Announcing the Grub Street Book Prize for a non-first book of poetry from a poet outside New England. One winner receives $500 plus all-expenses-paid trip to Boston for reading, book party and citywide promotion. An exciting opportunity to promote your book in Boston’s thriving literary community. Poetry deadline postmark March 15th, 2007. Reading fee/donation $10. Mail to Grub Street Writers, 160 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02116. See...

New Millennium Writings Awards & Contests $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...

Lantern Books Essay Competition The aim of our essay competition is to allow new thinking to emerge on the key subjects of Lantern’s publishing program and to encourage new voices to step forward to shape the debate of the future. Subject This year, we’re giving participants 3 topics to choose from: We’ve just been through five years of focus on terrorism and September 11th. What are the most pressing issues for the U.S. or...

ONE PARAGRAPH WRITING COMPETITION First prize: round-trip ticket anywhere in the continental U.S. The paragraph of the day (tpotd) is sponsoring CONTEXT, a writing competition in which contestants are asked to write and submit a single paragraph. The paragraph should be written as it would appear in the context of a longer work — a novel, short story, memoir, essay, newspaper article, work of history, or analytical writing : any piece of...

The X.J. Kennedy Award for Nonfiction 4th biennial XJ Kennedy Award for Creative NonFiction sponsored by ROSEBUD magazine Some key points: 1) This distinguished competition, sanctioned by XJ kennedy has been in existence for eight years. It offers a $1000 prize to the winner and $100 each to four runnerups. All five winners will be published in ROSEBUD MAGAZINE, now 13 years old as an independent, self-supporting nationally distributed literary...

Salem College Center for Women Writers Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award for a single short story up to 5000 words Judge: Pinckney Benedict Rita Dove Poetry Award for a poem up to 100 lines (up to 2 poems per submission, any style) Judge: Beth Ann Fennelly Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award for a single piece of creative nonfiction, including personal essay and memoir, up to 5000 words Judge: Emily Herring Wilson The winner in each genre...