Flash Fiction 300 Word Challenge 1st Prize: £100 2nd Prize: £50 Closing date: 25th November 2011 Entry fee: £2.00 Write a story around the woman in the photo.  You can be as creative as you like with your interpretation of the image but you only have 300 words (excluding the title) to impress us. So do make every word count. Your entry must be original and previously unpublished. Full rules on website. We welcome submissions from writers...

The Writer, in collaboration with Gotham Writers’ Workshop, invites writers to enter The Writer 2011 Essay/Memoir Contest with guest judge Lee Gutkind. Write an essay or memoir that catches our eye, touches our heart, or tickles our funny bone, and you could win one of our great prizes! Only original, unpublished works of 1,000 to 1,200 words will be accepted. PRIZES • First Place: $1,000 (USD); enrollment in a 10-week online writing...

Switchback is proud to announce the start of our monthly Flash Contest. Each month we will be giving you a prompt and we want you to give us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors will then be featured on the site. Submissions can be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or even art, so long as it’s amazing and 500 words or less. The September prompt is: “He knew he should never have come...

We are a creative writing community and monthly competition site called, Strictly Shakespeare and have some wonderfully talented members but are always looking to expand and challenge our writers. The competition’s are ongoing but here follows the description for September: Website: http://www.strictlyshakespeare.com Email: feedback@strictlyshakespeare.com Deadline: Midnight, 14th September 2011 Prize: £50.00 worth of prizes are given out...

ConverSextion.com, the leading sexual network for adults to openly talk about sex, dating, and romance in a tasteful manner is having the “Sexiest Story Contest!” The contest starts on Tuesday, September 6th at 12:01 AM CST and ends on Friday, October 7th at 11:59 PM CST.   Prizes: 1st Place- $500.00 CASH! 2nd Place- $100.00 Gift Card to MyTulip.com 3rd Place- $50.00 Gift Card to MyTulip.com Rules: All Stories must be submitted AFTER...

Please note: The 2011/12 Short Story Prize will open for entries 1st Aug 2011. David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, number9dream, Ghostwritten, Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, will be judging the 2011/12 prize. Fish Publishing runs the short story competition each year, the winners of which are published in the annual Fish Anthology. The Anthology is launched during the West Cork Literary Festival, July each year....