2011 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Deadline: October 1, 2011 Judge: Samuel Delany Prize: $1,500 plus publication The deadline for this year’s short fiction contest is approaching! Recently rededicated to the memory of the late author and critic Aura Estrada, and judged in its first year by her husband, Francisco Goldman, the Aura Estrada Short Story Contest is now accepting submissions for 2011. This year’s judge is acclaimed novelist...

Lady Dragonfly Publishing Contest – “Restoring Gratitude.” With the economy being at an all time low, the housing market plummeting, unemployment numbers rising; our society seems to be illuminating sadness and despair. Lady Dragonfly Publishing is ready to show the world that although you may be losing money, work, or your home there ARE STILL things in life that make you smile and say THANK YOU! Now is the time to come...

$5,000 prizes each in fiction, poetry, and essay. Winners and select runners up will be published in The Missouri Review, and winners will be flown to Columbia, MO for our annual Editor’s Prize Gala. Your entry fee includes a one-year subscription to The Missouri Review: four issues. Subscriptions are now available either in print or digital formats. Digital format includes a full audio version of the journal. The postmark deadline is...

  $400 First Prize in Writers’ Village Story Contest Fall 2011   All entrants gain a free critique of their story in the fall 2011 round of the Writers’ Village ‘Best Writing’ award. Prizes totalling $640 can also be won for short fiction in any genre. The top award is $400, with a $160 second prize and third prize of $80, plus five runner-ups gain a free entry in the next round.   Winners will be awarded the title ‘Winner, the...

  Contest Extended to October 1, 2011 Open to short stories and novel excerpts of 8,000 words or less. Grand Prize of $1000 and publication in StoryQuarterly 45 First Runner-up $300 and publication in SQ Online Second Runner-up $200 and publication in SQ Online Details: Judging will be blind, and all contest entries will be sent by the editors to the contest judge with the authors names removed. Cover letters are discouraged. Your receipt...

Romantic Fiction Competition 1st Prize: £300 2nd Prize: £200 3rd Prize: £100 Closing date: 10th September 2011 Entry fee: £4.00 Entangled in his embrace, the world seemed softer, warm and altogether more pleasurable. She longed for this moment to last, to stay cocooned in pure happiness forever. A shiver of trepidation ran down her spine and fought it off in vain, snuggling closer to his warmth, inhaling his intoxicating scent. Why did life...