Posts made in February, 2009

The Summerset Review Call for Submissions

The Summerset Review, a literary journal publishing stories and essays for the past six years, is now accepting poetry as well. Send up to five poems to editor@summersetreview.org Visit the site at: www.summersetreview.org The Summerset Review is a quarterly online journal, periodically collecting some of the work in print editions. We nominate for annual awards, including Pushcart and BASS, and publish new and established voices. A story...

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The Camber Press Fiction Chapbook Award

www.camberpress.com/pressreleases/CPFictionAward.pdf Camber Press is pleased to announce our Fiction Chapbook Award. Our ethos is to publish contemporary fiction exhibiting lucid delivery while not sacrificing emotional depth, mastery of craft, or originality. First Prize: $1,000 and publication of chapbook Submission guidelines: The winning fiction writer will receive $1,000 and have his or her manuscript published by Camber Press, Inc. The...

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Dylan Days 2009 Contests

www.dylandays.com/writers.htm HIBBING, Minn. ─ The Dylan Days Creative Writing contest is issuing its 2009 call for entries. The annual contest based in Bob Dylan’s hometown includes poetry, short fiction and our wildly successful new one-act play category. The deadline is 11:59 p.m., March 15, 2009. Poetry and Short fiction will be accepted through an online entry system. (http://www.dylandays.com/writers.htm) One act plays are accepted...

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THE CHARLES JOHNSON STUDENT FICTION AWARD

www.siuc.edu/~johnson/winners.html The Charles Johnson Student Fiction Award from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is an annual award competition intended to encourage increased artistic and intellectual growth among students, as well as reward excellence and diversity in creative writing. Each year, $1000 and a signed copy of a Charles Johnson book will be awarded to the winner. The winning entry will also be published in the...

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The Smoking Poet Short Story Contest

The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, established in 2006, and published online on a quarterly basis. TSP’s first annual short story contest is open to all writers, whether they have been past contributors to TSPor not, and in any genre. www.thesmokingpoet.net/id18.html An entry fee of $10 per submission is required, payment to be made through PayPal. Once you have sent in your submission and we determine it meets our contest guidelines, we...

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