centraloregonwriters.blogspot.com Central Oregon Writers Guild is pleased to announce its 2009 Literary Harvest Writing Contest. Ten winners will be selected by a volunteer editorial board of literary professionals The board will not know the identity of the writers whose work they are reviewing. Upon entering the contest, winning writers agree to read their piece at the Literary Harvest on October 16, 2009, 6:30 to 9 PM, at the Comfort Suites...

Share Your Written Work and Win $1,000 Cash Plus Other Prizes Wattpad, the world’s most popular ebook community, has launched its biggest contest ever. The “Share What You Have Written” contest gives everyone a chance to win great prizes by entering their written work and having it judged by the site’s nearly 3 million monthly visitors. Everyone has dozens, if not hundreds, of written material sitting on their computers...

7th year. Fifteen cash prizes totaling $5,350. Top prize $2,000. Submit poems in any style or genre. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Winning entries published online. Entry fee is $7 for every 25 lines, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: September 30. Judges: J.H. Reid, D.C. Konrad. Submit online or mail to Winning Writers, Attn: Tom Howard Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060. Winning...

By 12/15/2009, please submit 1-3 poems or one story for $10 to Prism Review (Josh Prizes) Miller Hall, 1950 Third Street University of La Verne La Verne CA 91750 Our fantastic Josh Judges: Poetry – Kryah (author of Glean). Fiction – Emmons (author of Prescription for a Superior Existence). Include contact info/SASE. More information available at www.laverne.edu/prism-review

PANK is having a 1,001 Awesome Words Contest. Deadline is September 30. We accept entries in any creative form you choose. Entry Fee: $15 for 1 entry; $25 for two entries. All entrants receive a copy of PANK 4. Details can be found at: www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/?page_id=843

Weekly Writing Assignment is a weekly writing contest and a resource for writers, or anyone who just loves to write. Each week, we post a new writing assignment. At the end of the week, we publish up to five finalists and name one Weekly Winner. At the end of the month, we choose up to five finalists and choose one Monthly Winner. And at the end of the year, we choose a Grand Winner. The official rules can be found here:...

Eudaimonia Poetry Review (epoetryreview.com) needs poems and photographs on the pursuit of happiness. Email submissions directly to poetryeditor@epoetryreview.com by August 15th. We are not able to pay at this time. Please visit epoetryreview.com for more information. Chapbook contest: $500 prize. Spring 2010 Chapbook Prize. Submit no more than 26 pages of original poetry by December 31, 2009. Include biography and acknowledgements. Reading...