$2000 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Deadline: May 15, 2010 The Saturday Evening Post To Publish First-Place Winner Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2010 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a twenty-nine-year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of emerging writers of short fiction whose...

Nominate a Blog! Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in our next issue (#39: Summer Reading) forthcoming in July 2010. We’re looking for: Vibrant new voices with interesting, true stories to tell. Narrative, narrative, narrative. Posts must be able to stand alone, 2000 words or fewer, and posted between November 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010. Nominate something from your own blog, from a friend’s blog, from a stranger’s...

Welcome to the eighth annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Tom Howard Books. First prize is $3,000. A total of $5,550 in prizes will be awarded. Submit poems in any style, theme or genre. Click here to read the winning entries from past contests. Submission Period Entries accepted December 15, 2009-September 30, 2010 (postmark dates) What to Submit Poetry in any style or theme. Your entry should be your own original work....

http://thesmokingpoet.net The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, established in 2006, and published online on a quarterly basis. TSP’s third annual short story contest is open to all writers, whether they have been past contributors to TSP or not, and in any genre. http://www.thesmokingpoet.net/id22.html Prizes will be awarded to the top three stories: first prize, $300; second prize, $100; third prize, $50. All of the winners will be published...

We are accepting entries to publish your story or poem on our website for our “Life begins…” contest. Contest runs through May 31, 2010. *First place winner will receive $250.00. Second place winner will receive $100.00.* *Publisher reserves the right to cancel the contest for lack of entries.* Contest rules: Stories/poetry should be non-fiction and include testimonies of faith and inspiration. Please self-edit your work and...

Welcome to our ‘kick off’ writing contests! These contests are our way of celebrating our grand opening (date not yet determined) and to award some cash prizes for our lucky winners! We have 3 writing contests going currently. Each contest pays AT LEAST $50 to the winner guaranteed. However, depending upon how many entries we receive, that prize money may just increase! In addition to a cash prize, the top winners will have their...

www.prescottwriters.com $10 entry fee, additional $10 fee for critique. First place, $100, second place $50, third place $25 will be awarded in each category. May 29, 2010 postmark deadline. Winners will be announced by September 15. Winners’ names will be published in the PWP newsletter, on the PWP website, and in general publicity. Winners will also be invited to read their entries at the November PWP meeting in Prescott, AZ. For an...