First place winners receive $1000 and publication. Second and Third place winners receive publication. Check back August 4, 2010 for announcement of the winners. Judges: Junot Díaz (fiction) and Ilya Kaminsky (poetry) To enter: 1.Submissions may be sent via email only to fugue-prosesubmitATuidahoDOTedu or fugue-poetrysubmitATuidahoDOTedu. For each submission, please paste your name, contact information, and a short bio along with your work into...

Contest Guidelines: The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University, would like to announce the sixth annual Journal Short Story Contest. This year’s judge is Lee K. Abbott, author of the short story collections Dreams of Distant Lives, Strangers in Paradise, Love is the Crooked Thing, The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting, and Living After Midnight. His latest collection of stories, All Things, All at Once, was published by...

Short Short Contest: A prize of $1,000 and publication in Sonora Review is given annually for a short short story. Joe Wenderoth will judge. Submit a story of up to 1,000 words with a $15 entry fee, which includes a copy of the Summer 2010 issue of Sonora Review, by May 1. Include a cover page with your full name and current address. Short Essay Contest: $1000 and publication in Sonora Review will be given for the first annual Concentrated...

Textnovel.com (www.textnovel.com) is running a contest January 1, 2010 through August 31, 2010 for the best online serial novel. Textnovel allows writers to get attention based on how many followers, views and votes they get and also provides an interactive format for creating the novel. The prize is $1,000 and the winner gets literary agency representation including assistance preparing the novel for submission to publishers. Our 2008 winner,...

Deadline for Entries: January 31, 2010 Nominations for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing will be accepted through January 31, 2010. This award, given by Stanford University Libraries in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, recognizes newly published works of fiction and non-fiction with a $5,000 award for the winner in each category. The prize is designed to encourage new or emerging writers and honor the Saroyan...

December 21, 2009 to February 23, 2010 There is currently running a free-to-enter short story contest on BookRix for writers and readers. The theme is “Family Stories”. (No page limit) Prizes on the line include $1.800,00 in prize money for writers, “fame!” and Amazon vouchers (each worth $20) for voting readers. Prizes for authors: First Prize: $1000 Second Prize: $500 Third Prize: $300 The 10 best-rated stories will be...