We are currently accepting short story submissions for the Winter 2011-2012 Elephant Prize. Submissions must be under 7500 words. Multiple submissions are accepted: you may submit as many stories as you like. There is a $10 reader’s fee per entry. We understand the reluctance many writers have toward reader’s fees. The contest entry fee allows us to pay out prizes and keep our site running. We try to keep our fees at a minimum. If...

Calling all aspiring authors! Here’s your chance to get your work published, all you’ve got to do is compete in a deathmatch. A literary deathmatch, that is. Enter your short story (fiction) in Broken Pencil Magazine’s Indie Writers Deathmatch and have a chance to win lots of great prizes! Winner gets a prize pack of cash and awesome stuff worth $650! Plus publication in Spring 2012 issue of Broken Pencil Magazine. 3 Runners-up get $100 and...

Dear Poets &Writers, The editor-in-chief will review poetry, fiction, and hybrid submissions of 1,000 words or less for the new Oblongata Contest from November 20, 2011 until January 22, 2012. The entry fee is $10.00 for each submission. First, second, and third place winners will be chosen for publication. Works will be published by February 1, 2012. FIRST PLACE WINNERS will receive the following: Payment based on 10% of the entry fees...

Crazyhorse literary journal is excited to announce the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize: $2000 each and publication of your poem or short story in Crazyhorse literary journal. Deadline to enter: January 15, 2012 Reading fee of $16 per entry includes one-year subscription. Full entry guidelines at http://www.crazyhorsejournal.org or Contact: crazyhorse@cofc.edu

The Claymore Award is bestowed upon the author of the best beginning (up to 50 pages) of an unpublished manuscript not currently under contract.  ANYONE CAN ENTER YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ATTEND KILLER NASHVILLE TO ENTER OR WIN.  The ten finalists are chosen through a blind judging process and sent to our 2012 publishing partner, Five Star Press/Tekno Books.  Five Star chooses the final winner, who receives an engraved replica of a Claymore dagger....

The Bethlehem Writers Group is currently accepting submissions for their debut Short Story Award. Jonathon Maberry, a NY Times bestselling author, will judge. The winner will receive $200 plus the opportunity to be published in their next anthology, “Seasonal Pursuits: Sweet, Funny and Strange Tales,” due to be released next fall. There are runner-up prizes also. Entry fee: $10 per story. Deadline: Submissions must be received by...