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...

Prizes: **1st Place: $1,000 cash, acceptance into the 2013 ALMA Short Story Compilation, author bio and link to author’s website or social media page on AmericanLiteraryMeritAward.com **2nd Place: $100 cash, story featured as a free read and link to author’s website or social media page on AmericanLiteraryMeritAward.com **3rd Place: $50 cash, story featured as a free read and link to author’s website or social media page on...

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...

New Rivers Press is pleased to announce that it will begin publishing popular fiction titles with literary value. For The New Rivers Press Electronic Book Series, the press is seeking manuscripts from new and emerging authors in the genres of Action-adventure, Crime, Detective, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Western, and Inspirational, and all sub-genres within and across those categories. Manuscripts will be accepted electronically...

Valhalla Press announces the Valhalla Press LiteraryFiction and Creative Nonfiction Contest. The contest seeks out the best in original short literary fiction and nonfiction work written in English. Contestants will vie for prizes including $500 and an ereader plus publication in Ragnarok, an e-lit journal. Deadline August 30, 2012.   Winners will be announced by September 30, 2012. Entry fee is $15 per submission and works are limited to 5,000...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – SAWMILL; Submissions are currently open for the January 2013 issue of SAWMILL, the web-based literary magazine from Typecast Publishing. For this issue, we will focus on FLASH FICTION, and interested authors should select one piece which they feel best represents their writing ability and style – authors submitting more than one story at a time will not be considered for publication (we have our reasons, we...

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. http://www.dreamquestone.com Guidelines: Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, style, or...