Prizes $1,000, first place; $300, second place; $200, third place. The first-place entry, along with the finalist judge’s comments, will be published in The Writer magazine. All three winning entries will be posted on The Writer Web site, www.WriterMag.com. Finalist judge Shelby Hearon Entry fee $10 per entry, payable to The Writer. Entry fees are nonrefundable. Payments must be in U.S. funds drawn from a U.S. bank. Deadline Postmarked by...

The Summerset Review, a literary journal publishing stories and essays for the past six years, is now accepting poetry as well. Send up to five poems to editor@summersetreview.org Visit the site at: www.summersetreview.org The Summerset Review is a quarterly online journal, periodically collecting some of the work in print editions. We nominate for annual awards, including Pushcart and BASS, and publish new and established voices. A story...

www.camberpress.com/pressreleases/CPFictionAward.pdf Camber Press is pleased to announce our Fiction Chapbook Award. Our ethos is to publish contemporary fiction exhibiting lucid delivery while not sacrificing emotional depth, mastery of craft, or originality. First Prize: $1,000 and publication of chapbook Submission guidelines: The winning fiction writer will receive $1,000 and have his or her manuscript published by Camber Press, Inc. The...

www.dylandays.com/writers.htm HIBBING, Minn. ─ The Dylan Days Creative Writing contest is issuing its 2009 call for entries. The annual contest based in Bob Dylan’s hometown includes poetry, short fiction and our wildly successful new one-act play category. The deadline is 11:59 p.m., March 15, 2009. Poetry and Short fiction will be accepted through an online entry system. (http://www.dylandays.com/writers.htm) One act plays are accepted...

www.siuc.edu/~johnson/winners.html The Charles Johnson Student Fiction Award from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is an annual award competition intended to encourage increased artistic and intellectual growth among students, as well as reward excellence and diversity in creative writing. Each year, $1000 and a signed copy of a Charles Johnson book will be awarded to the winner. The winning entry will also be published in the...

The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, established in 2006, and published online on a quarterly basis. TSP’s first annual short story contest is open to all writers, whether they have been past contributors to TSPor not, and in any genre. www.thesmokingpoet.net/id18.html An entry fee of $10 per submission is required, payment to be made through PayPal. Once you have sent in your submission and we determine it meets our contest guidelines, we...

Reading: February 1 – March 30, 2009 www.brierycreekpress.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=3 No mss postmarked after March 30, 2009 will be considered. Reading fee: $20.00 Final Judge: Jan Beatty (Jan Beatty’s new book, Red Sugar, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Spring, 2008. Other books include Boneshaker (2002, U. of Pgh. Press) and Mad River, winner of the 1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Ravenous, her limited...