WORK Literary Magazine is happy to announce our annual workforce motivational agenda. Starting today, we are accepting applications to our benefits and promotions department. Benefits and promotions include: * publication! * cash prizes! * limited edition WORK team t-shirt! * honorary title “Employee of the Year”! Three categories to submit to are essay, memoir / interview, and fiction**. You may win in any of the three categories. Winners of...

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 Please send us only one submission per prompt and only previously unpublished works.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 Aesthetica Creative Writing prize offers existing and aspiring writers the chance to showcase their work to a wider, international audience. We’re really keen to see more writers from across the world involved in the competition and are looking for work across a wide range of themes, styles and subjects. Please find more information below, and for up-to-the-minute updates, join us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/aestheticamag. Aesthetica...

The 34th Nimrod Literary Awards The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction & The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry   Founded by Ruth G. Hardman   FIRST PLACE: $2,000 and publication SECOND PLACE: $1,000 and publication   Contest Rules   Postmark Deadline: April 30, 2012   Poetry: 3-10 pages of poetry (one long poem or several short poems).   Fiction: 7,500 words maximum (one short story or a self-contained novel excerpt)   No previously...

Cactus Heart, a new e-literary journal, seeks original poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art & photography. We seek spiny writing—writing that is sharp, relentless, coursing with energy and able to thrive in the harshest of places, all while maintaining a vulnerable, succulent interior. We want writing that makes us swoon (Same goes for drawings and photography.) Inaugural issue – in full-color PDF format – is expected to go live May 15....

Hi, I’m an intern at Split Oak Press and I’m running a free, weekly online writing contest. All that’s needed to enter is a twitter account, and access to our twitter page: @splitoakpress.    The Official #Oakleaf Contest Rules Split Oak Press wants to create a larger readership, and writership, so we will be sponsoring a weekly writing contest on Twitter. The design is to foster an online literary culture by inspiring...