FanStory.com Writing Community Get Feedback For Your Poetry and Stories Join Writing Contests! Over 50 Poetry and Story Writing Contests Now Available FanStory.com, helping writers improve their craft since the year 2000 —————————————————— A Love Poem Contest Write a love poem. Your love poem can be fictional or non-fictional. Cash prize...

Prose and Poetry Prizes This is the 13th year of the Prose & Poetry Prizes sponsored by The New Writer magazine, although it is the 16th consecutive year of the Poetry Prizes – previous winners include Judi Moore, Sharon Black, Wes Lee, Alexandra Fox, Cathy Whitfield, Mo McAuley, Alesha Racine, David Grubb, Katy Darby and Graham Clifford, whose award winning entries appeared in our anthologies – find details on this website....

This is an open call for submissions for “Ekphrastia Gone Wild” an anthology of poetry inspired by other works of art to be produced and released in 2013 by Ain’t Got No Press. The book will be compiled, designed and edited by Poetry Super Highway’s Rick Lupert. We welcome submissions to this anthology of poems inspired by other works of art. We are especially looking for work that is inspired by the experience of...

Little Gold Pencil’s first concrete or picture poetry competition is underway with £30 prize money.   The rules are: 1) The words of the poem must form a picture. 2) The poem must be the competition entrant’s own work. 3) Entries must be emailed by midnight on 26 November 2012.   The entry fee is £2, payable through the PayPal for at: http://littlegoldpencil.com/?page_id=265 . Once you’ve paid your entry fee, please email your poem to:...

Deadline: Postmarked by December 1st 2012 Website: http://www.thefiddlehead.ca/FHcontest.html Two contest categories: poetry and short fiction. Prizes in each category: $2000 for winner + publication payment and $250 for 2 honourable mentions + publication payment. Winning entries will be published in the spring 2013 issue of The Fiddlehead (no. 255) and on the website. One short-fiction entry is one story (6,000 words maximum). One poetry...

Cinnamon Press Writing  Awards Cinnamon Press competitions have been offering new and established writers excellent publication opportunities for the last seven years. Several authors who have won the competition have gone on to win other prestigious prizes or been short listed for major awards. From autumn 2012 we are re-launching the writing awards to make them even more accessible to a greater number of writers. The competitions in three...