Wordstock, Portland’s annual festival of writers, books, and storytelling, is pleased to announce the call for submissions for the 3rd Wordstock Short Fiction Competition. www.wordstockfestival.com/#/page_id=114&article=129/ The national contest is a “double blind” competition. The judges, a collection of writers, academics, publishers, bookstore owners, and literary critics, will choose 10 finalists. The winner of the competition...

The Rondeau Roundup, a blog devoted to rondeaus and related forms, has been silent the past few months. To re-launch the blog, we’re having a contest for the best rondeau on the topic of love, submitted by July 15, 2009. Contest Rules: Only one rondeau may be submitted per person. No entry fee. Top three rondeaus will be published on the blog (theroundeauroundup.blogspot.com). The first place rondeau will also receive a $35 gift...

www.camberpress.com/pressreleases/CPPoetryAward.pdf Camber Press is pleased to announce the return of our poetry chapbook award. Our ethos is to publish contemporary poetry 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 poet will receive $1,000 and have his or her manuscript published by Camber Press, Inc. Only...

Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry is now accepting submissions for Volume IV Issue 1, the gender issue, and for the Mystery Box Contest. In addition to poems, we are looking for relevant essays and interviews pertaining to the topic of gender. What we are looking for: Work that explores gender and the lived-in body, our perception of ourselves, others’ perceptions of us. Please interpret this broadly. We are not accepting unsolicited book...

home.comcast.net/~sagecj/laureateprize.html Each year The Laureate Prize for Poetry will honor one new poem that TNPR believes has the greatest chance, of those entered, of standing the test of time and becoming part of the literary canon. To enter, submit up to three of your best unpublished, uncommitted (not promised for first publication elsewhere) poems (10 page total maximum per group of three), along with your email address for results...