www.jwhagins.com/ChapContest.html Deadline: January 31, 2009 Entry Fee: $10.00 (please make checks payable to Nerve Cowboy) Submit between 24-40 pages of poetry and/or short fiction and SASE with adequate postage for return. 1st Prize: $200 and 50 copies of published chapbook 2nd Prize: $100 and 30 copies of published chapbook All entrants receive a copy of the winning chapbook and a discounted price on the second prize chapbook. Send your...

First Prize: $300 Second Prize: $150 Third Prize: $50 All winners will be published on the RAF Website and/or Newsletter and Printed Materials Guidelines: • RAF is looking for original literary works that are based on the healing power of nature, including, but not limited to: gardens, nature, flowers, and aromatherapy. The contest is open to any genre and is open to any writer of any age, writing in English. • Entry fee: $15. Please make your...

AKRON ART MUSEUM’S NEW WORDS CONTEST Open to adult (over 18) poets residing in Ohio. Entries of up to three poems must be postmarked (no email) between Jan. 2 and Feb. 27, 2009. Competition winners receive cash prizes of $125, $100 and $75. The top eight finalists will have the opportunity to read their poems (or have them read) at an awards ceremony during the New Words 2009 Poetry Reading on Sunday, April 19. Northeast Ohio poet Lynn...

Flex your poetic muscle with the Scribophile December Poetry Contest! This month’s challenge is to write a Rondeau: a short, 15-line rhyming poem. Read more about rondeaus at our contest page. Any theme will be accepted. 1st prize is a $50 Amazon.com gift card. Entry is free and submissions will be accepted through Dec. 31, 2008. The URL is here: www.scribophile.com/contests Note that the December contest will only be visible on Dec. 1....

Entries taken from January 2nd to February 2nd folded.wordpress.com/contest Folded Word Press is pleased to announce their first contest. “The Paper Plane Prize” is for the best piece of writing (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, comics etc all genres all forms of writing considered) received during our contest submission period. Since all submissions will also be considered for publication in Shape of a Box we are asking for...

Submit to Postal Poetry! We are accepting submissions of poetry postcards as well as extending our second contest until Dec. 15. For details, see our about page (postalpoetry.org/about) and our contest page (contest.postalpoetry.org/2008/10/october-postal-poetry-contest). Submissions have been light, but we don’t want to give up on this concept. We need you to make the project a success. So submit, and spread the word! In case you think...