www.winnningwriters.com/tomstory Sixteenth year. Fourteen cash prizes totaling $5,250. Top prize $2,000. Seeks short stories, essays and other works of prose, up to 5,000 words. Winning entries published online. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Fee per entry is $12, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: March 31. Judges: J.H. Reid, D.C. Konrad. Submit online or mail to Winning Writers Attn: Tom Howard Short Story Contest...

The Madison Review hosts the Phyllis Smart Young Prize in Poetry and the Chris O’Malley Prize in Fiction annually. The best unpublished short story and best group of three unpublished poems will each be awarded $1,000.00 and publication in the spring issue of The Madison Review. The Madison Review accepts short-fiction and poetry of all creative forms and content. * All submissions must be received by February 1st, 2008. To be considered,...

$2,000 GRAND PRIZE 3 RUNNER-UP PRIZES OF $200 EACH prism.arts.ubc.ca/contests.html All winning stories will be published in the 2008 PRISM Summer Fiction Contest Issue and receive an additional payment of $20 per printed page (in Canadian dollars or the U.S. equivalent). Entry deadline: January 31, 2008. Go to prism.arts.ubc.ca/forms/fiction_contest_form.pdf for required entry form and contest guidelines

The 2008 Noemi Press Poetry Chapbook Award will be judged by Mary Jo Bang author of Elegy, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, and Louise in Love The 2008 Noemi Press Fiction Chapbook Award will be judged by Brian Evenson author of The Open Curtain , The Wavering Knife, and Altmann’s Tongue Winners will receive $150 and 25 author’s copies. All manuscripts will be considered for publication. Guidelines for Submissions Send 20-40 pp. of...

www.percontra.net Awarded March 2008 $1,000 First Prize and Publication in Per Contra for the Top Ten Entries Winner will appear in Per Contra Spring 2008, also featuring the work of Daniel Hoffman, new and unpublished work by John Updike, Maxine Kumin, William Jay Smith, Rhina P. Espaillat and Stephen Dixon. Coming March 1st. PRIZES: FIRST PRIZE: $1,000 U.S. dollars. Top ten stories will be published in Per Contra in our 2008 editorial...

Deadline: January 18, 2008 bostonreview.net/about/contest/ Four Prizes: $500 Complete guidelines: Four winning authors will be awarded a reading at the 92nd Street Y in New York City (set for Monday, May 5, 8:15 PM), publication in the Boston Review and $500. 1. The contest is open to poets who have not published a book of poems (chapbooks and self-published books included). Those who have a book contract at the time of submission or who are...

CutBank is pleased to announce the Montana Prize in Fiction, the Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry. We are honored to have three talented judges participating in the inaugural year of these contests. The Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry will be judged by Michele Glazer. Aimee Bender will select the winner of the Montana Prize in Fiction. The winner of the Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction will...