Prizes total $1600 in Writers’ Village story contest A first prize of $800 can be won in the autumn round of the Writers’ Village contest for short fiction up to 3000 words in any genre. Second prize is $400, third is $160 and there are three further prizes of $80. Every story, win or lose, also gains a free helpful critique – a feature thought to be unique among low-fee writing contests. Winning stories will be showcased at the site. Fee...

Open to Interpretation brings together photographers and writers in an exciting and innovative book project that has never been done before. Each book begins with a themed call for photos. The chosen photos become the literary inspiration for the writers’ submissions. A book is created that matches each winning photo with two stories or poems that offer different interpretations of the image.     ANNOUNCING FADING LIGHT The photographers...

| $1,000 Writing Prize | $500 Illustration Prize | Details for the competition are below, and full guidelines and online submission are available here: http://www.indigoinkpress.org/submissions/ The anthology Modern Grimmoire: Contemporary Fairy Tales, Fables & Folklore will be open to submissions from Apr. 1 to Sept. 1, 2012. SUBMIT ONLINE A single award of $1,000 and publication will be given to the best emerging author of an unpublished...

Meridian Writing Autumn competition Length: max 3,000 words but with no lower limit Theme/Genre: Any Prizes: 1st Place – £100, 2nd Place – £50 and 3rd Place – £25, plus a firstwriter.com voucher worth £10 for each winner Entry Fee: £5 per story Eligibility: New and Published authors Other info: Critique service available Website: www.meridian-writing.co.uk Guidelines: http://www.meridian-writing.co.uk/competiton_2.html Closing...

Prizes: **1st Place: $1,000 cash, acceptance into the 2013 ALMA Short Story Compilation, author bio and link to author’s website or social media page on AmericanLiteraryMeritAward.com **2nd Place: $100 cash, story featured as a free read and link to author’s website or social media page on AmericanLiteraryMeritAward.com **3rd Place: $50 cash, story featured as a free read and link to author’s website or social media page on...

The Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction is a literary prize to promote writers and great undiscovered stories of Catholic fiction. What is Catholic fiction? Stories infused with the presence of God and faith — subtly, symbolically or deliberately. Flannery O’Connor, Graham Greene or G. K. Chesterton and many others whose writings reflected the thoughts of great writers such as Gerard Manley Hopkins: “The world is charged with the grandeur of...