Submissions are now being accepted for the August 2010 WordSprint. Please submit online at www.lagosliteraryjournal.com or send by email to editor@lagosliteraryjournal.com August 1 to August 31 – Submissions accepted September1 t o September 30 – online voting October 1 – Announcement of winner. August 2010 prize – $100 For more information visit http://www.lagosliteraryjournal.com NO ENTRY FEES Last Winner Ella Mai...

Open Poetry Competition 1st Prize: £150.00 2nd Prize: £100.00 3rd Prize: £75.00 Closing Date:  12th September 2010 Entry fee: £3.00 per poem or free to Premier 1 members You can be as creative as you like in our open poetry competition as there is no given theme. Poems must be previously unpublished and have a maximum of 40 lines. For details, visit:  http://creativecompetitor.com/competitions email: info@creative-competitor.co.uk   Memory Loss...

The Bear Deluxe Magazine is pleased to announce the opening of the 2010 Doug Fir Ficton Award Contest. Our guest judge this year is journalist and novelist Jim Lynch. He is the author of The Highest Tide and of Border Songs, which was listed as a “Best Book of 2009” by the Washington Post, the Toronto Star, the Oregonian, and Amazon. We welcome submissions of previously unpublished short stories up to 5,000 words, relating to a...

Genre: Short fiction (with some link to Paris) Closing date: 30 November 2010 Prize: 200 euros for first prize, plus publication of twelve best stories Entry fee: 10 euros Restrictions: Maximum 5’000 words. Submission in the body of the email only Further information: 12 stories will be selected to appear in the book: “BEST AND MOST DELIGHTFUL STORIES ABOUT PARIS” to be published fall 2011 Internet site for details and updates...

Everyone has a story. We want yours. We are looking for true stories that astound, enchant, enlighten and startle us. We want to be swept up and away, pulled from our moorings, left shaken and inspired. We want to think, wonder, imagine, believe. Do you have a story that is especially meaningful to you, something hilarious or harrowing that touched you deeply, changed your heart, your soul, your way of seeing the world? It can be the story of...

Aojirouma Publishing is sponsoring a new writing contest this year beginning August 12, 2010 for all writers in all countries. The contest will be split into two primary categories, prose and poetry. Below is a description of the contest:   Life is often described as a journey with detours at every corner. Whether that journey has a destination is reliant on the individual’s ambitions, beliefs, and desires. With literature being a reflection of...