Deadline: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 Entry Fees: $0. No entry fees. Prizes In addition to a SWAG package, Stage of Life’s educational literacy sponsors Papa John’s, IHOP, Applebee’s, and SpaWeek donate gift cards to the winning teen and adult essay writers each month. Description What’s your story? Educational literacy initiative, StageofLife.com, hosts an international writing contest every month centered around a specific...

Deadline: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 Entry Fees No Fee. Prizes Cash prize of $50. Winners are eligible for $100 contest. Description Free, weekly writing contest for a cash prize. We collect submissions 24/7; it’s a rolling deadline. Must be age 40 or older to enter a short story. See submissions page for guidelines. Go to our Calendar page and watch the short videos for topic ideas. Contact Information: ContactUs@MidlifeCollage.com Website:...

Deadline: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 Entry Fees $10 Prizes $100, $75, $50 and publication in Long River Run. Description Open to Connecticut poets only. Submit up to three unpublished poems, maximum 40 lines each, via regular mail. Contact Information Savard Poetry Contest, CPS, PO Box 270554, West Hartford, CT 06127. connpoetry@comcast.net Website:...

Deadline: Saturday, November 15, 2014 Entry Fees: None, Free to Enter Prizes The winner will be awarded with $1,500 to be applied towards law school or college tuition. The winning submission will also be published to the National Bankruptcy Forum website. Description The contest is for law school or college students. To participate in the contest, students will have to submit an essay arguing how best to solve America’s student loan problem....

Deadline: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Entry Fees Donation of $15 per entry. Prizes The first prize in each category (fiction and poetry) is $1,000 and a package of books from some of Canada’s best publishers (including Coach House, House of Anansi, and Bookthug) valued at $700, plus publication in our Fall 2014 issue. Description The Third Annual Thomas Morton Prize is a yearly contest run by The Puritan Magazine which searches for the...

Deadline: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Entry Fees $40 Prizes First Place Category award winners will compete for the Overall Best Book CBR Grand Prize of a $1,000 and 1st Place Genre Awards for $250. Award winning books will have the opportunity to be placed on the Chanticleer Book Shelves (which sell and promote the winning titles). Our CBR Book Shelves are located in participating Independent Book Stores across the U.S. A Chanticleer Book...

Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2014 Entry Fees $10 for unlimited entries (only one entry allowed at a time; see Response/Notification section for more details). Entry fee is due at time of submission and will be collected through Submittable. Prizes Prizes: A minimum of $500 will be awarded, with at least $300 going to the grand prize winner. Our five finalists will also appear in Issue 13 of the magazine due out in January 2015. Last year we...