If you are a passionate writer or artist, this is a tremendous opportunity to get your ideas and work in the public eye and be part of a growing content network called CONSENT.COM. Submit an article and earn a chance to win a $50 Amazon.com Gift Card. CONSENT focuses on anything and everything that involves the idea of “consent”. The word consent refers to the provision of approval or assent, particularly and especially after thoughtful...

Peer review online poetry competition judged by the entrants themselves. 1st Prize (Single poem) £2,000 1st Prize (Portfolio)        £1,000 The event will culminate with a collaborative eBook publication featuring the best poems and comments as chosen by the participants. Any subject or style: Poetry or Prose Poetry, Maximum 42 lines, Entry fee £7. To find out more and to enter online please visit: www.poeticrepublic.com  Closing date: 30th...

To celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens in 2012, Cambridge University Press invites U.S. high school students to participate in an essay contest inspired by the iconic author. Students are encouraged to submit an original essay discussing his/her personal experience with Charles Dickens. The winner will have his/her bylined entry published on the press’ popular industry blog, This Side of the Pond, and promoted through Cambridge...

The Baltimore Review is now accepting submissions for its summer contest, and the theme is Heat:  It’s energy. It’s intensity. It’s passion. It consumes you. It dissolves, melts, bakes.  It’s a fever, or just a blush. It’s a night in a cheap motel, a barefoot walk on hot sand, a complicated meal in a rowhouse kitchen. It’s nuclear fusion or the Senate floor. It’s jalapeno and habanero peppers. It’s the cops. It’s the contest theme for our...

RUMINATE Magazine is currently seeking submissions for our annual Janet McCabe Poetry Prize with an award of $1000 to the winning poet. The deadline to submit poetry is May 1st. Entry fee is $15, and includes a copy of the Fall Issue. The winning poem and runner-up poem will be published in the Fall 2012 issue. For more rules and guidelines, please visit:...

Grand Prize: $1,000 Second Place: $100 Third Place: $50 Three Honorable Mentions Entry fee: $4 ($3 for each additional entry) Deadline: August 31, 2012 Maximum length: 1,000 words All Six Finalists Will Be Published Online in the October 2012 Issue of Gemini. Absolutely no restrictions on content, style or genre. Simply send your best, most powerful work. Visit the website for details:...

“Renga for an Absent Lover,” by Sheryl Mebane, won the 2012 Gemini Magazine Poetry Open and the $1,000 prize. A jazz musician, Sheryl is the author of the jazz novel Lady Bird. The second place prize of $100 went to Gerardo Mena for “A Nursing Home Boxer to a High School Volunteer” and Christina Lovin won the third place award for “11/11/11.” Honorable mentions: “Depression Is My Happy Place,” by Jendi Reiter; “What the F***?” by Russ...