Smories.com is an exciting, independent and free online channel for kids (3 – 8 years old) to watch great new stories being read by other kids. Click here to start watching. If you have an unpublished children’s story, you can submit it here. We are offering US$1,500 worth of prize money for the 5 best stories submitted each month. The current competition closes 30 April 2010. You can submit from anywhere in the world. Submission is...

Prose and Poetry Prizes 2010 from The New Writer magazine Closing date: 30 November 2010 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 Collection, special edition of The New Writer magazine each July (back copies available on TNW website). Further information...

Nominate a Blog! Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in our next issue (#39: Summer Reading) forthcoming in July 2010. We’re looking for: Vibrant new voices with interesting, true stories to tell. Narrative, narrative, narrative. Posts must be able to stand alone, 2000 words or fewer, and posted between November 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010. Nominate something from your own blog, from a friend’s blog, from a stranger’s...

http://thesmokingpoet.net The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, established in 2006, and published online on a quarterly basis. TSP’s third annual short story contest is open to all writers, whether they have been past contributors to TSP or not, and in any genre. http://www.thesmokingpoet.net/id22.html Prizes will be awarded to the top three stories: first prize, $300; second prize, $100; third prize, $50. All of the winners will be published...

We are accepting entries to publish your story or poem on our website for our “Life begins…” contest. Contest runs through May 31, 2010. *First place winner will receive $250.00. Second place winner will receive $100.00.* *Publisher reserves the right to cancel the contest for lack of entries.* Contest rules: Stories/poetry should be non-fiction and include testimonies of faith and inspiration. Please self-edit your work and...

Welcome to our ‘kick off’ writing contests! These contests are our way of celebrating our grand opening (date not yet determined) and to award some cash prizes for our lucky winners! We have 3 writing contests going currently. Each contest pays AT LEAST $50 to the winner guaranteed. However, depending upon how many entries we receive, that prize money may just increase! In addition to a cash prize, the top winners will have their...