1) www.ladderwriters.com – Ladder Writers is running a collaborative contest with an artist at the Bank Street Arts Centre in Sheffield. Write a poem or short piece of prose of no more than 50 words on the theme ‘women and war’. All the best entries will be rturned into audio recordings and used in an exhibition and the overall winner win received £30! You receive points for entering and winning, allowing you to climb the...

The Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival is currently accepting previously unpublished poetry and short story manuscripts for its 2010 Poetry & Short Story Contest. The contest is open to any living writer writing in English anywhere in the world. Entries will be juried by accomplished writers and poets. Two jurors will be selected. One juror is chosen to evaluate the poetry entries and a second juror is selected to jury the short...

Due to a lengthy LSU server error over the weekend, many of you were unable to download those last-minute entry forms for the Creative Nonfiction Contest, so we’ve decided to extend the deadline another week. New Deadline: December 7th Prize: $150 and publication in New Delta Review. Finalists will be considered for publication. $10 submission fee includes option to purchase discounted two-issue subscription to NDR for an additional $10....

Writecorner Press Annual Poetry Award 13 February 2009 www.writecorner.com/poetry_guidelines.asp First Place Award: $500 Editors’ Choices: $100 each Annual Awards for Unpublished Poetry in Any Style, Any Theme Guidelines: Any number of unpublished poems may be entered by any writer. Poems may be in any style, any subject. Maximum length – 40 lines per poem. Entry fee: $5 for first poem, $3 each additional poem. No e-mail entries accepted....

Contest Info | Conditions of Entry Free Poetry Writing Contest: “Winter & Poems” We are proud to present the first free BookRix poetry contest: December 1, 2009 to January 15, 2010 When you think of wintertime, you probably think of curling up on a cozy armchair with a good book and hot cocoa in hand. This year, let your imagination and wordsmith powers take over and join our latest free poetry writing contest, “Winter...

The Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series welcomes manuscripts in poetry and fiction from all living writers, including non-US citizens, writing in English. Both unpublished and published writers are welcome to submit manuscripts. Writers may enter both contests. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted for publication somewhere else. Winners will receive $3000 and publication...