www.gilessociety.org LEXINGTON, KYArts Across Kentucky magazine announces call for entrries to the third annual Janice Holt Giles Short Fiction Prize. The winning story will be published in Arts Across Kentucky and the author will receive a $500 prize and an invitation to read at the annual literary festival held each August at the homestead of Janice Holt Giles at Knifley, Kentucky. Arts Across Kentucky magazine offers the only fiction prize...

A contest from The Iowa Review www.uiowa.edu/%7Eiareview/mainpages/iowaaward.html POETRY, FICTION, & NONFICTION $1,000 to each winner / $500 to runners-up Plus publication in our December 2008 issue Submit during January 2008 Heather McHugh, Ethan Canin, and Abigail Thomas, judges Submit up to 20 pages of prose (double-spaced) or 10 pages of poetry (double or single; one poem or several). Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous...

As before it will be awarded for a piece of short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose) written by a woman. Length: between 50 and 5,000 words. The prize for the third award is US $550 and online publication. Thanks to word of (cyber-) mouth, I no longer need to pay for advertisement! www.sigriddaughter.com/GlassWomanPrize.htm Subject is open, but must be of significance to women. My criterion is passion, excellence, and authenticity in the...

www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Fiddlehead/contest.html Prizes $1,000 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem $500 each for Two Runners-Up $1,000 for Best Story $500 each for Two Runners-Up Add it up that’s 4,000 Dollars Rules: General: No simultaneous submissions and no previously published (or accepted for publication) submissions. Do not include a SASE. Manuscripts will not be returned. No faxed or emailed submissions are allowed. The winning entries...

INFORMATION & GUIDELINES www.waterstonereview.com/contests.html $1,000 PRIZE & PUBLICATION Water~Stone Review announces the 2008 Brenda Ueland Prose Prize. Ueland’s If You Want to Write (Graywolf Press) is a best-selling classic that has inspired thousands to find their own creative centers. All submissions should be original, unpublished work. Submissions accepted November 1 – January 5, 2008. Fiction and creative...

$500.00 will be awarded to the best entry in each category. Judges: Amy Hempel, fiction Jo Ann Beard, nonfiction Major Jackson, poetry Winning entries will be published in Columbia; runners-up will also be considered for publication. All entrants will receive a copy of Columbia. Deadline: January 15, 2008 Entry fee: $12.00 Fiction and nonfiction entrants may submit up to 20 double-spaced pages. Poetry entrants may submit up to five poems. HOW...