The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves arranging words into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. http://www.dreamquestone.com Guidelines: Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, style, or form, typed or neatly hand...

The Assignment: This month’s challenge is to write a creative short story or essay on the theme “Baggage Claim”. Similar to the prior challenges, what that means is completely up to you. Travel, self-reflection, relationships or personal realizations — there are a lot of interpretations. Surprise us! Bonus points for creative application of the theme, so don’t be afraid to look beyond the obvious. How short or long you...

The Quotable is the quarterly publication of quotable writers.  Each issue is based on a theme and a quote.  We’re searching for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and art for our “Escape” issue using the following quote as a springboard:  “Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.” -Loren Eiseley 3,000 word maximum.  Deadline: May 1, 2011 More info at:...

We are running a free writing contest on our website CampTrip.com and are looking for people to share their camping How to’s, Reviews, useful Tips and Advice or any other camping topic. The topic can be anything camping related and be from anywhere in the world. Entries which are informative on camping will be entered to win one of three VISA Gift Cards. 1st prize: $100 2nd prize:$75 3rd prize: $25   The contest will close once we have...

1st Annual Ridge to River Contest   1st Prize is $100, an Osprey pack and publication. 2nd prize is a gift certificate for La Sportiva Mountain Running Shoes and publication.   Adventum, a new biannual online literary magazine, welcomes the finest contemporary outdoor adventure writing from new and established writers, as well as seasonal haiku and high quality digital photography. Accepts creative nonfiction, essays, and memoir pieces of no...

With a nod to spring, Writing.com has partnered with Gotham Writers’ Workshop to present a Tweet Writing Contest. Following the Twitter craze, we challenge you to dazzle us with a piece of writing that is no more than 140 characters (characters = letters, punctuation marks, and spaces). You may write on any topic and use any form—fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. As Strunk and White say, “Vigorous writing is concise.” Here’s an example, a...