Call for Submissions: Here Come the Brides! The Brave New World of Lesbian Marriage (Seal Press, 2012)   2,000-4,000 words   Editors: Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort. Audrey Bilger is the Faculty Director of the Writing Center and Associate  Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. Michele Kort is Senior Editor at Ms. magazine, a freelance writer, and author of three books (including Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura...

Name of Contest:  Stage of Life Monthly Student Writing Contest Description:  StageofLife.com features a monthly writing contest for high school and college students dealing with real world issues.  Our short essay (500 words or less) writing contest has been featured on Forbes.com, CNBC.com, FoxBusiness and other media outlets.  Past contests have dealt with the Gulf Oil Spill, America’s relationship to food and the obesity epidemic,...

DEADLINE: June 1, 2010 GENRE: Poetry DETAILS: Poems by disabled authors or on the theme of disability, from a Philadelphia center for wheelchair-bound adults. Prefers unpublished but accepts published work also. Category 1): Open contest: Poems must relate to disabilities Category 2): Disabled authors contest: Any style or theme. Maximum 75 lines per poem; 1-2 poems per author for open contest, 1-3 poems for disabled contest PRIZES: $50, $30,...

DEADLINE: June 1, 2010 GENRE: Novels OPEN TO: Authors with No Published Books: The Competition is open to any professional or non-professional writer, regardless of nationality, who has never been the author of a published mystery, and is not under contract with a publisher for publication of a mystery. DETAILS: Murder or another serious crime or crimes is at the heart of the story, and emphasis is on the solution rather than the details of the...

Eudaimonia Poetry Review (epoetryreview.com) needs poems and photographs on the pursuit of happiness. Email submissions directly to poetryeditor@epoetryreview.com by August 15th. We are not able to pay at this time. Please visit epoetryreview.com for more information. Chapbook contest: $500 prize. Spring 2010 Chapbook Prize. Submit no more than 26 pages of original poetry by December 31, 2009. Include biography and acknowledgements. Reading...

www.chickenpinata.com Inspired by a recent trip across the Mississippi River, the editors of Chickenpinata are accepting poems for the “Bridges” theme until Friday, June 26. We want to see poems that take both literal and metaphorical approaches to bridges–what do they mean? What is crossed over? Where are you once you’ve crossed? Etc. Writers may interpret this theme broadly. Please indicate the theme in your subject...