Open Poetry Competition 1st Prize: £150.00 2nd Prize: £100.00 3rd Prize: £75.00 Closing Date:  12th September 2010 Entry fee: £3.00 per poem or free to Premier 1 members You can be as creative as you like in our open poetry competition as there is no given theme. Poems must be previously unpublished and have a maximum of 40 lines. For details, visit:  http://creativecompetitor.com/competitions email: info@creative-competitor.co.uk   Memory Loss...

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 can be the story of...

Aojirouma Publishing is sponsoring a new writing contest this year beginning August 12, 2010 for all writers in all countries. The contest will be split into two primary categories, prose and poetry. Below is a description of the contest:   Life is often described as a journey with detours at every corner. Whether that journey has a destination is reliant on the individual’s ambitions, beliefs, and desires. With literature being a reflection of...

FREE Amateur writing site. Provides your own and separated online writing space so that anyone can write and read any writings of story, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The more people read your writings, the higher your rank will be. High rankers get chance to win 500USD The contest results will be announced at the end of September 2010, midnight You are welcome to visit  http://www.ufiction.com/contest.php for more details of the...

Founders Circle Contest Submit a prose piece up to 3,000 words or a poem of up to two pages to Soundings Review to win publication and $300! Write the name of the contest on the manuscript. Manuscripts should be 12 pt Times New Roman, and prose should be double spaced. Include an SASE for response, using a larger envelope for return of the manuscript. Entry fee is $7 for the general public, $5 for members of the Whidbey Island Writers’...

Open: August 1, 2010; Closes: October 30, 2010. Status Hat is a monthly online artszine, that also goes out to an email subscription list. Each month we explore a different theme, through art, writing and music by contributors from around the world. It is published by Status Hat Productions, an arts collaborative based in Charlottesville, VA, USA. We are accepting submissions for the first three issues of 2011, as of August 1, 2010:  The Hat...