International writing contest for travel, food & lifestyle guidebooks, open for all bloggers, budding writers and established authors. Winner receives trip to the world’s largest book fair in Frankfurt, Germany in October, 2010, and will have his title published and showcased on the fair. Meet and mingle with editors, agents and other industry representatives and present and sell your title to 299,000 visitors and over 10,000 journalists –...

$10,000 in Prizes $25 Early Bird Entry $15 Each Additional Entry The All Genres Writing Competition hosts writing contests for the following categories: Children’s Books (No Word Limit) Young Adult (No Word Limit) Poetry (No Word Limit) Romance (No Word Limit) Screenplays (120 pages) Fiction (No Word Limit) Non-Fiction (No Word Limit) We also offer a junior writing contest in all genres for writers 12-18 years of age. All Genres Writing Contest...

 The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. http://www.dreamquestone.com Guidelines: Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, style, or...

Do you have a ghost story or haunted house tale to tell? Type it up, make it less than 3,000 words and email it editor@litfestmagazine.com with GHOST STORY in the subject link.  All stories must be in the body of the email, all attachments will be immediately deleted. Begins July 1, 2010, ends July 31 2010. The winner will win an autographed copy of Donald Allen Kirch’s novel “Manchester House”, which was voted #1 for “Best Occult...

 Open to submissions from July 1, 2010 until September 30, 2010. Free-verse, non-rhyming poetry with surrealistic edge is preferred. The entry fee for the competition is $10.00.  Please send $10.00 via paypal to medullapublishing (AT) gmail (DOT) com prior to send your chapbook submission, then send your submission to the same eMail address.  Send manuscripts between fifteen and twenty poems with one poem per page. Include a title page, bio...

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...