BBC WRITERS ROOM http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunities/script-room-2013 The Script Room is a place where you can send your script to be assessed by our team of experienced readers. We read all scripts as a calling card of a writer’s talent. This is not a free script-reading service, but a means by which the BBC seeks out the best new writing talent, offering writers without a track record, representation, or contacts the...

Now sponsored by Bowker, the annual competition for independent publishers is accepting entries through October 1, 2014. Book review magazine Shelf Unbound is accepting entries for its third annual competition to crown the best from independent presses, self-published authors and publishers producing five or less titles per year. The winning entry, selected by the editors of Shelf Unbound, will be featured with runners-up in the...

ARIZONA ARTIST RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANT http://www.azarts.gov/grants/artists/ Deadline September 18, 2014. Artist Research and Development Grants are designed to support individual artists from all disciplines. The purpose of this grant is to support the advancement of artistic research, aid in the development of artistic work and recognize the contributions individual artists make to Arizona’s communities....

Deadline: Extended to July 30, 2014   AWARDS: 1ST PLACE: Your choice of a 3 night stay at our Mountain Muse B&B, 3 free workshops, or 100 pages line-edited and revised by our editorial staff.                                                                              2nd PLACE: 2 night stay at our B&B; or 2 free workshops; or 50 pages line-edited.                                  3rd PLACE: One free workshop; or 25 pages line-edited.  ...

Fairy Tale Review is thrilled to announce the debut of an annual contest, beginning this year with Prose & Poetry awards. We’re interested in poems, stories, and essays with a fairy-tale feel — mainstream to experimental, genre to literary, realist to fabulist. Both contests will award $1,000, and all submissions will be considered for publication in The Mauve Issue. $10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline July 15, 2014 Visit the website for...

Brandt Street Press is now accepting story submissions for the next anthology in our Dammit Nonfiction Series: “Dammit, I Love You.” We seek stories that reveal a lesson learned from love. The story must be true and not published somewhere else. It should amaze and inspire. And, more than anything else, it should be entertaining. Deadline: October 15, 2014 For complete submission guidelines, please visit www.dammitbook.com and click...

We will hold our annual flash fiction contest for the Fall 2014 issue. Submit a story 750 words or fewer. Enter a maximum of two stories. First place $500. Second place $250. Third place $100. Winners will be published. We also may publish other admirable submissions. Winners will be notified after the contest has closed. $2 ENTRY FEE. Visit the website: ...