Nominate a Blog! Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in our next issue (#39: Summer Reading) forthcoming in July 2010. We’re looking for: Vibrant new voices with interesting, true stories to tell. Narrative, narrative, narrative. Posts must be able to stand alone, 2000 words or fewer, and posted between November 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010. Nominate something from your own blog, from a friend’s blog, from a stranger’s...

World-Weary, a new international journal of travel and places is now seeking submissions. World-Weary will be published in the US, UK, Netherlands, Canada and online at World-Weary.com. Send all submissions and/or questions to WorldWearyJournal [at] gmail.com. May 10, 2010 is the submission deadline for the inaugural Summer 2010 issue. (Submission guidelines are also available at World-Weary.com) About World-Weary: World-Weary is first and...

“The oldest writers’ organization in continuous existence in the United States.” ALABAMA WRITERS’ CONCLAVE 2010 WRITING COMPETITION GUIDELINES Deadline: April 20, 2010 (postmark). P Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75; 3rd: $50; 4th: $25 and up to 4 Honorable Mentions. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED at the AWC Conference Banquet at the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama on JULY 17, 2010. Contest Rules:...

Contest Guidelines: The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University, would like to announce the sixth annual Journal Short Story Contest. This year’s judge is Lee K. Abbott, author of the short story collections Dreams of Distant Lives, Strangers in Paradise, Love is the Crooked Thing, The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting, and Living After Midnight. His latest collection of stories, All Things, All at Once, was published by...

THE LETTERED OLIVE LITERARY REVIEW, the University of South Carolina’s undergraduate literary journal, is accepting submissions for its Spring 2010 publication. Submit up to five poems or 4000 words of prose (fiction, nonfiction, dramatic writing) to be considered for publication and a modest cash prize ($75 for the most outstanding entries each in poetry and prose). Journals are unveiled in April at a reception honoring all published...

Literary Mama Creative Nonfiction Department seeks: * creative nonfiction for Special Theme issues below * We prefer previously unpublished work. We will consider reprints, however, if you have the rights and the work is not currently available online. * Authors retain rights. Please credit us if your work is republished. * Standard response time from 3-12 weeks. Our reading periods vary; please check the specific guidelines for the department...