This annual international contest from the venerable London Magazine (first published 1732) is for stories of up to 4,000 words. Closing: October 31, 2014  Prizes : £500, £300, £200.  The winner will be published in the mag, and the runners-up on the website.                                                                                                                   Entry Fee:...

Our short story and poetry competition has an incredible prize fund of £3,000, which will be awarded to each category as follows: First Prize – £1,000 Second Prize – £300 Third Prize – £100 Two Highly Commended – £50 In addition, we will be planting a tree in Kenya for each entry, so every entrant is a winner! When the contest closes we will email the GPS co-ordinates of your tree to you. Please Read the Rules Before Entering! In brief,...

BIG POND RUMOURS is returning with both summer and winter issues! On hiatus since the Winter 2008 issue, this literary e-zine is coming back with a difference. We are still international but now you can make a regular submission (not considered for the contest) or you can submit to the contest (mark “Contest” on each poem or story). The contest pays the winners in addition to publishing them! 1st place for poetry or story $50, 2nd...

CLICK HERE to see this year’s winner. Submissions open: June 1, 2014 – February 28, 2015 Prize: $500 + Publication no later than early 2016 by Vine Leaves Press + 20 copies Guest Judge: Sara Sargent Sara Sargent is an Editor at Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. She acquires young adult fiction. Most recently she was an Associate Editor at Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books. Sara started her...

Deadline: October 1, 2014 Announcing the Third Annual Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Independently Published Book, sponsored by Bowker. Details and rules are here: http://www.shelfmediagroup.com/pages/competition.html The winner, finalists, and more than 100 notable books from the competition will be featured in the December/January 2015 issue of Shelf Unbound magazine. The overall winner will receive a year’s worth of...

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition awards the world’s largest cash prize for best short screenplay: $10,000, with three finalists each receiving a cash prize of $1,500.       In keeping with our longstanding tradition, every screenplay will receive one written analysis. All submissions entered by September 1st, 2014 will receive their written analysis by October 1st, 2014. If you enter during our next submission period (September 2nd –...