Entries Due: March 29, 2012 Submission Fees: $10 per entry Theme: Intimate Landscape. Landscapes conjure images of vast, sweeping scenes, but the details captured by a photograph can turn a seemingly impersonal setting into an intimate story. It’s up to the artist to define what constitutes an intimate landscape, be it representational, non-representational, urban, suburban or rural. Judge: Patrick Thomas is the editor and program manager...

2012 COLUMBIA: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND ART WRITING CONTEST NOW OPEN $500 prizes in each genre: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Plus publication in our landmark 50th issue. [JUDGES] Fiction: Dinaw Mengestu How to Read the Air The New Yorker “20 Under 40” 2010 Nonfiction: Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down National Book Critics Circle Award 1997 Poetry: Eileen Myles Inferno: a poet’s novel Lambda Literary Award 2010...

FISH POETRY PRIZE 2012 Judge: Billy Collins (Poet Laureate USA 2001-2003). The ten best poems will be published in the 2012 Fish Anthology. 1st Prize €1,000. 2nd Prize – a week at Anam Cara Writers & Artists Retreat in West Cork’s Beara Peninsula. Word limit 200. Closes 30 March 2012. Results announced 30 April 2012. Entry €14. Critique €30 FISH FLASH FICTION PRIZE 2012 Judge: Micheal Collins writer and extreme athlete. Fish...

Win A Key West Residency – Robert Frost Poetry Contest TSKW was honored to take over the prestigious literary tradition founded by the Heritage House Museum over 18 years ago, and continues a long tradition of the contest, which honors Robert Frost and encourages the creation of new poetry and haiku. TSKW will begin accepting contest entries by email and mail between January 1 and March 15, 2012. PRIZES FOR EACH CATEGORY: (POETRY AND HAIKU) 1st...

Guidelines: -The submission deadline for the prize is May 1st, 2012. -The entry fee is $15 (includes a free copy of the Fall 2012 Issue). -All submissions must be previously unpublished work. -You may submit up to two poems per entry, no longer than 40 lines each. Please make sure that both poems are in the same document–do not submit a separate documents for each poem. -$1000 will be awarded to the winner, and publication in the Fall...

The Wag’s Revue Third Annual Winter Writers Contest is now open. First Prize $1000 and publication in Issue 13; second prize $500 and third $100. All entries will be considered for publication and it is open to all three genres (fiction, poetry, essays). The contest will be judged by the editors and closes February 29, 2012. All details and the submissions manager may be accessed at http://www.wagsrevue.com/submit.php. Founded in early...