Our Spring/Summer 2011 Young Adult Showcase titled Mystery Times Ten seeks new mystery short stories that are targeted for the YA audience. Submission Guidelines: Theme: Mystery – Your choice be it murder, cozy, paranormal, romance, soft-boiled, hard-boiled, police procedural, suspense, thriller, or amateur detective. What is a mystery? In a mystery, the main character must track down the truth about an event, often a murder. If the protagonist...

Here at Chaa Creek we are currently doing a Creative Travel Writing Contest in which we are giving out four fabulous vacation prizes with the grand prize valued at US$ 3479.00. The Lodge at Chaa Creek is an award-winning Belize resort that has pioneered natural history travel since 1981 and is Belize’s premier destination for a wide range of Caribbean and Central American adventures.  The 365 acre private nature reserve on the Macal River is...

The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing offers five fellowships for writers: the Michael Steinberg Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, the Dennis Lehane Fellowship for Fiction, the Jacqueline Woodson Fellowship for a Young People’s Writer of African or Caribbean Descent, the Sharon Olds Fellowship for Poetry, and the Lee Hope Fellowship for Diverse Voices.   Fellowship recipients (except recipients of the Hope Fellowship, which is $500) will...

Call for Entries: Poetry and Short-short fiction/essays inspired by THE SPIRIT OF THE FEMALE BEATS Jack Kerouac defined the original “beat generation” in 1957 as “a generation of furtives…a weariness of all the forms, all the conventions of the world.” Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” ignited a controversy over freedom of speech and expression; the publisher was arrested but in 1957 the courts ruled the poem was not obscene.   Ginsberg and Kerouac,...

Write A 12+ Chapters Ebook in 2 Months… Earn Glory… WIN $US200!! Chapters of Glory! is a FREE writing contest designed to kick the brains of genius authors into overdrive. Frantic, coffee-fuelled days and nights pit authors one against the other – all within a supportive, vibrant and creative literary community of ‘Facebooking/Twittering-types’ – and the chance to win $US200! Entrants are challenged to write...

 The FBFT Sports Writing Competition 2011 is open to anyone aged 18 years or older.  Entries may be up to 1000 words in length and must be related to sport in some way. The three winning articles will receive the cash prizes as detailed and will be published on the website. We are particularly interested in sports writing that is original, exciting or somehow out of the ordinary.  Prizes: First place, £50; Second place, £30; Third place, £20...