“RUMINATE Magazine is now accepting submissions for Issue 21. For this issue we are looking for essays or short fiction, deadline: May 15, 2011.  Poets may be interested in entering our annual Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize. The Janet McCabe Poetry contest deadline is May 1, 2011. www.ruminatemagazine.org A good word, in and of itself, can be a spiritual endeavor expressing the beauty, creativity, and ironies of the human experience....

Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine, is running a writing contest starting April 1. Here are details:   Your task is to do a retelling of “Rapunzel” in 2,000 words or less or write a poem. The normal rules for submissions guidelines apply in terms of content. You must also be a follower either through the Google system at left, or on Twitter. Up to four winners will be chosen — stories and poems in any combination....

Susan Picking is an award winning singer song writer who wrote Wonder in the Wander while on safari in Tanzania.  The song brings to life the notion that there are no accidents, and they happen everyday.  We seek to inspire people to share their moments of seredepity in the form of a short 2,000 word essay.   The winning essayist will receive a free airline ticket in the United States.  Long-term Susan seeks to publish a short book that...

Burner Magazine Issue 04: The Revolutionaries Issue Call for Submissions, deadline April 20, 2011 http://www.burnermag.com/index.html Burner is that girl. She’s witty, pretty, and doesn’t dumb herself down. By day, she’s a kindergarten teacher and by night, dances gogo. Inspired by fellow revolutionaries from John Lennon to Virginia Woolf, she’s a muse and amusing, compelling and never complacent. The Burner girl gets...

The L Magazine has issued a call for entries to the seventh annual Literary Upstart, The Search for Pocket Fiction competition. Writers are encouraged to submit their previously unpublished short fiction (a maximum of 1,500 words). Semi-finalists, fifteen in total, will be invited to participate in one of three readings in Williamsburg, in front of a live, lively audience, and a panel of judges comprised of members of the local...

We want your menupoems! Alimentum invites you to submit menupoems now through March 15, 2011. Selected menupoems will be posted in a special online menupoems Celebration for National Poetry Month, April 2011! Send to menupoems@alimentumjournal.com: -3 poem limit -12 line limit per poem -pasted into email; no attachments please. What’s a menupoem? See our 2010 menupoems broadside and 2010 videos from our Youtube channel. Our general...