Posts made in March, 2009

The 2009 Strongest Start Novel Competition on TheNextBigWriter

1st Place Winner Receives $500 and a $2,400 Publishing Package from BookSurge. Enter a writing competition to see who can craft the most compelling start to a novel. Whether you write Romance, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, or some other genre, the only criteria is that you write a start that will keep us reading. Over $3,500 in Prizes and Awards. * Receive feedback on everything you post to help you prepare your novel for...

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2009 Robert Watson Poetry Award

www.springgardenpress.com/spg/contests.html Spring Garden Press and The Greensboro Review invite submissions for the Robert Watson Poetry Award chapbook competition. Submission must be received between 1 October and 2 April. The winning manuscript will be announced in October 2009 and will be awarded with the publication of a beautifully designed, letterpress-printed, limited-edition chapbook. The edition is limited to 500 copies, fifty of...

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2009 Poetry & Flash Fiction Contests: Many Mountains Moving

mmminc.org/html/2009contests.htm Eligibility: * Open to all poets and writers whose work is in English. * Entries may not be previously or simultaneously published. * All MMM staff members and family of staff members areineligible. Prizes: * $250 cash prize for the best poem & $250 cash prize for the best flash fiction. * Publication in the 2009-2010 MMM print annual. * Finalists in each genre will also be considered for publication....

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Teresa A. White Literary Award

$500 and public-radio broadcast feature for 500 (or fewer) words! Quiddity international literary journal and public-radio program is pleased to announce the Teresa A. White Literary Award. The 2009 award is affectionately referred to as the “buck-a-word” contest. First Prize: $500 and publication in the Spring/Summer 2010 print issue of Quiddity as well as public-radio broadcast (via WUIS, NPR member and PRI affiliate) Honorable mentions may...

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Babel Fruit Call for Submissions

Babel Fruit online journal is currently inviting submissions of poems and short prose for the Summer/Fall issue. web.mac.com/renkat/BABEL_FRUIT/BabelFruit.html We are looking for work that shows what happens “under the influence of the other”. Take a look at previous issues to see what we mean. (Note that the Winter/Spring Issue had a section of poets under the influence of poets—we won’t be doing that this time around.) The Winter/Spring Issue...

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