Non-Fiction Contests

Road Trip Writing Competition

minispace.com/en_us/article/Airsteam-writing-competition/216/ With a swank and beach-ready new bod, the new MINI and Airstream designed by Republic of Fritz Hansen features furnishings and trappings for every beach bum both inside and out. Want to bring a little piece of this “rad” design into your own home? Participate in our writing contest to win a set of four Fritz Hansen Series SevenTM chairs. Tell us: if you could go on a road...

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The Memoir (and) Prizes: Prose, Poetry, and Graphic Memoir

The Memoir (and) Prize for Memoir in Prose and Poetry The Memoir (and) Prize for Graphic Memoir Four prizes awarded up to $500. Memoir (and) reading period for Spring+Summer 2010 (Issue 6): 5/1/09 – 8/15/09. Accepting traditional and experimental prose, poetry, graphic memoir, narrative photography, lies, and more. All submissions eligible for contest entry. Submit online or mail to: Memoir (and), P.O. Box 1398, Sausalito, CA 94966....

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Santa Barbara Writers Conference Contests

The Santa Barbara Writers Conference announces its first annual Writing Contest in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry. Winners in each category will receive a scholarship for tuition to the 2010 Santa Barbara Writers Conference and a grand prize winner will get a scholarship and the opportunity to have lunch with a top agent during the conference. www.sbwriters.com/contest_2009.php Fiction entries can be in any genre. Nonfiction can be essay,...

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Teresa A. White Literary Award

Quiddity international literary journal and public-radio program (www.sci.edu/quiddity) is pleased to announce the Teresa A. White Literary Award. The 2009 award is affectionately referred to as the “buck-a-word” contest. First Prize: $500 and publication in the Spring/Summer 2010 print issue of Quiddity as well as broadcast feature in Quiddity’s public-radio program (via WUIS, NPR member and PRI affiliate) Honorable mentions may also be...

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ALABAMA WRITERS’ CONCLAVE 2009 WRITING COMPETITION

www.alabamawritersconclave.org/contests.html Deadline: April 30, 2009 (postmark). Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75; 3rd: $50; 4th: $25 and up to 4 Honorable Mentions. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED on the last day of the AWC Conference at the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama on JULY 19, 2009. Contest Rules: Entries must be original, unpublished, and may not have won a money prize in any contest. (Sitting AWC voting Board...

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Professional Writers of Prescott, AZ Annual Writing Contest

For complete guidelines and a required entry form, see www.prescottwriters.com/2009Contest.html Entries must be original writing that has never been published in any format. Sorry, no erotica or children’s stories. Fiction and *non-fiction entries are not to exceed 3,000 words. Works in excess of 3,000 words will be disqualified. Word count must appear on the first page of the manuscript. Poetry must not exceed 5 poems with a five page total....

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