SAGE MAGAZINE is looking for new ideas and perspectives on the environment. Open to all non-professional writers, Sage’s first annual young environmental writers contest seeks previously unpublished works of art that deal with nature, the environment, sustainable living and natural resource issues.  Send us essays, short stories, memoirs, graphic novels, sky-writing – all forms of environmental writing accepted (including excerpts from longer...

Limnisa and Bluethumbnail.com are organizing their 4th annual writing competition. Deadline: March 14, 2012 This international contest is open to writers everywhere and is for Short Stories. Prizes – One week place at a writers’ retreat held at Limnisa, a seaside location in Greece, secondary prizes apply. Winners will be posted on the bluethumbnail.com  website. Entry Fee: £6 Members of Bluethumbnail.com pay £4 Details on the...

Name of contest: Somewhere Sometime Brief description of what is to be submitted: Writers can submit their real life anecdotes, experiences, and imaginations, fictional ideas in the form of a Short Story of maximum 3000 words in English or Hindi. The condition is that there should be a Twist in the story. Awards: Winner gets Kindle 3G,  1st Runner up gets Apple iPod and 2nd Runner Up gets cash prize of  Rs. 2,500/ $ 50 or Amazon.com coupons for...

2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award Deadline October 15th, 2012 http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/anderselfpubbookaward2012.html anderbo.com For a Self-Published Book (Fiction or Nonfiction) One Winner will receive: $500 cash Announcement on the Anderbo web site Publication of a book-excerpt on anderbo.com Judged by Rick Rofihe Rick Rofihe is the author of FATHER MUST, a collection of short stories published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. His...

Short Story Contest: Judge Joan Leegant is the author of Wherever You Go (W.W. Norton) and the story collection, An Hour in Paradise (W.W. Norton), which won the Winship/PEN New England Book Award, the Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. The collection was also selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series. Her new work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal...

We maintain a self published Finnish-English magazine hesainprint.com (now in its 13th issue) with every month a themed competition opened to everyone for a chance to be published in our magazine. The competition is open to artists and creative but also to all writers and poets. The current theme is “Addiction – Riippuvuus” with the deadline for participation February 28, 2012. All submissions are published online on the blog...