Young Adult Fiction Contest 1st Prize:£200.00 2nd Prize:£150.00 3rd Prize: £100.00 Closing date: June 12th 2012 Entry Fee: £3.50 Free to Creative Competitor Premier1 Members To win any one of our three fantastic prizes, simply create the opening page to  a young adult fiction story and send to us. There is no set word count but please note that your entry must fit onto one A4 page including the title. Now remember that this story is aimed at...

ABLE MUSE – Submission Guidelines for Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Book Reviews & Art CALL We invite submission for forthcoming issues of Able Muse. WHAT Able Muse predominantly publishes metrical poetry complemented by art and photography, fiction and non-fiction including essays, book reviews and interviews with a focus on metrical and formal poetry. We are looking for well-crafted poems of any length or subject that employ skillful and...

LITERNATIONAL’S 1st Annual C O N T R I B U T O R S   P R I Z E $500 Fiction | $500 Non-Fiction | $250 Runner-Up | SUBMIT NOW!! – CONTEST GUIDELINES ENTRY FEE: NO FEE. COPYRIGHT: All story rights remain the property of the author. GENRE: Fiction and / or Non-Fiction (please do NOT submit work targeted at children). WORD COUNT: up to 5,000 words. ELIGIBILITY: Writers with original fiction and / or creative non-fiction who are over the age...

Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest Our annual writing contest is back—with $2250 in prizes! Send us your best fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction entries by June 15, 2012  for your chance to win! Calling all women writers: sharpen your pencils or fire up your laptop and send us your fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction contest entries. Deadline: Entries must be postmarked or e-mailed no later than June 15, 2012. Entry...

Keeping up our tradition of celebrating the culture and heritage of bingo in the UK, Playing Bingo is launching its first Short Story Competition. Taking inspiration from our very small Your Stories section of the site, the aim is to generate some great fiction about our favourite game. There’s some great prizes up for grabs as well as the chance to entertain our readers with your finely crafted piece of bingo fiction. Competition Entry...

Scribophile.com is pleased to announce the Two Ways writing contest. This fee-free contest has a $50 first prize and a $25 second prize.  To enter, write a piece on any theme which contains both a prose section and a poetry section.  These two sections can be integrated or discrete, but must address the same core story.  Entries must be 2500 words or fewer.  Contest deadline May 31, 2012.  This contest is hosted by Scribophile— a friendly,...