The Sportswriter Competition 2012 is the first of what we hope to be an annual writing competition that seeks to identify new sportswriting talent. Prizes: First place: £250 Second place: £75 Third place: £25 (paid in British Pounds Sterling by bank transfer, cheque or through PayPal) The entry fee is £3.00, of which £1.00 will be donated to our chosen charity, Cyclists Fighting Cancer (http://cyclistsfc.org.uk/ ). The deadline for entries is...

Submit a single work of creative nonfiction, with a maximum length of 600 words. The subject should be a story about love—the presence, absence, complications, hesitations, headlong rush into.  The best essays will focus on a specific event or experience and explore its larger implications and meanings.  Winners will receive publication on the back page of Iris and a two-year subscription. Due Date: November 11th. Entry Fee:  $10....

FISH SHORT MEMOIR CONTEST 2012 Judge: David Sheilds Great new contest – the Fish Short Memoir Contest, with David Shields as the judge. First prize is €2,000, and the ten best short memoirs will be published in the 2012 Fish Anthology.  David Shields author of Reality Hunger, the Judge for the inaugural Fish Short Memoir Contest famously said – It’s all in the art, you get no credit for living. Isn’t that the case? It is often...

FISH SHORT STORY CONTEST 2011/12 Judge: David Mitchell David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, number9dream, Ghostwritten, Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, will be judging the 2011/12 prize. “If any readers have doubted that David Mitchell is phenomenally talented and capable of vaulting wonders on the page, they have been heretofore silent. Mitchell is almost universally acknowledged as the real deal. His...

I thought your readers might be interested in a writing contest hosted by publishing legend, Avery Cardoza. Winners can win a cash prize and will be published by Cardoza Publishing in a special Las Vegas-themed anthology. Founder of the world’s largest gambling publishing house, Avery Cardoza’s life reads like a Hollywood movie script: banned from every casino in Vegas for card counting, Avery built a publishing empire on how to beat the...

StoryFeedback.com Short Story Competition Previously unpublished stories in any genre and on any theme of up to 5000 words required, from anywhere in the world, as entries can be uploaded on our website. Prizes: £100, £50, £25 plus publication online. Entry fee: £3, plus an extra £3 for a tick-sheet critique, or an extra £12 for a tick-sheet critique and proof edit. Deadline: 30th November 2011 RULES 1. UK residents can enter the contest either...