$2,500 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story CompetitionWriters of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2013 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a thirty-three year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of emerging writers of short fiction whose voices have yet to be heard. Lorian Hemingway, granddaughter of Nobel laureate...

SFWP literary awards program Fiction Award Program deadline: July 15th, 2013. Creative Nonfiction Award Program deadline: July 15th, 2013. The 2013 Awards Programs are underway! Keep an eye on the blog and the Facebook page for updates. This years judges are David Morrell for fiction and Lee Gutkind for nonfiction. The prize amounts this year will be: $1000 for the Grand Prize (one each for fiction and nonfiction), and two runner ups...

Colony Collapse Press will award a prize of $300, publication, and 20 complimentary copies for the best novella, as judged by our editorial board. Deadline: July 31, 2013. Length: 15,000 words minimum and 50,000 words maximum per each individual submission. These pages must comprise a single work of fiction or novella-length narrative nonfiction. Entry fee: $10 per manuscript. This fee is nonrefundable and must be paid by credit card from...

We are pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Gemini Magazine Flash Fiction Contest. GRAND PRIZE: $1,000. Second place wins $100 and four honorable mentions each receive $25. All six finalists will be published online in the October 2013 issue of Gemini. Maximum length: 1,000 words. Deadline: August 31, 2013. Open to ANY subject, style or genre. Both new and established writers are welcome. ENTRY FEE: just $4 ($3 for each additional flash). Enter...

The 2013 Autumn House Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Contests Naomi Shihab Nye, Poetry Judge Kathleen George, Fiction Judge Phillip Lopate, Nonfiction Judge Scroll down for separate contest guidelines for each genre. Guidelines for the 2013 Autumn House Poetry Contest Since 2003, the annual Autumn House Poetry Contest has awarded publication of a full-length manuscript and $2,500 to the winner. For the 2012 contest, the preliminary judge is...

Online Submission Deadline: May 31, 2013 77% of web-based fiction magazines pay their fiction writers nothing. So do 60% of print-only fiction magazines! If you’d like to try getting paid for your fiction, why not consider us? Since 2006, On The Premises magazine has aimed to promote newer and/or relatively unknown writers who can write creative, compelling stories told in effective, uncluttered, and evocative prose. We’ve never...