THEME: Open GENRE: Short Story (fiction only) CLOSING DATE: 31 October 2011 FEE: The entry fee is R45 for members and R55 for non-members. If you would like to receive a critique of your entry an additional R10 is payable. You may submit more than one entry, each with the prescribed fee/s. Entries may be posted to SAWC Annual Short Story Completion, Competitions Manager, South African Writers Circle, Box 2342, Westville, 3630; or George at...

Announcing the Les Figues Press NOS* Book Contest (*NOS = not otherwise specified) Deadline: September 9, 2011 Judge: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Prize: $1,000 plus publication Les Figues is accepting submissions for our first annual NOS Book Contest.  Les Figues publishes highly innovative work that often falls between clearly delineated genre-lines.  Eligible submissions include: poetry, novellas, prose poems, innovative novels, anti-novels, short...

KNIGHTVILLE POETRY CONTEST $1,000 for an exceptional work of narrative or experimental poetry. Three poems per entry. Up to 300 lines per poem. Judged by former U.S. Poet Laureate CHARLES SIMIC. MACHIGONNE FICTION CONTEST $1,000 for an exceptional work of literary or experimental fiction. Submit up to 7,500 words of prose: we’re accepting flash, long stories and everything in between. Novel excerpts are welcomed, as long as the manuscript...

Undergraduates are returning and locusts are dying. Summer is ending, in other words, and so is the Wag’s Revue Summer 2011 Writers’ Contest. You have until this Wednesday, August 31st, to get your entry to us. We’ll be awarding a first prize of $1000 and publication in Issue 11, a second prize of $500 and  a third of $100 to the three best entries–poetry, fiction or essay. Read all guidelines and such, or upload your...

The Watty Awards are back with a vengeance! Wattpad, the best way to discover and share stories, is thrilled to announce exciting changes to this year’s writing contest. Similar to the MTV Movie Awards, the Watty Awards is an annual reader-voted competition that celebrates the stories beloved by fans in categories such as Best Cast, Best Imaginative Setting, Best Fictional Couple, Best Sci-Fi Novel and Best Mystery. For the first time ever,...

It’s that time again, our second annual Short Story Competition is now open for submissions, and this year we’ve bumped the first prize up to £500! What are we looking for: the best short story of up to 2,500 words. Stories can be any genre, but as we’re always on the lookout for the Best Short Story, we advise not sending bribes. They’re welcome, obviously, but we retain the right to keep them even if you don’t win. Prizes: 1st Prize –...