Over 50 writing contests are available at FanStory.com. Share your writing, get feedback for your stories and poems, and enter writing contests. All contests are free with membership.  $6.95 per month covers everything. Web address: http://www.fanstory.com/page/writing_contest/writing_contest.jsp

 Love/Loathe/Life – a challenge to writers to compose autobiographies in 555 words or less. The entry fee is $5.00 the winner receives $555, and several runners-up will be published as well. Submissions and fees can be provided online (paypal for fee and submit@555c.org for piece) or mailed to PO Box 247 Ross, Texas 76684. Deadline is April 30th, 2011. Please check us out at www.555c.org or call...

OKANAGAN MEMORIES SHORT STORY CONTEST Artistic Warrior Publishing is holding its first Short Story competition. The competition is open to all writers of all ages from anywhere the world.  The stories must be written in English, non-fiction, previously unpublished (in print and online) and between 1,000 and 3,000 words in length. The topic is “Okanagan Memories.” You may live in the Okanagan, have friends or relatives here, maybe you’ve...

Mind’s Eye Magazine is coming in June of this year. If you would like to see your work published and sold amongst the public, as well as the having the chance of winning a £50 Book Token, then all you need do is fulfil these criteria: Submit a piece of writing under one of these three categories:  Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Rules – No longer than 1200 words Only one submission per entrant (i.e. you may only submit a piece for...

Susan Picking is an award winning singer song writer who wrote Wonder in the Wander while on safari in Tanzania.  The song brings to life the notion that there are no accidents, and they happen everyday.  We seek to inspire people to share their moments of seredepity in the form of a short 2,000 word essay.   The winning essayist will receive a free airline ticket in the United States.  Long-term Susan seeks to publish a short book that...

$1,000 Contest Option Fiction * Creative Non-Fiction * Poetry * Drama Deadline: May 1, 2011 Mason’s Road, sponsored by Fairfield University’s MFA in Creative Writing program, is now accepting submissions for Issue #3, to be published in July 2011. Dedicated to the writing craft, each issue of Mason’s Road focuses on a particular craft theme; the theme for Issue #3 is “arc.” For submission instructions, go to: http://masonsroad.com/submissions...