The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival is pleased to announce that our annual fiction and one-act play contests are now accepting submissions. Our team is gearing up for our 27th celebration of our namesake playwright and the city in which he found his “spiritual home.” Details are below. 5th Annual Fiction Contest Judge: Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours Grand Prize $1,500 Domestic airfare...

Call for entries FEAST – PIDOT. Submit your work to be featured on the HESA inprint blog with a chance to be published in our monthly magazine. We are looking for creative people with a vision and voice to share their opinions, work and stories not for a pay check but for the love of creating. This months issue theme is “FEAST – PIDOT” if you feel like your work could be put in to this category we would love for you to...

  The New Guard 2012 contests will run from March 1-June18 2012 (midnight/postmark). Entries are $15. International submissions are welcomed. KNIGHTVILLE POETRY CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional work of narrative and/or experimental poetry. Three poems per entry. Up to 300 lines per poem. Judged by National Poetry Series winner JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT. MACHIGONNE FICTION CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional work of literary and/or...

Each month Switchback provides a prompt and we want you to send us your best work inspired by that prompt. Entries need only be inspired by the prompt, they do not need to incorporate the text directly. The winning entry as decided by our editors will be featured on Switchback. Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art but must be 500 words or under. Please send us only one submission per prompt and only previously...

The Quotable is a new quarterly literary magazine showcasing tomorrow’s quote-worthy authors. Each issue will appear online and in print and feature short stories, creative non-fiction, poetry and artwork based on a specific theme and quote.  The theme of our seventh issue is “Feast or Famine.” We’re seeking flash fiction, short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and original art & photography. Please see our...

Enter the 2012 LitPOP Awards Matrix Magazine and POP Montreal are searching for poetry and short fiction submissions to the 2012 LitPOP Awards. Prize includes airfare, accommodation and a VIP pass to the POP Montreal Festival plus publication in Matrix Magazine. Entry fee $25. Visit: www.matrixmagazine.org/litpop and www.popmontreal.com for more information. Deadline: July 1, 2012. Incredible prizes for incredible writing: The POP Montreal...