Non-Fiction Contests

Call for Submissions: Open Reading from January 15th-March 15th, 2011

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. We are looking for the most powerful work you have—work that makes us look at ourselves in a new way and work that challenges, or confirms in some subversive way, the stereotypes that paint our generation as lazy or stupid or narcissistic or...

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MONTANA PRIZE IN CREATIVE NONFICTION

MONTANA PRIZE IN CREATIVE NONFICTION Open Dec. 1 – Feb. 28, the Montana Prize in Fiction seeks to highlight work that showcases an authentic voice, a boldness of form, and a rejection of functional fixedness. The winner, chosen by judge Thalia Field, will be featured in CutBank 75 and receive $500. All pieces will be considered for print publication. We look forward to reading your work! CONTEST GUIDELINES: The $17 contest entry fee...

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Last Call for Entries: Scinti Story Contest

Scinti Story Contest Everyone has a story. We want yours. We are looking for true stories that astound, enchant, enlighten and startle us. We want to be swept up and away, pulled from our moorings, left shaken and inspired. We want to think, wonder, imagine, believe. Do you have a story that is especially meaningful to you, something hilarious or harrowing that touched you deeply, changed your heart, your soul, your way of seeing the world? It...

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2 writing contests for Canadian Writers from a 30-year-old literary magazine

The New Quarterly invites entries for The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest. $1000 for the winning poem; another $1000 in prizes. All submissions considered for paid publication. Seeks poems written in response to an occasion. Entry fee: $40 (includes a 1 year subscription to The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers and Writing). Entrants must be Canadian residents or citizens. Deadline: February 28, 2011. Visit the website for more...

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£100 for the Best Article Submitted in January!

We are now taking entries for our January writing competition. Offering you a chance to win £10o for your ‘how to’ article. The prize will be awarded for the best article submitted for the month of January, as judged by our editors. The article can be on any category and on any topic. As long as it’s a ‘how to’ article, and it fits our normal writer’s guidelines, it’s in with a chance. So get writing...

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Anderbo.com Calls for submission: Fiction, Poetry, Facts

Guidelines:  Fiction – submit stories of up to 3500 words  Poetry – submit up to 6 poems  “fact” – submit up to 1500 words Send submissions to editors@anderbo.com A submission may be sent in the body of an e-mail and/or as an attachment in any common file format such as doc or rtf. Mac users, please be sure that your doc files are readable by PCs. No docx files, ever. And please, only one story per submission....

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