Non-Fiction Contests

The Bellevue Literary Review Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

www.blreview.org/Contest/contest_guidelines.htm (go to site to enter contest–only online entries accepted) $1000 Magliocco Prize for Poetry $1000 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction $1000 Kaplan Prize for Nonfiction* Judge, Marie Howe Judge, Rick Moody Judge, Richard Selzer *sponsored by the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation BLR Prize Guidelines: 1. BLR Prize awards outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness,...

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National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry

National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry $10 Entry Fee $500 First Place Prize Postmark Deadline: October 1, 2007 Our annual contest awards $500 plus publication for the first place winner in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Additional winners selected for publication will be paid in copies (4). $10 entry fee, checks payable to Alligator Juniper. Every entrant receives one copy of the 2008 issue, a $10 value....

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2007 PILGRIMAGE WRITING AWARD–$1000

www.pilgrimagepress.org/award.html The theme for this writing contest is peacemaking. We’re looking for personal stories that involve a non-violent way of resolving a conflict. While an act of peacemaking may begin with two people, we’re interested in acts of conflict resolution that directly affect a larger circle of people as well—in a family, a community, a region, even internationally. We’re looking for previously...

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Missouri Review Audio Competition

AUDIO COMPETITION GUIDELINES The Missouri Review invites all writers and writers/producers to participate in our 2007 Audio Competition. We have categories suitable for all kinds of writers. Voice-Only Literature. If you have a short story, a piece of creative nonfiction, or poetry that you think worthy of recording, enter this category. Pieces in this category are author-read and will not contain other tracks of sound (no music beds or sound...

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The Earth Vision nature writing contest 2007

short fiction, creative non-fiction, or poetic prose www.evbooks.net/contest.htm First Prize $600 and elegibility to co-write a future EV work. Entries are now invited for the EV nature writing contest. Only winners will be notified and entries will not be acknowledged or returned. The deadline for receipt of entries is October 15, 2007.

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New Millennium Writings

Awards & Contests: New Millennium Writings $4,000 in Prizes, plus publication in NMW and on the Web at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com $1,000 for best Story; $1,000 for best Poem; $1,000 best Nonfiction (Nonfiction includes humor, memoir, creative nonfiction, travel, opinion, essay, interview, features, investigative reporting, etc.) Plus, $1,000 for best Short Short Fiction (1,000-word limit) Winners of NMW Awards are showcased along with...

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