Short Short Contest – $500 Prize – June 30th deadline Poetry Awards – $1000/$300/$200 Prizes – July 15th deadline Essay Awards – $1000/$300/$200 Prizes – Sept. 15th deadline See www.literal-latte.com/contests for details.

Starting July 1, 2009 and ending at midnight, July 31, 2009, I will be holding a writing contest on my blog, Diamondsandtoads.com. The contest will require writers to retell “Sleeping Beauty” in 1,000 words or less. Entries that are too early, too late or too long will be automatically disqualified. The prize will be a one-of-a-kind box that will feature the fairy tale as a theme. It’s value will be about $50.00 It will be...

Guidelines at www.folioalley.com/winners We will have our first-ever writing contest during 2009. The subject of the contest is “Alley Cats and Alley Rats”. The contest will be judged by the entire membership of folioalley. Winner to be announced on December 15, 2009. You will find the rules for this contest listed below.

LEVELER, an online poetry journal, is currently considering submissions for its inaugural issue. LEVELER welcomes your work year-round. Send only one previously unpublished poem as a Microsoft Word attachment to submissions@levelerpoetry.com. We will not read cover letters. If you’d like to be available for comment from our readers, include your email address at the bottom of the poem and, should your poem be published, we’ll post this...

Can you bring your vampires to life? Do they practically leap off the page to grab your reader and make him feel passion, fear, or perhaps a new reality? If so, we are seeking your stories or poems. Scion Press is accepting new, original stories and poetry featuring vampires for an Anthology of vampire stories and poems which is planned for publication May 2010. Accent for these stories and poems should be placed on original, non-derivative,...

www.usi.edu/RopeWalk/Wilhelmus%20Award.asp Guidelines RopeWalk Press will award a prize of $1000 for a poetry chapbook written in English submitted under the following guidelines. Each submission must: Be available for exclusive book-length publication by RopeWalk Press. Poems published individually in journals or magazines may be included. Previously self-published chapbooks and translations are not eligible. Simultaneous submissions are...

collectivefallout.com/contests/ Winner receives $50 and publication in the January issue Collective Fallout Finalists will all be published in the January or following July issuesCollective Fallout Eligible stories must be queer-themes, between 3,000 and 10,000 words and fit into one or more of the following genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, or Science Fiction. Entry fee is $5 per story. Multiple submissions up to 3 stories are accepted. Make...