Deadline: Monday, July 22, 2013 Categories Fiction, Nonfiction Entry Fees $50 per entry Prizes First and second place fiction and non-fiction winners receive interviews, reviews, special blog promos and social media mentions from SYJ! sponsors. Description Shirley You Jest! Book Awards honors books by self-published and traditionally published indie authors that “deliver the funny” in the categories of fiction and non-fiction. E-book and print...

Deadline: November 1, 2013   For an upcoming issue, Creative Nonfiction is seeking new essays about mistakes—major or minor, tragic or serendipitous, funny or painful. We’re looking for stories about poor decisions, missteps, or miscalculations; we want to read about embarrassing boo-boos, dangerous misjudgments, or fortuitous faux pas in well-crafted stories that explore the nature and outcomes of human fallibility.   Essays must be...

POSTMARK DEADLINE OCTOBER 31, 2013 3 AWARDS: $1,000 each for Novel, Short Fiction,  Poetry // $3,000 in awards RESULTS LETTERS by MAY 1, 2014 (to your email address or via SASE)  WEBSITE:     www.danaawards.com  E-MAIL:     danaawards@gmail.com   for questions only. NO E-MAIL OR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS.  PLEASE  NOTE:  WE ASK THAT ALL WORK BE UNAWARDED AND UNPUBLISHED WHEN SUBMITTED TO US AND NOT PROMISED FOR AWARD OR FOR PUBLICATION, EITHER IN...

DEADLINE: July 1, 2013 GENRE:  Nonfiction DETAILS:   Award for promising new journalist or essayist whose work contains warmth, humor, wisdom and social justice.  Submit two samples of your writing (published or unpublished) 30 pages max. PRIZE: $5000 and one month residency at Blue Mountain Center. URL:  http://award.margolis.com/

NO ENTRY FEE Notting Hill Editions is delighted to launch an annual literary prize for the best essay in the English language, of between 2,000 and 8,000 words, published or unpublished, on any subject. Award value £15,000. Five runners-up will each receive £1000. Deadline August 1, 2013. Authors of any nationality are eligible, but submissions must have been written originally in English. If already published, the essay must have appeared for...

Grand Prize Blue Ribbon for Best Book 2013 will receive $1,000 plus prizes and promotion. $40 ENTRY FEE The winner will be announced in early October 2013. There will be only one CBR Grand Prize Blue Ribbon Winner 2013. Only First Place Genre award winners may compete for the Grand Prize for Best Book 2013. If a manuscript wins, it will be eligible to be forwarded to literary agents who have contacted CBR for first peeks at outstanding...