Short Story Competitions

Call for submissions: NOVELLE – Magazine for Experimentalism #3 (June 2014):

The enthusiastic response and the amount of submissions for the first and second issue of our new magazine NOVELLE were quite overwhelming. Now it’s time to gather some great material for issue #3 to be released in June 2014. Submission guidelines: •          The submitted work may be unpublished or published – in the latter case please make sure there is no third-party infringement involved. •          We are interested in all sorts of...

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The Annual Gulf Coast Prizes: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Enter to win the annual Gulf Coast Prizes, judged by Andrea Barrett (Fiction), John D’Agata (Nonfiction), and Rachel Zucker (Poetry). Be sure to get your entries in before the March 15th, 2014 deadline! The contest awards publication and $1,500 each to the best poem, essay, and short story, as well as $250 to two honorable mentions in each genre. The winners will appear in Gulf Coast 27.1, due out in Fall 2014, and all entries will be...

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Quarterly Writing Contest (Spark: A Creative Anthology)

Contest Five: “Fables” Contest Five opens for submissions on March 15, 2014. Theme The theme for this contest is “Fables.” Fables have been a part of storytelling as long as we’ve been telling stories. Fables do more than entertain: they also present a lesson or attempt to teach a moral. Traditionally, fables feature anthropomorphic animals as main character(s). For the best chance of winning this writing contest, your story or poem should...

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EVENT Magazine’s Annual Non-Fiction Contest is now open for entries!

EVENT is one of Canada’s most prestigious literary journals, and a strong supporter of literary non-fiction. Stories first published in EVENT have won numerous National and Western Magazine Awards, and have been featured in The Journey Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best Canadian Stories anthologies. EVENT MAGAZINE’S ANNUAL NON-FICTION CONTEST Writers are invited to submit manuscripts exploring the creative non-fiction form. Deadline:...

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CALL FOR RADIOPLAYS

The Parislab, a new hour-long radio show on the digital radio station, World Radio Paris, that performs and records radio plays and spoken word shorts live in front of a Paris audience, is seeking submissions for it’s upcoming March show. The theme for the show is Superheroes.  What’s your take on the superhero?  Write a fiction radio play or a nonfiction narrative story about the superhero in your life.  Write a radio play or spoken word...

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Share Your Story At Tell It My Way (Contest)

Two Contests Pave the Way for TellitMyWay Launch! As Tell it my Way prepares for public launch, we’d like to invite children’s writers and storytellers to enter our exclusive contests, Something New to Love, which begin on February 14, 2014. Highest-scoring Original Story. Between February 14, 2014 and March 14, 2014, writers will post their own original children’s stories on Tell it my Way. A week after the posting period...

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