Sports Fiction & Essay Contest Submit Online by May 31 It’s last call to enter the 2013 Sports Fiction & Essay Contest sponsored by Winning Writers. The final judge is Jendi Reiter. We’ll award $3,000 in prizes. Fiction Category First Prize, $1,000 cash Five Honorable Mentions, $100 cash each Essay Category First Prize, $1,000 cash Five Honorable Mentions, $100 cash each Entries should be original and unpublished Each entry...

Over $4,000 in Prizes, Feedback and Exposure! Submit the first three chapters of your novel. Grand prize award of: $1,806 self-publishing solution from CreateSpace. $300 cash. Feedback on every chapter you submit. The chance to meet other authors, get motivated, and get noticed.   Two runner-ups will receive: CreateSpace copyediting service valued at approximately $600. $150 in cash Feedback Everyone who enters receives feedback, motivation,...

The Saturday Evening Post   2014 Great American Fiction Contest In its nearly three centuries of existence, The Saturday Evening Post has published short fiction by a who’s who of American authors including F. Scott Fitzgerald; William Faulkner; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; Ray Bradbury; Louis L’Amour; Sinclair Lewis; Jack London; and Edgar Allan Poe. Now you have the opportunity to join that illustrious line-up by taking part in The Saturday...

In anticipation for release of Chronic Resilience: 10 Sanity-Saving Strategies for Women Coping with the Stress of Illness (Cornari Press, August 2013)  Author Danea Horn is pleased to announce a Summer 2013 Essay Contest. The topic is “Who inspires your chronic resilience?”  She is inviting the nearly 45% of American’s coping with chronic illness to honor the special people in their lives who motivate them every day. Essays must be submitted...

  2013 Theme: “Provide an example of how you became an active participant in your care”; cash prizes to be awarded   Renal Support Network (RSN), a nonprofit, patient-focused, patient-run organization that provides nonmedical services to those affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), encourages people with kidney disease to let their voices be heard by entering the 11th Annual RSN Essay Contest. This year’s theme is,...

Hampton Roads Writers, Inc. (HRW), a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating opportunities for writers to achieve publication success, will host its fifth annual conference in Virginia Beach, September 19-21, 2013, at the Westin Town Center hotel.  The multi-day conference will provide opportunities for attendees to hone their writing craft, pitch their book manuscripts to New York literary agents actively seeking clients, and network with...