Each month SWITCHBACK will provide a prompt and we want you to send us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors will be featured on SWITCHBACK. The November prompt is: “Nobody ever knows anything for a fact.” • Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art. • Submissions must be 500 words or under. • Please send us only one submission per prompt. • Please submit only...

Details Deadline: November 30 Fee: Free It’s November again, and of course that means that everyone’s going to be busy with NaNoWriMo! For those of you who’ve never heard of it, NaNoWriMo is a free challenge where writers try to start and finish a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. It’s a big challenge, but a fun one too. Thousands of writers from around the world participate—and you should too! Since so many...

Open for Submissions! To know more about Abrendal and her award-winning books visit www.blackpennypress.com Be creative, exciting, funny, truthful, make us laugh/cry, and make us love your story, essay, or poem. All writing entries will be judged by a panel of undisclosed writing and publishing experts. Each category will have 1st place, 2nd place, and 2 honorable mentions. 1st Place: $500 2nd Place: $250 2 Honorable Mentions from BPP Once the...

The Inaugural Friends of the Merril Short Story Contest The Friends of the Merril Collection are running a Speculative Fiction Short Story Contest in order to raise awareness of, and funds for, the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasythrough the Friends of the Merril Collection (whose stated objectives, codified in the organization’s constitution, can be found at http://www.thefriendsofthemerril.org). The Friends of the...

Call for Submissions for 2012 Anthology Matrices Press is publishing an anthology of works in 2012. We are now accepting submissions of previously unpublished, original works. Deadline for submissions is Jan 31, 2012. Matrices begins in math:  A matrix is an organizational structure in which two or more lines of command, responsibility, or communication may run through the same individual. This math concept can be applied to culture:  A concept...

John Yeoman, Writers’ Village $780 Prizes in Writers’ Village Story Contest Winter 2011 Prizes totalling $780 can be won for short fiction in any genre in the winter 2011 round of the Writers’ Village ‘Best Writing’ award. The top award is $400 (£250), with a $155 (£100) second prize and third prize of $75 (£50) plus five runner-up prizes of $30 (£20). All entrants, winners or not, gain a helpful critique of their story – a feature...