The 2008 Contests in Poetry, Fiction, & Nonfiction We’ve just introduced an online-only policy for contest entrants. Submitting is an simple two-step process that guarantees we receive your entry immediately. $500 will be awarded to the best entry in each category. This year’s judges: Amy Hempel, fiction Jo Ann Beard, nonfiction Major Jackson, poetry Winning entries will be published in Columbia; runners-up will also be...

www.transitionsabroad.com/information/writers/expatriate_writing_contest.shtml TransitionsAbroad.com invites you to enter its 2008 Expatriate Travel Writing Contest. Professionals, freelancers and aspiring writers are invited to write articles which describe their experience living abroad. Making the move to live abroad is for many the ultimate transition — often the fulfillment of a liifelong dream, in other cases the result of chance and...

The Atlantic Monthly invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays for its 2007 Student Writing Contest. Website: www.theatlantic.com/a/contest.mhtml Categories Poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays. Prizes First $1,000 | Second: $500 | Third: $250 and one-year subscriptions to The Atlantic Monthly for seven runners-up in each category. ENTRANTS must be full-time undergraduate or graduate students...

Midnight Nov. 17 (postmark OK) is the next deadline in our New Millennium Writings Contest. This deadline may be extended once only. Enter as often as you like at www.writingawards.com or by U.S. Mail or Other Carrier. * Books have been shipped. Judging continues in our Summer Contest. Winners announced in coming weeks. Winter Guidelines Follow. Awards & Contests $4,000 in Prizes, plus publication in NMW and on the Web at...

www.oregonquarterly.com/html/essay.htm OPEN AND STUDENT CATEGORIES Oregon Quarterly invites entries to the 2008 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest in both student and open categories. Entries should address ideas that affect the Northwest. The Oregon Quarterly staff will select finalists and the contest judge will choose the top three winners in each category. Past judges have been Kim Stafford, Barry Lopez, John Daniel, Karen Karbo, Brian...

georgetownreview.georgetowncollege.edu/grcontest.htm $1,000 and publication to the winning short story, poem, or essay on the subject of redemption. We’re very flexible about what satisfies our theme requirement. We’d be equally interested in stories, poems, and essays about folks who find redemption and those who don’t. If the situation where redemption is pursued is obviously spiritual in nature, that’s fine, but if it’s secular or legal or...