Doubleday Books presents the Haunted City Short Story Contest

Want to see your frightening and fantastic work in 2015’s most entertaining collection of horror fiction? Blumhouse Books, from the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Purge, will launch in July 2015, with the publication of THE BLUMHOUSE BOOK OF NIGHTMARES: THE HAUNTED CITY, an anthology of original short fiction written by some of the most inventive voices in horror today. And you have the chance to be included!...

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Share Your Driving Stories and Earn Cash!

Share Your Driving Stories and Earn Cash! Safe2Drive is seeking true stories about your experiences as a new or young driver to be published in our driver education course and textbook. We want to hear from teens about what it’s really like out there on the road. What experiences challenged you? Changed you? Scared you straight? Made you proud of your defensive driving skills? Below are some of the topics you may choose to write about, though...

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Last Call for Submission: Poetic License 6@6 Reading Series – Deadline: November 20, 2014

Poetic Theater Productions is seeking submissions for the 6@6 Reading Series in Poetic License: our 4th annual festival of new poetic theater, taking place February 2-22, 2015 at Wild Project. To Submit: Please fill out the form on our website, poetictheater.com, and e-mail a PDF of your play to submit@poetictheater.com by Thursday, November 20, 2014 for consideration. Please include your name and contact information along with the script in...

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Essaymama’s Christmas Writing Contest

Christmas is fast approaching and Essaymama is here to treat the most talented writers with great prizes!With what do you associate Christmas? For EssayMama there are Christmas decorations, flashlights, frosty smell of pine needles and of course “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. Christmas gives us inspiration; you just need to add a little motivation and effort! So, (attention!), EssayMama essay writing helper announces...

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Last Call! RoseQuill Press’ First Annual Crappy Query Contest

Submit your most hilarious, most awfully, awesome novel queries by midnight, November 21, 2014, Midway Island Time. Who knows, if it’s based on a real manuscript you might even score a request!  The Crappy Query Contest does not discriminate on the basis of genre, sub-genre, or sub-sub-genre. Prizes Third through First Prize gets a quarter and a certificate! Winning queries will also be featured in our RoseQuill Quickies e-zine. To Enter...

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Call for submissions: Creative Nonfiction.org

“Exploring the Boundaries” $3 reading fee Deadline: January 20, 2015 “Exploring the Boundaries” is a recurring section of our magazine. We’re looking for writing for our next issue that is ambitious, pushes against the conventional boundaries of the genre, plays with style and form, and makes its own rules. https://creativenonfiction.submittable.com/submit/19757 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beyond Crazy, book $3 reading fee...

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The 2014 Walker Percy Prize in Short Fiction: Extended deadline: 12/31/2014

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. —Walker Percy We are looking for well-crafted, dynamic writing that demonstrates attention to the language, writing that engages, surprises, and moves us. We subscribe to the belief that in order to truly write well, one must master the basics: grammar and syntax,...

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