Needle In The Hay is a creative writing competition that runs weekly and monthly awards for participants in a variety of genres and categories. The aim of the site is to encourage writers to participate by offering more frequent incentives then the traditional annual writing award. The funds for the awards come from my own pocket and the kind donations of others. Entrance to all awards is free, however some awards may have eligibility criteria....
Posts made in November, 2012
Free to Enter! 2012 Anderbo Poetry Prize For up to six unpublished poems Winner receives: $500 cash Publication on anderbo.com Contest Judge: Sidney Wade Sidney Wade’s sixth collection of poems, Straits & Narrows, will be published by Persea Books in February 2013. She has served as President of AWP and Secretary/Treasurer of ALTA and has taught workshops in Poetry and Translation at the University of Florida’s MFA@FLA program since 1993....
Attention poets! Searching for poetry markets and contest? Then subscribe to the free monthly newsletter, The Poetry Market Ezine. Each monthly issue features poetry markets and contests, poetry and writing news and reviews. The Poetry Market Ezine is exclusively dedicated to poets, poetry publishers and poetry readers. Markets and contests are all geared towards poetry only. Affordable advertisement options and/or poem critique service also...
A first prize of $800 can be won in the winter round of the Writers’ Village contest for short fiction up to 3000 words in any genre. Second prize is $400, third is $160 and there are five runner-up prizes of a free entry in the next round. Every story, win or lose, also gains a free critique – a feature thought to be unique among low-fee writing contests. Winning stories will be showcased at the site. Fee is $19 per story. Entries are...
National Novel Writing Month is a fun and frenetic approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved. Because of the limited writing...
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