Non-Fiction Contests

New Mellennium Awards & Contests

www.NewMillenniumWritings.com $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 interviews, profiles...

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Memoirs, Ink. Fourth Annual Personal Essay Contest

www.memoirsink.com/docs/contest.html Contest Guidelines We are looking for original, well-written personal essays, memoirs, or stories that are based on autobiographical experiences. The narrative must be in first person, other that that, the contest is open to any type, genre or style of story. It is open to any writer writing in English–that means Candians, Brits, Australians, Ugandans and anyone else anywhere can enter. Entry must be...

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HUNGER MOUNTAIN CREATIVE NONFICTION PRIZE

Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, is pleased to announce the establishment of a new literary prize: HUNGER MOUNTAIN CREATIVE NONFICTION PRIZE www.tui.edu/hungermtn/nonfiction.asp Judged by Sue William Silverman, author of Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction and editor of the journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. DEADLINE: September 10, 2007 – entries accepted beginning June...

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Alligator Juniper National Writing Contests in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction $10 Entry Fee $500 First Place Prize Postmark Deadline: October 1, 2007 Alligator Juniper, a publication of Prescott College in Arizona, awards $500 plus publication for the first place winners in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Additional winners selected for publication will be paid in copies (4). $10 entry fee, checks payable to Alligator...

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2008 Georgetown Review Contest

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...

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Good News Daily.Com

Good News Daily.Com Creative Writing Contest Win 7 nights on the Big Island of Hawaii Free All Expense Paid Vacation for two! Simply write a Good News story about your community, your school, your family or anything positive that you have access to around the world and publish it at www.goodnewsdaily.com. It’s as simple as that. Do something good for the world while taking a chance that you might be the “Gerstenberger Prize” winner for 2008!...

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