Entry Guidelines for the 2012 James Hearst Poetry Prize First Prize $1000 Second $100 Third $50 All winners and finalists will be published in the Spring 2012 issue.  Deadline: October 31, 2011 Entry fee: $20.00 All entry fees include a one-year subscription. This year, all submissions to the James Hearst Poetry Prize will be handled online through our online submission system. (Click here to access the submission system) If you have problems...

(Ventura, CA – August 30, 2011) Two literary insiders have teamed up to help budding authors craft novels that will catch the eye of an agent and publisher. Shelly Lowenkopf and Toni Lopopolo began the bootcamps with small groups this past spring in the Santa Barbara/Ventura area. Now they are expanding to a larger area of Southern California, bringing their accumulated knowledge as Executive Editors with Macmillan, St. Martins, Bantam...

Announcing the Les Figues Press NOS* Book Contest (*NOS = not otherwise specified) Deadline: September 9, 2011 Judge: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Prize: $1,000 plus publication Les Figues is accepting submissions for our first annual NOS Book Contest.  Les Figues publishes highly innovative work that often falls between clearly delineated genre-lines.  Eligible submissions include: poetry, novellas, prose poems, innovative novels, anti-novels, short...