John Yeoman, Writers’ Village $780 Prizes in Writers’ Village Story Contest Winter 2011 Prizes totalling $780 can be won for short fiction in any genre in the winter 2011 round of the Writers’ Village ‘Best Writing’ award. The top award is $400 (£250), with a $155 (£100) second prize and third prize of $75 (£50) plus five runner-up prizes of $30 (£20). All entrants, winners or not, gain a helpful critique of their story – a feature...

  InspiraTO Ten-Minute Play Festival   Canada’s largest ten-minute play festival   Deadline: Midnight December 31, 2011   InspiraTO is seeking ten-minute plays (not shorter than 8 minutes and not longer than 10 minutes). This year’s theme is on VISION.  The sense of vision (sight) must be an important element of the play. We accept previously produced plays.  The playwright must own the rights to the play up to the end...

Short Story Contests The Zodiac Review offers writers four opportunities each year to compete for a Zodiac Short Story Prize. Contests for flash fiction and prose poetry may be added in the future, but for now, please submit only short stories (1,000 – 7,500 word range) for our contests. Winning entries for the Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Prizes are published in the respective quarterly magazines. Awards  First Place: Publication in the...

Description: This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems in English language (or poems translated into English) on the theme of “Encountering”. Rules: -Each poet can submit up to two poems (no more than 60 lines long each). -Poems must be previously unpublished. -Entry is free. Closing date: 15 January 2012 Prizes: -First: £50, Second: £30, Third: £20, Highly Commended (up to 3): £5 each....

” WOMEN WRITING ABOUT WOMEN FOR WOMEN” Literary Agent, Toni Lopopolo, Offers Workshops Staring November 19 in Santa Barbara (Ventura, CA – October 25, 2011) Literary agent Toni Lopopolo recently relocated her agency to the Central Coast and will be working with authors and prospective authors to help them craft tightly written fiction that is marketable. Ms Lopopolo held Executive Editor positions with Macmillan and St....

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Down Under Essay Contest Deadline: January 31, 2012 Creative Nonfiction, in association with Tashmadada, seeks new essays for a special “Australia” issue. We’re looking for a variety of perspectives—from locals, expats, tourists, or anyone else—and will consider essays of all forms and focuses as long as Australia’s landscape, people, and/or culture are prominently featured; the stories are true; and submissions are...

Gordy Hoffman’s BlueCat Screenplay Competition While most screenplay competitions include the promise of award and recognition, Gordy Hoffman’s BlueCat Screenplay Competition offers something more—development and support to aspiring writers, offering individualized feedback and even resubmission for early entrants.  A desire to develop and discover unknown screenwriters led Gordy Hoffman to create the BlueCat Screenplay Competition in...