Deadline: Sunday, August 31, 2014 Entry Fees $2-$3 for GRW members $3-$5 for non-members Prizes 2 Grand Prizes 1st: $175 2nd: $100 3rd: $50 16 Fiction and Poetry Categories 1st: $30 2nd: $20 3rd: $10 Some are higher, varies by category & sponsor Description Offers contests for short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and writing for children in a variety of subjects and forms. Poetry categories include sonnets, limericks, rhymed poems,...

COSMIC EGGS BOOKS http://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/our-imprints.html If your passion is Fantasy (including magical realism and spiritual fantasy), Metaphysical Cosmology, Horror or Science Fiction (including Steampunk), Cosmic Egg books will feed your hunger. Our curiosity shop contains treasures you will enjoy unearthing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SOHO CRIME PRESS http://www.sohocrime.com/resources/submissions Soho Press primarily publishes fiction,...

The 2014 Grayson Books Poetry Prize, open to all poets writing in English, is accepting submissions! Deadline is Aug. 15th, 2014. Use below link to submission manager for electronic submission or visit our website: Submit or send with your fee of $25 to Grayson Books, PO 270549, West Hartford, CT 06127. If sending by mail, include two cover pages (one with complete contact info, one with no contact info) along with your 50-80 page manuscript,...

Speakers include Lyle Ernst, Kim Sigafus, Lori Perkins, Anthony Wedgeworth and Keynote C. Hope Clark of FundsforWriters and The Carolina Slade Mystery Series   Saturday, July 12, 2914 9 a.m. — 4 p.m. State Bank of Cross Plains Conference Room Black Earth, WI Cost $50 (includes catered lunch) To register of for further information call: 608-278-8575 or email Kathy Erdman at:...

The BlueCat Screenwriting Workshops UPCOMING SCHEDULE http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/workshops/ Gordy Hoffman, the Sundance award-winning writer/director (LOVE LIZA, A COAT OF SNOW) and founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, is leading upcoming screenwriting workshops in LA, Pittsburgh, Honolulu, and San Francisco. Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for LOVE LIZA, Gordy Hoffman has taught...

2014 Platt Family Scholarship Prize Essay Contest 1st Prize $1500 | 2nd Prize $750 | 3rd Prize $500 Our Topic for 2014 – “Lincoln and the Hard Hand of War” In 1864 the American Civil War became even more savage. Casualties rose and prisoner exchanges stopped. During William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea and Phil Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley campaign, civilian property was deliberately targeted. Was Lincoln in part responsible...