Cash prizes, and winners are published in Musicworks magazine! Details: Write 500 words about the sound of a specific location. How does it influence the space? Check out http://issuu.com/musicworksmagazine/docs/2012_contest for some examples of Sonic Geographies. To enter: www.musicworks.ca/contest/contest.asp Deadline: June 25, 2012 Each $20 entry fee includes the price of a 1 year subscription to Musicworks (3 magazines and 3 CDs)...

The beautiful new issue of Bare Hands is now online! It features stunning work from Malta, Ireland, Pittsburgh, New York, British Columbia and the UK. Read it here – http://barehandsissueeight.tumblr.com/ We are going to start making podcasts for the journal and I would love for all of you to be involved! Simply email us an mp3 file by June 30th. It doesn’t have to be you reading it (poets can by shy) as long as it’s a nice...

Call for entries FEAST – PIDOT. Submit your work to be featured on the HESA inprint blog with a chance to be published in our monthly magazine. We are looking for creative people with a vision and voice to share their opinions, work and stories not for a pay check but for the love of creating. This months issue theme is “FEAST – PIDOT” if you feel like your work could be put in to this category we would love for you to...

Emmy Award-winning comedy author Gene Perret will discuss how anyone following his formula can complete a book (Ventura, CA – June 5, 2012)  We’ve heard for years that laughter is the best medicine.  A study at Stanford Medical School confirmed that, indeed, laugher is good medicine. Blood pressure, heart rate and muscle tension subside after a good laugh. Certainly then, the audience will leave Gene Perret’s presentation at...

Each month Switchback provides a prompt and we want you to send us your best work inspired by that prompt. Entries need only be inspired by the prompt, they do not need to incorporate the text directly. The winning entry as decided by our editors will be featured on Switchback. Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art but must be 500 words or under. Please send us only one submission per prompt and only previously...

The Quotable is a new quarterly literary magazine showcasing tomorrow’s quote-worthy authors. Each issue will appear online and in print and feature short stories, creative non-fiction, poetry and artwork based on a specific theme and quote.  The theme of our seventh issue is “Feast or Famine.” We’re seeking flash fiction, short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and original art & photography. Please see our...