Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest Our annual writing contest is back—with $2250 in prizes! Send us your best fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction entries by June 15, 2012  for your chance to win! Calling all women writers: sharpen your pencils or fire up your laptop and send us your fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction contest entries. Deadline: Entries must be postmarked or e-mailed no later than June 15, 2012. Entry...

Scribophile.com is pleased to announce the Two Ways writing contest. This fee-free contest has a $50 first prize and a $25 second prize.  To enter, write a piece on any theme which contains both a prose section and a poetry section.  These two sections can be integrated or discrete, but must address the same core story.  Entries must be 2500 words or fewer.  Contest deadline May 31, 2012.  This contest is hosted by Scribophile— a friendly,...

NCW Personal Essay/Creative Nonfiction Contest Northern Colorado Writers, LLC announces the second contest in its 2012 contest series: Personal Essay/Creative Nonfiction. The contest is open to everyone and offers cash prizes of 1st: $200, 2nd: $100, and 3rd: $50. Winners and honorable mentions will be published in and receive a free copy of the second annual winners’ anthology, Pooled Ink: Celebrating the 2012 NCW Contest Winners,...

Each month Switchback provides a prompt and we want you to send us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors will be featured on Switchback. Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art but must be 500 words or under. Please send us only one submission per prompt and only previously unpublished works. We accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us immediately of...

We would like to invite writers to take part in our Best Article Contest.  The task in this competition is to write an article that fits in one of the following topics: Entertainment Technology Culture Science History The article must be at least 500 words long, be based on good research, include photos etc. Once submitted, it will be reviewed by our staff and – if it meets our standards – published on Red Sky’s new website. The...

We are holding a writing competition to look for the next great novel. It is an American Idol style contest where we begin with around twenty hopefuls and the public will whittle them down to one winner through a series of writing challenges. This last author standing will then receive a publishing deal.    The contest is available as a free app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users...