www.shelteringpinespress.com/chapbookcontest5.html Submissions are now open: Official Rules First Prize: $100 and fifty copies of your chapbook Entry Fee is $15 per Chapbook Deadline: Postmark October 15, 2009. 1. Submit between 10-24 pages of poetry.(One page = maximum 38 lines, including spacing between lines). (Manuscripts either too short or too long will be disqualified.) 2. All contestants receive copy of winning chapbook. 3. No names are...

Spring 2009 Story Contest narrativemagazine.com/node/56338 Our spring contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner,...

canteenmag.com/contest.shtml Judged by Porochista Khakpour Prizes Fiction first-prize winner receives $1,000 and publication in issue five of Canteen. Poetry first-prize winner receives $500 and publication in issue five of Canteen. Fiction and poetry second-prize winners will also be published in issue five. How to Enter Reading fee: $10, which includes a free single issue of your choice. Current subscribers get free entry. Enter now by...

www.finishinglinepress.com/submissionguidelines.htm A prize of $1,000 and publication will be awarded by Finishing Line Press for a chapbook-length poetry collection. Open to ALL. Previous publication does not disqualify. All entries will be considered for publication. The top-ten finalists will be offered publication. Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter with a $15 entry fee by Deadline: June 30,...

anabiosispress.org/chapguides.html Submit manuscript of 16-20 pages of poetry, any subject, to Anabiosis Press Chapbook Contest 2 South New Street Bradford, MA 01835 Include only one poem per page. If a poem continues to a second page, indicate whether or not there is a stanza break. Thirty-five lines equals one page. Divider pages or section titles should be included in the total page count. When determining total line length for each poem,...

www.autumnhouse.org/index.cfm?method=displayPage&pagename=contest Guidelines for the 2009 Autumn House Poetry Contest judged by Alicia Ostriker Guidelines for the 2009 Autumn House Fiction Contest judged by Sharon Dilworth — The winners will receive book publication, $1,000 advance against royalties, and a $1,500 travel grant to participate in the 2009 Autumn House Master Authors Series in Pittsburgh. — The deadline is June 30,...