CONTEST: The Night postmark deadline January 10, 2011 Co-sponsored by The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Judged by Susan Orlean Creative Nonfiction and The Salt Institute are seeking essays about “The Night”: It was a dark and stormy night; Strangers in the Night; the night sky; Friday Night Lights; things that go bump in the night; Take Back the Night; night owls; The Night Before Christmas; The Night Watch; The Night...

Call For Submissions Editors are soliciting individual nonfiction accounts for an anthology about real-life “bad date” experiences.  Did you date have terrible manners?  Overshared?  Drank too much?  Or was there just a series of bad events?  Your entries should be between 200 and 800 words in length, and give a quick but detailed overview of the most uncanny, strange, humorous, embarrassing or downright awful encounter you’ve ever...

Name of Contest:  Stage of Life Monthly Student Writing Contest Description:  StageofLife.com features a monthly writing contest for high school and college students dealing with real world issues.  Our short essay (500 words or less) writing contest has been featured on Forbes.com, CNBC.com, FoxBusiness and other media outlets.  Past contests have dealt with the Gulf Oil Spill, America’s relationship to food and the obesity epidemic,...

Sol Books grants one annual award for a novels and collection of short stories or essays. The winning entry will receive a standard royalty contract, with a $500 advance. Finalists may also be offered a publishing contract. GUIDELINES * Submit at least 30,000 words of prose (fiction or nonfiction) without any identifying information appearing on the manuscript. * Entry should be typed and double-spaced * Entry can be of any style, form, or...

Judges include Booker short listed author Clare Morrall, poet Jeff Phelps, children’s authors Ann Evans and Simon Cheshire, and former Birmingham Poet Laureate and non-fiction writer, Chris Morgan. 1st Prize £800 (approx 1,270 US $, 963 € ) The winning book will also be read by a top literary agent from MBA 2nd prize £150 (approx 240 US $, 180 €) 3rd prize £50 (approx 80 US $, 60 €) Closing date: March 31, 2011 We are now accepting...

Prose and Poetry Prizes 2010 from The New Writer magazine Closing date 30 November Established in 1997, one of the major annual international competitions for short stories, novellas, single poems, poetry collections, essays and articles;  offers cash prizes as well as publication for the prize-winning writers in The New Writer magazine. Back copies of previous annual “Collections” are available at the TNW website:...