Posts made in February, 2011

The 2011 Event Non-Fiction Contest

EVENT, a literary journal showcasing fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, reviews and notes on writing by new and established writers from Canada and around the world, is currently in its fourth decade of publication.  EVENT is one of Canada’s most prestigious literary journals, and a strong supporter of literary non-fiction. Stories first published in EVENT have won numerous National and Western Magazine Awards, and have been featured...

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The 2011 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction

The Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction was established in 2004 in memory of Liza Nelligan, a writer, editor, and friend of many in Colorado State University’s English Department, where she received her master’s degree in literature in 1992. By giving an award to the author of an outstanding short story each year, we hope to honor Nelligan’s life, her passion for writing, and her love of fiction. The Nelligan Prize is offered annually. The winner...

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2011 Anderbo Creative Nonfiction Prize

2011 Anderbo Creative Nonfiction Prize For an unpublished up-to-1500-word Creative Nonfiction Piece Winner receives: $500 cash Publication on anderbo.com Judged by Elizabeth Wurtzel 2011 Contest Assistant: Emma Stockman Guidelines: –The creative nonfiction piece should be typed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with the writer’s name and contact information on the upper right cornerof the first page, and the writer’s name on every page –Entries...

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The gritLIT Challenge of Three 3000 words or 300 lines!

Our competition is called The Challenge of Three and is open to all writers in English, regardless of nationality. http://www.gritlit.ca/pages/2011-writing-competition gritLIT, Hamilton’s literary festival, seeks three outstanding works of short fiction and three suites of poems. We want to be impressed, thrilled, and entertained. (Your immortality will come later.) Six Cash Prizes to be won! We will publish the winning entries in a...

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The TIFERET 2011 Writing Contest

Enter the TIFERET 2011 Writing Contest $500 Awards TIFERET: A Journal of Spiritual Literature offers three awards of $500 in the categories of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. We publish writing from a variety of spiritual and religious traditions. Our mission is to help reveal spirit through the written word. Alicia Ostriker, Poetry Judge * Josip Novakovich, NonfictionJudge * Gayle Brandeis, Fiction Judge     Contest Guidelines: ·       ...

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