The Arts & Letters Prizes competition offers publication and a $1000 (U.S.) Prize for winners in: Fiction (Short Story), Poetry, Drama (One-Act Play), and Creative Nonfiction (Essay). A $15 submission fee, payable in U.S. dollars, includes a two-issue subscription to Arts & Letters. Please make checks or money orders payable to “GCSU” (note “Arts & Letters” in the memo section). All submissions will be considered for publication....

Seacoast Writers’ Association 19th Writing Competition for short story, personal essay, poetry. No geographic restrictions for entry. Awards: $100, $75, $50 in each category. Entry fee: $5-$10. Deadline: February 15, 2009. Info: www.seacoastwritersassociation.org (go to website to download entry forms)

www3.ashland.edu/academics/arts_sci/english/riverteeth/guidelines.htm Congratulations to Kurt Caswell, winner of the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize for his collection of essays entitled, An Inside Passage. River Teeth’s editors and editorial board will conduct a yearly national contest to identify the best book-length manuscript of literary nonfiction. The winner will be announced in May of the prize year. The winner will...

WHEN DOCTORS AND LAWYERS CONNECT–AND COLLIDE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/submittocnf.htm For a collection to be published by Southern Methodist University Press, Creative Nonfiction is seeking new essays written by or about doctors and lawyers, exploring the two professions–their similarities as well as their divisions and points of conflict. What intrigues, interests, or annoys doctors and...

We are looking for previously unpublished, first person essays, memoirs, or creative non-fiction. Essays can be on any topic. Open to any writer, any age, anywhere. First Prize: $1000 Second Prize: $500 Third Prize: $250 Entry fee: $17 (save $2 by becoming a fan on Facebook – (look up Memoirs Ink) Max 1500 words. Deadline: Postmark by February 16, 2009. Late deadline February 28, 2008 (extra $5). Winners announced and published April 30, 2009...

www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=7 The 2009 Gulf Coast Contests, awarding publication and $1,000 each in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, will open December 22. This year’s contests will be judged by Brigit Pegeen Kelly (poetry), Antonya Nelson (fiction), and Dinty W. Moore (nonfiction). Guidelines: Submit one previously unpublished story or essay (25 double-spaced pages max) or up to five previously unpublished poems (10 pages max)....