First Page Competition 2012 Yep, it was so successful last year, our annual First Page Competition 2012 is now open with an increased first prize of £500 – DOUBLE last year’s. What are we looking for: the most gripping, read-on-able first page of up to 400 words. Any genre, but as always we’re looking for The Best First Page. Bribes can be sent in cash, but we guarantee they won’t do you much good. Prizes: 1st Prize...

Announcing The Missouri Review’s Audio Literary Competition: $1,000 prizes awarded in 3 categories The Missouri Review invites all writers and writer/producers to send us your recordings of original poetry or prose or your audio documentaries on any subject. All you need is a computer, microphone, software such as GarageBand or Audacity, and a great script! This year, in an effort to expand the contest, we have opened submissions (previously...

SAGE MAGAZINE is looking for new ideas and perspectives on the environment. Open to all non-professional writers, Sage’s first annual young environmental writers contest seeks previously unpublished works of art that deal with nature, the environment, sustainable living and natural resource issues.  Send us essays, short stories, memoirs, graphic novels, sky-writing – all forms of environmental writing accepted (including excerpts from longer...

Limnisa and Bluethumbnail.com are organizing their 4th annual writing competition. Deadline: March 14, 2012 This international contest is open to writers everywhere and is for Short Stories. Prizes – One week place at a writers’ retreat held at Limnisa, a seaside location in Greece, secondary prizes apply. Winners will be posted on the bluethumbnail.com  website. Entry Fee: £6 Members of Bluethumbnail.com pay £4 Details on the...

**CURRENT CALLS** SPECIAL ISSUE AND CONTEST: AUSTRALIA Deadline: February 29, 2012 *Extended to March 16, 2012 Co-sponsored by Tashmadada and The Writers Conversation Contest judged by Lee Gutkind and Leah Kaminsky Creative Nonfiction, in association with Tashmadada, seeks new essays for a special “Australia” issue. We’re looking for a variety of perspectives—from locals, expats, tourists, or anyone else—and will consider essays of all forms...

Name of contest: Somewhere Sometime Brief description of what is to be submitted: Writers can submit their real life anecdotes, experiences, and imaginations, fictional ideas in the form of a Short Story of maximum 3000 words in English or Hindi. The condition is that there should be a Twist in the story. Awards: Winner gets Kindle 3G,  1st Runner up gets Apple iPod and 2nd Runner Up gets cash prize of  Rs. 2,500/ $ 50 or Amazon.com coupons for...