Announcing The Missouri Review’s Audio Literary Competition: $1,000 prizes awarded in 3 categories The Missouri Review invites all writers and writer/producers to send us your recordings of original poetry or prose or your audio documentaries on any subject. All you need is a computer, microphone, software such as GarageBand or Audacity, and a great script! This year, in an effort to expand the contest, we have opened submissions (previously...

Limnisa and Bluethumbnail.com are organizing their 4th annual writing competition. Deadline: March 14, 2012 This international contest is open to writers everywhere and is for Short Stories. Prizes – One week place at a writers’ retreat held at Limnisa, a seaside location in Greece, secondary prizes apply. Winners will be posted on the bluethumbnail.com  website. Entry Fee: £6 Members of Bluethumbnail.com pay £4 Details on the...

Name of contest: Somewhere Sometime Brief description of what is to be submitted: Writers can submit their real life anecdotes, experiences, and imaginations, fictional ideas in the form of a Short Story of maximum 3000 words in English or Hindi. The condition is that there should be a Twist in the story. Awards: Winner gets Kindle 3G,  1st Runner up gets Apple iPod and 2nd Runner Up gets cash prize of  Rs. 2,500/ $ 50 or Amazon.com coupons for...

Deadline: June 30, 2012 Prizes: $100, $50, $25 Entry fee: $5 Submit any work of fiction (short story, poetry, fable, graphic novel) that contains accurate scientific content and is suitable for a youth audience (grades 4-12). Maximum length: 4000 words.  No minimum. Link: http://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/sci-with-fi-writing-contest-cash-prizes/

2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award Deadline October 15th, 2012 http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/anderselfpubbookaward2012.html anderbo.com For a Self-Published Book (Fiction or Nonfiction) One Winner will receive: $500 cash Announcement on the Anderbo web site Publication of a book-excerpt on anderbo.com Judged by Rick Rofihe Rick Rofihe is the author of FATHER MUST, a collection of short stories published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. His...

Our 2012 contests will run from March 1-June18, 2012. Entries are $15. KNIGHTVILLE POETRY CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional work of narrative and/or experimental poetry. Three poems per entry. Up to 300 lines per poem. Judged by National Poetry Series winner JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT. MACHIGONNE FICTION CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional work of literary and/or experimental fiction. Submit up to 7,500 words: anything from flash to the long story....