Annual Short Story Contest: Cash prizes ($450) and in-depth feedback await unpublished writers. No theme or genre restrictions. Maximum 1,500 words. Entry fee: $10 Deadline: October 31, 2011 Info: http://www.atlantis-shortstorycontest.com/ Contact e-mail: inquiry@atlantis-shortstorycontest.com

RUMINATE Magazine is currently accepting entries for the 2012 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize. $1000 will be awarded to the winner and publication in the Spring 2012 Issue will be awarded to both the winning and runner-up stories. The winning story from the 2011 contest, selected by author Leif Enger, appears in Issue 19 of Ruminate. 2009’s winning story, selected by author Bret Lott, was awarded a notable mention in the Best American...

Welcome to Project 52, a creative writing contest wherein participants are challenged to write a piece a week for an entire year. This should be an interesting experiment and I hope that many people will join me in creating. CONTEST: Starting on Sunday, November 13th at midnight (central time), all participants will receive an email from my stating the theme or prompt for the week. The participants will then have until 11:59 p.m. (again,...

The Splinter Generation – Call for Submissions: Open Reading from October 1-December 1 The Splinter Generation, a literary journal for and about people born between 1973 and 1993, has begun its next reading period and is now accepting submissions for creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry from October 1-December 1. And now new, Do Talk to Strangers, our new interview series will be taking submissions into the new year. You can read all...

HELD BY VENTURA COUNTY WRITERS CLUB Contest is open to all writers The September 30th deadline is fast approaching for submissions to the 12th Annual Short Story Contest, presented by the Ventura County Writers Club (VCWC). This contest draws interest from authors around the country as well as internationally. The Ventura County Star newspaper will publish the first place winning entry in a January 2012 Sunday edition and will publish first,...

We run the monthly bilingual art magazine “HESA inprint” (ISSN-L 1799-8549), which every month feature a free open call for entry, for people to submit work from any medium on a theme. Each entry is reviewed and published on the blog and a curated selection published in the printed magazine (artists featured in the magazine will receive a free copy). Even though our publication is not dedicated to writing, we greatly appreciate...