Creative Non-Fiction

1st ScienceThrillers SciWithFi Creative Writing Contest

Deadline: June 30, 2012 Prizes: $100, $50, $25 Entry fee: $5 Submit any work of fiction (short story, poetry, fable, graphic novel) that contains accurate scientific content and is suitable for a youth audience (grades 4-12). Maximum length: 4000 words.  No minimum. Link: http://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/sci-with-fi-writing-contest-cash-prizes/

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2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award

2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award Deadline October 15th, 2012 http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/anderselfpubbookaward2012.html anderbo.com For a Self-Published Book (Fiction or Nonfiction) One Winner will receive: $500 cash Announcement on the Anderbo web site Publication of a book-excerpt on anderbo.com Judged by Rick Rofihe Rick Rofihe is the author of FATHER MUST, a collection of short stories published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. His...

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Marco Polo Arts Mag: call for submissions

Special Calls for Submissions Please note: No queries necessary for the following calls. 100 x 500 Marco Polo seeks creative nonfiction and will publish the best 100 entries. Your nonfiction must be no longer or shorter than 500 words, title excluded. Break out of the mold and surprise us and yourself. Top prize winner will receive a hardcover edition of Under The Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, a journal, and a film on DVD, probably...

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JewishStoryWriting.com – Prose and Poetry contests surrounding Jewish/Israeli themes

Short Story Contest: Judge Joan Leegant is the author of Wherever You Go (W.W. Norton) and the story collection, An Hour in Paradise (W.W. Norton), which won the Winship/PEN New England Book Award, the Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. The collection was also selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series. Her new work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal...

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HESA Inprint – Writing Contest

We maintain a self published Finnish-English magazine hesainprint.com (now in its 13th issue) with every month a themed competition opened to everyone for a chance to be published in our magazine. The competition is open to artists and creative but also to all writers and poets. The current theme is “Addiction – Riippuvuus” with the deadline for participation February 28, 2012. All submissions are published online on the blog...

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CONTEST num.1 by Caligae Travel Files first writing & art contest

CONTEST num.1 by Caligae Travel Files is the first writing & art contest organized to celebrate & promote the project’s launch in January 2012. Caligae Travel Files – World by sensitive eyes. Author’s articles & illustrations about world nations & travel destinations. Curious, humorous, philanthropic. Entertaining anthropology & travel information by the very locals. Focus on people & their environment....

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