> POETRY KIT SUMMER POETRY COMPETITION 2012 > ALL POEMS MUST BE RECEIVED BEFORE MIDNIGHT 30th SEPTEMBER 2012 > Our competition this year is for poems on the theme of “the natural world” (this can be broadly interpreted). There are no style or length restrictions but it should be stressed that a short poem is just as likely to be selected as a longer one. > > 1st prize is £100. > > ONLINE ENTRY ONLY > Entry is...

Good News Toronto is accepting submissions for its 2012 True Story Contest.  Open to residents of the Greater Toronto Area. Submit your creative non-fiction stories (no longer than 450 words) on the topic: A Good Neighbour. First Prize: $100, publication in Good News Toronto, and a 1-year subscription. Second and third runners up: publication in Good News Toronto. Deadline: September 30, 2012. Entry fee: $10 (additional entries:$5). For...

| $1,000 Writing Prize | $500 Illustration Prize | Details for the competition are below, and full guidelines and online submission are available here: http://www.indigoinkpress.org/submissions/ The anthology Modern Grimmoire: Contemporary Fairy Tales, Fables & Folklore will be open to submissions from Apr. 1 to Sept. 1, 2012. SUBMIT ONLINE A single award of $1,000 and publication will be given to the best emerging author of an unpublished...

48 iPad Apps That Teachers Love by Staff Writers Apple’s iPad and other tablet computers have certainly been garnering ardent support from the edtech community. Gadget geek teachers love the thousands of apps available to give their courses a multimedia edge, and students love how so many reach out to different learning styles. For the connected classroom, the following stand out as either great supplements to various lessons or essential,...

Enter to Win the backacrehomestead.com Writing Contest! You could win $100 visa gift card! Share with us your knowledge or experiences about homesteading, or growing food, raising live stock, simple living, saving money, etc… and win some money! Please note that any writing contest submission not meeting the criteria below will be disqualified. Rules: Your submission must be on original work. Plagiarism is absolutely not allowed. Quoting other...

The Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction is a literary prize to promote writers and great undiscovered stories of Catholic fiction. What is Catholic fiction? Stories infused with the presence of God and faith — subtly, symbolically or deliberately. Flannery O’Connor, Graham Greene or G. K. Chesterton and many others whose writings reflected the thoughts of great writers such as Gerard Manley Hopkins: “The world is charged with the grandeur of...