DEADLINE: June 15, 2013 GENRE: Short Stories DETAILS:  Quarterly contest for science fiction and fantasy stories. 1000 – 5000 words long, previously unpublished stories only. PRIZE:  £50 and publication. URL:   http://dark-places.co.uk/writing-competition/

Deadline July 12, 2013. The contest is for fiction about exploration for kindergarteners up to 150 words. The story should be appropriate to children 5 to 7 learning to read on their own. The theme of exploration could be set at home, down the block, at school, on vacation, in books: Use your imagination! The story should be fun, colorful, use well-targeted words, and have special interest for the age group. Do not write too high for this...

Cat & Mouse Press, a small publishing company based in Lewes, DE has announced a new contest and invites writers to submit short pieces of fiction or nonfiction that are entertaining, interesting, humorous or just plain fun. The Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Competition features a $500 first prize sponsored by Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach. The theme for the contest is The Beach House. Each story must incorporate that theme and...

Grand Prize Blue Ribbon for Best Book 2013 will receive $1,000 plus prizes and promotion. $40 ENTRY FEE The winner will be announced in early October 2013. There will be only one CBR Grand Prize Blue Ribbon Winner 2013. Only First Place Genre award winners may compete for the Grand Prize for Best Book 2013. If a manuscript wins, it will be eligible to be forwarded to literary agents who have contacted CBR for first peeks at outstanding...

We’re Looking For We want page-turning thrillers, crime novels and mysteries. The finalists will be voted on by the public, so readers need to be pulled in for you to win. Submit a novel of at least 50,000 words and no more than 150,000. We’d be happy with a great beginning to a series. Include your name and the title on every page of the manuscript. We will only judge one submission per person. If you submit multiple, the first...

Our competition this year is for poems on the theme of “stories” (this can be broadly interpreted). There are no style or length restrictions but it should be stressed that a short poem is just as likely to be selected as a longer one. Competition Judge; Jim Bennett 1st prize is £100. All shortlisted poems will be published as a “Poem of the Week” on the PK Blog and the top five will be invited to be part of our CITN...