The University of North Texas Press announces the 2010 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. web3.unt.edu/untpress/potential_authors.cfm#subkap The winner of this annual award will receive $1000 and publication by UNT Press. Entries will be judged by an eminent writer. Entries can be a combination of short-shorts, short stories, and novellas, from 100 to 200 book pages in length (word count between 27,500 and 50,000). Material should be...

Moment Magazine is now accepting submissions for the 2009 Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest. Moment will award three prizes to outstanding works of unpublished short fiction with Jewish content. momentmag.com/Contests/SSContestGuidelines.html $1,000 plus possible publication $500 plus possible publication $250 plus possible publication Winners may be invited to Washington DC or New York City for an awards ceremony. If so, the contest covers a...

Download entry fee at www.uky.edu/WWK/Gabehart_Prize_Entry_Form_2009.pdf Each year the Kentucky Women Writers Conference offers opportunities for both emerging and established voices to be singled out and cheered on by our community. The Betty Gabehart Prize honors our good friend, patron, and former director who led the conference during its seminal decade in the 1980s. One winner will be chosen in each of three genres: poetry, fiction, and...

www.motesbooks.com/MOTIF-Call-For-Submissions.html MOTIF is an anthology series published annually by MotesBooks of Louisville, Ky. Volume 1: Writing By Ear featured 116 writers, including Patty Griffin, SilasHouse, Buddy & Julie Miller, Maurice Manning, Evie Shockley, Neela Vaswani, Frank X Walker and Pamela Duncan. Each volume in the MOTIF series focuses on a theme – for Volume 2 the theme is CHANCE. Submissions may be poems, short...

Soupy Stories is a new online literary magazine devoted to publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers of the Midwest. The intention of the magazine is to help writers build their portfolios and get their names out. As of right now, we cannot offer any payment except for online publication. Our purpose is not to generate revenue, and we do not ask for reading/entry fees. However, all published works will be considered for our upcoming...

2009 Contest Theme: Short Fiction in Varied Genres Submit Your Stories Starting April 13! The Warren Adler Short Story Contest is fast becoming the most prestigious online short story contest thanks to the extraordinary literary quality of our submissions. We are pleased to announce our next contest. The theme is simply short fiction in all of its varied genres. We are looking for original, imaginative pieces featuring compelling characters and...

newportreview.org/?contests.html The 2009 Flash Fiction Contest is open for entries as of June 1, 2009. Stories will be considered from June through the postmark deadline of September 1, 2009. This year’s guest judge will be fiction writer Hester Kaplan, author of The Edge of Marriage and Kinship Theory. We are looking for works that are short in length but linger long in memory: small stories that pack a big emotional punch and make...