www.percontra.net/8pcprize2guidelines.htm Per Contra has featured winners of The MacArthur Award, the Caine Prize, the Orange Prize, the Walt Whitman Award and more. The journal has published authors from the United States and North America, South America, Europe, Africa and South Asia. You can now submit manuscripts for the 2nd Annual Per Contra Prize. Our March 2008 issue will feature two Pulitzer Prize winners, a winner of the O. Henry Prize...

www.winnningwriters.com/tomstory Sixteenth year. Fourteen cash prizes totaling $5,250. Top prize $2,000. Seeks short stories, essays and other works of prose, up to 5,000 words. Winning entries published online. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Fee per entry is $12, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: March 31. Judges: J.H. Reid, D.C. Konrad. Submit online or mail to Winning Writers Attn: Tom Howard Short Story Contest...

The Madison Review hosts the Phyllis Smart Young Prize in Poetry and the Chris O’Malley Prize in Fiction annually. The best unpublished short story and best group of three unpublished poems will each be awarded $1,000.00 and publication in the spring issue of The Madison Review. The Madison Review accepts short-fiction and poetry of all creative forms and content. * All submissions must be received by February 1st, 2008. To be considered,...

$2,000 GRAND PRIZE 3 RUNNER-UP PRIZES OF $200 EACH prism.arts.ubc.ca/contests.html All winning stories will be published in the 2008 PRISM Summer Fiction Contest Issue and receive an additional payment of $20 per printed page (in Canadian dollars or the U.S. equivalent). Entry deadline: January 31, 2008. Go to prism.arts.ubc.ca/forms/fiction_contest_form.pdf for required entry form and contest guidelines

www.percontra.net Awarded March 2008 $1,000 First Prize and Publication in Per Contra for the Top Ten Entries Winner will appear in Per Contra Spring 2008, also featuring the work of Daniel Hoffman, new and unpublished work by John Updike, Maxine Kumin, William Jay Smith, Rhina P. Espaillat and Stephen Dixon. Coming March 1st. PRIZES: FIRST PRIZE: $1,000 U.S. dollars. Top ten stories will be published in Per Contra in our 2008 editorial...

CutBank is pleased to announce the Montana Prize in Fiction, the Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry. We are honored to have three talented judges participating in the inaugural year of these contests. The Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry will be judged by Michele Glazer. Aimee Bender will select the winner of the Montana Prize in Fiction. The winner of the Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction will...