Narrative is calling on writers, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers, ages eighteen to thirty, to tell us a story. We are interested in narrative in the many forms it takes: the word and the image, the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary. Awards: First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, and Third Prize is $300. The prize winners will be announced in Narrative. Additionally, ten finalists will be...

$200 prizes for poetry, fiction and nonfiction Three prizes of $200 each and publication in New Southerner will be awarded for works of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. * 5,000 word limit for prose * 50 line limit for poetry * Entry Fee: $10 per entry; checks should be made payable to Swallowtail Press * Multiple entries accepted * Postmark deadline: October 1, 2008 Final judges: Nonfiction — Kathryn Eastburn (author of A Sacred Feast...

$1,000 and publication to the winning short story, poem, or essay on any theme or subject. All genres welcome. http://georgetownreview.georgetowncollege.edu/grcontest.htm Submissions must be postmarked by on or before November 15, 2008. Entry fee is $10 for the first entry, $5 for each entry thereafter. One poem, story, or essay counts as one entry. Please make out checks or money orders to “Georgetown Review.” If you want your work...

www.tui.edu/hungermtn/nonfiction.asp One $1,000.00 prize winner receives publication in the Spring 2009 Issue; two honorable mentions receive $100.00 each. Judge: Nick Flynn Deadline: September 10, 2008 Guidelines: A $15 entry fee, payable to “Hunger Mountain,” includes a copy of the Spring 2009 Issue of Hunger Mountain Submit one work of creative nonfiction, not to exceed 10,000 words Name or address should not appear anywhere on...

www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/bakeless/ Overview and Current Guidelines Judges for the year 2009 Prizes Percival Everett, fiction; Sue Halpern, creative nonfiction; Linda Gregerson, poetry. Rules of Eligibility The Bakeless Prizes require that poetry manuscripts contain at least 50 pages of text; fiction, which includes novels and short-fiction collections, 150-450; creative nonfiction, 150-300. The competition welcomes manuscripts from all...

DEADLINE: August 1, 2008 Writer and editor April Thompson is seeking first-person stories for an upcoming anthology of stories about connections made online. “Connecting Online: Hookups, Reunions and Chance Encounters” will feature essays of NO MORE than 2,500 words about interpersonal connections made through the Internet. Submissions can be comical or irreverent, tear-jerking or thought-provoking: the caliber of writing is more...