Short Story Contest: Judge Joan Leegant is the author of Wherever You Go (W.W. Norton) and the story collection, An Hour in Paradise (W.W. Norton), which won the Winship/PEN New England Book Award, the Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. The collection was also selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series. Her new work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal...

We maintain a self published Finnish-English magazine hesainprint.com (now in its 13th issue) with every month a themed competition opened to everyone for a chance to be published in our magazine. The competition is open to artists and creative but also to all writers and poets. The current theme is “Addiction – Riippuvuus” with the deadline for participation February 28, 2012. All submissions are published online on the blog...

Northern Colorado Writers, LLC has extended the deadline for the first contest in its 2012 contest series: Short fiction.  The contest is open to everyone and offers cash prizes of 1st: $200, 2nd: $100, and 3rd: $50. Winners and honorable mentions will be published in the second annual winners’ anthology, Pooled Ink: Celebrating the 2012 NCW Contest Winners, scheduled for release on December 1.  Entry fees are $10 if mailed, $15 if emailed. The...

Happily Cognating seeks to be both a place to find upbeat and positive writing on the web, as well as to try and help new authors get a first byline.  We’re looking for short fiction, regardless of genre, which readers will enjoy looking back on.  Ideally, something which helps readers to see themselves in a new way without being preachy. Deadline for the summer issue is the first of May, 2012. Entry is free, but understand that the...

GeminiMAGAZINE The February issue of Gemini Magazine is now online with exciting new fiction and poetry from Maureen Wilkinson, Vladimir Swirynsky, Leslie Greffenius, Deepak Chaswal, Lesley Galeote, Christine Tierney, Derold Sligh and Vivian Faith Prescott. Artist Yonatan Frimer crushed his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2005 and was hospitalized for three years. He spent much of that time drawing mazes. His intriguing “Mobius Maze” appears on...

Fantasy Writing Contest 2012 The Fantasy writing contest is completely free to enter and is looking for stories, of up to 8000 words, within any fantasy sub-genre. This could be traditional fantasy, epic fantasy, urban fantasy, steam-punk, and so on. $500 prize for the best Short Story, with runner up prizes of $250 and $125. More importantly though, winners will feature within an anthology alongside some of the Fantasy genres finest authors,...