The Strange Circle Magazine is a new publication that will showcase the best new dark fiction and poetry from around the world. We are currently looking for submissions, and to encourage entries, there is a prize of £50 on offer! All runners-up will receive a firstwriter.com voucher worth $15 / £10 / €15, allowing them to take out a free subscription to firstwriter.com, providing access to details of hundreds of publishers, literary agents,...

     Breathless Press  News Release For Immediate Release: For further information contact: Justyn Perry, Publisher at publisher@breathlesspress.com Breathless Press Will Give 20 Authors the Chance to Shine During The Holidays Calgary, Alberta- Think the Holidays are months away? If you’re a writer you might want to head to the computer right now because Breathless Press is offering 20 lucky authors and their stories a chance to be featured on...

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...

Want to win an Amazon Kindle, Apple IPod products, and a free trip to Portland, Oregon to meet Matt Mikalatos, the amazing new author of My Imaginary Jesus who is being compared to C.S. Lewis and Kurt Vonnegut? Write, draw or film your experience with an ‘imaginary Jesus’. Deadline is July 1, 2010. Check out the details at http://myimaginaryjesus.com/

The 2010 Caketrain Chapbook Competition is now open to entries in the fiction genre. Deadline: October 1, 2010 Final Judge: Deb Olin Unferth, author of Minor Robberies and Vacation Awards: publication, $250 cash prize, and 25 contributor copies to winner publication and 25 contributor copies to runner-up Eligibility: This competition is open to English language fiction manuscripts. While previously-published stand-alone pieces or excerpts may...

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.  She’s the chick you knew in high school who quoted Kirkegaard by heart and kept a copy of Cosmo under her bed.  She’s a muse and amusing, compelling and never complacent.  Burner contributors’ work gets your blood pumping, heart racing, and induces literary, musical, visual...