Textnovel.com (www.textnovel.com) is running a contest through December 31, 2008 for the best online serial novel. The prize is $1,000 and there is a possible publishing contract for the winner. This is the first U.S. cell phone novel website – a website that allows authors and readers to write, share and read work online or with their cellphone. The concept has been a huge hit in Japan and China and is based on publishing the novel in serial...

Scribophile is running a writing contest for the month of August. The August contest is accepting sci-fi short stories between 1000 and 4000 words. 1st place wins a $50 Amazon.com gift card, and 2nd place wins a $25 Amazon.com gift card. Entry is free. The contest deadline is August 31, 2008. For more details, you can visit the contest page at www.scribophile.com/contests or the main site, www.scribophile.com.

Mandatory Entry Form First Prize: $1,000 Second Prize: $200 Third Prize: $100 Guidelines: Send one story of up to 8,000 words with a $10 reading fee payable to Southern California Review. Multiple entries are permitted, but a separate check should be included with each entry. All entrants will receive a complimentary copy of Southern California Review. All stories must be typed and previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are...

The Fourth-Ever Black Warrior Review Contest has begun! Guest Judges this year are Tomaz Salamun (poetry) and Lydia Millet (fiction). Send your entry to: Fiction Contest OR Poetry Contest Black Warrior Review Box 862936 Tuscaloosa, AL 35486 The Reading Fee is $15 per short story (up to 7500 words) and $15 per group of up to 3 poems. Contestants will also receive a complimentary one-year subscription. All entries must be postmarked by October 1,...

www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/bakeless/ Overview and Current Guidelines Judges for the year 2009 Prizes Percival Everett, fiction; Sue Halpern, creative nonfiction; Linda Gregerson, poetry. Rules of Eligibility The Bakeless Prizes require that poetry manuscripts contain at least 50 pages of text; fiction, which includes novels and short-fiction collections, 150-450; creative nonfiction, 150-300. The competition welcomes manuscripts from all...

We are now accepting entries for our 2008 Fiction and Poetry Prizes. Submission Guidelines: First prize for each genre: $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue, Juked #6. Final judges: Mark Winegardner (fiction) and Angela Ball (poetry). Current and former students of the final judges are not eligible to compete. Fiction: send one story per entry. There is no length requirement. Poetry: send up to five poems (no more than ten pages...