American Diversity Report is accepting poetry/essays/short stories for its online magazine which receives more than 20,000 unique visitors from 40 countries. Submissions should be inspiring for Black History Month (February) and/or Women’s History Month (March). Accepted works will appear under Inspirations at www.americandiversityreport.com. Accepted writers bios will appear in our ongoing list of contributors. General guidelines: *...

$3000 and publication through the University of Nebraska Press for one book of short fiction and one book of poetry. One runner-up in each category will receive a $1000 prize. Dates: Submissions will be accepted between January 15 and March 16, 2009 (postmark) What to send: Full manuscript (the author’s name should not appear on the manuscript) Two cover pages: one listing only the title of the manuscript, and the other listing the title,...

Postmark deadline: February 1, 2009 The Doris Betts Fiction Prize awards the first- prize winner $250; the 10 finalists will be considered for publication in the North Carolina Literary Review. These finalists will be almost the only fiction that NCLR considers. This year’s final judge will be Kat Meads, a native of eastern North Carolina now living in California, Meads’s books include the short story collections Not Waving and Little Pockets...

Guidelines (pdf). www.writersleague.org/contests/book-awards.htm Deadline: April 30, 2009. Eligibility The 2009 contest is open to American authors of books published in 2008. Authors are not required to be members of the Writers’ League of Texas. Collected works must be written by a single author. Anthologies that include works of several authors are not eligible.

Abroad Writers’ Conference (www.abroad-crwf.com) is announcing its annual 2009 literary contest. Contest winners in the categories of fiction/non-fiction and poetry will have their work published inthe journal Driftwood. Contest Deadline: February 15, 2009 Winners will be announced on: March 15, 2009 Poetry Judge: PATRICIA SMITH, National Book Award Finalist in Poetry. Fiction/Non-Fiction Judge: JOAN SILBER, National Book Award Finalist in...

Narrative’s Third-Person Story Contest is open to all writers. For this contest we will be accepting 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 Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 10,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. We are looking for works...