single poems, poetry collections, essays and articles; offers cash prizes as well as publication for the prize-winning writers in The Collection, special edition of The New Writer magazine each July (back copies available on TNW website). Further information...

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The Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition

$2000 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Deadline: May 15, 2010 The Saturday Evening Post To Publish First-Place Winner Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2010 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a twenty-nine-year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of emerging writers of short fiction whose...

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Call For Blog Nominations

Nominate a Blog! Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in our next issue (#39: Summer Reading) forthcoming in July 2010. We’re looking for: Vibrant new voices with interesting, true stories to tell. Narrative, narrative, narrative. Posts must be able to stand alone, 2000 words or fewer, and posted between November 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010. Nominate something from your own blog, from a friend’s blog, from a stranger’s...

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