Fiction Contests

Indiana Review’s 2007 Fiction Prize Guidelines

$1000 Honorarium and Publication Final Judge: Lan Samantha Chang Go to: www.indiana.edu/~inreview/general/prizes/fictprizeguidelines07.html to get entry form (scroll down) Lan Samantha Chang is the author of Hunger: A Novella and Stories (1998) and Inheritance: A Novel (2004). Her work has been published in Ploughshares, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Best American Short Stories. She has taught creative writing at Stanford University, Harvard...

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The Earth Vision nature writing contest 2007

short fiction, creative non-fiction, or poetic prose First Prize $600 and elegibility to co-write a future EV work. Entries are now invited for the EV nature writing contest. Only winners will be notified and entries will not be acknowledged or returned. The deadline for receipt of entries is October 15, 2007. The EV nature writing contest is held for three reasons: 1. to support the cause of writing on the subject of nature and deep ecology....

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Gather.com First Chapters Writing Competition

Aspiring romance writers can enter their manuscripts in the Gather.com First Chapters Writing Competition, in order to win a guaranteed publishing contract with the Pocket Books imprint of Simon & Schuster! Detailed information is pasted below, or you can go directly to http://romancenovel.gather.com The submission period is from tomorrow through 8/22/07. How to Enter: Before 11:59PM (EST) August 22, 2007, you must complete the following in...

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Dzanc Prize

Dzanc Books announces the inaugural Dzanc Prize – a monetary award to a writer with both a work in progress, and an interest in performing some form of literary community service. The award itself will be a total of $5,000 to be distributed in two payments over the course of a twelve month period. The purpose of this prize is to give monetary aid to a writer of literary promise, in order to provide a budgetary cushion for them, allowing the...

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The Iowa Short Fiction Award &the John Simmons Short Fiction Award

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 if they are living abroad or are non-US citizens...

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The Bellevue Literary Review Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

www.blreview.org/Contest/contest_guidelines.htm (go to site to enter contest–only online entries accepted) $1000 Magliocco Prize for Poetry $1000 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction $1000 Kaplan Prize for Nonfiction* Judge, Marie Howe Judge, Rick Moody Judge, Richard Selzer *sponsored by the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation BLR Prize Guidelines: 1. BLR Prize awards outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness,...

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