Coal Hill Review and Autumn House Press are pleased to announce the Coal Hill Review Chapbook Competition: your chance to have your work featured as a special electronic chapbook in a stand-alone issue of Coal Hill Review. www.coalhillreview.com Terrance Hayes will select the winner who will receive $250 and publication of his or her work as an online chapbook. Review our guidelines below. We begin accepting submissions September 1st, and will...

Our 2009 poetry contest will be judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Ilya is the author of Dancing in Odessa, which won the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. Dancing In Odessa was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord magazine. First prize: $500, plus publication in LUMINA Second prize: $100 Third prize: $50...

Emprise Review is a new literary journal in search of stimulating original art. The staff is composed of an international group of writers who are looking to create an outlet for the best works without consideration for past accomplishments or genre. We want high-quality, compelling work. Emprise Review publishes monthly online issues and will soon be moving into quarterly print anthologies. Deadline for submission is the 20th of each month....

100wordsorfewerwritingcontest.com Short stories challenge any writer. Hugely challenging is a fictional 100 word story, with scarce room for elaboration, plot development, or character development. Yet such stories have dazzled us, tickled us, moved us to tears, given us wisdom, and taken our breaths away. We challenge you to create short fiction that will make us shiver. Look at #10 in the Contest Guidelines for decisive factors. We welcome...

The prize is awarded annually to the best poetry manuscript by an emerging Canadian writer (a writer who has published two books or less). Each year the winning manuscript will be selected by an established poet in co-operation with Snare Books. This year’s judge is Rachel Zolf. The winner receives a trade paperback contract with Snare Books which will include the publication of the manuscript and a $500 honorarium. The next deadline is...