How To Books Launch Monthly Competitions Oxford based book publisher How To Books is launching a monthly competition for the best articles submitted to its website www.howto.co.uk Following the success of its competition in July, when author Alan Barker received £200 for his article How to Run an Effective Meeting, How To Books is introducing monthly competitions for the best articles submitted to its site www.howto.co.uk The competitions will...

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. http://www.dreamquestone.com Guidelines: Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, style, or...

www.fictioncollective.blogspot.com (Short) Fiction Collective is proud to celebrate our 100th story! In order to do so we’ve set up a writing contest. Don’t worry, no entry fees! So here’s the deal, send up to 3 short stories (no romance or sci-fi please) of no more than 5,000 words each (email above.) Contest ends on November 1st, 2010. Winner will be announced in mid November. If you’re selected you’ll have your...

Guidelines Please note that these are the complete guidelines. Queries are not necessary. Submission Deadline: January 31, 2011. Eligibility, Contestants: The contest is open to anyone writing in English who has not yet published a book of 45 pages or more in the genre of application, except faculty and administrators employed by the University of New Orleans. Eligibility, Work: Work submitted must be unpublished and eligible for publication in...

The Saints and Sinners GLBT Literary Festival’s Second Annual Short Fiction Contest is soliciting original, unpublished short stories between 5,000 and 7,000 words with GLBT content on the broad theme of Saints and Sinners. The contest is open to authors at all stages of their careers and to stories in all genres. This year’s contest will be judged by best-selling author John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The...

Sanguine Productions announces “Project Playwright,” our premiere play writing competition. Once all submissions have been read a panel will select three scripts of which Sanguine Productions will produce a staged reading in New York City of excerpts from the play that will be determined by Sanguine Productions in collaboration with the playwright. From there, a grand prize winner will be chosen and have their play fully produced in a New York...

The Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University is accepting submissions for the 2011 Colorado Prize for Poetry from October 1 through January 14, 2011. This year’s final judge is Cole Swensen. The prize is given annually for an outstanding book-length collection of poems. The winner will be awarded a $1,500 honorarium and his or her book will be published by the Center. Anyone may submit (with the exception of friends and...