www.BLReview.org Now accepting entries for the 2008 Bellevue Literary Review Prizes in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction. Seeking exceptional writing about health, healing, illness, the body, and the mind. Deadline 8/1/07. $1000 Fiction Prize (Judge: Rick Moody) $1000 Poetry Prize (Judge: Marie Howe) $1000 Nonfiction Prize (Judge: Richard Selzer) Entry fee $15 ($20 includes subscription). Visit www.BLReview.org for details and to submit....

www.ghostroadpress.com/contest.htm Seeking entries of poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction Guidelines: There are two ways to enter this year’s contest. Send a labeled CD-ROM OR as an email attachment (preferred method) to contest@ghostroadpress.com with the following items: The work(s) in a Word document with the title of the piece on every page in the right-hand corner—no author info on the work itself—doudouble-spaced; a cover sheet...

memoirjournal.squarespace.com/contest/ Memoir (and) Prize for Nonfiction: $500 Prize and publication in our Fall Issue. Reading period: February 1st through April 30th, 2007 To enter: 1. Submit 10,000 words or fewer by email or snail mail: only one submission per person. 2. Submit a $10 entry fee by check or money order. 3. Submissions received without the $10 entry fee will be considered for publication but not entered in the contest. 4. We do...

The Bechtel Prize is awarded annually in recognition of an exemplary article or essay related to: Creative writing education, Literary studies, and/or The profession of writing. The winning essay appears in Teachers & Writers magazine, and the author receives a $3,500 honorarium. Entries selected as finalists for the Bechtel Prize may also be published in Teachers & Writers. The authors of finalist essays selected for publication in the...

Outrider Press in affiliation w/TallGrass Writers Guild announces deadline extension to 3/31. www.outriderpress.com Postmark deadline: 3/31. Cash prizes: $2000; $1000 in poetry/$1000 in prose. Each published contributor receives one free copy of the anthology; perfect-bound, trade paper original of approximately 230 pages. We nominate for Pushcart Prizes. Theme: “A Walk Through My Garden”; in the tradition of writers who garden (or...

Announcing Fugue’s Sixth Annual Prose & Poetry Contest! NonFiction Judge: Jo Ann Beard First place winner receives $1000 and publication. Second and Third prize winners receive publication. To enter: 1. Essay submissions should not exceed 10,000 words in length. 2. Enclose a cover letter that contains a short biographical sketch and a current email address, mailing address, phone number, and the title of your essay. 3. Send an SASE...