The River City Writing Awards in FICTION and POETRY Sponsored by the Hohenberg Foundation Fiction: First Prize: $1,500 Second and Third Prizes: Publication and one year subscription CONTEST RULES 1. Any previously unpublished short story of up to 7,500 words is eligible. Simultaneous submissions are NOT permitted. 2. All manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, and be accompanied by a cover letter. If applicable, please provide an email...

Campbell Corner at the Sarah Lawrence Language Exchange announces its Ninth Annual Poetry Contest. Entries that treat larger themes with lyric intensity are especially welcomed by contest director Phillis Levin and the judges. The Contest offers a prize of $3,000. Winners are invited to give a public reading at Sarah Lawrence College. Audio and video tapes of the reading will become part of the Sarah Lawrence Archives, and the poems will be...

The Foley Poetry Contest America sponsors annually the Foley Poetry Award, given in honor of William T. Foley, M.D. The contest runs from January 1 to March 31. The winning poem for 2006 is “Covetous” by Erin Murphy. Each entrant is asked to submit only one poem of 30 lines or fewer for consideration. No poems will be returned. Only typed, unpublished poems not under consideration elsewhere will be considered. The winning poem will...

PRAIRIE SCHOONER BOOK PRIZE WIN $3,000 AND PUBLICATION Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series The 2007 Prairie Schooner Book Prize competition will award $3,000 and publication through the University of Nebraska Press to one book of poetry and one book of short fiction. A $1,000 prize will be awarded to a runner-up in each category. Postmark deadline is March 15th, 2007. Manuscripts and $25 entry fee should be mailed to: Prairie Schooner Book Prize...

New Letters Writing Awards Send writing to the 22nd-annual New Letters Awards in fiction, poetry, and essay. $4,500 in prizes–$1,500 and publication for winners in each category. For guidelines, visit www.newletters.org or send an S.A.S.E. to New Letters Awards for Writers, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5101 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110. Deadline May 18.

GLASGOW PRIZE FOR EMERGING WRITERS 2007 A prize of $2,500, publication in SHENANDOAH and a reading at Washington and Lee University is given in 2007 to a writer who has published only one book of poetry. Send vita, copy of the submitted book, five unpublished poems, an sase and a submission fee of $22 (for a year’s subscription). Submissions must be postmarked between March 15 and March 31, 2007. Send to The Glasgow Prize, Shenandoah,...