The 2010 Caketrain Chapbook Competition is now open to entries in the fiction genre. Deadline: October 1, 2010 Final Judge: Deb Olin Unferth, author of Minor Robberies and Vacation Awards: publication, $250 cash prize, and 25 contributor copies to winner publication and 25 contributor copies to runner-up Eligibility: This competition is open to English language fiction manuscripts. While previously-published stand-alone pieces or excerpts may...

www.poemsandgifts.com We offer writers a $1,000 monthly cash prize with increasing cash prizes each month as the membership grows.  Writers can win in multiple categories, which include:  Poems, Quotes, and Short Stories.  We also offer excellent artwork on which, writers can overlay their poems and inspirational sayings.  Quality writing receives bonus votes in each monthly contest.  We also offer other gifts too. For contest rules visit:...

Burner is that girl. She’s witty, pretty, and doesn’t dumb herself down.  By day, she’s a kindergarten teacher and by night, dances gogo.  She’s the chick you knew in high school who quoted Kirkegaard by heart and kept a copy of Cosmo under her bed.  She’s a muse and amusing, compelling and never complacent.  Burner contributors’ work gets your blood pumping, heart racing, and induces literary, musical, visual...

Enter to Win! BionicBong, publisher of Things Japanese, a literary magazine on anything to do with Japan, is accepting submissions for its next issue. One Grand prize winner will receive $100 for best submission.* We are accepting haiku, prose poetry, postcard stories, flash fiction, short stories, and non-fiction pieces such as personal funny stories, tributes, reviews, interviews, and rants. Guidelines are simple. Any submission should have a...

Guidelines: Free critique available upon request! Write “free critique” on your entry and provide either a SASE or an email address.                                                        For optional line edit, enclose an additional $1 per page, plus 9 X 12 SASE with enough postage for returning your story. DEADLINE: Postmarked by July 31, 2010. DO NOT SEND BY CERTIFIED MAIL. ENTRY FEE: $5 per entry, 3 entries max. Checks payable to The Write...

Submissions are being accepted for the first annual “End of the World Contest.” Deadline is September 30, 2010. Contest winners will be notified by October 31, 2010 and published in the November 2010 issue of the Last Man Magazine. Entry fee $5. First Prize: $50 and publication in the Last Man Magazine. First place winner will also be featured in the “author’s spotlight,” a two page interview with the writer about his or her craft, novels/short...