Announcing The Briar Cliff Review Eleventh Annual Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contest $1000 First Place for each category Plus Publication in Spring 2007 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, 2006 Guidelines: Short story/creative nonfiction word limit up to 6,000. Short stories and...

Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition for Ohio Poets Poets currently residing in Ohio may enter the Open Chapbook Competition. Poets currently enrolled in Ohio institutions of higher education may enter the Student Chapbook Competition. Two to four manuscripts from each category are chosen each year to be published by Kent State University Press. In addition, the winners are invited to give a reading on the Kent State campus. Maggie Anderson is...

The 2006 Mid-American Review Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, Creative Nonfiction Award, James Wright Poetry Award 1st Prize, each genre: $1000 + Publication Four Finalists: Notation + Possible Publication 2006 Final Judges: Fiction: Aimee Bender Author of Willful Creatures, An Invisible Sign of My Own, and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Nonfiction: Phillip Lopate Author of Getting Personal, Portrait of My Body, and Totally, Tenderly, Sweetly...

The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize: $2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse. Each year Crazyhorse offers the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for a single short story and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize for a single poem. The prize awards are currently $2000 for each genre, and the winning poem and piece of prose are published in Crazyhorse. To enter: To enter, please mail a manuscript of up to twenty-five pages...

The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2007 The winner of this annual award receives $1000 and publication by the University of North Texas Press. This year’s judge has asked to remain anonymous until the conclusion of the competition. Postmark deadline: November 15, 2006 Submit 50- to 80-page, typed manuscript, including an additional title page that does not bear the name of the poet. All pages indicating the poet’s identity will be...

2nd Annual Sonnet Contest 2006 Dancing Galliard Awards Daybreak Press is proud to announce a call for entries to the Second Annual Dancing Galliard Sonnet Contest. We seek original sonnets from new as well as established authors. Sonnets should be fourteen lines with symmetrical prosody (it should have form enough to create a musical effect when read aloud). While the judges are somewhat partial to formal styles, free sonnets are encouraged as...