Founded in 2001, Winning Writers provides fast, easy and affordable access to expert literary contest information. It’s celebrating its 12th year in business by hosting four international contests that will award over $16,000 in prizes. Here are summaries of the contest guidelines: Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (no fee) 12th annual free contest seeks humor poems. Eleven cash prizes totaling $2,000 will be awarded. Top prize of $1,000....

$2,500 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2013 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a thirty-one 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...

On behalf of the editors at The Lascaux Review, welcome to the second annual Lascaux Flash Fiction Contest! Essential Stuff                                  Using the photo prompt below, compose a work of short fiction, maximum length 250 words. The prompt is for inspiration only; entries will not be judged on how well they relate to it. Title and byline are not included in the word count.       Title and artist will be revealed at the end of...

A prize of $1,000 and publication in Ploughshares will be given to work by an emerging writer in each of three genres-fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.  Writers who haven’t published or self-published a book can submit 3-5 poems or under 6,000 words of prose with a $24 entry fee (which includes a one-year subscription to Ploughshares) . Deadline: April 2, 2013 at 12 noon EST.  The entry fee is waived for writers subscribed to Ploughshares...

  Writer’s Digest has been shining a spotlight on up and coming writers in all genres through its Annual Writing Competition for more than 80 years. Enter our 82nd Annual Writing Competition for your chance to win and have your work be seen by editors and agents! The winning entries will also be on display in the 82nd Annual Writer’s Digest Competition Collection. Wondering what’s in it for you? A 30-minute Platform Strategy Consultation...

Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 21st year. $5,550 in cash prizes, including a top prize of $3,000. Seeks short stories, essays and other works of prose, up to 5,000 words. All entries that win cash prizes will be published on WinningWriters.com (over one million page views per year) and announced in the Winning Writers Newsletter, with over 40,000 subscribers. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Fee per entry is $16. Enter...