Guidelines (pdf). www.writersleague.org/contests/book-awards.htm Deadline: April 30, 2009. Eligibility The 2009 contest is open to American authors of books published in 2008. Authors are not required to be members of the Writers’ League of Texas. Collected works must be written by a single author. Anthologies that include works of several authors are not eligible.

Judge: Mary Jo Bang www.fourwaybooks.com/contest.php Submission Dates: January 1 – March 31, 2009 by email or regular mail Awarding publication of a book-length collection and $1000.00 Open to any poet writing in English, regardless of publication history. Submissions accepted on-line (preferred) and by mail. Please read the following instructions carefully. Online submission: Submitting to us online is easy, saves you money, and saves trees. •...

Abroad Writers’ Conference (www.abroad-crwf.com) is announcing its annual 2009 literary contest. Contest winners in the categories of fiction/non-fiction and poetry will have their work published inthe journal Driftwood. Contest Deadline: February 15, 2009 Winners will be announced on: March 15, 2009 Poetry Judge: PATRICIA SMITH, National Book Award Finalist in Poetry. Fiction/Non-Fiction Judge: JOAN SILBER, National Book Award Finalist in...

The Second Annual Press 53 Open Awards Accepting Entries Until March 31 8 Categories: Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short-Short Story, Short Story, Genre Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Novella, and Young Writers. 8 Industry-Professional Judges 8 Beautiful Etched-Glass Awards 17 Opportunities for Publication in the Second Annual Press 53 Open Awards Anthology Guidelines available at...

New South is now reading for its fiction and poetry contest. First-place winners will receive $1000. Second-place winners will receive $250. All winners will have their work published in our Summer 2009 issue. John Weir (fiction) and Chelsea Rathburn (poetry) will judge the final rounds, which will be anonymous. For more information, please email James May at new_south@langate.gsu.edu or visit our contest’s website:...

Lynne Birdsall PO Box 1615 Concord, NH 03302-1615 Please note limit is forty lines. Name and address must appear in the upper right hand corner of the copy on which they appear. NO identification is to appear anywhere on the second copy. The Poetry Society of New Hampshire sponsors four National Contests open to all poets, members or not. Judges for the contests are not members of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. Prizes are awarded to four...