INKTEARS SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2010 Deadline: 30 November 2010 Short story writers (UK + International) Prizes: £150, £50; £25 x 4, plus all prizewinners get their story published to the InkTears Readers and consideration for a short story collection/anthology publication. Full results will be announced by 14 March 2011 Fee: £4.50. Length:1000-3000 words. NB: stories may have been previously published (prior to 30 April 2010) or previously...

We are launching a contest today (Friday July 30, 2010) for writers of the world to come together to write and read each others articles. Contest is open to everyone, amateur and professional.  Our goal is to empower readers and writers of the world.  Contestant enter their work.  The written piece has to be between 500-1000 words with exceptions in the Unique Interest category where short stories and fiction are limited to 2000 words, and...

Founders Circle Contest Submit a prose piece up to 3,000 words or a poem of up to two pages to Soundings Review to win publication and $300! Write the name of the contest on the manuscript. Manuscripts should be 12 pt Times New Roman, and prose should be double spaced. Include an SASE for response, using a larger envelope for return of the manuscript. Entry fee is $7 for the general public, $5 for members of the Whidbey Island Writers’...

The SEVEN Fund (SEVEN) is pleased to announce its 2010-11 Essay Competition in partnership with the Washington DC-based Center For Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA). We are seeking essays on enterprise solutions to poverty from around the globe that are faith-based, faith-inspired, or interfaith efforts. The competition will award two (2) prizes of US $5,000. The submission deadline is October 15, 2010 at midnight Eastern Standard Time...

Open: August 1, 2010; Closes: October 30, 2010. Status Hat is a monthly online artszine, that also goes out to an email subscription list. Each month we explore a different theme, through art, writing and music by contributors from around the world. It is published by Status Hat Productions, an arts collaborative based in Charlottesville, VA, USA. We are accepting submissions for the first three issues of 2011, as of August 1, 2010:  The Hat...

Call for Submissions– “Sixteen Pimples… because awkward gave birth to cool” “Sixteen Pimples” is a new blog looking for submissions. Think about some of your most awkward middle and high school memories.  Which ones make you laugh today?  Submit then and now photos, plus any and all humorous stories from your teenage years, how they relate to the person you are today, and what you miss most from those...