Deadline: Extended to July 30, 2014   AWARDS: 1ST PLACE: Your choice of a 3 night stay at our Mountain Muse B&B, 3 free workshops, or 100 pages line-edited and revised by our editorial staff.                                                                              2nd PLACE: 2 night stay at our B&B; or 2 free workshops; or 50 pages line-edited.                                  3rd PLACE: One free workshop; or 25 pages line-edited.  ...

Fairy Tale Review is thrilled to announce the debut of an annual contest, beginning this year with Prose & Poetry awards. We’re interested in poems, stories, and essays with a fairy-tale feel — mainstream to experimental, genre to literary, realist to fabulist. Both contests will award $1,000, and all submissions will be considered for publication in The Mauve Issue. $10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline July 15, 2014 Visit the website for...

Accepting short stories of Canadian fiction in English from 3,000 to 3,500 words. The finalist receives a cash prize of $2,000 and a cast pewter medallion. $10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline August 5, 2014 Visit the website:  http://www.johnkennethgalbraithliteraryaward.ca/

Submissions for Essay Tigers Writing Contest are now open! Deadline – August 1, 2014. Welcome to essay writing contest created by Essay Tigers! We invite all the writers internationally to submit previously unpublished entries and showcase your creative talent! There Is No Entry Fee! Please choose one of the following topics: 1) According to Jim Morrison, a friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. Does social media...

I work at a small production company in Los Angeles, and our next book, A Letter to My Mom, honors the powerful, loving, complicated, one-of-a-kind relationships we all have with our mothers. It’s a collection of personally-crafted letters to moms written by individuals from all walks of life including celebrities, influencers, everyday people and kids. We are trying to include letters from all over the country, which is why I am reaching...

The 10th Annual Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest officially began in April, as part of the celebration of National Poetry Month, with five new categories: “Once Upon A Time,” “Ten Years From Now,” “It’s A Miracle,” “A Journey Worth Taking” and “People Are Funny.” Poets may submit a maximum of three poems, no more than one in each of three of the five contest categories. Everyone is encouraged to enter the contest. Poets do not have...