$4800 is the top prize on offer for short fiction in the Writers’ Village International Short Fiction Award summer 2014. The second prize is £$800, third prize $400 and there are 15 runner up prizes of $80. The top 50 c0ntestants also gain a free critique of their stories, win or lose. With $7200 in total prize values, the Writers’ Village award is one of the world’s largest short story competitions that welcomes new writers...

Deadline: February 28, 2014 (postmark or online submission-date)   Final Judge: Ruth Ellen Kocher $1,000 Prize  The Snowbound Chapbook Award is open to anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad. Translations are not eligible for this prize, nor are previously self-published books. Employees of Tupelo Press and authors with books previously published by Tupelo Press are not eligible. Poets submitting...

http://www.chickensoup.com — For the “New Year New You” 2015 season we plan to publish a book about the power of forgiveness. Have you ever noticed how forgiving someone frees you to move on with your life? We are looking for stories that will show our readers how forgiving someone or being forgiven by someone changed your life in a positive way. Were you able to reestablish a relationship after forgiving or being forgiven?...

http://www.jusfc.gov/creative-artists-programs/ — No entry fee. The Japan Creative Artist Residencies Program awards up to five three-month residencies, each of which includes a monthly stipend of $20,000 for living expenses, housing, and professional support. Open to published U.S. poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers to live in Japan and pursue creative projects. Each residency also includes a travel grant of up to...

 http://hemerafoundation.fluidreview.com/ — Run by the Hemera Foundation, the Tending Space: Contemplative Practice Fellowship for Artists program aims to nurture the creative practice of seeing things as they are – and to live and to create from this insight. Toward this end, we will support artists with opportunities for both contemplation and creation. Application is open to those who are deeply engaged with, and have a demonstrable...