The Splinter Generation – Call for Submissions: Open Reading from October 1-December 1 The Splinter Generation, a literary journal for and about people born between 1973 and 1993, has begun its next reading period and is now accepting submissions for creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry from October 1-December 1. And now new, Do Talk to Strangers, our new interview series will be taking submissions into the new year. You can read all...

$2,500 Awaits Winners of  Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2012 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a thirty-one year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of emerging writers of short fiction whose voices have yet to be heard. Lorian Hemingway, granddaughter of Nobel laureate...

HELD BY VENTURA COUNTY WRITERS CLUB Contest is open to all writers The September 30th deadline is fast approaching for submissions to the 12th Annual Short Story Contest, presented by the Ventura County Writers Club (VCWC). This contest draws interest from authors around the country as well as internationally. The Ventura County Star newspaper will publish the first place winning entry in a January 2012 Sunday edition and will publish first,...

We run the monthly bilingual art magazine “HESA inprint” (ISSN-L 1799-8549), which every month feature a free open call for entry, for people to submit work from any medium on a theme. Each entry is reviewed and published on the blog and a curated selection published in the printed magazine (artists featured in the magazine will receive a free copy). Even though our publication is not dedicated to writing, we greatly appreciate...

Open City RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest Deadline October 15th! http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy 2011 RRofihe Trophy For an unpublished short story (up to 5,000 words) Winner Receives: $500 cash Trophy Announcement on the Open City web site Publication on anderbo.com Judged by Rick Rofihe 2011 Contest Assistant: Carolyn Wilsey Carolyn Wilsey has read fiction for Esquire and Swink Guidelines * Stories should be typed, double-spaced, on...

1st Prize: £200.00 2nd Prize: £150.00 3rd Prize: £100.00 4th Prize: £75.00 5th Prize: The Busy Writer Course 6th Prize: Premier1 Membership  x 3 months Closing date: December 1st 2011 Entry fee: £3.50 Free to Creative Competitor Premier1 Subscribers Fancy winning yourself an early Christmas present? How does our top prize of £200 sound? All you have to do to win any of our fantastic writing competition prizes is to write a story relating to our...