Submission period: March 1, 2012 – May 31, 2012 Winners announced: September 1, 2012 Submit entries WITHIN THE BODY OF YOUR E-MAIL to:  rannufund (at) gmail (dot) com ABSOLUTELY NO ATTACHMENTS. Your submission will be deleted unread if it is in an attachment. $10.00 CDN or U.S. fee per entry, or $15.00 CDN or U.S. to enter both fiction and poetry categories. Please pay only via PayPal to rannufund (a) gmail (dot) com All entries must be...

My partner, Robert Hilles, and I began dating in February 1997. Since then, nearly every Sunday for fifteen years, he called his mother and spoke to her on the telephone. I can count on one hand the number of times he missed making that call. In the early years of our relationship, Hazel Hilles was in her sixties. She had already lost Robert’s father, and she lived in an independent living complex in Winnipeg, Canada. On our visits, her...

Each month Switchback provides a prompt and we want you to send us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors will be featured on Switchback. Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art but must be 500 words or under. Please send us only one submission per prompt and only previously unpublished works. We accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us immediately of...

The Baltimore Review is now accepting submissions for its summer contest, and the theme is Heat:  It’s energy. It’s intensity. It’s passion. It consumes you. It dissolves, melts, bakes.  It’s a fever, or just a blush. It’s a night in a cheap motel, a barefoot walk on hot sand, a complicated meal in a rowhouse kitchen. It’s nuclear fusion or the Senate floor. It’s jalapeno and habanero peppers. It’s the cops. It’s the contest theme for our...

Grand Prize: $1,000 Second Place: $100 Third Place: $50 Three Honorable Mentions Entry fee: $4 ($3 for each additional entry) Deadline: August 31, 2012 Maximum length: 1,000 words All Six Finalists Will Be Published Online in the October 2012 Issue of Gemini. Absolutely no restrictions on content, style or genre. Simply send your best, most powerful work. Visit the website for details:...

To help celebrate the official relaunch of Abandoned Towers we are holding a writing contest!  Please read the whole page for complete details. Theme: The theme for the first Abandoned Towers writing contest is: The concept of “abandoned towers” must be incorporated into the piece, as a phrase, allusion, metaphor, physical tower… however you choose. Genres: Short Story: any genre is acceptable for the contest Poetry: any form is acceptable for...