Tartt First Fiction Award Tartts: Incisive Fiction by Emerging Writers Look for it this coming Fall! This will be a compilation of stories from all fourteen finalists in our first Tartt Fiction Award Contest. The winner of the contest will be announced in early May. Tartt First Fiction Award, rules 2006 1. Winning short story collection will be published by Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama, in simultaneous library binding and...

Short Fiction Contest December 1, 2006 deadline Baltimore Review.org Submissions accepted between August 1st -December 1st, 2006. Prizes: First Place: $500 + publication in The Baltimore Review Second Place: $250 Third Place: $100 Judges: The Editors of The Baltimore Review Rules: Submit one short story per entry fee. Stories must be original and unpublished elsewhere. All styles and forms are accepted. Maximum word count: 6,000 words. All...

The 2007 Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Award First Prize: $1,000 & Publication Final Judges For fiction: Chang-rae Lee For poetry: Carolyn Forché Send entries to: Third Coast 2007 Fiction or Poetry Contest Department of English Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331 Open to all writers unassociated with the judges or Third Coast. Postmark deadline: October 15th, 2006. Prize-winning issue: Fall 2007. Entry fee: $15 per...

Juniper Prize for Fiction Since 1976, the University of Massachusetts Press has annually awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry, publishing the winning collection of poems in book form. Since 1990, it has also published the annual winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize competition. In 2004, in collaboration with the UMass Amherst MFA Program for Writers and Poets, the Press established a third contest the Juniper Prize for Fiction—to honor and...

THE 2007 WASHINGTON SQUARE REVIEW COMPETITION Washington Square Review invites you to enter the 2007 Washington Square Review competition. Winners (one in Fiction and one in Poetry) receive $500 and publication in a forthcoming issue of Washington Square. Selected runners-up will also receive publication. The 2007 judges will be Darin Strauss (author of Chang & Eng) and Nick Flynn (author of Blind Huber). Submit up to 3 poems (6 pages...

Announcing The Briar Cliff Review Eleventh Annual Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contest $1000 First Place for each category Plus Publication in Spring 2007 Entries will be judged by the Editors of The Briar Cliff Review. $15.00 entry fee per story/creative nonfiction piece or three poems. Omit author’s name on manuscript. Deadline: November 1, 2006 Guidelines: Short story/creative nonfiction word limit up to 6,000. Short stories and...