www.puddinghouse.com Deadline: September 30 annually 10-36pp ms. Prefer around 24-28pp. $15 entry fee payable to Pudding House. Send to Pudding House Chapbook Competition 81 Shadymere Lane Columbus Ohio 43213 (614) 986-1881 $2000.00 First Place divided between author ($1,000.00) & a shelter program for the homeless ($1,000.00) plus publication 20 free copies; deep discounts on optional additionals Identify author/address on cover page. Some...

The Ohio State University Press and The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University, invite submissions for the 2008 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award. Each year, a readers’ committee of OSU poets and a final judge select one full-length poetry manuscript for publication by The Ohio State University Press. The winner also receives The Charles B. Wheeler Prize , a $3,000 cash prize made possible by the...

http://www.briarcliff.edu/campus_info/bcu_review/contest_info.asp $1000 First Place for each category Plus Publication in Spring 2008 Entries will be judged by the Editors of The Briar Cliff Review. $15.00 entry fee per story/creative nonfiction piece or three poems. Omit author’s name on manuscript. Deadline: November 1, 2007 Guidelines: Short story/creative nonfiction word limit up to 6,000. Short stories and creative nonfiction should be...

$500 cash prize and fifty copies Judge: Pauline Uchmanowicz Manuscripts are judged anonymously. Codhill Press will consider all finalists for publication. Guidelines The competition is open to any poet who writes in English. Previously published poems with proper acknowledgement are acceptable. Translations and previously self-published books are not eligible. Poets should submit twenty to thirty pages (no more than one poem per page) plus SASE...

The 2008 (14th Annual) Key West Robert Frost Poetry Festival & Contests will be held April 9 – 13th, 2008. The festival, set in the Heritage House Garden, Robert Frost Cottage, and other select venues in Key West, again will feature poetry and haiku workshops, poetry and haiku readings, impromptu jazz and open mike, an art & film event, poetry on the water, a poetry slam, visual poetry exhibit, and international and Florida Key’s...

short fiction, creative non-fiction, or poetic prose First Prize $600 and elegibility to co-write a future EV work. Entries are now invited for the EV nature writing contest. Only winners will be notified and entries will not be acknowledged or returned. The deadline for receipt of entries is October 15, 2007. The EV nature writing contest is held for three reasons: 1. to support the cause of writing on the subject of nature and deep ecology....