Guidelines for the 2007 Cooper Prize: $1,000 plus publication www.ontarioreviewpress.com/or_main_pages/or_short_prize.html Submissions accepted from May 1 to September 1, 2007. Submissions limited to one story of not more than twenty-five double-spaced typewritten pages. Mail submissions to: The Cooper Fiction Prize Ontario Review 9 Honey Brook Drive Princeton, NJ 08540. Include self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of manuscript or...

www.marlbororeview.com/mrcont.html (go to site above for entry form) Judge: Richard Jackson Mail entries to: the Marlboro Review, Inc. P.O. Box 243 Marlboro, Vermont 05344 The postmark deadline has been extended to May 30, 2007 Submit up to five poems (any length) and a $15.00 reading fee by May 30, 2007 (postmark date). Make checks payable to the Marlboro Review, Inc. No electronic submissions. No simultaneous submissions accepted for the...

Good News Daily.Com Creative Writing Contest Win 7 nights on the Big Island of Hawaii Free All Expense Paid Vacation for two! Simply write a Good News story about your community, your school, your family or anything positive that you have access to around the world and publish it at www.goodnewsdaily.com. It’s as simple as that. Do something good for the world while taking a chance that you might be the “Gerstenberger Prize” winner for 2008!...

Deadline: July 31, 2007 The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to everyone whether experienced or not. This competition welcomes anyone who loves to arrange words into beautiful art or to write a short story that is worth telling. And to all who have the ability to dream. Write your best short story or poem for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. (www.dreamquestone.com) Guidelines: (1) Write a poem, thirty...

Thanks to Marilyn Klepak of Dallas, the Southwest Review gives an annual award of $1000 to a poem by a writer who has not yet published a first book of poetry. Owing to a generous supplemental donation by Mr. and Mrs. David T. Searls, Jr., we offer a second prize of $500. Contestants may submit no more than six poems in a “traditional” form (e.g., sonnet, sestina, villanelle, rhymed stanzas, blank verse, et al.). A cover letter with...

www.dorothyprizes.org These prizes have been established by Marvin Rosenberg in memory of his late wife, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg. The intent is to encourage the work of new, young poets. Several prizes varying from $1,000 up to as much as $25,000 will be awarded for the finest lyric poems celebrating the spirit of life. The competition is open to any writer under the age of 40 on November 6, 2007. All poets, published or unpublished, are...

Sponsored by WORDHARVEST and Cowboys & Indians Magazine Deadline: September 15, 2007 Prize: $1500 and publication in the March issue of the magazine Visit the website: www.hillermanconference.com for rules and a submission form. Also check out The Hillerman Prize for best first mystery. Sponsored by WORDHARVEST and St.Martin’s Press Deadline: July 1, 2007 Prize: $10,000 and publication by the Thomas Dunne imprint of St. Martin’s...