www.scribophile.com/contests/ We love flash fiction: it’s fast, it’s fun, and it forces you to get really creative. So guess what? This month’s contest is all about flash fiction, and the theme is “the forest.” Easy as that! Submit a piece of fiction under 1000 words featuring a nice green and foresty theme and show us what you’ve got! 1st prize is a $50 Amazon.com gift card, 2nd prize is a $25 Amazon.com...

The Second Annual Press 53 Open Awards Accepting Entries Until March 31 8 Categories: Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short-Short Story, Short Story, Genre Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Novella, and Young Writers. 8 Industry-Professional Judges 8 Beautiful Etched-Glass Awards 17 Opportunities for Publication in the Second Annual Press 53 Open Awards Anthology Guidelines available at...

The Ohio State University Press and the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at OSU invite submissions for the 2009 Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction. Each year, a readers’ committee of OSU fiction writers and a final judge select one manuscript for publication by The Ohio State University Press. The winning author receives publication under a standard book contract, which includes a cash prize of $1,500 as an advance against...

New South is now reading for its fiction and poetry contest. First-place winners will receive $1000. Second-place winners will receive $250. All winners will have their work published in our Summer 2009 issue. John Weir (fiction) and Chelsea Rathburn (poetry) will judge the final rounds, which will be anonymous. For more information, please email James May at new_south@langate.gsu.edu or visit our contest’s website:...

www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/iowaaward.html Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Li-Young Lee, Ann Patchett, and John D’Agata, judges $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 Work must be previously unpublished.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...

The Eric Hoffer Award (formerly the Writers’ Notes Award) for short prose and books was established at the start of the 21st century as a means of opening a door to writing of significant merit. It honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing. The winning stories and essays are awarded prizes and published annually in the anthology, Best New Writing, along with the results of the book...