Deadline: Monday, July 22, 2013 Categories Fiction, Nonfiction Entry Fees $50 per entry Prizes First and second place fiction and non-fiction winners receive interviews, reviews, special blog promos and social media mentions from SYJ! sponsors. Description Shirley You Jest! Book Awards honors books by self-published and traditionally published indie authors that “deliver the funny” in the categories of fiction and non-fiction. E-book and print...

POSTMARK DEADLINE OCTOBER 31, 2013 3 AWARDS: $1,000 each for Novel, Short Fiction,  Poetry // $3,000 in awards RESULTS LETTERS by MAY 1, 2014 (to your email address or via SASE)  WEBSITE:     www.danaawards.com  E-MAIL:     danaawards@gmail.com   for questions only. NO E-MAIL OR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS.  PLEASE  NOTE:  WE ASK THAT ALL WORK BE UNAWARDED AND UNPUBLISHED WHEN SUBMITTED TO US AND NOT PROMISED FOR AWARD OR FOR PUBLICATION, EITHER IN...

DEADLINE: July 1, 2013 GENRE:  Nonfiction DETAILS:   Award for promising new journalist or essayist whose work contains warmth, humor, wisdom and social justice.  Submit two samples of your writing (published or unpublished) 30 pages max. PRIZE: $5000 and one month residency at Blue Mountain Center. URL:  http://award.margolis.com/

Cat & Mouse Press, a small publishing company based in Lewes, DE has announced a new contest and invites writers to submit short pieces of fiction or nonfiction that are entertaining, interesting, humorous or just plain fun. The Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Competition features a $500 first prize sponsored by Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach. The theme for the contest is The Beach House. Each story must incorporate that theme and...

Northwind Story Contest Prize: $1,000.00 Entry fee: $15.00 Deadline: 07-31-2013. The Story Contest is open to all fiction and narrative non-fiction writers. Entries must be previously unpublished, either in print or online, between 1,500 and 8,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner or runner-up in another contest. First Prize is $1,000 and publication. Second Prize is $250 and publication. Third Prize is $100 and...

DEADLINE: June 30, 2013 Contest Rules Open to women 18 years or older. Women Who Write will retain one-time publication rights (print and electronic), after which all rights revert to the author. Entries to the contest must be previously unpublished. Prose pieces can be fiction or non-fiction and are limited to 3,000 words or less. $12 entry fee for each prose piece submitted or for up to two poems. Submissions will not be returned. Entry fees...