The Asheville Award by the Black Mountain Press   The Asheville Award is a twice  annual international competition offering $500 plus publication by the Black Mountain Press for a book length poetry, and novel or collection of short stories. Manuscripts are accepted for review this year by June 15th and October 19th. The winner will be announced 90 days after the deadline and the book and author will be featured in the Black Mountain Press...

Writing It Real Fall Contest Reading Period from September 15 to December 31, 2012! Do you have an essay, a memoir chapter, a short story or up to three poems to which you’d like to have professional response? Submit the work to our contest, and Sheila will respond in detail via email within a week of receiving the entry. Then you may revise the work and resubmit without additional fees for the final judging.  If entrants do not submit a...

Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition To celebrate, in partnership with the Poetry School, we’ve made three sets of discussion points (one for each of last year’s top three poems) available from our website. We hope that writing groups and classes might enjoy looking at the poems in more detail. Each year the competition throws three winning poets into the spotlight. “There was a surge of interest,” says 2011’s second prize winner...

 Sycamore Review is now accepting entries for the 2012 Wabash Prize for Poetry judged by Nikky Finney and open to previously unpublished works of poetry. Each entry may contain up to three poems (no more than six pages total). The author of the winning piece will be awarded $1,000 and publication in a 2013 issue of Sycamore Review. All entrants receive a year’s subscription to Sycamore Review. Entry fee is $15 and $5 for each additional...

The competition has two contests:  Magma Judge’s Prize (judged by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales and recipient of Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2010): Unpublished poems of 11 to 80 lines First prize £500 / second prize / £200 / third prize £100 Magma Editors’ Prize (judged by Magma Poetry editors): Unpublished poems of up to 10 lines First prize £500 / second prize / £200 / Plus 10 Special Mentions £10 each Winners will be invited...

Open to Interpretation brings together photographers and writers in an exciting and innovative book project that has never been done before. Each book begins with a themed call for photos. The chosen photos become the literary inspiration for the writers’ submissions. A book is created that matches each winning photo with two stories or poems that offer different interpretations of the image.     ANNOUNCING FADING LIGHT The photographers...