New!!! 1st Art-Inspired Story Writing Contest A short story inspired by a work of art in the Crow Woods art books Submission Guidelines Deadline: Entry deadline – April 30, 2013 Results Announced – June 30, 2013 Prizes First prize – $500 Second prize – $300 Third prize – $200 Judge Tony Ardizzone, originally from the North Side of Chicago, is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novel The Whale...

Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest – Last Call! 21st year. $5,550 in cash prizes, including a top prize of $3,000. Seeks short stories, essays and other works of prose, up to 5,000 words. All entries that win cash prizes will be published on WinningWriters.com (over one million page views per year) and announced in the Winning Writers Newsletter, with over 40,000 subscribers. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Fee per...

LAST CALL! Three prizes of $50, publication in ArtAscent Magazine including your name a link to your website, as well as exposure in ArtAscent website and social media. Non-winning entries will not be published. You retain rights to your work. The competition theme is Emergence. Emergence can mean the gradual beginning or coming forth; the event consisting of the start of something; a growth in strength or number or importance; the becoming...

Mystery Times 2013 Last year, we received over 100 submissions from new and established authors alike. Never before published, they were gathered together in our Second Annual Mystery Times collection. Each story was read and rated on the same set of parameters; each judge brought his or her own unique talents and tastes to the task at hand. The quality of the stories was outstanding and the 2012 book rode the #1 and 2 spot on the Amazon Hot...

– The Cupboard’s Third-Ever Contest – Deadline:  Tues., May 7th, 2013 Prize: $500 & publication Judge: Kevin Wilson! There’s still time to submit to The Cupboard’s Third-Ever Contest. The winning author receives $500, and the manuscript will be published as an upcoming volume. We’re looking for prose submissions between 4k and 10k words. In the past, we’ve published short stories, essays,...

Guidelines Topic The topic for Volume I of the Glint Awards Anthology is open.  In general, submissions should aspire to “show, not tell” in keeping with the spirit of our organization’s adopted quotation by Anton Chekov, “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Eligibility The contest is open to all writers age 18+.  All submissions must be original, the writer’s...