Looking for a writer’s sanctuary? A place where you can leave the distractions of life behind and just sit down in peace to put words on the page? That’s what we offer here at theOffice – a quiet, communal workspace on the westside of Los Angeles. We have a roster filled with A-list screenwriters, novelists and more, but sometimes the cost of membership can be too much for up-and-coming writers. That’s why five years ago we started our free...

First place wins complete publication package, second place wins a book cover!  SUBMIT A SHORT SYNOPSIS AND FIRST CHAPTER DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: FRIDAY, MARCH 20th, 2015. FIVE SEMI-FINALISTS WILL BE SELECTED BY APRIL 20th, 2015. Semi-finalists will submit a full manuscript at that time. WINNERS WILL BY ANNOUNCED, MONDAY JUNE 1st, 2015. ENTRY FEE: $20 Upon payment, you will receive an email with instructions on submitting your synopsis and...

http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/essay-prize/ $28 ENTRY FEE.The winner will receive $1,000, publication, and a standard royalty contract. Deadline March 31, 2015. All essay collections are welcome, regardless of author’s previous publications; manuscripts should be approximately 100-300 pages in length. The CSU Poetry Center reserves the right to consider all entrants for publication; a listing of all winters and finalists will be posted on the...

https://dzancbooks.submittable.com/submit $25 ENTRY FEE. Dzanc is currently holding its fifth annual contest for all authors wishing to submit a short story collection to Dzanc Books. The winning author will be published by Dzanc in late 2016, and will receive a $1,000 advance. Entry to the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest requires a $25 reading fee and the submission of a full manuscript. The contest deadline is January 31,...

Our winter contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. Narrative...

Submit your most hilarious, most awfully, awesome novel queries by midnight, November 21, 2014, Midway Island Time. Who knows, if it’s based on a real manuscript you might even score a request!  The Crappy Query Contest does not discriminate on the basis of genre, sub-genre, or sub-sub-genre. Prizes Third through First Prize gets a quarter and a certificate! Winning queries will also be featured in our RoseQuill Quickies e-zine. To Enter...