Attention! The January 16, 2014 deadline is near. Yes, there is still time to submit  your wonderful poems and/or short stories in this competition. Enter today for a chance to win cash prize totaling, 1275.00! The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a story that is worth telling everyone! Welcome to all having the ability...

SENTINEL ANNUAL POETRY COMPETITION 2013 CLOSING DATE: 30 NOVEMBER 2013 Now in its 4th year, this competition is for original, previously unpublished poems in English Language, on any subject, in any style, up to 60 lines long. Poets of all nationalities, age or gender, living in any part of the world are eligible to enter. Judge: ROGER ELKIN – author of Marking Time Prizes: £500 (First), £250 (Second), £125 (Third), £25 x 5 (High...

Yoga Scholarship Competition 1st Annual Tribe Scholarship Writing Competition Win a scholarship on a forthcoming Tribe Yoga Teacher Training or 500 Euros cash prize! SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION DEADLINE EXTENSION YOU HAVE MORE TIME TO WRITE YOUR STORY RELAUNCH OF COMPETITION IN JANUARY 2014 Competition ends 31st March 2014. POST NOTE: after cancelling the scholarship competition due to very few entries some people wrote in to tell us they were...

Serendipity Literary Agency in conjunction with Sourcebooks Inc. is hosting their fifth annual  YOUNG ADULT DISCOVERY COMPETITION No query? No pitch? No problem! Have a young adult novel—or a YA novel idea—tucked away for a rainy day? Are you putting off pitching your idea simply because you’re not sure how to pitch an agent? No problem! All you have to do is submit the first 250 words of your novel and you can win exposure to editors and a...

Literary Fiction Contest  (deadline: Oct. 30, 2013) The Writers’ Workshop of Asheville is sponsoring a Literary Fiction Contest, open to any writer regardless of residence. The awards are:                    1ST Place:  Your choice of a 3 night stay at The Mountain Muse B&B in Asheville; or 3 free online workshops; or 100 pages line-edited and revised by our editorial staff   2nd Place: 2 night stay at the B&B; or 2 free...

We are invite you to enter the 2013 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, and we are pleased to announce that the finalist judge is Melissa Pritchard. As with all our submissions, we highly recommend reading a copy of the magazine to better understand what we are looking for. The 2013 Short Story Prize winning story “Saturdays He Drove the Ford Pickup” by David Brendan Hopes appears in Issue 27: Glimpses. The 2012 Short Story Prize winning story...