Can you sum up your love life in six words? Send us your submissions, and we’ll pass them on to six-word experts Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, who are creating Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak by Writers Famous & Obscure, who’ll select their three favorites, and award free copies of the book to those three. But wait! There’s more! They’ve also agreed to include their favorite in the next published...

Final deadline in our Winter Contest is midnight Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009 (postmark OK) or enter online (see below). $4,000 in Prizes, plus publication in NMW and on the Web at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com $1,000 for best Fiction; $1,000 for best Poem; $1,000 best Nonfiction; $1,000 best Short-short Story (Nonfiction includes humor, memoir, creative nonfiction, travel, opinion, essay, interview, features, investigative reporting, etc.) Winners...

– short story, personal essay, poetry. No geographic restrictions for entry. Awards: $100, $75, $50 in each categoy. Entry fee: $5-$10.Deadline: February 15, 2009. Info: www.seacoastwritersassociation.org (go to website to download entry forms) or send SASE to Pam Gjettum, 6 South St., Exeter NH 03833.

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 Guidelines: Submit one previously unpublished story or essay (25 double-spaced pages max) or up to five previously unpublished poems (10 pages max)....

We are looking for previously unpublished, first person essays, memoirs, or creative non-fiction.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...

Writer’s Relief announces a NO-FEE contest to celebrate its 15th anniversary as an author’s submission service. The grand prize is 25+ submissions of your work professionally targeted to agents, editors, or literary magazines (monetary value: $106). In other words, Writer’s Relief will do the market research for you to make sure your work gets into the right hands. More information about this prize at:...