Guidelines: Free critique available upon request! Write “free critique” on your entry and provide either a SASE or an email address.                                                        For optional line edit, enclose an additional $1 per page, plus 9 X 12 SASE with enough postage for returning your story. DEADLINE: Postmarked by July 31, 2010. DO NOT SEND BY CERTIFIED MAIL. ENTRY FEE: $5 per entry, 3 entries max. Checks payable to The Write...

Submissions are being accepted for the first annual “End of the World Contest.” Deadline is September 30, 2010. Contest winners will be notified by October 31, 2010 and published in the November 2010 issue of the Last Man Magazine. Entry fee $5. First Prize: $50 and publication in the Last Man Magazine. First place winner will also be featured in the “author’s spotlight,” a two page interview with the writer about his or her craft, novels/short...

What would you do if you were told you had only 72 hours to live?  Enter THE LAST 72 writing contest and you could win $5,000 and the chance to appear in a brand-new TV series!  To learn more, click on the web link below.  www.last72.com  Send your 1,000-1,500 words entries to:  contest@last72.com.  Deadline is July 30, 2010 so act before it’s too late!  Brought to you by Everest Production and The Fountain: A Magazine of Scientific and...

The competition is dedicated to providing a forum for the writer to display their talents. For the relationship between cinema and literature has always been closely intertwined. It has proved on the whole a successful symbiosis, a relationship that remains to this day as inextricable as it is fruitful. THE 2010 OAXACA INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE COMPETION AGAVE AWARD FOR LITERATURE *Will be awarded to two works of literature selected by the...

Eighth year. Ten cash prizes totaling $5,550. Top prize $3,000. Submit poems in any style or genre. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Winning entries published online. Entry fee is $7 for every 25 lines, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: September 30. Judges: John H. Reid, Dee C. Konrad. Submit online or mail to: Winning Writers Attn: Tom Howard Poetry Contest 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222 Northampton, MA 01060. Winning...

Seventh year Ten cash prizes totaling $5,550. Top prize $3,000. Submit poems in traditional verse forms, such as sonnets and free verse. Winning entries published online. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Entry fee is $7 for every 25 lines, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: June 30. Judges: John H. Reid, Dee C. Konrad. Submit online or mail to: Winning Writers Attn: Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 351 Pleasant Street, PMB...

Last Call for Entries! WAR POETRY CONTEST Ninth year. Fifteen cash prizes totaling $5,000. Top prize $2,000. Submit 1-3 unpublished poems on the theme of war, up to 500 lines in all. Winning entries published online. Sponsored by Winning Writers, one of the “101 Best Websites for Writers” (Writer’s Digest, 2005-2010). $15 entry fee, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: May 31. Final judge: Jendi Reiter. Include cover...