Abbey Hill Literary invites entries for its 3rd Quarter 2009 Quick Lit Challenge. Visit www.ahliterary.com for details, review the writing challenges posted there, and write a story incorporating those challenges. Prize List ($US): 1st-$250, 2nd-$100, 3rd-$50, and Evolving Talent-$25. Electronic entries preferred, current deadline August 31, 2009. Entry fee: $10 OR $20 for entry fee PLUS critique to be returned within 30 days of contest close....

The Fifth-Ever Black Warrior Review Contest has begun! Send us that work you’ve been perfecting all summer… Guest Judges this year are Larissa Szporluk (poetry) and Brian Evenson (fiction). Send your entry to: Fiction Contest OR Poetry Contest Black Warrior Review Box 862936 Tuscaloosa, AL 35486 The Reading Fee is $15 per short story (up to 7500 words) and $15 per group of up to 3 poems. Winners in each genre will receive $1,000 and...

www.whlreview.com The submission period for this issue closes Aug. 30, 2009. whlrfiction@gmail.com Submission Guidelines All submissions must be in electronic form. Our preference is an MS Word file sent as an attachment. Short fiction may be submitted in three formats: 1. very short stories less than 500 words in length 2. short stories less than 1000 words in length 3. Short stories that do not fit the above should be less than 5000 words....

Sweet seeks only poetry and creative nonfiction and anything in between. (Sorry fiction writers!) www.sweetlit.com Past contributors include: Lee Martin, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Stephen Kuusisto, Anne Panning, and many more. We read submissions all-year. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us immediately if your work has been taken by another literary journal. (We would like to be the first to congratulate...

Contest Submission Period: July 1st through September 1st Judge for 2009 Contest: Lesléa Newman First prize is $1000 and publication in Naugatuck River Review Second prize $250 and publication Third prize of $100 and publication Winners will be published in the Winter 2010 Issue of Naugatuck River Review. All entrants will receive one issue of Naugatuck River Review. All poems will be considered for publication in the Winter 2010 Contest issue...

Our prize is $350 and 20 free copies. We also want to send every entrant a copy of the winning collection. Page Limit: 32 pages. Fee: $20.00. Deadline: July 15. If you are looking for clues as to what we look for a winner, we wish you luck because our selections are unpredictable and eclectic. We like to take risks if the poems interest us. We do not know what poems will interest us either until we see the poems. Please make out a check for $20...

bibledude.net/2009/06/now-accepting-creative-writing-submissions-compassion/ Use any of the listed forms of creative writing (or photo journaling) to share what you want to on this topic, and email your submissions to dan@bibledude.net. Submissions on the topic of compassion will be accepted through the end of July, and will be posted on bibledude.net. Please include a short (2-3 sentence) bio that includes links to your website/blog (if you...