www.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/fiction_contestad.html 1st Prize: $1,000 2nd Prize: $250 Submission Guidelines: Send 1 story (up to 15 pgs), along with $20 reading fee payable to Potomac Review. All entrants will receive a one-year (2 issues) subscription. Put author’s name and address on the cover letter only. Include a cover letter (including complete contact info, brief bio, and name of story), and a self-addressed stamped envelope...

Knockout recently established a new poetry contest, the 2009 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize, to honor the life and work of highly acclaimed poet Reginald Shepherd, who left us on September 10, 2008. For more information on Reginald Shepherd’s work, visit his blog at reginaldshepherd.blogspot.com. One of Shepherd’s previously unpublished poems will appear in Knockout #2. Here is the essential contest...

www.teapartymagazine.com/pages/call-for-submissions-submission-guidelines.html TEA PARTY magazine (www.teapartymagazine.com) seeks submissions of fiction, poetry, photography, visual art, comics, interviews, and feature articles for its upcoming issue #18, to be published in June 2009. Our theme for Issue #18 is THE FREE ISSUE. What does FREE mean to you? How does FREE speak to our investment as individuals and as communities, and what meaning...

www.tusculum.edu/tusculumreview/contest.html Deadline: March 15, 2009 (postmark) Works Accepted: Previously published stories (including web publications) are not allowed. Send all work to: The Tusculum Review Tusculum College Department of English P.O. Box 5123 Greeneville, TN 37743. Submission inquiries: wthomas@tusculum.edu How to Label Your Submissions Please send us a cover letter with your name, address, phone number and e-mail address....

Willow Springs invites submissions for The Willow Springs Fiction Prize, $1,000 plus publication in Willow Springs. Submission deadline: April 1, 2009 willowsprings.ewu.edu/contests.html Contest Submission Guidelines Include a $15.00 entry fee. Submissions without an entry fee will not be judged. Send only one story per submission. Use a check or money order only; cash will not be accepted. Please make the checks and money orders payable to...

www.hotmetalpress.net/PoetryPrize.html 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: end of May 2009 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...

Website: www.railawards.org Entry Deadline: May 31, 2009 Entry Fee: $10 for one submission, $20 for unlimited submissions Description: The R.A.I.L. Awards are an annual literary competition dedicated to Recognizing Advancement & Innovation in Literature. Each year we honor the best new voices in Fiction, Playwriting, and Poetry with cash prizes totaling $750. The R.A.I.L. Awards are open to all English-language fiction writers, playwrights,...