The Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction is a literary prize to promote writers and great undiscovered stories of Catholic fiction. What is Catholic fiction? Stories infused with the presence of God and faith — subtly, symbolically or deliberately. Flannery O’Connor, Graham Greene or G. K. Chesterton and many others whose writings reflected the thoughts of great writers such as Gerard Manley Hopkins: “The world is charged with the grandeur of...

New Rivers Press is pleased to announce that it will begin publishing popular fiction titles with literary value. For The New Rivers Press Electronic Book Series, the press is seeking manuscripts from new and emerging authors in the genres of Action-adventure, Crime, Detective, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Western, and Inspirational, and all sub-genres within and across those categories. Manuscripts will be accepted electronically...

Valhalla Press announces the Valhalla Press LiteraryFiction and Creative Nonfiction Contest. The contest seeks out the best in original short literary fiction and nonfiction work written in English. Contestants will vie for prizes including $500 and an ereader plus publication in Ragnarok, an e-lit journal. Deadline August 30, 2012.   Winners will be announced by September 30, 2012. Entry fee is $15 per submission and works are limited to 5,000...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – SAWMILL; Submissions are currently open for the January 2013 issue of SAWMILL, the web-based literary magazine from Typecast Publishing. For this issue, we will focus on FLASH FICTION, and interested authors should select one piece which they feel best represents their writing ability and style – authors submitting more than one story at a time will not be considered for publication (we have our reasons, we...