The Atlantic Monthly invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays for its 2007 Student Writing Contest. Categories Poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays. Prizes First $1,000 | Second: $500 | Third: $250 and one-year subscriptions to The Atlantic Monthly for seven runners-up in each category. ENTRANTS must be full-time undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled in an accredited...

english.osu.edu/research/journals/thejournal/shortstorycontest.cfm Contest Guidelines for 2007: The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University, would like to announce the fourth annual Journal Short Story Contest. This year’s judge is Lee K. Abbott, author of the short story collections Dreams of Distant Lives, Strangers in Paradise, Love is the Crooked Thing, The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting, and Living After Midnight....

web3.unt.edu/untpress/potential_authors.cfm#subkap The University of North Texas Press announces the 2008 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. The winner of this annual award will receive $1000 and publication by UNT Press. Entries will be judged by an eminent writer. The contest is partially sponsored by the University of North Texas English Department. Barbara Rodman serves as series editor. Entries can be a combination of...

American Literary Review announces its 2007 contests: Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry. The winner in each category will receive $1000 and publication in our Fall 2008 issue. Website: www.engl.unt.edu/alr/contest.htm For all genres: Include a cover page with author’s name, title(s), address, and phone number. Do no include any identifying information on subsequent pages except for the title of the work. Enclose a $15.00...

willowsprings.ewu.edu/Contests.htm The George Garrett Fiction Award, $500 The Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award, $400 All entries will be eligible for publication in Willow Springs. If submitting in both genres, please use separate envelopes and enclose additional entry fees for each submission. Entries for both awards must be postmarked by April 15, 2007 Send $10.00 per submission. Make checks payable to Willow Springs. Word limit for fiction: 7,000...

Winner in each genre receives $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue, Juked #5. Final Judges: Frederick Barthelme (fiction) and Julia Johnson (poetry) Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2007 Entry Fee: $10 Fiction: one story per entry, no length requirement Poetry: up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry Complete guidelines attached, and at: www.juked.com/prize/ About our judges: Frederick Barthelme is author of...