The 2014 Emerging Writers Contest will be open for submissions from March 1 to May 15, 2014. Submissions are accepted in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry and the winner in each category will receive $1,000 and publication in Ploughshares. Fiction stories have a 6,000 word limit and the submission fee is $24. Please find the contest webpage here. http://www.pshares.org/submit/emerging-writers-contest.cfm Ploughshares 120 Boylston Street Boston,...

$4800 is the top prize on offer for short fiction in the Writers’ Village International Short Fiction Award summer 2014. The second prize is £$800, third prize $400 and there are 15 runner up prizes of $80. The top 50 c0ntestants also gain a free critique of their stories, win or lose. With $7200 in total prize values, the Writers’ Village award is one of the world’s largest short story competitions that welcomes new writers...

Attention: Eligible Writers must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. $29 ENTRY FEE. Winner and finalists will have their stories submitted to three Canadian magazine publishers for consideration. Deadline: postmarked March 1, 2014. All writers must not have been published in book format, in any genre and not have a contract with a book publisher. Eligible entries nonfiction and fiction prose; up to 2,500 words, English language. Visit...

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/01/04/star_short_story_contest_seeks_entries.html# — NO ENTRY FEE. A first prize of $5,000 plus tuition for the 30-week creative writing correspondence program at the Humber School for Writers valued at $3,000. Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. February 28, 2014. Second prize is $2,000 while third is $1,000. Open to Ontario residents 16 and older, submissions can be on any topic, but must be...

$10-$20 ENTRY FEE. The Doris Betts Fiction Prize awards the first-prize winner $250 and publication in the North Carolina Literary Review. Finalists will also be considered for publication in the NCLR. Deadline: February 15, 2014. The competition is open to any writer who is a legal resident of North Carolina or a member of the North Carolina Writers’Network. North Carolina Literary Review subscribers with North Carolina connections (lives or...

NELLIGAN PRIZE FOR SHORT FICTION https://nelliganprize.submittable.com/submit — $17 ENTRY FEE. $2,000 will be awarded for the best short story, which will be published in the fall/winter 2014 issue of Colorado Review. Deadline March 15, 2014. There are no theme restrictions, but stories must be under 50 pages. Visit the website for details:...