LITERNATIONAL’S 1st Annual C O N T R I B U T O R S   P R I Z E $500 Fiction | $500 Non-Fiction | $250 Runner-Up | SUBMIT NOW!! – CONTEST GUIDELINES ENTRY FEE: NO FEE. COPYRIGHT: All story rights remain the property of the author. GENRE: Fiction and / or Non-Fiction (please do NOT submit work targeted at children). WORD COUNT: up to 5,000 words. ELIGIBILITY: Writers with original fiction and / or creative non-fiction who are over the age...

Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest Our annual writing contest is back—with $2250 in prizes! Send us your best fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction entries by June 15, 2012  for your chance to win! Calling all women writers: sharpen your pencils or fire up your laptop and send us your fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction contest entries. Deadline: Entries must be postmarked or e-mailed no later than June 15, 2012. Entry...

Keeping up our tradition of celebrating the culture and heritage of bingo in the UK, Playing Bingo is launching its first Short Story Competition. Taking inspiration from our very small Your Stories section of the site, the aim is to generate some great fiction about our favourite game. There’s some great prizes up for grabs as well as the chance to entertain our readers with your finely crafted piece of bingo fiction. Competition Entry...

Scribophile.com is pleased to announce the Two Ways writing contest. This fee-free contest has a $50 first prize and a $25 second prize.  To enter, write a piece on any theme which contains both a prose section and a poetry section.  These two sections can be integrated or discrete, but must address the same core story.  Entries must be 2500 words or fewer.  Contest deadline May 31, 2012.  This contest is hosted by Scribophile— a friendly,...

Our Annual Poetry Contest accepts submissions each year from April 15th through August 15th. The judge of the Third Annual Poetry Contest is Ava Leavell Hayman. Grand Prize: $1,000 VIP All Access Pass ($500 value) for the next Festival Publication in Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine Public reading at the next Festival Deadline: August 15th 2012 (postmark). The top ten finalists will receive a panel pass ($75 value) to attend the next...

NCW Personal Essay/Creative Nonfiction Contest Northern Colorado Writers, LLC announces the second contest in its 2012 contest series: Personal Essay/Creative Nonfiction. The contest is open to everyone and offers cash prizes of 1st: $200, 2nd: $100, and 3rd: $50. Winners and honorable mentions will be published in and receive a free copy of the second annual winners’ anthology, Pooled Ink: Celebrating the 2012 NCW Contest Winners,...

Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine is holding monthly contests for poetry and stories based on classic fairy tales. Submission windows open at 12 a.m., on the first day of the month, and close at 11:59 p.m. on the second day of each month, Eastern Standard Time. Two prizes of $25 each, US dollars only, will be awarded in the form of electronic gift certificates, each month. Unpaid honorable mention is also possible, if the writer is...