Submission Guidelines: Submissions are open year round. Please submit one to two prose pieces or up to five poems at a time. We are looking for flash and short fiction so pieces over 3000 words will not be considered. Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as they are marked as such and we are made aware of their publication elsewhere. If you can, please take a look at a back issue before you submit. This will give you a very clear idea...
Posts made in August, 2013
The Renegade Word, is holding our first flash fiction contest this summer and I was hoping you’d be able to put up a listing on Creative Writing Contests and help us spread the word. We’re offering a $100 prize for the best story under 1000 words. There is no entry fee. You have until midnight, PST on August 31st, 2013 to submit your entries. All stories need to be based on one of the writing prompts published on our site. Writers...
Event: On the Same Page Literary Festival to be held September 17-21, 2013 in West Jefferson, NC. Description: The literary festival will focus on the theme “Secrets” and will include a writing competition, a community read, a book fair, a quilt fair, and a farmers market. Scheduled authors include Joseph Bathanti, Emily Colin, Kevin Duffus, Georgann Eubanks, Amy Greene, D.G. Martin, Karen Musgrave, Janet Pittard & Stephen...
The Manchester Writing School at MMU is launching the next Manchester Poetry and Fiction Prizes – a major international literary competition celebrating excellence in creative writing. Both prizes are open internationally to new and established writers aged 16 or over. There is a £17 entry fee and the deadline for entries is Friday 30th August 2013. The prizes will be awarded at a gala ceremony hosted as part of the 2013 Manchester Literature...
Wag’s Revue Summer Contest is open and will close at the end of August 2013. We’re offering a $1000 first prize (and guaranteed publication), $500 second prize, and $100 third, and all submissions will be considered for publication. The contest is open to all three genres–poetry, essays and fiction–and will be judged by the editors. There is a $20 reading fee per contest submission, plus Submittable’s fee. All...
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