www.perseabooks.com/LexiRudnitskyPrize.html The Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize is a collaboration between Persea Books and The Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project. It sponsors the annual publication of a poetry collection by an American woman poet who has yet to publish a book of poems. The winner receives $1000.00 and publication of her collection by Persea. Submitted manuscripts should include a title page, containing the author’s name, the...

Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, is pleased to announce the establishment of a new literary prize: HUNGER MOUNTAIN CREATIVE NONFICTION PRIZE www.tui.edu/hungermtn/nonfiction.asp Judged by Sue William Silverman, author of Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction and editor of the journal Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. DEADLINE: September 10, 2007 – entries accepted beginning June...

www.loganhousepress.com/ Logan House announces the third annual Holland Prize for unpublished poetry manuscripts (48-80 pages). The winning manuscript will be published in 2008, and the winner will receive $500. Submit manuscript, $25 reading fee, and SASE to Logan House, Rte. 1, Box 154, Winside, NE 68790, before August 1. Everyone that submits to the Holland Prize will receive a copy of Disciples of an Uncertain Season by Larry Holland and...

Best New Poets 2007 is now accepting nominations. See www.bestnewpoets.org to submit work to our Open Competition until our final deadline: midnight, June 15, 2007. Best New Poets is an annual anthology of 50 poems by emerging writers, where we define “emerging” as a poet who has yet to publish a book-length collection. You can view our full eligibility rules at www.bestnewpoets.org/eligibility.html. Please note: There is a reading...

Robert Johnson, Founder of Media Press in Minneapolis, seeks submissions for a book of poems in honor of James Wright. The book will be a standard trade edition of about 70 pages. Each contributor will receive two copies of the book, and a small number of poems in the book will also be printed in broadside format suitable for framing. Submissions should be no more than two pages of poetry in any form. Your name and contact information should...

Alligator Juniper National Writing Contests in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction $10 Entry Fee $500 First Place Prize Postmark Deadline: October 1, 2007 Alligator Juniper, a publication of Prescott College in Arizona, awards $500 plus publication for the first place winners in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Additional winners selected for publication will be paid in copies (4). $10 entry fee, checks payable to Alligator...

Call for Submissions Revolting Sofas needs you, fiction and poetry writers! Send up to 5 pages of poetry or prose to starthamewart@gmail.com in a Microsoft Word Document or PDF file *only*, and risk being commissioned to create a very short piece to go along with a photograph of a horrible couch: www.revoltingsofas.blogspot.com Contributors have included: Cathy Park Hong, James Urbaniak, Lysley Tenorio, Ernest Hilbert, Jonathan Lethem, Susan...