Posts made in August, 2007

11TH Annual Zoetrope SHORT FICTION CONTEST

11TH Annual SHORT FICTION CONTEST Judged by: Joyce Carol Oates http://all-story.com/contests.cgi First prize: $1,000 Second prize: $500 Third prize: $250 The winner and seven finalists will be considered for representation by the William Morris Agency, ICM, Regal Literary, the Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inkwell Management, Sterling Lord Literistic, and the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency. The winning story will be published at this...

Read More

“The Editor’s Prize” Best Poem Contest — Margie Review

“The Editor’s Prize” Best Poem Contest www.margiereview.com Postmark Deadline: August 31, 2007 Grand Prize: $1,000 for Best Poem & Publication in MARGIE Vol. 6 (Publication of all 12 finalist poems!) Finalist Judge: ROBERT NAZARENE, EDITOR GUIDELINES: Submit 3 unpublished poems along with a $15 entry fee payable to MARGIE, Inc. (60 line limit per poem) Additional poems may be submitted for $5 each Enclose a single cover...

Read More

The Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry

harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/miltkessler.html Milton Kessler–poet and teacher–was a great friend and mentor to students in Binghamton University’s creative writing program. In honor of his dedication to the development of writers, Harpur Palate is pleased to announce: The Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry The annual winner receives a $500 prize and publication in the winter issue of Harpur Palate Contest Submissions...

Read More

Miami University Novella Contest

www.orgs.muohio.edu/mupress/novella.html The novella form has had a long and distinguished place in American literature, and has triumphed in the hands of Herman Melville, Henry James, Katherine Anne Porter, Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, William Gass, John Gardner, Andrea Barrett and Tobias Wolff, to name just a few. As commercial publishers are driven more and more by marketplace concerns,...

Read More

BR Fifteenth Annual Short-Story Contest

Deadline: October 1, 2007 Judge: Chris Abani First Prize: $1,500 http://bostonreview.net/contests.html Complete guidelines: The winning author will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in the May/June 2008 issue of Boston Review. Stories should not exceed 4,000 words and must be previously unpublished. Manuscripts should be submitted with a cover note listing the author’s name, address, and phone number; names should not...

Read More