Tattoo Highway, an online journal of prose, poetry and art, is now reading for TH/18: “Diners, Dives & Michelin Stars” ~ the food issue. Deadline January 15, 2009. www.tattoohighway.org GENERAL GUIDELINES: Our tastes are eclectic. We like fresh, vivid language, and we like stories and poems that are actually about something — that acknowledge a world beyond the writer’s own psyche. If they have an edge, if they...

The Atlantic Monthly invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays for its 2008 Student Writing Contest. www.theatlantic.com/a/contest.mhtml Categories Poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays. Prizes First $1,000 | Second: $500 | Third: $250 and one-year subscriptions to The Atlantic Monthly for seven runners-up in each category. ENTRANTS must be full-time undergraduate or graduate students currently...

writers.ciweb.org/literary-journal/ Prize: $1,000 and publication in Chautauqua, the literary journal of the Chautauqua Institution. Winner and finalists receive a copy of the journal. Theme: Story and Storytelling Entry fee: $20 Judge: Robin Becker Deadline: November 15, 2008 Send 1 to 3 poems (6 pages maximum), cover sheet, and entry fee to: Chautauqua Writers’ Center, Poetry Contest Chautauqua Institution PO Box 28 Chautauqua, NY 14722 Robin...

Sponsored by The LIT DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: extended to October 15, 2008. Visit www.the-lit.org/bestofOWguides.html for more details and entry form. In keeping with the annual tradition of The Best of Ohio Writer, MUSE announces its first annual literary competition. Winning entries will be published in the January 2009 issue of MUSE: A Quarterly Journal of The LIT. We are asking for submissions in the following categories: -Short Fiction:...

hotmetalpress.net Our prize is $350 and 20 free copies. We want to send every entrant a copy of the winning collection. We also will consider unpublished poems within the manuscript for our magazine. Page Limit: 32 pages. Fee: $20.00. Deadline: end of November 2008. Please make ut a check for $20 to Hotmetalpress. Judged by Martin Willitts Jr (author of a full length book “The Secret Language of the Universe” and editor of a poetry anthology...

Stone’s Throw Magazine seeks fiction, poetry, and brief accounts of daily life from around the world for its inaugural issue. This is an online magazine; issues will be archived and remain available through the website: www.stonesthrowmagazine.com. Paste submissions into an email message addressed to submissions.stonesthrow@gmail.com. No attachments, please. Multiple submissions okay. No payment available. Submissions will be accepted...

Call for entries from young adult writers, grades 9-12 or equivalent age thereof. Cash prizes. Winners read at Koret Auditorium, SF Main Library. Complete rules available: www.soulmakingcontest.us DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30, 2008 An arts outreach program of the National League of American Pen Women, Nob Hill-San Francisco Branch. For more information please email PenNobHill@aol.com