The Writer’s Travel Scholarship

www.equivocality.net/writers-travel-scholarship The Writer’s Travel Scholarship is an annual writing contest, now in its third year. The winner receives a round-trip ticket to anywhere in the world. Really. This time around the event has special significance for me, because I am myself travelling again. I write these words from the remote village of Ghourma-Rharous, a town of 3000 on the Niger river in northern Mali. Despite the river,...

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IR’s 2007 ‘1/2 K’ Prize Guidelines

$1000 Honorarium and Publication Final Judge: Stuart Dybek www.indiana.edu/~inreview/general/prizes/microprizeguidelines07.html POSTMARK DEADLINE: June 8, 2007 Reading Fee: $15 Includes a year’s subscription. All entries considered for publication. All entries considered anonymously. Send no more than 3 pieces, 500 words maximum per piece. (That’s 3 short-shorts or prose-poems max per entry fee.) Each piece must be either a...

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The 2007 Midwest Chapbook Series Award

The Laurel Review / GreenTower Press The 2007 Midwest Chapbook Series Award Final Judge: Ray Gonzalez The contest is open to anyone who is living in, from, or closely associated with the Midwest, excluding close friends and former students of the editors, as well as employees and students of Northwest Missouri State University. Guidelines: · 20-30 pages (typed, single-sided, one poem per page). · Individual poems may have been previously...

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Red Mountain Review Poetry Chapbook Contest

www.redmountainreview.net/rmrwebsite_002.htm Red Mountain Review | 1800 8th Avenue North | Birmingham, Alabama 35203 RMR solicits submissions for its third-annual poetry chapbook contest. There is no entry fee. The winner will receive $500; ten copies of RMR3, in which the manuscript will appear; ten copies of a limited-edition stand-alone chapbook; and an all-expense paid trip to Birmingham for a joint reading with this year’s judge,...

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The Tennessee Writers Alliance 2007 Literary Awards Competition

www.tn-writers.org/contest07g2.htm The Tennessee Writers Alliance Short Fiction Award The Tennessee Writers Alliance Poetry Award July 1, 2007 Postmark Deadline Submission Guidelines 1. The contest is open to all writers with the exception of first place winners from the previous year. First place winners may not enter in the same category in the year immediately following their awards. 2. All submissions must be original and unpublished. All...

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THE 2007 WASHINGTON SQUARE COMPETITION

THE 2007 WASHINGTON SQUARE COMPETITION Washington Square invites you to enter the 2008 Washington Square competition. Winners (one in Fiction and one in Poetry) receive $500 and publication in a forthcoming issue of Washington Square. Selected runners-up will also receive publication. The 2007 judges are TBD. • Submit up to 3 poems (6 pages total) or one short story (up to 20 pages). • Include cover sheet with name and title of work(s)...

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Sow’s Ear Poetry Chapbook Contest

sows-ear.kitenet.net/competition.html March-April: CHAPBOOK COMPETITION Award – Publication, $1000, 25 copies, and distribution to subscribers Chapbook Competition Guidelines: Open to adults. Send 22-26 pages of poetry plus a title page and a table of contents, all without your name. On a separate sheet list chapbook title, your name, address, phone number, e-mail address if available, and publication credits for submitted poems, if any....

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