www.all-story.com/contests.cgi Judged by: Elizabeth McCracken First Prize: $1,000 Second Prize: $500 Third Prize: $250 The winners and seven finalists will be considered for representation by the William Morris Agency, ICM, Regal Literary, the Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inkwell Management, Sterling Lord Literistic, and the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency. The deadline is October 1, 2008. The winners and finalists will be announced at...

New Online Literary Journal, Sweet: A Literary Confection. www.sweetlit.com Sweet seeks only poetry and creative nonfiction and anything in between. (Sorry fiction writers!) We read submissions all-year. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us immediately if your work has been taken by another literary journal. (We would like to be the first to congratulate you!) Along with your attachment, please include a brief cover...

‘I can’t figure out if you’re a detective or a pervert.’ Seeking poems that explore the twisted world of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet for The Private Press’s next chapbook anthology. Visit zoo.f2s.com/privatepress for more details and send your poems via the online contribution form. Deadline 31 December 2008.

SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse 2008 call for videopoems Pacific Cinémathèque and curator Heather Haley are seeking videopoem submissions from around the world for the annual Visible Verse screening and performance poetry celebration. Visible Verse is North America’s sustaining venue for the presentation of new and artistically significant videopoetry. Official guidelines: * Visible Verse seeks videopoems, with a 15 minutes maximum duration....

Textnovel.com (www.textnovel.com) is running a contest through December 31, 2008 for the best online serial novel. The prize is $1,000 and there is a possible publishing contract for the winner. This is the first U.S. cell phone novel website – a website that allows authors and readers to write, share and read work online or with their cellphone. The concept has been a huge hit in Japan and China and is based on publishing the novel in serial...

* The fiction, poetry, and non-fiction we look for is varied but always literary; what matters most is that your work is good, thoughtful, and complex. *We accept submissions year-round unless otherwise noted on the home page. While length is open, we rarely publish prose pieces over 5000 words. If submitting poetry, feel free to submit up to three poems. *Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but you must notify us immediately if the piece...

PRISM REVIEW invites submissions for its inaugural poetry prize. Prize: $250 plus publication. Fee: $10 (includes 1-year subscription to PRISM REVIEW). Judge: Neil Aitken, author of The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize (Anhinga Press 2008). Submissions must be postmarked between October 1 to December 15. Submissions are limited to three poems (five pages maximum). Include SASE for return of manuscript or...