DOS PASSOS REVIEW accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry submissions NOW-July 31, 2009. Limit 3-5 poems, 3,000 words prose. Send to: Editor, The Dos Passos Review, Dept.of English, Longwood University, 201 High St., Farmville, VA 23909. sase for reply only. See Web site for specific guidelines: www.brierycreekpress.org.

www.diversevoicesquarterly.com is a new online literary journal looking for submissions from all walks of life. Deadline for consideration into the first issue is MAY 1, 2009. Submission guidelines are: Poetry: 3-5 poems, 40 lines MAX. Please send in one file, separated by a page break between poems. Short stories: 3,000 words MAX. You may submit up to two short shorts that add up to 1,000 words. If sending two shorts, please send two separate...

www.waukeganpl.org/programs/bradcontest.html Since the inception of television our society has become increasingly more reliant on it with each generation. In this prescient novel, Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury anticipated this trend in which reality programming impacts our daily lives. Fahrenheit 451 is a reaction to a society defendant on television rather than human interaction, literature, or the fine arts. Respond to this theme of social...

An Open Online Poetry Contest judged by the entrants themselves. The Judging is in three rounds. In each round the entrants read 12 poems. It’s a knockout system. In the final round everyone reads the last 12. The judging will take place in the 2 months following closure of the competition. All profits will be donated to MAG (Mines Advisory Group). MAG is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation that clears the remnants of...

First Leaves: The Santa Rosa Junior College Literary Journal seeks quality poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photographs and drawings for its Spring 2009 issue. Open to students, staff and faculty of SRJC and all residents of the North Bay (Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Lake counties), First Leaves accepts postal and email submissions. You may send any of the following: Poetry: up to 5 poems. Fiction: 1 short story (up to 4,000 words), or up to 3...

We are more interested in a good story well told than in attempts to sound literary or poetic. Send us your best, simplest work. Make us love or hate your characters by what you let them do and say. Get us involved in the plot by moving us skillfully from point A to point B. This is a fiction contest. Memoirs, biographies, and other nonfiction are not eligible for this competition. AWW is a resource for creative women. We want to encourage work...