We run the monthly bilingual art magazine “HESA inprint” (ISSN-L 1799-8549), which every month feature a free open call for entry, for people to submit work from any medium on a theme. Each entry is reviewed and published on the blog and a curated selection published in the printed magazine (artists featured in the magazine will receive a free copy). Even though our publication is not dedicated to writing, we greatly appreciate...

Open City RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest Deadline October 15th! http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy 2011 RRofihe Trophy For an unpublished short story (up to 5,000 words) Winner Receives: $500 cash Trophy Announcement on the Open City web site Publication on anderbo.com Judged by Rick Rofihe 2011 Contest Assistant: Carolyn Wilsey Carolyn Wilsey has read fiction for Esquire and Swink Guidelines * Stories should be typed, double-spaced, on...

1st Prize: £200.00 2nd Prize: £150.00 3rd Prize: £100.00 4th Prize: £75.00 5th Prize: The Busy Writer Course 6th Prize: Premier1 Membership  x 3 months Closing date: December 1st 2011 Entry fee: £3.50 Free to Creative Competitor Premier1 Subscribers Fancy winning yourself an early Christmas present? How does our top prize of £200 sound? All you have to do to win any of our fantastic writing competition prizes is to write a story relating to our...

Flash Fiction 300 Word Challenge 1st Prize: £100 2nd Prize: £50 Closing date: 25th November 2011 Entry fee: £2.00 Write a story around the woman in the photo.  You can be as creative as you like with your interpretation of the image but you only have 300 words (excluding the title) to impress us. So do make every word count. Your entry must be original and previously unpublished. Full rules on website. We welcome submissions from writers...

Living Literature Festival: January 2012 Horatio Alger Deadline – September 30, 2011 Submit Metropolitan Playhouse presents its 7th Annual Living Literature Festival, devoted to Horatio Alger. WHAT Scheduled for January 16th through January 29th, 2012, the festival is a collection of new plays celebrating the spirit of the artist who made a cultural touchstone of the term “rags to riches”. Horatio Alger became famous in...

The Writer, in collaboration with Gotham Writers’ Workshop, invites writers to enter The Writer 2011 Essay/Memoir Contest with guest judge Lee Gutkind. Write an essay or memoir that catches our eye, touches our heart, or tickles our funny bone, and you could win one of our great prizes! Only original, unpublished works of 1,000 to 1,200 words will be accepted. PRIZES • First Place: $1,000 (USD); enrollment in a 10-week online writing...

(Ventura, CA – September 76, 2011) Santa Barbara editor and author, Shelly Lowenkopf, will be a morning speaker at the Central Coast Book and Author Festival, to be held September 18 in San Luis Obispo. He will be speaking at 10:30 a.m. in the History Center of San Luis Obispo, 696 Monterey Street at the corner of Broad. After speaking, he will be available at the Book Festival to sign copies of his 30th book, The Fiction Lover’s...