Two Contests Pave the Way for TellitMyWay Launch! As Tell it my Way prepares for public launch, we’d like to invite children’s writers and storytellers to enter our exclusive contests, Something New to Love, which begin on February 14, 2014. Highest-scoring Original Story. Between February 14, 2014 and March 14, 2014, writers will post their own original children’s stories on Tell it my Way. A week after the posting period...

The 2014 Emerging Writers Contest will be open for submissions from March 1 to May 15, 2014. Submissions are accepted in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and the winner in each category will receive $1,000 and publication in Ploughshares. Fiction stories have a 6,000 word limit and the submission fee is $24. Please find the contest webpage here. http://www.pshares.org/submit/emerging-writers-contest.cfm Ploughshares 120 Boylston Street Boston,...

$4800 is the top prize on offer for short fiction in the Writers’ Village International Short Fiction Award summer 2014. The second prize is £$800, third prize $400 and there are 15 runner up prizes of $80. The top 50 c0ntestants also gain a free critique of their stories, win or lose. With $7200 in total prize values, the Writers’ Village award is one of the world’s largest short story competitions that welcomes new writers...

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/01/04/star_short_story_contest_seeks_entries.html# — NO ENTRY FEE. A first prize of $5,000 plus tuition for the 30-week creative writing correspondence program at the Humber School for Writers valued at $3,000. Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. February 28, 2014. Second prize is $2,000 while third is $1,000. Open to Ontario residents 16 and older, submissions can be on any topic, but must be...

$10-$20 ENTRY FEE. The Doris Betts Fiction Prize awards the first-prize winner $250 and publication in the North Carolina Literary Review. Finalists will also be considered for publication in the NCLR. Deadline: February 15, 2014. The competition is open to any writer who is a legal resident of North Carolina or a member of the North Carolina Writers’Network. North Carolina Literary Review subscribers with North Carolina connections (lives or...

NELLIGAN PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION https://nelliganprize.submittable.com/submit — $17 ENTRY FEE. $2,000 will be awarded for the best short story, which will be published in the fall/winter 2014 issue of Colorado Review. Deadline March 15, 2014. There are no theme restrictions, but stories must be under 50 pages. Visit the website for details:...