Posts made in June, 2014

FAIRY TALE REVIEW AWARDS IN POETRY AND PROSE

Fairy Tale Review is thrilled to announce the debut of an annual contest, beginning this year with Prose & Poetry awards. We’re interested in poems, stories, and essays with a fairy-tale feel — mainstream to experimental, genre to literary, realist to fabulist. Both contests will award $1,000, and all submissions will be considered for publication in The Mauve Issue. $10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline July 15, 2014 Visit the website for...

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Call For Submissions: “Dammit, I Love You”

Brandt Street Press is now accepting story submissions for the next anthology in our Dammit Nonfiction Series: “Dammit, I Love You.” We seek stories that reveal a lesson learned from love. The story must be true and not published somewhere else. It should amaze and inspire. And, more than anything else, it should be entertaining. Deadline: October 15, 2014 For complete submission guidelines, please visit www.dammitbook.com and click...

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BLUE EARTH FLASH FICTION CONTEST 2014

We will hold our annual flash fiction contest for the Fall 2014 issue. Submit a story 750 words or fewer. Enter a maximum of two stories. First place $500. Second place $250. Third place $100. Winners will be published. We also may publish other admirable submissions. Winners will be notified after the contest has closed. $2 ENTRY FEE. Visit the website: ...

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CONSTANCE ROKE CREATIVE NONFICTION CONTEST

The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites emerging and established writers from Canada, the United States, and elsewhere to enter. $1,000 awarded to the best work that embraces, but is not limited to, the personal essay, memoir, narrative nonfiction, social commentary, travel writing, historical accounts, and biography, all enhanced by such elements as description, dramatic scenes, dialogue, and characterization. All...

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The New Guards Contests in Fiction & Poetry

THE NEW GUARD VOLUME IV contest submission period runs from February 10 to July 14, 2014. The entry fee is $15. Guidelines are below. Click the link below to submit via Submittable’s online submission manager. We are looking forward to reading your work! MACHIGONNE FICTION CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional fiction in any genre. Submit up to 5,000 words: anything from flash to the long story. Novel excerpts are welcome if the excerpt...

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