FLASH CONTEST: Each month Switchback provides a prompt and we want you to send us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors is then featured on Switchback. Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art but must be 500 words or under. Please send us only one submission per prompt and only previously unpublished works. We accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us...

ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE (Poetry & Fiction) 2012  $500 prize for the best poem, and $500 prize for the best short story (flash fiction), plus publication in Able Muse (the print journal). Finalists in each category will also be considered for publication. Entry Fees: $15 for each entry which should contain a minimum of 1 poem, a maximum of 5 poems, but all the poems combined should not exceed 10 pages per entry). $15 for each entry minimum...

A first prize of $660 in cash can be won for short fiction in any genre in the spring 2012 round of the Writers’ Village ‘Best Writing’ award. The second prize is $160 and third prize is $80 plus five shortlisted entrants gain a free entry in the next round. All entrants, winners or not, gain a helpful critique of their story – a feature thought to be unique among low-fee writing contests. Winners will be awarded the title ‘Winner, the...

The New Quarterly is proud to announce The Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, sponsored by the St. Jerome’s University English Dept. Winning Story: $1,000 Deadline: May 28, 2012 Entry Fee: $40 per submission* For a work of short fiction by a Canadian writer in the early stages. We define a writer in the early stages as someone who has not yet published a first story collection or novel. *Entry fee includes a one-year subscription to The New...

2012 – Third Annual Across the Generations New Jewish Play Festival Director J Marcus Newman will stage readings of selected plays in mid-August 2012 at Congregation Dor Hadash in San Diego, CA Submission Guidelines (revised this year) 1) direct submission by playwright with cover letter; no literary representative or agency submissions 2) completed full-length plays only; no works-in-progress no one-act plays, no 10-minute plays, no...

 Launch Pad Contest This is the third year for our contest for unpublished novelists. Our aim is twofold: to help budding writers gain experience and hone their craft; and to lift the Grand Prize winner’s novel out of the slush pile and onto the desk of the right publishing professional. The Grand Prize will be a hand-blown glass rocket award (subject to change). But here’s the real prize: Novel Rocket will help the winner connect with one or...