The Charles Johnson Student Fiction Award from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is an annual award competition intended to encourage increased artistic and intellectual growth among students, as well as reward excellence and diversity in creative writing. Each year, $1000 and a signed copy of a Charles Johnson book will be awarded to the winner. The winning entry will also be published in the Winter/Spring issue of CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW....

The Nimrod/Hardman Writing Awards 2007 www.utulsa.edu/nimrod/awards.html The 29th Nimrod/Hardman Awards: The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction & The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry FIRST PLACE: $2,000 AND PUBLICATION SECOND PLACE: $1,000 AND PUBLICATION Contest Rules Contest Begins: JANUARY 1, 2007 Postmark Deadline: APRIL 30, 2007 Poetry: 3-10 pages, one long poem or several short poems. Fiction: 7,500 words maximum. No previously...

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to everyone whether experienced or not. This competition welcomes anyone who loves to arrange words into beautiful art or to write a short story that is worth telling. And to all who have the ability to dream. Write your best short story or poem for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. (www.dreamquestone.com) Guidelines: (1) Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any...

www.winningwriters.com/tomstory Now in its 15th year. Prizes of $1,200, $800 and $400 will be awarded, plus four High Distinction awards of $200 each. Submit any type of short story, essay or other work of prose, up to 5,000 words. You may submit work that has been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights. $12 entry fee, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: March 31. Judges: J.H. Reid, D.C....

www.givalpress.com Deadline: August 8, 2007 (postmarked) Our dates never change, if the date falls on a Sunday, then Monday becomes the default postmarked date. Guidelines: Submissions of a previously unpublished original (not a translation) short story in English must be approximately 5,000 to 15,000 words of high literary quality, typed, double-spaced on one side of the paper only, with word count in the upper left hand side of the first...

The 2007 Mid-American Review Fineline Competition for Prose Poems, Short Shorts, and Anything In Between 1st Prize: $1000 + Publication + Engraved Contest Commemorative Pen Ten Finalists: Notation + Possible Publication 2007 Final Judge: Ron Carlson author of A Kind of Flying, At the Jim Bridger, The Hotel Eden, Plan B for the Middle Class, and News of the World Guidelines: Postmark deadline: May 1, 2007. Contest is for previously unpublished...