Three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. Prizes: $100 – 1st, $50 – 2nd, $25 – 3rd, in each category. Entry fee: $5 Deadline: May 1, 2009 Complete info: www.jalc.edu/activities/siwg/contest.html Direct inquiries to Roger Poppen drrock2k@yahoo.com

www.barrowstreet.org/BARROW_STREET_BOOK_CONTEST_2009.pdf The Barrow Street Press Book Contest award will be given for the best previously unpublished manuscript of poetry in English. The winner will receive book publication by Barrow Street Press, and $1000.00. Judge: David Wojahn Deadline: June 30, 2009 Fee: $25.00 If entrants would like to receive a copy of the winning book, please include a book mailer with $2.59 postage. Thank you....

updated information–deadline extended to 3-31 Sponsored by Outrider Press in affiliation with TallGrass Writers Guild NEW INFORMATION-Deadline extended to 3-31-09; Email outriderpress@sbcglobal.net or tallgrassguild@sbcglobal.net. Planned publication date: late summer/early fall 2009. Working title: Fearsome Fascinations. We interpret broadly; can mean fascination with the paranormal as well as snakes and spiders, and dangerous/extreme...

www.ifpoetryjournal.blogspot.com If Poetry Journal is now seeking poetry for its third issue. The theme is tentatively “music,” though I’m interested in seeing a variety of poetry about any subject. If you would like to submit 1-5 poems, please e-mail them to me (Don Illich) at ifpoetryjournaleditor@gmail.com. No attachments, please put your poems in the body of your e-mail. Basic cover letter preferred. No previously...

CutBank is pleased to announce the second annual Montana Prize in Fiction, the Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry. www.cutbankonline.org (go to website for full submissions guidelines) We are honored to have three talented judges participating in the second year of these contests. The Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry will be judged by Noah Eli Gordon. Joy Williams will select the winner of the...