Storiad – an online network connecting aspiring writers with media professionals in search of that perfect piece of undiscovered writing. Storiad has recently created a crowdsourcing feature – StoriSource. The purpose of this platform is to enable media professionals to search for specific types of writing within the Storiad site. For more information about StoriSource, visit http://www.facebook.com/storiad?sk=app_205174506179089. Leeding...

VENTURA COUNTY BOOK & AUTHOR FAIR LAUNCHED 2011 event to be held in Camarillo, November 5 (Ventura, CA August 16, 2011) A new literary event for writers, publishers, people looking for new books to read and those wishing to learn more about the craft of writing, will take place Saturday, November 5th at the Pleasant Valley Community Park Auditorium in Camarillo. The Ventura County Book & Author Fair will feature speakers, educational...

West Jefferson, NC – Ashe County’s Literary Festival, On the Same Page, now in its fourth year, has for the first time announced a writing competition as part of the Festival.  In association with the 2011 Festival, which will take place September 14-17 in Ashe County, NC, the Page Crafter’s Prize will recognize writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with cash awards.  Winning writers will have the opportunity to read their work during the...

This is an Indonesia contest sent to my email for posting. If you want to read the contest guidelines in the English language, you may copy and paste the following information to an online translator such as Google Translator – http://translate.google.com/ which does a great job in tranlating basic text information. Remember: Creative Writing Contest does not endorse any contests. Expose your opinion…!!! Curahkan idemu dalam memaknai...

OKANAGAN MEMORIES SHORT STORY CONTEST Artistic Warrior Publishing is holding its first Short Story competition. The competition is open to all writers of all ages from anywhere the world.  The stories must be written in English, non-fiction, previously unpublished (in print and online) and between 1,000 and 3,000 words in length. The topic is “Okanagan Memories.” You may live in the Okanagan, have friends or relatives here, maybe you’ve...

Heather Sappenfield of Vail, Colorado, has been selected as winner of the fifth annual Danahy Fiction Prize by the editors of Tampa Review. She will receive a cash award of $1,000 and her winning short story,  “Indian Prayer,” will be published in Tampa Review 42, forthcoming in summer 2011.     Sappenfield recently earned her MFA from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where she studied with Brady Udall, Pete Fromm, and Bonnie Jo...