Break free! It’s Thin Air Magazine’s 2010 “Best In Show” All-Genre Contest! Why talk about the important of blurred genre if it is not rewarded when people write it? Send us your best work that: blurs poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, and show us there are more than three ways to see the world. Submissions (non-contest or contest) accepted in traditional poetry/prose/nonfiction as well—the choice is yours! Prize-$500...

Writer’s Heap is a newly launched writers social community and we are sponsoring a writing contest this month to generate interest. The contest closes at the end of October and there are not entry fees. Participates will have to join in order to be eligible for the prize. Voting will be up to the site members (did I mentioned this site was just launched) so the most popular person will probably win. Do you think you have a knack for a...

Submissions are now being accepted for the October 2010 WordSprint. Please submit online at www.lagosliteraryjournal.com October 1 to October 31 – Submissions accepted November 1 to  November 30 – online voting December 1 – Announcement of winner. October  2010 prize – $100 NO ENTRY FEES What is Word Sprint? The objective of Word Sprint is for authors to have their work publicly evaluated and rewarded by peers and other...

Create a child’s bedtime story that will help calm and settle even the most active minds into sleep. Simply click the “Create Your Own Story” button, and begin a step-by-step journey through writing your story. Enter – Craft an original story and enter it into our easy-to-follow template. Vote – Enlist the help of friends to vote on your story. Win – The Grand Prize winner will become a published author! Their book will be professionally...

The 2011 Paris Literary Prize will be awarded for a Novella. The prize is 10,000 euros, a weekend in Paris and a reading at Shakespeare and Company bookshop on the left bank. Longer than a short story, shorter than a novel, small but perfectly-formed, the novella holds an important place in literature and includes such classics as The Old Man and the Sea, Animal Farm, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Of Mice and Men. In keeping with...

We are excited to announce our newest contest, the 2011 Gulf Stream Award. One winner in each genre will win $250 and publication in Gulf Stream Online #5, due out in April, 2011. The judges are: John Dufresne: Fiction Les Standiford: Nonfiction Denise Duhamel: Poetry Guidelines Entry fee is $10. Entries will be accepted from September 24th to December 1st, 2010. Prose submissions are limited to 7,500 words. Poetry submissions are limited to...