Spire Spring Poetry Chapbook Contest www.spirepress.org The winning entry will be published with a full-color cover and receive $500 cash, plus 20 copies and a royalty contract * All finalists will be considered for publication * Contest Guidelines: 1) Each submitted manuscript should be 18-30 numbered pages of poetry; 2) No author names should appear on any manuscript, but the chapbook title should appear on each page; 3) Two cover letters:...

Many Mountains Moving Press 2007 Poetry Book Contest Guidelines Prize: The winner receives $500 and publication by MMM Press in 2008. Deadline: May 1, 2007 (postmark). Entry fee: $20 {Entitles entrants to a free back issue and the opportunity to buy a new MMM Subscription for $10.00, and any one of the MMM Press Books, They Sing at Midnight, invisible sister, & Feeding the Fear of the Earth, also for $10 (shipping included). Final Judge:...

Outrider Press in affiliation w/TallGrass Writers Guild announces deadline extension to 3/31. www.outriderpress.com Postmark deadline: 3/31. Cash prizes: $2000; $1000 in poetry/$1000 in prose. Each published contributor receives one free copy of the anthology; perfect-bound, trade paper original of approximately 230 pages. We nominate for Pushcart Prizes. Theme: “A Walk Through My Garden”; in the tradition of writers who garden (or...

Announcing Fugue’s Sixth Annual Prose & Poetry Contest! NonFiction Judge: Jo Ann Beard First place winner receives $1000 and publication. Second and Third prize winners receive publication. To enter: 1. Essay submissions should not exceed 10,000 words in length. 2. Enclose a cover letter that contains a short biographical sketch and a current email address, mailing address, phone number, and the title of your essay. 3. Send an SASE...

The 2007 Virginia Brendemuehl Prize for Poetry www.rockandsling.org Virginia Merle Brendemuehl (1921-1999) dreamed of being a concert pianist in an era where girlsespecially unmarried redheaded daughters off small town judgeswere expected to teach, accompany the local soloist, or playy organ in church. All of which she did, but with panache and a madcap zest for making music fun and culturally relevant. An ardent world traveler, patriot, and...

The Ontario Prize Each year Black Lawrence Press will award The Ontario Prize for an unpublished collection of poems or short stories. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, ten copies of the book, and an interview in The Adirondack Review. Prizes awarded on publication. To enter, submit complete manuscript of poems or short stories using the guidelines to the right, along with a $25.00 entry fee. Checks...