January 1st commences the launch of glassesglasses.org, a new online magazine featuring stories, essays, short films, and handmade goods. Published on a monthly basis, each issue contains an overarching theme (e.g. January’s “Shirts & Skins”), which serves as a loose prompt for the content. The glasses glasses team is now accepting submissions for its February edition, “Cops & Robbers.” For guidelines...

NYC Midnight (www.nycmidnight.com), an LLC that has made waves with its’ short-term creative contests and competitions, is offering one final day, today, for the early registration rate in it’s third annual Short Story Challenge, a competition that adds a competitive edge to an unlikely sport: writing. On January 16th, 2009, registrants will sharpen their brains – and their pencils – after being revealed the mystery genres and...

THE DEADLINE IS extended to January 15, 2009 Rosebud is honored to announce the 5th biennial X.J. Kennedy Award for Creative Nonfiction. Mr. Kennedy is one of America’s most admired editors, poets and essayists. He was the judge of the first competition and remains a valued supporter and adviser. The current contest will be judged by Roderick Clark, Rosebud editor and VOICE OVER columnist, and Robert Wake, author and editor of Cambridge Book...

www.fifthwednesdayjournal.com/submit.php Fifth Wednesday Journal announces a revised schedule for submissions to the Spring 2009 issue. Poetry, Photography, and Creative Nonfiction will accept submissions through Jan. 1st. Fiction has closed submissions as of Dec. 15th. All submissions received after these dates will be considered for our Fall 2009 issue. These adjustments are made necessary by an increased volume of submissions in all...

Rougarou is the new online literary magazine edited by graduate students of the Department of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. We seek submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction and book reviews for our third issue due to launch Spring 2009. We are interested in well-crafted, innovative work that gets us excited about the possibilities of language. We accept submissions year-round. Simultaneous submissions are fine, assuming...