Entry Guidelines for the 2012 James Hearst Poetry Prize First Prize $1000 Second $100 Third $50 All winners and finalists will be published in the Spring 2012 issue.  Deadline: October 31, 2011 Entry fee: $20.00 All entry fees include a one-year subscription. This year, all submissions to the James Hearst Poetry Prize will be handled online through our online submission system. (Click here to access the submission system) If you have problems...

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...

$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...

The Found Poetry Review invites submissions for its inaugural found poetry contest through August 31. All contest submissions must be found poems derived from How to Analyze People on Sightby Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, available as a free e-text through Project Gutenberg. The winner will receive a prize of $100 (U.S. dollars) and have his or her poem published in the Fall 2011 edition of The Found Poetry Review. Here’s how...