www.thewritehelper.com/id68.html It’s the dead of winter. Your hands are cold. Your feet are cold. Your earlobes are cold. Everything is cold. Outside, the landscape is a frozen whitish-blue. Dreary, if you think about it. But inside you beats a writer’s heart, warm with thoughts of stories, old and new. Fond reminisces, important ideas, strong opinions. Send them our way. We’re waiting for a good read over a steaming cup of hot chocolate!...

www.alabamawritersconclave.com/contests.html Deadline: April 30, 2009 (postmark). Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75; 3rd: $50; 4th: $25 and up to 4 Honorable Mentions. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED on the last day of the AWC Conference at the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama on JULY 19, 2009. Contest Rules: Entries must be original, unpublished, and may not have won a money prize in any contest. (Sitting AWC voting Board...

Discovery Institute is sponsoring a student video and essay contest to commemorate Academic Freedom Day, February 12, 2009, on Charles Darwin’s bicentennial. Deadline: January 23, 2009 Visit www.academicfreedomday.com/actUp.php to download entry form Darwin once wrote, “A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” That famous quote will be the...

Up to 10 winning students. $2,500 each in cash prizes. Reconnecting The Circle® announces its third National High School Essay Contest. Deadline is January 23, 2009. This year’s essay question asks, “Why is it important to understand patriotism in Indian Country?” and prompts students to research Native American patriots, as well as explore their own American communities. All high-school aged students (grades 9-12) from...

American Diversity Report is accepting poetry/essays/short stories for its online magazine which receives more than 20,000 unique visitors from 40 countries. Submissions should be inspiring for Black History Month (February) and/or Women’s History Month (March). Accepted works will appear under Inspirations at www.americandiversityreport.com. Accepted writers bios will appear in our ongoing list of contributors. General guidelines: *...

The editors at Fugue, the literary journal from the University of Idaho, are pleased to announce our 8th Annual Poetry and Prose Contest, which awards its first-place winners with $1000 in prize money and publication in Fugue, with publication for 2nd and 3rd place finishers. This year, we will be reading for nonfiction and poetry. We’re excited about our two accomplished judges: Patricia Hampl (nonfiction) and BH Fairchild (poetry). See...