Guidelines at www.folioalley.com/winners We will have our first-ever writing contest during 2009. The subject of the contest is “Alley Cats and Alley Rats”. The contest will be judged by the entire membership of folioalley. Winner to be announced on December 15, 2009. You will find the rules for this contest listed below.

www.cincinnatireview.com The Cincinnati Review will award a single poem and a prose piece (fiction or creative nonfiction) with publication and a prize of $300 each. Writers may submit up to 8 pages of poetry or 6,000 words of prose, per entry. Previously published manuscripts, including works that have appeared online (in any form), will not be considered. There are no restrictions as to form, style, or content; all entries will be Entry fee...

www.bacopaonline.com Contest Submission Period: July 1 through October 31, 2009 Prizes (Each Genre) First Place–$350.00 Second Place–$75.00 Honorable Mention–Authors and Titles listed in Bacopa. First and Second Place winners and selected Honorable Mention winners will be published. All authors whose work is published in Bacopa will receive one free copy. Notification First, Second and Honorable Mention winners will be notified via email. All...

http://fourthriver.chatham.edu/submit.cfm We are looking for poetry and creative nonfiction that capture the places—natural, built and imagined, urban, rural or wild—where humans and nature converge and collide. First place winner in each category will be published in the Fourth River and will receive a $500 cash prize upon publication. Contest judges to be announced. Contest Guidelines Submissions should be postmarked no later than October 15,...

www.grandmotherearth.org/id2.html DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2009 (POSTMARK) GRANDMOTHER EARTH XIV NATIONAL WRITING AWARDS PO Box 2018, Cordova, TN 38088 PHONE: 901-309-3692; E-mail: gmoearth@aol.com www.grandmotherearth.org Work can be unpublished or published. Money award entries (and selected finalists if permission is given) will be published in Grandmother Earth XVI. Rights to previously published work must belong to the author. No profanity or...

short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetic prose, or poetry www.evbooks.net/contest.htm First Prize $500 Two Second Prizes of $100 each Entries are now invited for the EV nature writing contest. Only winners will be notified and entries will not be acknowledged or returned. The deadline for receipt of entries falls on October 15 (of each year). The EV nature writing contest is held to support the cause of writing on the subject of nature and...