First Chapter Writing Contest Contest Submission Period: April Fool’s Day-June 1st, 2013 Entry Fee: Zilch. Nada. Zippo. It’s totally free to enter! Contest Benefits: I will provide a short critique for all submissions highlighting the good, the bad, and the ugly. This is a HUGE benefit of entering my contest. We writers crave feedback. Feedback makes us better. Prize: The winner will receive a $25 gift card to Amazon. But wait there’s more! As...

Open City, an online magazine published by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, documents the pulse of metropolitan Asian America as it’s being lived on the streets of New York right now. Covered by the Wall Street Journal and NPR, a collaborative partner with the New Museum and the Museum of Chinese in America, Open City grants a $5,000 fellowship, career guidance, and publishing opportunities to five Creative Nonfiction Fellows to...

Medusa’s Laugh Press is currently actively seeking work for the following anthologies. Submissions are open until June 15th, 2013 There is no entry fee, maximum of three entries per person, per call. More information can be found on our website, http://medusaslaugh.com Cadavre Exquis Anthology: “Exquisite Corpse” is the name of a part game re/invented by Surrealists. It is a collaborative activity in which multiple players...

Gamelytic, a popular online game guide source,  is pleased to announce our $1000 game guide writing contest. Please submit your unique and unpublished game guides. We are offering two prizes of $500 each to the two most popular guides written for this contest. The first prize is given to the most popular and useful game guide over the term of this contest. The second prize is given to the most popular guide between 7/24 to 7/31. A variety of...

The Fiction Desk Ghost Story Competition 2013 The competition is for ghost stories from 2,000 – 5,000 words. Closing date: 31st May 2013 Prizes: First prize £500, second prize £100. Entry fee:  £6 for one story; £9 for two stories submitted together. For more details, see: http://www.thefictiondesk.com/submissions/ghost-story-competition.php

One could travel down a million different paths when considering women in art, and I’m inviting you to pick one of these paths and write your heart out! I am excited to be joining up with Ashley from Small  Strokes as the editor of this month’s Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival and I am calling on you to further shake the trees where women are missing, problematic, celebrated, or empowered making art. This means I will post a list of all of your...