Posts made in January, 2009

Press 53 Writing Contests

The Second Annual Press 53 Open Awards Accepting Entries Until March 31 8 Categories: Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short-Short Story, Short Story, Genre Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Novella, and Young Writers. 8 Industry-Professional Judges 8 Beautiful Etched-Glass Awards 17 Opportunities for Publication in the Second Annual Press 53 Open Awards Anthology Guidelines available at...

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The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction 2009

The Ohio State University Press and the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at OSU invite submissions for the 2009 Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction. Each year, a readers’ committee of OSU fiction writers and a final judge select one manuscript for publication by The Ohio State University Press. The winning author receives publication under a standard book contract, which includes a cash prize of $1,500 as an advance against...

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Naugatuck River Review Call for Submissions

Submissions Open January 1 – March 1, 2009. The open submission period for the Summer issue is January 1st through March 1st. The submission period for the Winter issue is July 1st through September 1st. This is a literary journal founded in order to publish and in doing so to honor good narrative poetry. Naugatuck River Review is dedicated to publishing narrative poetry in the tradition of great narrative poets such as Gerald Stern,...

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2009 New South Writing Contest

New South is now reading for its fiction and poetry contest. First-place winners will receive $1000. Second-place winners will receive $250. All winners will have their work published in our Summer 2009 issue. John Weir (fiction) and Chelsea Rathburn (poetry) will judge the final rounds, which will be anonymous. For more information, please email James May at new_south@langate.gsu.edu or visit our contest’s website:...

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POETRY SOCIETY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE National Contests

Lynne Birdsall PO Box 1615 Concord, NH 03302-1615 Please note limit is forty lines. Name and address must appear in the upper right hand corner of the copy on which they appear. NO identification is to appear anywhere on the second copy. The Poetry Society of New Hampshire sponsors four National Contests open to all poets, members or not. Judges for the contests are not members of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. Prizes are awarded to four...

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