TEEN INK ONGOING CONTESTS LINKS: http://www.teenink.com/Contests Fiction Contest If it has a beginning, middle and end … if it has a well-developed plot and interesting characters … it if takes place in the past, present or future … submit your fiction to Teen Ink’s Biannual Fiction Contest. Teen Ink’s Fiction Contest has it all! Contest Prizes Teen Ink publishes ten issues each year, September through June. In...

First place winners receive $1000 and publication. Second and Third place winners receive publication. Check back August 4, 2010 for announcement of the winners. Judges: Junot Díaz (fiction) and Ilya Kaminsky (poetry) To enter: 1.Submissions may be sent via email only to fugue-prosesubmitATuidahoDOTedu or fugue-poetrysubmitATuidahoDOTedu. For each submission, please paste your name, contact information, and a short bio along with your work into...

Contest Guidelines: The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University, would like to announce the sixth annual Journal Short Story Contest. This year’s judge is Lee K. Abbott, author of the short story collections Dreams of Distant Lives, Strangers in Paradise, Love is the Crooked Thing, The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting, and Living After Midnight. His latest collection of stories, All Things, All at Once, was published by...

Short Short Contest: A prize of $1,000 and publication in Sonora Review is given annually for a short short story. Joe Wenderoth will judge. Submit a story of up to 1,000 words with a $15 entry fee, which includes a copy of the Summer 2010 issue of Sonora Review, by May 1. Include a cover page with your full name and current address. Short Essay Contest: $1000 and publication in Sonora Review will be given for the first annual Concentrated...

2010 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Judge: Maggie Anderson $2,000 for a First Book of Poems This prize is offered annually to a poet who has not previously published a full-length collection of poems. The winner receives $2000 and the winning volume will be published by the Kent State University Press in Fall 2010. The winner will give a reading with the 2010 judge of the competition on the Kent State campus.  In 2009, the winner was Visible...

Textnovel.com (www.textnovel.com) is running a contest January 1, 2010 through August 31, 2010 for the best online serial novel. Textnovel allows writers to get attention based on how many followers, views and votes they get and also provides an interactive format for creating the novel. The prize is $1,000 and the winner gets literary agency representation including assistance preparing the novel for submission to publishers. Our 2008 winner,...

Deadline for Entries: January 31, 2010 Nominations for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing will be accepted through January 31, 2010. This award, given by Stanford University Libraries in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, recognizes newly published works of fiction and non-fiction with a $5,000 award for the winner in each category. The prize is designed to encourage new or emerging writers and honor the Saroyan...