Florida Review Editors’ Awards We are now accepting submissions for the 2007 Editors’ Awards in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction. $1000 and publication in the Fall 2007 issue. Join our mailing list and we’ll keep you posted. The postmark deadline is February 15, 2007. Submit 3-5 poems, one story or essay with a $15 reading fee (which includes a year’s subscription). Your name should not appear on the manuscript....

The Bellingham Review Literary Contests 2007 The 49th Parallel Poetry Award Final Judge: Carolyne Wright The Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction Final Judge: Phillip Lopate The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction Final Judge: Peter Rock 1st Place: $1,000 in each Category First place winners will be published in the Bellingham Review. Runners-up and finalists may be considered for publication. Submission Guidelines 1.Entry Fees: $15 for the...

The 2007 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Awards in Poetry and Prose The Department of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and GRASSROOTS, SIUC’s undergraduate literary magazine, are pleased to announce the 2007 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Awards. One book of poetry and one book of prose (novel, short fiction, or literary nonfiction) will be selected from submissions of titles published in 2006, and the winning authors will...

The Tennessee Writers Alliance Creative Nonfiction Award February 28th, 2007 Postmark Deadline First Prize $500 Second Prize $250 Third Prize $100 Full guidelines. The first, second, and third prizewinner will be selected from a short list of finalists. Honorable mentions will be named at judges’ discretion. Cash awards and certificates will be announced at our conference in June 2007. The judge this year is Richard Goodman, author of...

Starcherone Books Contest The 2007-08 contest, offering $1000 and publication with Starcherone Books, is now accepting entries. Contest is open to story collections, novels, or indeterminate prose works up to 400 pages. Manuscripts will be blind-judged; the author’s name should appear on the first of two title pages and nowhere else in the manuscript. There is an administrative fee of $30. Please do not send cash. The postmark deadline is...

Essay Contest Guidelines 13th Annual Contest Deadline: February 17, 2007 Tiny Lights invites entries that feature a distinctive voice, discernable conflict and an eventual shift in the narrator’s perspective. We are looking for writers who weave the struggle to understand into the fabric of their essays. This year, we are introducing a special prize of $300 for short essays (no more than 1,000 words). We can only consider unpublished...