Welcome to Project 52, a creative writing contest wherein participants are challenged to write a piece a week for an entire year. This should be an interesting experiment and I hope that many people will join me in creating. CONTEST: Starting on Sunday, November 13th at midnight (central time), all participants will receive an email from my stating the theme or prompt for the week. The participants will then have until 11:59 p.m. (again,...

The Splinter Generation – Call for Submissions: Open Reading from October 1-December 1 The Splinter Generation, a literary journal for and about people born between 1973 and 1993, has begun its next reading period and is now accepting submissions for creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry from October 1-December 1. And now new, Do Talk to Strangers, our new interview series will be taking submissions into the new year. You can read all...

We run the monthly bilingual art magazine “HESA inprint” (ISSN-L 1799-8549), which every month feature a free open call for entry, for people to submit work from any medium on a theme. Each entry is reviewed and published on the blog and a curated selection published in the printed magazine (artists featured in the magazine will receive a free copy). Even though our publication is not dedicated to writing, we greatly appreciate...

Switchback is proud to announce the start of our monthly Flash Contest. Each month we will be giving you a prompt and we want you to give us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors will then be featured on the site. Submissions can be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or even art, so long as it’s amazing and 500 words or less. The September prompt is: “He knew he should never have come...

We are a creative writing community and monthly competition site called, Strictly Shakespeare and have some wonderfully talented members but are always looking to expand and challenge our writers. The competition’s are ongoing but here follows the description for September: Website: http://www.strictlyshakespeare.com Email: feedback@strictlyshakespeare.com Deadline: Midnight, 14th September 2011 Prize: £50.00 worth of prizes are given out...

Grand Prize: $1,000 2nd PLACE: $100 3rd PLACE: $50 HONORABLE MENTION (3) ENTRY FEE: $5 (up to three poems)   DEADLINE: January 3, 2012 All Six Finalists Will Be Published in The March 2012 Issue of Gemini prose poem free verse ballad ballade rhyme haiku haibun sonnet lyric elegy limerick narrative pastoral acrostic cinquain quatrain allegory… Doesn’t matter what it’s called as long as it moves us! We welcome work from widely...