Abbey Hill Literary invites entries for its quarterly 2009 Quick Lit Challenges. Please visit www.AHLiterary.com for details, review the three writing challenges and story requirements posted there, and write a story incorporating those challenges. Prize List ($US): 1st-$500, 2nd-$200, 3rd-$100, and Evolving Writer-$50. Entry fee: $12. Electronic entries encouraged, snail mail accepted, entries due end of second month of each quarter. Most...

Call for Applications—Deadline February 20, 2009 In 2009, the International Writing Program (IWP), in cooperation with the Chinese Writers’ Association, is commencing a pilot exchange project, the Life of Discovery (LOD), between writers and artists from the United States and from the minority ethnic communities in the western regions of the People’s Republic of China. Five American and five Chinese writers and artists, all aged...

sycamorereview.com/contest/ Final Judge: Tobias Wolff First Prize: $1000 and winning entry published in Summer/Fall 2009 issue Entries of honorable mention also published in Summer/Fall 2009 issue Complete Guidelines for Contest Submissions Deadline: Entries must be received by March 19, 2009. This is NOT a postmark deadline. Entries received after March 19, 2009 will be returned unread. 1. Submit one piece of fiction (or a series of related...

Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Li-Young Lee, Ann Patchett, and John D’Agata, judges www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/iowaaward.html $1000 to each winner $500 to runners-up plus publication in our December 2009 issue 1. Submit up to 20 pages of prose (double-spaced) or 10 pages of poetry (single or double; one poem or several). Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine assuming you inform us of acceptance...

www.siuc.edu/~grassroots/dkawards.html The Department of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and GRASSROOTS, SIUC’s undergraduate literary magazine, are pleased to announce the 2009 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Awards. One book of poetry and one book of prose (novel, short fiction, or literary nonfiction) will be selected from submissions of titles published in 2008, and the winning authors will receive an honorarium of...

The Pinch and The University of Memphis present the 2009 Pinch Literary Awards deadline: March 15 prizes Fiction: $1500 and publication in The Pinch, judge, Brian Evenson Poetry: $1000 and publication in The Pinch, judge: Robin Becker Guidelines: Fiction Submit a story of no more than 5,000 words entry fee: $20.00 Poetry Submit up to three poems entry fee: $20.00 All entries include a one-year subscription to The Pinch, the biannual, nationally...