DO YOU HAVE A DATING HORROR STORY, PAST OR PRESENT? Writing Contest!  The best stories will be published on www.datesouttahell.com, with a first prize of six months subscription to Match.com! Rules: You must be the only author of your Manuscript. Any Manuscript submitted as an Entry written by two or more authors will not be eligible. Your Manuscript must be your original creation, fictional, and in the English language You may submit more than...

Writerstype.com is starting up four monthly contests in the categories of: Poem, Flash Fiction, Short Story, and First Chapter. Monthly winners are automatically entered into our yearly competition. Entry fees are $5 for Poem or Flash Fiction, and $10 for Short Story or First Chapter. The only deadlines are the end of each month. But new contests begin at the start of the next. Authors retain all rights and can elect to not have their winning...

Leapfrog 2011 Fiction Contest! Open January 15–May 1. Entry fee: $30.  Adult fiction: literary and mainstream novels, novellas, and short-story collections, minimum 22,000 words. First prize: Publication contract offer with advance, plus finalist awards. Finalists: $150 plus manuscript critique by finalist judges. Judges are Marge Piercy and the Leapfrog editorial staff. Visit http://www.leapfrogpress.com/contest.htm for details. Email:...

The New Quarterly invites entries for The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest. $1000 for the winning poem; another $1000 in prizes. All submissions considered for paid publication. Seeks poems written in response to an occasion. Entry fee: $40 (includes a 1 year subscription to The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers and Writing). Entrants must be Canadian residents or citizens. Deadline: February 28, 2011. Visit the website for more...

Guidelines:  Fiction – submit stories of up to 3500 words  Poetry – submit up to 6 poems  “fact” – submit up to 1500 words Send submissions to editors@anderbo.com A submission may be sent in the body of an e-mail and/or as an attachment in any common file format such as doc or rtf. Mac users, please be sure that your doc files are readable by PCs. No docx files, ever. And please, only one story per submission....

Open Dec. 1 – Feb. 28, the Montana Prize in Fiction seeks to highlight work that showcases an authentic voice, a boldness of form, and a rejection of functional fixedness. The winner, chosen by judge Eileen Myles, will be featured in CutBank 75 and receive $500. All pieces will be considered for print publication. We look forward to reading your work! CONTEST GUIDELINES: The $17 contest entry fee includes a one-year subscription to...