Gold Line Press is pleased to announce its annual chapbook contest, which is open to submissions through our online submission manager through November 15.  The contest alternates yearly between poetry and fiction, and this year’s contest is for poetry manuscripts of 20 – 30 pages. The winning book receives $500 and publication of a gorgeous perfect-bound book. Our priority is to publish the highest quality work, but we are also...

PPooDD is a cooperative and collaborative travel writing project holding monthly writing competitions to attract new membership and reward current members. There is no entry fee, but you must be an active participant in the project to enter.   November – Encounters With Animals December – Music January – Christmas   Closing date is the final day of the month   An ‘active participant’ on the site submits three new...

The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize: $2000 each and publication of your poem or short story in Crazyhorse literary journal.  Deadline to enter: January 15, 2011. Reading fee of $16 per entry includes one-year subscription. Full entry guidelines at:  http://www.crazyhorsejournal.org or email: crazyhorse@cofc.edu

Win a Writing Holiday in Greece with your Short Story or poem. We are looking for SHORT STORIES up to 3000 words and POEMS up to 500 words. With the theme: BLUE. Closing date: January 2nd, 2011 Entry fee: £6  In each category 1st Prize One week free place at a Writing Retreat by the sea in Greece. For details see the website: http://www.bluethumbnail.com/Author/competitionpage.html Or ask for the rules: info@bluethumbnail.com...

Scinti Story Contest Everyone has a story. We want yours. We are looking for true stories that astound, enchant, enlighten and startle us. We want to be swept up and away, pulled from our moorings, left shaken and inspired. We want to think, wonder, imagine, believe. Do you have a story that is especially meaningful to you, something hilarious or harrowing that touched you deeply, changed your heart, your soul, your way of seeing the world? It...

Just finished reading some 800 stories entered in the Gemini Magazine Flash Fiction Contest. We’re exhausted but enriched! Read results in our October issue www.gemini-magazine.com.   First place ($1,000 prize): “Lines of Force” by S.J. Cahill In his quest for artistic perfection, a photographer dehumanizes his model-girlfriend.   Second Place ($100 prize): “The Synchronous City” by Micah Herzog Stack A wild ride...