Gemini Magazine is pleased to announce its 2011 Short Story Contest featuring a grand prize of $1,000. Absolutely no restrictions on content, style, genre or length–just send your best. Second place wins $100 and there will also be three honorable mentions. All five finalists will be published in the June 2011 issue. Entry fee: $4. Deadline: March 31, 2011. Visit the website for full details:...
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Creative Writers’ Circle Short Story Contest Write a short story based off of the prompt given on the CWC website. The top three stories win. Prizes include cash and gift certificates! Word limit: 3,500 Entry deadline: February 28, 2011 Prizes: 1st place: $25 cash + $60 Serenity Sales gift certificate 2nd place: $15 cash + $35 Serenity Sales gift certificate 3rd place: $25 Serenity Sales gift certificate How to submit:...
About The How To Eat Fried Furries / Mo*Con VI Short Story Contest Eraserhead Press recently published the dark satire How To Eat Fried Furries as part of the New Bizarro Author Series. To celebrate (and, honestly, help get word out about this book) author Nicole Cushing is sponsoring a short fiction contest for stories in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and bizarro genres. The prize for the winner? Pro rate payment (that’s 5 cents per...
America’s Got Stories is a new national short story contest intended to excite America’s interest in writing. The top twenty or so stories will be published in print and for online download on a Kindle or iPad (with full royalties for the writers), and the author of the best story will receive also win an Apple iPad. This year’s theme is “supernatural.” Fiction or non-fiction, 2,500 – 5,000 words. Deadline is Feb 28th, 2011. The first ten...
The writing contest will run from January 1, 2011, until January 31, 2011, 8:00 p.m. PST. On January 8, 2010, we will start posting entries to Shattering the Glass Slipper as they are received. Entries should be no shorter than 500 words or longer than 1,500 words. On February 7, 2010, we will announce the top ten finalists we have selected. We will then open up the voting to everyone. On February 21, 2011, 8:00 p.m. PST, the voting will...
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