Closing date: 30th May 2014. Prizes: First prize £500, plus five finalist prizes of £100 each. Entry fee:  £7 per story. The competition is for ghost stories from 2,000 – 5,000 words. For more details, see: http://www.thefictiondesk.com/submissions/ghost-story-competition.php Read last year’s in our anthology ‘New Ghost...

Open to new, emerging and established writers. $300 Prize and online publication.  No theme restriction. Send your best unpublished work. Blind judging. Entry fee $5. Full guidelines available online. Postmark deadline: June 30, 2014. Visit the website for details on how to enter: http://cathleenbailey.weebly.com/jean-toomer-literary-prize-for-short-fiction.html

About As a genre, Dystopian fiction has a remarkable track record – 1984, Brave New World, Farenheit 451, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillip K. Dick, Neuromancer by William Gibson, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells…the list could go on and on. These are visions of our darkest possible future as a species, but they are the vision of a single individual. Our collective fate will be decided by many, not just one, and that is why...

$1,500 Honorarium and Publication Final Judge: Jennifer Haigh SUBMIT: Online or by mail from May 15 through June 15, 2014; on-​​line submission available at end of day on May 15th. Reading fee: $15.00 All entries will be considered for publication. All entries will be considered anonymously. Send no more than one story per entry. Each story must not exceed 30 double-​​spaced pages in 12 point font. Multiple entries are acceptable, provided that...

 $300 for first prize, $150 for second prize, and $50 each for three honorable mentions.  Winners will be published in Mind Magazine’s top talent showcase section.  All poems submitted will be considered for standard publication.  Submit 1–3 unpublished poems, up to three pages each.  Entry fee $10, check or money order to: Mind Magazine, PO Box 387, O’Brien, OR 97534; or via PayPal to mindmagazinestore@gmail.com Deadline for all entries...