The Writers Alliance of Gainesville doesn’t care where, when, or if you’ve published. We’re just looking for top quality fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for our inaugural literary magazine Bacopa. Cash awards total $1275. Free general submission deadline 6/30/09. Contest entries 7/1/09-10/31/09. Guidelines and more information at www.bacopaonline.com.

www.tikatok.com/events/view/classroom-writing-contest-001 Calling all writing teachers! Looking for a rewarding writing project for your class? Enter your classroom in Tikatok.com’s Classroom Writing Contest for a chance to win free copies of your students’ books and have them sent to President Barack Obama. Writing Topics Barack Obama just became the nation’s 44th president. Pretend you have the chance to have lunch with President Obama. What...

Judge: The Member-Guest and The Weatherman author and two-time American Fiction Prize winner Clint McCown First Prize: $1,000 Second Prize: $500 Third Prize: $250 Entry fee: $12 American Fiction will revive this year with its American Fiction Prize contest, a competition whose past judges include Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Anne Tyler, Louise Erdrich, Tim O’Brien, and Tobias Wolff. This year’s judge, Clint McCown, teaches in...

www.narrativemagazine.com/Winter-2009-Story-Contest We have expanded our current contest to include entries written from any point of view—first, second, limited third, or omniscient. The contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We are looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no...

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to everyone! This competition welcomes anyone who loves arranging words into the beautiful art of poetry or to write a short story that is worth telling everyone. And to all who have the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. http://www.dreamquestone.com Guidelines: Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any...

The March 31 deadline for entry in the Press 53 Open Awards is approaching. www.Press53.com 8 Categories (Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short-Short Story, Short Story, Genre Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Novella, and Young Writers (13-17). 8 Industry-Professional Judges 8 Personalized Etched-Glass Awards 17 Opportunities for Publication in the Press 53 Open Awards Anthology Complete guidelines for entry are at...