2012 Poetry Contest Final Judge: Linda Gregg Entry Deadline: March 5, 2012 All submissions should be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine if you withdraw immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. We’ll select our ten favorite entries and send to Linda Gregg for final judging. For general examples of poems we like, visit our archives. Details: -1st Prize: $500 and publication -2nd Prize: $250 and publication -All entries will...

We’ve launched a competition. Not just any competition. Let me tell you why! Promoting your work is not an easy feat. You can do things online but it’s nice to have something in print, something you can put on your wall, like a postcard… So the idea is the winning poems and photographs of the competition will be turned into a beautiful postcard (we pride ourselves on our design) AND we will distribute these postcards to leading independent...

Are you a brilliant poet looking for a platform to get your words out to the world? If so, this brief has your name scribbled all over it. We’ve joined forces with clinic, the super cool poetry, art and music collective and producers of “London’s sickest poetry night” (Dazed & Confused) to offer two IdeasTap members an unmissable opportunity. As one of two winners, not only will you will have a poem published in clinic’s summer poetry...

FLASH CONTEST: Each month Switchback provides a prompt and we want you to send us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors is then featured on Switchback. Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art but must be 500 words or under. Please send us only one submission per prompt and only previously unpublished works. We accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us...

ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD  (Poetry) – $1000 prize, plus book publication Judge: Mary Jo Salter Entry fee: $25 for a manuscript of 50 to 120 pages. Deadline: March 31, 2012 Read the guidelines and ENTER now!

ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE (Poetry & Fiction) 2012  $500 prize for the best poem, and $500 prize for the best short story (flash fiction), plus publication in Able Muse (the print journal). Finalists in each category will also be considered for publication. Entry Fees: $15 for each entry which should contain a minimum of 1 poem, a maximum of 5 poems, but all the poems combined should not exceed 10 pages per entry). $15 for each entry minimum...