Posts made in October, 2014

THE FIFTH ANNUAL GeminiMAGAZINE POETRY OPEN

THE FIFTH ANNUAL GeminiMAGAZINE POETRY OPEN GRAND PRIZE: $1,000 SECOND PLACE: $100 Four Honorable Mentions ($25 each) ENTRY FEE: $5 (up to three poems) DEADLINE: January 2, 2015 All Six Finalists Will Be Published in The March 2015 Issue of Gemini prose poem rhyme free verse ballad aubade haiku haibun sonnet lyric elegy limerick. . . Doesn’t matter what it’s called as long as it moves us! No restrictions on subject, style or length....

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2104 Walker Percy Prize in Short Fiction

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. —Walker Percy We are looking for well-crafted, dynamic writing that demonstrates attention to the language, writing that engages, surprises, and moves us. We subscribe to the belief that in order to truly write well, one must master the basics: grammar and syntax,...

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InkTears Short Story Competition 2014

Now open for entries. Deadline: 30 November 2014 Type: Short story (UK + International) Prizes: Winner:  £1,000 Runner-up: £100 4 x Highly Commended £25 All prizewinners will have their story published to the InkTears Readers and their Bio published on the InkTears website. Full results will be announced by 30 March 2015. Fee: £6.00.  Length:1000-3500 words, any theme and open to age 18+. NB: stories may have been previously published or...

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theNewerYork Department of Forms and Records Contest

theNewerYork Department of Forms and Records is a large, desolate building You can hear the wind whistling through our empty filing cabinets. The dazed bureaucrats in our skyscrapers have no one to direct. They have each other sign documents in triplicate out of boredom. We need your help to make our government real, because we’ll never be a real fictional city-state without halls of paperwork. Fill our coffers with your weirdness We need you...

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Announcing a Bibliophilia writing contest:

“What does your avatar say about you?” Ah, the avatar–as forum communities grow, new and creative ways of self-expression flourish. One such way is through the use of avatars, an image that reflects some aspect of the user’s personality. An avatar can either chip away at the bland anonymity of cyberspace or it can symbolize something private to the user–or both at the same time. It can deceive, invent, re-invent,...

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