Now accepting submissions for a collection of short stories about Kentucky women. A new e-zine journal will be published summer 2012. Authors can be any gender. Stories should be 2,000 – 10,000 words. No exceptions on length, no poetry, art might be okay. Send one paragraph bio, author photo or representation, one sentence describing your story, and your story to parker.owens@gmail.com. Digital files only. No payment, no fees. Deadline...

West Jefferson, NC – Ashe County’s On the Same Page Literary Festival, now in its fifth year, is opening the Festival’s second writing competition. In association with the 2012 Festival, which will take place September 12 – 15 in Ashe County, NC, the Page Crafter’s Prize recognizes writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with cash awards. Winning writers will have the opportunity to read their work during the On the Same Page Literary...