Introducing the Watty Awards, Our Annual Reader Voted Story Awards The Watty Awards are like the MTV Movie Awards for fiction. It’s your chance to write a story starring your favorite celebs, actors and actresses. Round 1: Readers will vote for their favorites as you write and upload your stories. The stories with the top scores will be nominated for prizes worth thousands of dollars. Round 2: Once the nominees have been announced,...

Birdsong Micropress Winter 2010 Poetry + Prose Contest [Deadline: 1 October 2010] BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — June 1, 2010. New York literary zine birdsong is now accepting submissions for our Winter 2010 Poetry + Prose Contest. A prize of $50, publication in birdsong #14, 10 complimentary copies of the zine (edition of 200, full color, screenprinted cover), and a featured spot in our Brooklyn reading series in mid-December will be awarded a single...

Do You Love Nature? short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetic prose, or poetry First Prize $500 Two Second Prizes of $100 each Entry fee $12 (US) Entries are now invited for the Earth Vision 2010 Nature Writing contest. The deadline for receipt of entries falls on October 15, 2010. The EV nature writing contest is held to support the cause of writing on the subject of nature and deep ecology. Any outstanding proceeds support the Earth Vision...

     Breathless Press  News Release For Immediate Release: For further information contact: Justyn Perry, Publisher at publisher@breathlesspress.com Breathless Press Will Give 20 Authors the Chance to Shine During The Holidays Calgary, Alberta- Think the Holidays are months away? If you’re a writer you might want to head to the computer right now because Breathless Press is offering 20 lucky authors and their stories a chance to be featured on...

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. http://www.dreamquestone.com Guidelines: Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, style, or...

Want to win an Amazon Kindle, Apple IPod products, and a free trip to Portland, Oregon to meet Matt Mikalatos, the amazing new author of My Imaginary Jesus who is being compared to C.S. Lewis and Kurt Vonnegut? Write, draw or film your experience with an ‘imaginary Jesus’. Deadline is July 1, 2010. Check out the details at http://myimaginaryjesus.com/