CONTEST num.1 by Caligae Travel Files is the first writing & art contest organized to celebrate & promote the project’s launch in January 2012. Caligae Travel Files – World by sensitive eyes. Author’s articles & illustrations about world nations & travel destinations. Curious, humorous, philanthropic. Entertaining anthropology & travel information by the very locals. Focus on people & their environment....

Happily Cognating seeks to be both a place to find upbeat and positive writing on the web, as well as to try and help new authors get a first byline.  We’re looking for short fiction, regardless of genre, which readers will enjoy looking back on.  Ideally, something which helps readers to see themselves in a new way without being preachy. Deadline for the summer issue is the first of May, 2012. Entry is free, but understand that the...

Enter your outdoor creative nonfiction essays or memoir excerpts of no more than 5,000 words for a chance to win. Photography and haiku are not eligible for this contest. Essays of an academic nature will not be considered. $15 for a single entry, $25 for two entries. $15 entry fee includes a copy of the Summer/Fall 2012 issue. All entries will be considered for publication. DEADLINE: May 15th, 2012...

GeminiMAGAZINE The February issue of Gemini Magazine is now online with exciting new fiction and poetry from Maureen Wilkinson, Vladimir Swirynsky, Leslie Greffenius, Deepak Chaswal, Lesley Galeote, Christine Tierney, Derold Sligh and Vivian Faith Prescott. Artist Yonatan Frimer crushed his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2005 and was hospitalized for three years. He spent much of that time drawing mazes. His intriguing “Mobius Maze” appears on...

FLASH CONTEST: Each month Switchback provides a prompt and we want you to send us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors is then featured on Switchback. Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art but must be 500 words or under. Please send us only one submission per prompt and only previously unpublished works. We accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us...

We’re seeking fresh ideas from Los Angeles area high school seniors in response to the question: What is the most powerful way to make your community stronger? We’re asking for no more than 1,000 words to be sent to essays@zocalopublicsquare.org by March 15, 2012.  Full details follow below, and at  http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/01/05/zcalos-high-school-essay-contest/community/ Eligibility Current high school seniors under...