Versal wants your poetry, prose, and art for its eighth issue due out in May 2010. Internationally acclaimed literary annual published in Amsterdam, bringing together the world’s urgent, involved & unexpected. See website for guidelines and to submit: versal.wordsinhere.com. Inquiries (only) can be directed to: versal@wordsinhere.com. Deadline: January 15, 2010.

ThirteenForHalloween.com is holding a Halloween short story contest open to writers of all ages living in the continental United States and Canada. Prizes * All entrants that follow these written guidelines will have their short story displayed in the “Stories” section of ThirteenforHalloween.com and will receive a free music download from M Ryan Taylor’s Halloween album, “Thirteen for Halloween.” * 1 winner will be...

Competition gives incentives for self-improvement. When it’s won, it allows one a great sense of fulfillment as well. In order to encourage healthy competition among all qualified writers out there, we host a writing contest here at EduBook.com. The purpose of our writing contest is not only to encourage competition among writers, but also to let all the talents out there get to know and network with each other through our contest. So although...

Wag’s Revue invites you to enter its second round of biannual contests in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Submissions of electronic writing are also encouraged in any of the above genres. First prize in each category receives $500 and publication in Wag’s Revue, and all submissions are considered for publication. The contest deadline is November 30, and winners will be announced December 21. There is no limit to the number of entries...

The University of New Orleans, the pioneer in writing programs abroad, is pleased to announce the sixth annual writing contest for study-abroad, Summer 2010. This year the contest is co-sponsored by The Normal School, who will judge the entries and publish the winners. Full fee waivers, including housing allowance, will be granted to one writer each in the genres of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Partial awards and honorable mentions...

We are proud to present the 3rd writing contest for English books: September 15th 2009 to October 15th 2009 Summer is about to end? Autumn is knocking at the door? Stormy weather and rain predicted? It is time to read a book or even write one. Take advantage of the unpleasant rainy weather and enter the latest BookRix Short Story Writing Contest for free: Tell us your rain story, turn your wordsmith powers into positive cashflow and fame. Write...

With great pleasure, we announce the 10th annual Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction and Nonfiction. Writers of comedic essays, articles, short stories, poetry, scripts, shopping lists and other forms are invited to submit. Mona founded the Foster City (CA) Writers Contest, taught creative writing for San Mateo County and published humorous articles and essays in newspapers and magazines. Her son Brad founded the Prize in 2000 and judges...