With great pleasure, we announce the 10th annual Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction and Nonfiction. Writers of comedic essays, articles, short stories, poetry, scripts, shopping lists and other forms are invited to submit. Mona founded the Foster City (CA) Writers Contest, taught creative writing for San Mateo County and published humorous articles and essays in newspapers and magazines. Her son Brad founded the Prize in 2000 and judges...

411article.com is hosting its Winter Short Story Fiction Competition. Top prizes are $500, $250, and $150 plus publication in the contest anthology. There will be 3 cash awards and 25 publication awards. All entrants will receive a critique of their story entry. Word count must be a minimum of 1000 and maximum of 3000. Stories can be of any genre but all stories must have a WINTER SETTING. Entry fee: $15 per story. Entries accepted online via...

Deadline: October 15, 2009 Entry Fee: $20 Web site: www.newriverspress.com E-mail address: carlsond@mnstate.edu Two prizes of $1,000 each and a standard royalty contract are given annually for book-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging writers. The winning works will be published by New Rivers Press and distributed nationally through Consortium. Submit a poetry manuscript of 50 to 80 pages; a collection of...

The Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series welcomes manuscripts in poetry and fiction from all living writers, including non-US citizens, writing in English. Both unpublished and published writers are welcome to submit manuscripts. Writers may enter both contests. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted for publication somewhere else. Winners will receive $3000 and publication...

Judge: Jill McCorkle Grand Prize * $1,500 * VIP All Access Pass ($500 value) for the 24th annual Festival: March 24-28, 2010 * Publication in the New Orleans Review * Domestic Airfare and Accommodations to attend the 2010 Festival in New Orleans * Public Reading at the 2010 Festival full details: www.tennesseewilliams.net/contest The top ten finalists’ names will be published on www.tennesseewilliams.net Eligibility and Guidelines: Short...

Artistic Modern Interpretations, Stories & Poetry Celebrating Angels & the Angelic World On Angels Magazine Art & Literary Contest 2009 is open to several mediums of art and literature. There are six categories of art; Painting, Computer Graphic Art, Sculpting, Drawing, Mixed Media and Photography. There are three categories of literature; Fictional Short Stories, Non-Fictional Short Stories and Poetry. All entries MUST have an...