www.bard.edu/bfp/ The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to a promising, emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application. In addition to the monetary award, the winner receives an appointment as writer in residence at Bard College for one semester, without the expectation that he or she teach traditional courses. The recipient gives at least one public lecture and meets informally with students. The...

Arroyo Literary Review seeks poetry and fiction for our second issue. We welcome submissions between January 15, 2009 and May 31, 2009. Submissions should be sent by mail to: Arroyo Literary Review Department of English – MB 2579 California State University, East Bay 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd. Hayward, CA 94542 Please include SASE. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, though notify us immediately should your work be accepted elsewhere. We only...

The sixth annual Howard Frank Mosher Prize in Short Fiction awards one $1,000.00 prize and two honorable mentions. The first prize winner also receives publication in Hunger Mountain, the VCFA Journal of the Arts. 15 finalists receive a signed Stinehour Press Award Series Broadside. JUDGE: Andre Dubus, III DEADLINE: Postmarked by June 30, 2009 www.hungermtn.org/hfm.asp ENTRY FEE: $20.00 GUIDELINES: – $20 entry fee, payable to “Hunger...

The Santa Barbara Writers Conference announces its first annual Writing Contest in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry. Winners in each category will receive a scholarship for tuition to the 2010 Santa Barbara Writers Conference and a grand prize winner will get a scholarship and the opportunity to have lunch with a top agent during the conference. www.sbwriters.com/contest_2009.php Fiction entries can be in any genre. Nonfiction can be essay,...

Quiddity international literary journal and public-radio program (www.sci.edu/quiddity) is pleased to announce the Teresa A. White Literary Award. The 2009 award is affectionately referred to as the “buck-a-word” contest. First Prize: $500 and publication in the Spring/Summer 2010 print issue of Quiddity as well as broadcast feature in Quiddity’s public-radio program (via WUIS, NPR member and PRI affiliate) Honorable mentions may also be...

CaKe, journal of poetry and art, would like to invite all to submit any work of poetry, visual art, shoot book reviews/critiques, and essays to cakesubmissions@hotmail.com. We’re coming up with different concepts for these issues right now. For now, the summer issue will be an issue focused on Women of color. Feel free to submit any work to our email for us to review. Also, our third issue is now available for $4. To get a copy, please...

Do you have a poem about the Moon? Moonlight? Phases or effects of the moon? What waxes or wanes? Clever personifications? Something new under the moon? Twin Cranes Press is sponsoring a free Moon poem broadside contest. The winning entry will be produced in a limited, numbered edition of 100 copies, of which 25 go to the author and 75 will be sold to raise funds to support Moonlit, a Chicago-based literary journal edited by Lisa Janssen and...