Announcing the first Woodrow Hall Award, an offshoot of the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf program. This award will be given to a Wisconsin poet who has actively contributed to Wisconsin’s literary landscape, and will include five-hundred ($500.00) dollars to implement an idea for a new poetry program or project. The winner must execute their idea in 2009. No entry fee. Multiple entries from same poet welcome. Download application from...

www.keyholemagazine.com/contest Online entry fee payment at the above website Judge: Michael Martone Prize: $250 and 25 copies of the chapbook. Deadline: December 1, 2008. Michael Martone’s most recent books are Racing in Place, a book of essays, Double-wide, his collected early fictions, and Michael Martone, a memoir done in contributor’s notes. With Lex Williford he recently edited The Scribner’s Anthology of Contemporary...

Narrative is calling on writers, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers, ages eighteen to thirty, to tell us a story. We are interested in narrative in the many forms it takes: the word and the image, the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary. Awards: First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, and Third Prize is $300. The prize winners will be announced in Narrative. Additionally, ten finalists will be...

centralcoastwriters.org/2009-spring-contest-rules.htm Poetry and Short Story winners will each receive $500 Their winning work will be published in the Spring 2009 Homestead Review produced by Hartnell College. Note: All contest entries will be considered for publication in Hartnell College’s Spring 2009 Homestead Review. Contest Rules Eligibility: Open to all work not previously published. Simultaneous submissions allowed, but you must...

http://mmminc.org Eligibility: * Open to all poets and writers whose work is in English. * Entries may not be previously or simultaneously published. * Staff members and family of staff members are ineligible. Prizes: * $200 cash prize for the best poem & $200 cash prize for the best flash fiction. * Publication in the 2009 MMM print annual. * Finalists in each genre will also be considered for publication. Guidelines: Postmark deadline—...