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The Creative Competitor.com: Writing Contests

7 Day Creative Writing Challenge 1st Prize:£250 2nd Prize: £200 3rd Prize: £100 4th Prize: £75 5th Prize: £50 Closing date: 5th July 2014 £5 for one entry. Or £7.50 including feedback.  If you would like a chance of winning £250, all you have to do is to sign up for our 7 Day Creative Writing Challenge which goes live on the 5th July....

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Retell & Share Stories with the World @ Tell It My Way.org

TellItMyWay’s stories are written by its users. You can vote on, share, retell, and publish stories. Tell it my Way is e-storytelling on steroids. The bard at the tree gone viral. Click  tell it my way to the right of any story title to retell the tale. Watch story chains grow! Vote. Vote on any story!  One story, one vote. Publish. As the first contributor of a tale, your name will always be shown with your story. Sign up to publish! How...

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Call for Submissions: Holocaust Remembrance Day

The mission of the Poetry Super Highway is to expose as many people to as many other people’s poetry as possible. Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) is this Monday, April 28th. We’re looking for submissions of poetry written in response to the Holocaust for next week’s annual Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) issue. Please read and follow these guidelines carefully. Because of the tight turnaround of this submission...

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THE WOLFE PACK BLACK ORCHID AWARD FOR THE NOVELLA

— NO ENTRY FEE. Entries must be 15,000 to 20,000 words in length, Submitted by May 31, 2014. Each entry must be an original unpublished work of fiction that conforms to the tradition of the Nero Wolfe series. The mystery should be “traditional” in flavor. The crime must be solved using the deductive abilities of the sleuth. No coincidences. The detective could be a professional or amateur. The setting could be NYC or Boston or...

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PROUD TO BE: WRITING BY AMERICAN WARRIORS CONTEST AND ANTHOLOGY

— NO ENTRY FEE. Open to all military personnel, veterans, and their families. Call for Submissions and Contest for Volume 3, Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors. Deadline: June 1, 2014 (postmarked). Five categories for the contest, $250 prize in each. Poetry, Short Fiction, Essay, Photography, Interview with a Warrior. Poetry: up to 3 poems (5 pages maximum). Fiction, essay, interview: 5,000-word limit. Interviews are with military...

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International Children’s Story Competition 2014 Are you the next star of children’s literature?

Find out by entering this year’s international children’s story competition run by Inclusive Works, Kazdu and Clavis Publishers! The theme of the 2014 competition is “Grandad, grandma and I in our multicultural society”. Submit your story for children aged 1-3 years or 4-6 years no later than 31 August 2014. The two winning stories will be published as illustrated children’s books in both Dutch and English by Clavis Publishers. Who can...

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