Third Coast, a national literary journal, is currently accepting submissions for our 2010 Poetry and Fiction Contest, and we’re hoping you’d consider listing our contest on your website. The Third Coast Poetry Contest is being judged by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Wojahn. The fiction contest will be judged by Anne Beattie. First prize is $1000 and publication in the journal. Entrants should send three poems and a $15 reading fee...

SLS is pleased to announce its 2010 unified (SLS-Montreal, SLS-Lithuania, and SLS-Kenya) literary contest, held this year again in affiliation with Fence. We are excited this year to have Mary Gaitskill judging the contest fiction, and Mary Jo Bang judging the poetry. Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in Fence, as well as the participating literary journals in Canada, Lithuania and Kenya....

The Sugar Creek Review is a publication of creative writing and art for students in grades 10 through 12. Students may submit work in one more of the following categories: poetry, fiction, personal narrative, multi-genre, and photographs or photographs of artwork. Only one entry per category per author will be considered. Teachers should submit work from no more than two students. Top submissions in each category will be published in The Sugar...

Life—and love—can turn on a dime. Gotham Writers’ Workshop has teamed up with Ellen Hopkins and Simon & Schuster publishing, for a truly unique poetry writing competition – The Tricks Writing Contest. Writing in verse, Ellen Hopkins deals with tough subjects—addiction, abuse—in her books and her latest, Tricks, is no different. Now it is your turn to write about a tough subject or trying life experience—real or imagined—spun into four...

The International Fish Short Story Prize 2009 is now open with Ronan Bennett as the judge. The ten best stories will be published in the annual Fish Anthology 2010. The prize was started in 1994 to get new writers published in book format. So far we have published over 300 writers from all over the world. Overall winners have come from the USA more than any other country, and include Molly McCloskey, Marc Phillips, Kathy Hughes, Karl Iagnemma,...

dept.kent.edu/wick/Competitions/Chapbook.html POETS CURRENTLY RESIDING IN OHIO may enter the Open Competition. Poets currently enrolled in Ohio institutions of higher education may enter the Student Competition. In spring 2010, two to four manuscripts will be selected for publication in the Wick Chapbook Series, and the honor also includes a reading at Kent State University. Maggie Anderson is the general editor of the series. Entry...