Hi, I’m an intern at Split Oak Press and I’m running a free, weekly online writing contest. All that’s needed to enter is a twitter account, and access to our twitter page: @splitoakpress.    The Official #Oakleaf Contest Rules Split Oak Press wants to create a larger readership, and writership, so we will be sponsoring a weekly writing contest on Twitter. The design is to foster an online literary culture by inspiring...

Announcing The Missouri Review’s Audio Literary Competition: $1,000 prizes awarded in 3 categories The Missouri Review invites all writers and writer/producers to send us your recordings of original poetry or prose or your audio documentaries on any subject. All you need is a computer, microphone, software such as GarageBand or Audacity, and a great script! This year, in an effort to expand the contest, we have opened submissions (previously...

Deadline: June 30, 2012 Prizes: $100, $50, $25 Entry fee: $5 Submit any work of fiction (short story, poetry, fable, graphic novel) that contains accurate scientific content and is suitable for a youth audience (grades 4-12). Maximum length: 4000 words.  No minimum. Link: http://www.sciencethrillers.com/2012/sci-with-fi-writing-contest-cash-prizes/

Our 2012 contests will run from March 1-June18, 2012. Entries are $15. KNIGHTVILLE POETRY CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional work of narrative and/or experimental poetry. Three poems per entry. Up to 300 lines per poem. Judged by National Poetry Series winner JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT. MACHIGONNE FICTION CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional work of literary and/or experimental fiction. Submit up to 7,500 words: anything from flash to the long story....

Short Story Contest: Judge Joan Leegant is the author of Wherever You Go (W.W. Norton) and the story collection, An Hour in Paradise (W.W. Norton), which won the Winship/PEN New England Book Award, the Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. The collection was also selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series. Her new work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal...

We maintain a self published Finnish-English magazine hesainprint.com (now in its 13th issue) with every month a themed competition opened to everyone for a chance to be published in our magazine. The competition is open to artists and creative but also to all writers and poets. The current theme is “Addiction – Riippuvuus” with the deadline for participation February 28, 2012. All submissions are published online on the blog...