Enter Your Story and Win Cash!  We’re looking for fiction that is fresh, exciting, and bold. TAG Publishing is accepting entries in the Great American Novel Contest. Enter and Win in up to 7 different categories.   The winning manuscripts not only receive cash but will also be reviewed for a full publishing contract.  Don’t miss your chance to catch the early bird registration through October 15, 2010 for $25.  Late entries accepted up to...

Gotham Writers’ Workshop invites you and your readers to enter our Hint Fiction 25-Word Story Writing Contest. Entry is free and easy. For this competition, Gotham welcomes the expertise of Robert Swartwood, editor of Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories of 25 Words or Fewer (to be published in November by W.W. Norton.) Mr. Swartwood will select the winner from the finalists in this competition. What is Hint Fiction? Here’s...

Choose one of the morning writing prompts posted daily on the Basement Writing Workshop Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/basementwritingworkshop, or on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/basementwriting, and complete the prompt in 2,500 words or less.  The prompts are attached to a multitude of genres: you can write us a poem, a short story, an essay, a novel (just write the first chapter for the contest), or, yes, instructions for...

Moon Milk Review (MMR) runs a monthly prosetry contest.  The new prosetry prompt for each month can be found in the newest issue. The cover page for the monthly issues is www.moonmilkreview.com. MMR is a literary fiction focused magazine with an appreciation for experimentalism, magic realism and surrealism, and both long and flash fiction, as well as mainstream with kick. We also run a monthly gallery of artwork each issue, and often try to...

Do you want to get published?  Enter our Writing Contest for a chance to have your book published! To Enter: 1.) Work must be original and not published elsewhere 2.) 10,000-20,000 words 3.) Sub-genre of romance, erotic romance, or urban fantasy  Contest Closes September 20, 2010 Send your contest submission to: evernightsubmissions@gmail.com   Add CONTEST to the subject field. Visit the website for details:...

There is no entry fee and there are cash prizes. Details are below and here: http://www.short-story-time.com/short-story-writing-contest.html 1st Place – $100 plus a one-year membership to the CBI Clubhouse , which includes a 12-month electronic submission to the Children’s Book Insider newsletter, as well as full access to all Clubhouse content. 2nd Place – $75 3rd Place – $50 Short Story Writing Contest Rules: 1) There...