My name is Echo Brown and I am co-sponsoring a contest with Ryan Bevans. I am a journalist, currently a student at Columbia School of Journalism and Ryan is a photographer. Ryan, a graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography, is a photographer and we are both live in New York. In 2008, Ryan and I co-founded the Human Interest Project (h.i.p), an online multimedia website that showcases inspirational stories about inspirational people. You can...

World-Weary, a new international journal of travel and places is now seeking submissions. World-Weary will be published in the US, UK, Netherlands, Canada and online at World-Weary.com. Send all submissions and/or questions to WorldWearyJournal [at] gmail.com. May 10, 2010 is the submission deadline for the inaugural Summer 2010 issue. (Submission guidelines are also available at World-Weary.com) About World-Weary: World-Weary is first and...

Submissions Camber Press is pleased to announce our Second Annual Fiction Chapbook Award. Our ethos is to publish contemporary fiction exhibiting lucid delivery while not sacrificing emotional depth, mastery of craft, or originality. The Camber Press Fiction Chapbook Award Deadline: May 30, 2010 First Prize: $1,000 and publication of chapbook Judge: Chuck Kinder Submission guidelines: The winning fiction writer will receive $1,000 and have his...

ADJUDICATOR: Alison Chisholm First Prize: £200, Second Prize: £100, Third Prize: £50 (In addition: £25 Humour Prize; £25 Local Prize) RULES: Please read carefully 1. Poems should bear no identification of the poet. Local entrants (Liverpool and Preston postcodes) should mark poems with an ‘L’ in the top right corner. Please enclose a sealed envelope marked with the titles of your entries and containing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. 2. All...

“The oldest writers’ organization in continuous existence in the United States.” ALABAMA WRITERS’ CONCLAVE 2010 WRITING COMPETITION GUIDELINES Deadline: April 20, 2010 (postmark). P Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75; 3rd: $50; 4th: $25 and up to 4 Honorable Mentions. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED at the AWC Conference Banquet at the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama on JULY 17, 2010. Contest Rules:...

The second annual “Scare The Dickens Out of Us” ghost story contest offers $1000.00 first place, $500.00 second place and $250.00 third place prize money this year for a new, original unpublished ghost story up to 5000 words. Any genre is welcome. This literary contest is a fundraiser for the Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart, Texas, the oldest continuously in use library in Texas. Entry fee is $20.00. The contest...

We always have a contest running! During each contest we provide a prompt (the beginning of a story, a theme, a picture, anything!) and entrants write a short story inspired by it. Entrants e-mail their submissions to us, and our judges select the best. The winner is awarded a cash prize, no strings attached. It’s free, and anyone can enter. So what are you waiting for? We’d love to read your story. Check out our current contest!...