www.autumnhouse.org/index.cfm?method=displayPage&pagename=contest Guidelines for the 2009 Autumn House Poetry Contest judged by Alicia Ostriker Guidelines for the 2009 Autumn House Fiction Contest judged by Sharon Dilworth — The winners will receive book publication, $1,000 advance against royalties, and a $1,500 travel grant to participate in the 2009 Autumn House Master Authors Series in Pittsburgh. — The deadline is June 30,...

Wordstock, Portland’s annual festival of writers, books, and storytelling, is pleased to announce the call for submissions for the 3rd Wordstock Short Fiction Competition. www.wordstockfestival.com/#/page_id=114&article=129/ The national contest is a “double blind” competition. The judges, a collection of writers, academics, publishers, bookstore owners, and literary critics, will choose 10 finalists. The winner of the competition...

www.inkwelljournal.org/competitions.htm Fiction: $1500 GRAND PRIZE & PUBLICATION IN INKWELL COMPETITION JUDGE: Alice McDermott GUIDELINES 1. Up to 3 previously unpublished stories, 5,000-word limit 2. Text must be typed, 12pt. font, double-spaced, one-sided 3. Cover sheet with name, address, phone, e-mail, titles and word counts 4. No name or address anywhere on manuscripts 5. SASE for contest notification only – manuscripts will be...

www.orgs.muohio.edu/mupress/novella.html The novella form has had a long and distinguished place in American literature, and has triumphed in the hands of Herman Melville, Henry James, Katherine Anne Porter, Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, William Gass, John Gardner, Andrea Barrett and Tobias Wolff, to name just a few. As commercial publishers are driven more and more by marketplace concerns,...

www.grandmotherearth.org/id2.html DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2009 (POSTMARK) GRANDMOTHER EARTH XIV NATIONAL WRITING AWARDS PO Box 2018, Cordova, TN 38088 PHONE: 901-309-3692; E-mail: gmoearth@aol.com www.grandmotherearth.org Work can be unpublished or published. Money award entries (and selected finalists if permission is given) will be published in Grandmother Earth XVI. Rights to previously published work must belong to the author. No profanity or...

short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetic prose, or poetry www.evbooks.net/contest.htm First Prize $500 Two Second Prizes of $100 each Entries are now invited for the EV nature writing contest. Only winners will be notified and entries will not be acknowledged or returned. The deadline for receipt of entries falls on October 15 (of each year). The EV nature writing contest is held to support the cause of writing on the subject of nature and...