BOMB Magazine 2007 Fiction Contest BOMB Magazine announces its 3rd Fiction Contest! Our 2007 judge is esteemed short story writer Amy Hempel, author of The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, one of the New York Times’s “Top 10 Best Books of 2006.” The winner receives a $500 honorarium and publication in BOMB Magazine, a not-for-profit quarterly, now in its 26th year of publishing interviews between artists, writers, architects,...

2007 Wabash Prize for Fiction Final Judge: Dan Chaon First Prize: $1000 and winning entry published in Fall 2007 issue. Entries of honorable mention also published in Fall 2007 issue. Complete Guidelines for Contest Submissions Deadline: Entries must be received by March 15, 2007. This is NOT a postmark deadline. Entries received after March 15, 2007 will be returned unread. For each submission, send one piece of fiction (or a series of related...

Essay Contest Guidelines 13th Annual Contest Deadline: February 17, 2007 Tiny Lights invites entries that feature a distinctive voice, discernable conflict and an eventual shift in the narrator’s perspective. We are looking for writers who weave the struggle to understand into the fabric of their essays. This year, we are introducing a special prize of $300 for short essays (no more than 1,000 words). We can only consider unpublished...

Nelson Algren Awards The Nelson Algren Awards are for short fiction. Submissions must be written by an American and must be unpublished. One $5,000 prize and three runner-up prizes of $1,500 are awarded. The award is given in memory of Chicago author Nelson Algren. Stories must be typed and double-spaced, between 2,500 and 10,000 words. Manuscripts and e-mailed submissions will not be returned. Author’s names should not appear on the...