Sequestrum is accepting submissions for our first annual Editor’s Reprint Award! For complete guidelines, visit:  http://www.sequestrum.org/contests Contest Guidelines: Open to reprints of fiction and nonfiction in any original format (electronic or print). One $200 prize plus publication. One runner-up prize including publication and payment (just above our usual rates). Finalists listed on the site. $15 entry fee. Tentative close date...

Submit your manuscript to Full Fathom Five’s Fiction Contest! FFF Digital is a new publisher of quality fiction e-books. We are searching for some of the best original fiction out there, and hosting a contest to find it. Four Finalists will receive an offer for a publishing deal with FFF Digital, and one Grand Prize Winner will take home $10,000! Worried you might not win? Don’t be! Non-Finalists are still eligible to receive an offer of a...

Two Categories: Fiction & Creative/Narrative Nonfiction Dates of submission: September 15, 2014 to February 1, 2015 www.NorthernColoradoWriters.com PRIZE: $1,000 Finalists will be announced and notified on or around March 1, 2015 and the winners will be announced in March 27, 2015 during dinner at the NCW 10th Anniversary Writers Conference. Attendance at the conference is not required. First Place: Framed certificate and $1,000  Finalists:...

BlueCat Screenplay Competition Offers Analysis to Every Script Here at BlueCat Screenplay Competition we provide written analysis for every script submitted. Our group of readers issue detailed notes with the goal of helping every entrant improve their screenplay. This process affords our entrants the option to rework, and then re-submit their scripts based on the feedback they receive. This is just one example of BlueCat’s main objective—to...

CLICK HERE to see this year’s winner. Submissions open: June 1, 2014 – February 28, 2015 Prize: $500 + Publication no later than early 2016 by Vine Leaves Press + 20 copies Guest Judge: Sara Sargent Sara Sargent is an Editor at Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. She acquires young adult fiction. Most recently she was an Associate Editor at Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books. Sara started her...

Deadline: October 1, 2014 Announcing the Third Annual Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Independently Published Book, sponsored by Bowker. Details and rules are here: http://www.shelfmediagroup.com/pages/competition.html The winner, finalists, and more than 100 notable books from the competition will be featured in the December/January 2015 issue of Shelf Unbound magazine. The overall winner will receive a year’s worth of...