$200 + 20 copies and standard publishing contract http://www.spirepress.org/contest.html This contest is new and offered for the first time. We are looking for a memoir, long short story, a small collection of flash fiction, or other innovative prose for a prose chapbook. The Prose chapbook, if a collection, should have an original theme binding the pieces together. Please send manuscripts of 18-28 pages, double-spaced, and a $10 entry fee....

$200 prizes for poetry, fiction and nonfiction Three prizes of $200 each and publication in New Southerner will be awarded for works of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. * 5,000 word limit for prose * 50 line limit for poetry * Entry Fee: $10 per entry; checks should be made payable to Swallowtail Press * Multiple entries accepted * Postmark deadline: October 1, 2008 Final judges: Nonfiction — Kathryn Eastburn (author of A Sacred Feast...

100wordsorfewerwritingcontest.com Short stories challenge any writer. Hugely challenging is a fictional 100 word story, with scarce room for elaboration, plot development, or character development. Yet such stories have dazzled us, tickled us, moved us to tears, given us wisdom, and taken our breaths away. We challenge you to create short fiction that will make us shiver. Look at #10 in the Contest Guidelines for decisive factors. We welcome...

www.lunchhourstories.com Lunch Hour Stories magazine announces its annual VERY Short Story and Narrative Prose Poem Contest, deadline December 31, 2008. THREE winners will receive cash prizes, free copies, and publication in a print anthology. Up to NINE additional winners will receive publication. Stories and poems should be narrative in nature and written in paragraph form only. They should be previously unpublished and 500 words or less...

www.uipress.uiowa.edu/authors/iowa-short-fiction.htm Eligibility Any writer who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter the competition. Previously entered manuscripts that have been revised may be resubmitted. Writers are still eligible if they have published a volume of poetry or any work in a language other than English or if they have self-published a work in a small print run. Writers are still eligible...

MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE MASTERS OF ARTS IN WRITING PROGRAM & INKWELL ANNOUNCE http://www.inkwelljournal.org/competitions.htm THE 11TH ANNUAL SHORT FICTION CONTEST $1500 GRAND PRIZE & PUBLICATION IN INKWELL COMPETITION JUDGE: Brian Morton GUIDELINES 1. Up to 3 previously unpublished stories, 5,000-word limit 2. Text must be typed, 12pt. font, double-spaced, one-sided 3. Cover sheet with name, address, phone, e-mail, titles and word counts...