The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites emerging and established writers from Canada, the United States, and elsewhere to enter. $1,000 awarded to the best work that embraces, but is not limited to, the personal essay, memoir, narrative nonfiction, social commentary, travel writing, historical accounts, and biography, all enhanced by such elements as description, dramatic scenes, dialogue, and characterization. All...

THE NEW GUARD VOLUME IV contest submission period runs from February 10 to July 14, 2014. The entry fee is $15. Guidelines are below. Click the link below to submit via Submittable’s online submission manager. We are looking forward to reading your work! MACHIGONNE FICTION CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional fiction in any genre. Submit up to 5,000 words: anything from flash to the long story. Novel excerpts are welcome if the excerpt...

Accepting short stories of Canadian fiction in English from 3,000 to 3,500 words. The finalist receives a cash prize of $2,000 and a cast pewter medallion. $10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline August 5, 2014 Visit the website:  http://www.johnkennethgalbraithliteraryaward.ca/

$15 ENTRY FEE. Four Orlando prizes of $1,000 each and publication in The Los Angeles Review are awarded twice yearly for a poem, a short story, a short short story, and an essay by women writers. Deadline July 31, 2014 Visit the website: http://aroomofherownfoundation.org/awards/

EARLY DEADLINE ANNOUNCEMENT The BlueCat Screenplay Competition accepts both feature length and short screenplays, and in keeping with our longstanding tradition, every screenplay will receive one written analysis, with our best screenplays receiving over $40,000 in cash prizes. SPECIAL EARLY DEADLINE The Special Early Entry Fee for all scripts received by June 15th is $55 for features and $35 for short screenplays. All submissions received by...

Descriptive Mystery Story Competition 1st Prize: £100.00 2nd Prize: £75.00 3rd Prize: £50.00 Closing date:  16th August 2014 Entry fee: £2.00 or Free to Premier1 Write, Learn and Publish members We want you to write a story inspired by the photo published online.   Consider that something unusual or unexplained happened here.  Importantly, we want you to bring the scenes to life by making it beautifully descriptive. Maximum word count: 1200...

The  Canton One Acts Festival 2015 will be produced at The Village Theater at Cherry Hill the weekend of January 16-18, 2015.  Check our our One Acts page for more details. We are now accepting one act scripts of up to 15 minutes in length.  Only the first 100 scripts received that follow the submission guidelines will be accepted. At this time, we have already received 50% of the scripts!    There will be a donation fee of $15 to Canton’s One...