Northwind Story Contest Prize: $1,000.00 Entry fee: $15.00 Deadline: 07-31-2013. The Story Contest is open to all fiction and narrative non-fiction writers. Entries must be previously unpublished, either in print or online, between 1,500 and 8,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner or runner-up in another contest. First Prize is $1,000 and publication. Second Prize is $250 and publication. Third Prize is $100 and...

The Saturday Evening Post   2014 Great American Fiction Contest In its nearly three centuries of existence, The Saturday Evening Post has published short fiction by a who’s who of American authors including F. Scott Fitzgerald; William Faulkner; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; Ray Bradbury; Louis L’Amour; Sinclair Lewis; Jack London; and Edgar Allan Poe. Now you have the opportunity to join that illustrious line-up by taking part in The Saturday...

  Salamander 2013 Fiction Prize $1,500 Honorarium and Publication Final Judge: Edith Pearlman SUBMIT: Online or by mail from May 15 through June 15, 2013; on-​​line submission available at end of day on May 15th. Reading fee: $15.00 All entries will be considered for publication. All entries will be considered anonymously. Send no more than one story per entry. Each story must not exceed 30 double-​​spaced pages in 12 point font. Multiple...

DEADLINE: June 30, 2013 Contest Rules Open to women 18 years or older. Women Who Write will retain one-time publication rights (print and electronic), after which all rights revert to the author. Entries to the contest must be previously unpublished. Prose pieces can be fiction or non-fiction and are limited to 3,000 words or less. $12 entry fee for each prose piece submitted or for up to two poems. Submissions will not be returned. Entry fees...

Contest Two: “Una Mujer” runs from May 2, 2013 to June 1, 2013, and winners will be announced July 1, 2013 to coincide with the launch of Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume II. Awards: Grand Prize We will award one Grand Prize for poetry, and one for prose. Each of the two Grand Prize winners will receive: US$500.00 Publication in Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume III Lifetime Premium Membership at Scribophile, the online writing group for...

Dear Writers, This notification will not be posted on our website. We are extending our late deadline by one day only, until May 16, midnight in all time zones, due to requests by a number of writers who need extra time to complete their manuscripts. If you are among those who need this deadline extension, and are submitting online, please simply use the late deadline function on PayPal for May 2-May 15. Your manuscript will still be accepted...