The Antigonish Review Announces Two Writing Contests! 7th Annual GREAT BLUE HERON POETRY CONTEST & 3rd Annual SHELDON CURRIE FICTION PRIZE $2,400 in Prizes! Here are the details: Deadlines: Fiction entries must be postmarked by May 31, 2007 Poetry must be postmarked by June 30, 2007 Guidelines: No previously published works, works accepted for publication or simultaneous submissions are eligible. No electronic submissions, please. Fiction...

Post Road, Heidi Julavits, and Wes McNair seek quality fiction and poetry for writing contest. $1000 prize for each winner. Submission fee: $15 for each story up to 5000 words, or for each set of three poems. Contest is for previously unpublished work only. Entry fee includes a copy of the issue of Post Road in which the winning work appears. Deadline: July 15. For entry instructions, go to www.postroadmag.com

www.fivefingersreview.org/contest.htm $500 prize in both categories. Theme: Camouflage Fiction: 5,000 word limit. Poetry: 3 poems, 10 page maximum. Deadline postmark June 1, 2007. $12 contest reading fee. Make check or money order payable to Five Fingers Review. Entries must have two cover sheets: one with your name and one without. Your name should not appear anywhere else on the manuscript. Entries should be typewritten or laser printed on...

www.ugapress.uga.edu/info_aup_submitfoc.html Each year the University of Georgia Press selects two winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of $1,000, and their collections are subsequently published by The Press under a standard book contract. The Press may occasionally select more than two winners. How winning manuscripts are selected: In the first round of the...

$1000 Honorarium and Publication Final Judge: Stuart Dybek www.indiana.edu/~inreview/general/prizes/microprizeguidelines07.html POSTMARK DEADLINE: June 8, 2007 Reading Fee: $15 Includes a year’s subscription. All entries considered for publication. All entries considered anonymously. Send no more than 3 pieces, 500 words maximum per piece. (That’s 3 short-shorts or prose-poems max per entry fee.) Each piece must be either a...

www.tn-writers.org/contest07g2.htm The Tennessee Writers Alliance Short Fiction Award The Tennessee Writers Alliance Poetry Award July 1, 2007 Postmark Deadline Submission Guidelines 1. The contest is open to all writers with the exception of first place winners from the previous year. First place winners may not enter in the same category in the year immediately following their awards. 2. All submissions must be original and unpublished. All...