www.scribophile.com/contests/ We love flash fiction: it’s fast, it’s fun, and it forces you to get really creative. So guess what? This month’s contest is all about flash fiction, and the theme is “the forest.” Easy as that! Submit a piece of fiction under 1000 words featuring a nice green and foresty theme and show us what you’ve got! 1st prize is a $50 Amazon.com gift card, 2nd prize is a $25 Amazon.com...

The Second Annual Press 53 Open Awards Accepting Entries Until March 31 8 Categories: Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short-Short Story, Short Story, Genre Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Novella, and Young Writers. 8 Industry-Professional Judges 8 Beautiful Etched-Glass Awards 17 Opportunities for Publication in the Second Annual Press 53 Open Awards Anthology Guidelines available at...

The Ohio State University Press and the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at OSU invite submissions for the 2009 Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction. Each year, a readers’ committee of OSU fiction writers and a final judge select one manuscript for publication by The Ohio State University Press. The winning author receives publication under a standard book contract, which includes a cash prize of $1,500 as an advance against...

Submissions Open January 1 – March 1, 2009. The open submission period for the Summer issue is January 1st through March 1st. The submission period for the Winter issue is July 1st through September 1st. This is a literary journal founded in order to publish and in doing so to honor good narrative poetry. Naugatuck River Review is dedicated to publishing narrative poetry in the tradition of great narrative poets such as Gerald Stern,...

New South is now reading for its fiction and poetry contest. First-place winners will receive $1000. Second-place winners will receive $250. All winners will have their work published in our Summer 2009 issue. John Weir (fiction) and Chelsea Rathburn (poetry) will judge the final rounds, which will be anonymous. For more information, please email James May at new_south@langate.gsu.edu or visit our contest’s website:...

Lynne Birdsall PO Box 1615 Concord, NH 03302-1615 Please note limit is forty lines. Name and address must appear in the upper right hand corner of the copy on which they appear. NO identification is to appear anywhere on the second copy. The Poetry Society of New Hampshire sponsors four National Contests open to all poets, members or not. Judges for the contests are not members of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. Prizes are awarded to four...

$2,000 PRIZE TO WINNING POET Submission Deadline: March 16, 2009 CONTEST FINAL JUDGE: Linda Gregerson Linda Gregerson is the author of four poetry collections: Magnetic North (2007), Waterborne (2002), The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996), and Fire in the Conservatory (1982). She teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature at the University of Michigan. Linda has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the...