Keeping up our tradition of celebrating the culture and heritage of bingo in the UK, Playing Bingo is launching its first Short Story Competition. Taking inspiration from our very small Your Stories section of the site, the aim is to generate some great fiction about our favourite game. There’s some great prizes up for grabs as well as the chance to entertain our readers with your finely crafted piece of bingo fiction. Competition Entry...

Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine is holding monthly contests for poetry and stories based on classic fairy tales. Submission windows open at 12 a.m., on the first day of the month, and close at 11:59 p.m. on the second day of each month, Eastern Standard Time. Two prizes of $25 each, US dollars only, will be awarded in the form of electronic gift certificates, each month. Unpaid honorable mention is also possible, if the writer is...

$660 prize for short fiction in Writers’ Village Contest Summer 2012 $660 is the top prize on offer for short fiction in the summer 2012 round of the Writers’ Village ‘Best Writing’ award. The second prize is $160 and third prize is $80. The five shortlisted entrants also gain a free entry in the next round. All contestants gain a helpful critique of their story, win or lose – a feature thought to be unique among low-fee writing contests....

**IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to a web hosting problem that has now been resolved, we have extended our 2012 deadline to May 31, 2012. This applies to our 2012 competition only. $2,500 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition   Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2012 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a 32-year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to...

Deadline: May 28, 2012 Sponsored by St. Jerome’s University dept. of English, this annual contest is for short fiction by writers who have not yet published a novel or story collection. $1000 top prize, all entries will be considered for paid publication ($250) in The New Quarterly, one of Canada’s liveliest literary magazines. Open to Canadian citizens or residents only. No word limit. All entries will be judged blind. $40 entry...

My partner, Robert Hilles, and I began dating in February 1997. Since then, nearly every Sunday for fifteen years, he called his mother and spoke to her on the telephone. I can count on one hand the number of times he missed making that call. In the early years of our relationship, Hazel Hilles was in her sixties. She had already lost Robert’s father, and she lived in an independent living complex in Winnipeg, Canada. On our visits, her...