short fiction, creative non-fiction, or poetic prose www.evbooks.net/contest.htm First Prize $600 and elegibility to co-write a future EV work. Entries are now invited for the EV nature writing contest. Only winners will be notified and entries will not be acknowledged or returned. The deadline for receipt of entries is October 15, 2007.

tigerseye.blogspot.com $500, $100, $50 Judge: Carol Aronoff Carol Alena Aronoff, Ph.D. is a psychologist, teacher and writer whose poetry has appeared in Comstock Review, Potpourri, Poetic Realm, Poetica, Mindprints, Dream Fantasy International, Beginnings, Hawaii Island Journal, In Our Own Words, Theater of the Mind, Animals in Poetry, From the Web, HeartLodge, Out of Line, Sendero, Buckle&, Iodine, Asphodel, Tiger’s Eye,...

www.bellecora.com/Contests.html BelleCora Press invites writers to submit their work for consideration in their Santa Fe and Puerto Vallarta Residencies, and their various writing contests.

Award: $1000 Deadline: June 30, 2007 postmark Type: Short Fiction Award Limit: 25 pages max Fee: $15.00 per entry Status: Accepting Submissions Established in 2001, in celebration of the new century and a new tradition of literature, this award is for an short story with a maximum of 25 pages. Awarded story is selected through an annual submission process which is open to all writers and themes. Award is $1000 and publication of the awarded...

First Book Award www.siu.edu/%7ecrborchd/firstpo1.html $2500 and publication Crab Orchard Review and Southern Illinois University Press are pleased to announce the selection for the 2006 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Our final judge, James Harms, selected Mary Jo Firth Gillett’s SOLUBLE FISH as the winner. SOLUBLE FISH will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in September 2007. Below are the guidelines for...

Thornton Writer Residency at Lynchburg College, Spring 2008 semester. 8-week residency with $8,000 stipend, housing, meals, and roundtrip travel expenses for a poet. Writers gives a weekly creative writing workshop and a public reading. Submit: copy of a previously published poetry collection, curriculum vitae, cover letter outlining successful teaching experience. No entry fee. Deadline: July 1. Lynchburg College Thornton Writer Residency...

www.olivetcollege.edu/academics/humanities.php Intensive Learning Term poet-in-residence program, April 29-May 16, 2008 From the early 1930s to the mid 1940s, Olivet College hosted some of the best-known writers of the time: Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Ann Porter, Carl Sandburg, Ford Madox Ford, W.H. Auden, and Gertrude Stein. In that tradition, Olivet has established an annual residency program for poets who are establishing a...