Stone’s Throw Magazine seeks fiction, poetry, and brief accounts of daily life from around the world for its inaugural issue. This is an online magazine; issues will be archived and remain available through the website: www.stonesthrowmagazine.com. Paste submissions into an email message addressed to submissions.stonesthrow@gmail.com. No attachments, please. Multiple submissions okay. No payment available. Submissions will be accepted...

Call for entries from young adult writers, grades 9-12 or equivalent age thereof. Cash prizes. Winners read at Koret Auditorium, SF Main Library. Complete rules available: www.soulmakingcontest.us DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30, 2008 An arts outreach program of the National League of American Pen Women, Nob Hill-San Francisco Branch. For more information please email PenNobHill@aol.com

Steel Toe Books selects manuscripts through open reading periods. Our next open reading period will be October 1-31, 2008, at which time we will be specifically seeking quality manuscripts containing predominately formal poetry (sonnet sequences, blank verse, ghazals, terza rima, sestinas, haiku, haiban, renga, etc.). Guidelines: www.wku.edu/~tom.hunley/steeltoebooks/submit.htm

www.csuohio.edu/class/english/whiskeyisland/ Send us your blues – music, mood, color. Whiskey Island seeks poetry, fiction, non-fiction and art for issue #56. Deadline 1 November, 2008. For submission guidelines visit our website, www.csuohio.edu/class/english/whiskeyisland/. Friend us on Facebook. Whiskey Island issue #54/55 now available. Contributors include Eric Anderson, B.J. Best, Megan Bohigian, Jason Bredle, Jericho Brown, Simmons B....

Scribophile has just announced its October writing contest. First prize is a $50 Amazon.com gift card, second prize a $25 gift card. Entry is free. We’re accepting horror/Halloween themed short stories (up to 4000 words) through October 31. www.scribophile.com/contests