**IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to a web hosting problem that has now been resolved, we have extended our 2012 deadline to May 31, 2012. This applies to our 2012 competition only. Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition 2012 Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2012 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a thirty-one year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically...

Dear Writers,   Do you realize that Wag’s Revue Winter Contest closes  in two days?  Like this Friday, March 9th?* Have you been paying any attention? Sure, AWP was distracting and exhausting, but, can you really afford to not enter to win the $1000 first prize? (And that’s not to mention publication in the magazine, which is priceless, nor the second prize of $500 or $100 third.) The answer is you can’t.  We know because we...

We love new writing and new writers and so we would like to give you every opportunity to get your work out to the public!   Therefore, we are now running a monthly writing competition.  Each month, you will be given a theme. You will need to then write a 500 word short story related to that theme.   Try not to be too tenuous though!   All entries will be judged by a panel of three avid readers.   They will choose a first, second and third...

First Page Competition 2012 Yep, it was so successful last year, our annual First Page Competition 2012 is now open with an increased first prize of £500 – DOUBLE last year’s. What are we looking for: the most gripping, read-on-able first page of up to 400 words. Any genre, but as always we’re looking for The Best First Page. Bribes can be sent in cash, but we guarantee they won’t do you much good. Prizes: 1st Prize...

WORK Literary Magazine is happy to announce our annual workforce motivational agenda. Starting today, we are accepting applications to our benefits and promotions department. Benefits and promotions include: * publication! * cash prizes! * limited edition WORK team t-shirt! * honorary title “Employee of the Year”! Three categories to submit to are essay, memoir / interview, and fiction**. You may win in any of the three categories. Winners of...

Each month Switchback provides a prompt and we want you to send us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors will be featured on Switchback. Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art but must be 500 words or under. Please send us only one submission per prompt and only previously unpublished works. We accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us immediately of...

Before setting off in pursuit of literary and intellectual greatness (or at least goodness), it behooves the journeyman author to learn a few things from those that came before. Don’t get bogged down in fantasy. Take the time to read up on how successful writers — no matter their chosen genres or mediums — generate ideas and inspiration, process them, then bestow them life on paper or screen. Painting teachers often request their students...