SUBMIT Poets: read about the Heteronymicon challenge here. It closes April 30. The best will run in Issue 15, which will come out in the summer. Submissions are currently open. Open reading periods are held from the beginning of March through May and from the beginning of September through end of November. There is no reading fee during open reading periods. We hold two contests annually, the Winter Writers Contest Summer 2013, from June 1,...

Creative Writing Contest 2013 Click here for a PDF copy of this document The Friends of the Warren-Newport Public Library announce their 20th Annual Creative Writing Contest: Categories Short Story (fiction) Poetry Limit to two entries in each category per person. Age Groups Grades 3, 4 and 5 Grades 6, 7 and 8 High School Adult Short Story Length Grades 3 through 8: 1-4 pages, double-space High School and Adult: 3-5 pages, typewritten,...

The Fiction Desk Ghost Story Competition 2013 The competition is for ghost stories from 2,000 – 5,000 words. Closing date: 31st May 2013 Prizes: First prize £500, second prize £100. Entry fee:  £6 for one story; £9 for two stories submitted together. For more details, see: http://www.thefictiondesk.com/submissions/ghost-story-competition.php

It may be apocryphal, but the story goes that Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing a short story that ran fewer than ten words. One version of the story places the bet at the famed Algonquin round table. Whether true or not, there is an actual bet-winning short story attributed to Hemingway: For sale. Baby Shoes. Never worn.   You have to admit its pretty good. It builds, and there’s a whole world of background and emotion lurking...

Our popular first page competition is back. We’re looking for the most captivating first page (up to 400 words) of a story. Entries can be from a novel previously unpublished, a part written novel, or simply a first page written purely for the competition. Entries will be judged anonymously.    Prizes 1st Prize – £500 2nd Prize – £100 3rd Prize – £50   Closing Date: 31st May 2013 You can submit more than one entry. ...

Valentine’s Day Ideas Romantic Story Writing Content, an international contest on love and friendship. The competition is open to authors worldwide. http://valentinsdayideas.com is specially designed for all those people who are in love or are searching for their soul mate.  Since Valentine’s Day is here so we are starting a writing competition where people can share their special moments in form of a story. Love is a special feeling which...