The 2007 Mid-American Review Fineline Competition for Prose Poems, Short Shorts, and Anything In Between 1st Prize: $1000 + Publication + Engraved Contest Commemorative Pen Ten Finalists: Notation + Possible Publication 2007 Final Judge: Ron Carlson author of A Kind of Flying, At the Jim Bridger, The Hotel Eden, Plan B for the Middle Class, and News of the World Guidelines: Postmark deadline: May 1, 2007. Contest is for previously unpublished...

www.codhill.com $500 cash prize and fifty copies Judge: Pauline Uchmanowicz Manuscripts are judged anonymously. Codhill Press will consider all finalists for publication. Guidelines The competition is open to any poet who writes in English. Previously published poems with proper acknowledgement are acceptable. Translations and previously self-published books are not eligible. Poets should submit twenty to thirty pages (no more than one poem per...

Five hundred dollars and publication in Ekphrasis for a single poem. FINALISTS WILL BE NOTED AND PUBLISHED. WE ARE LOOKING FOR WELL-CRAFTED POETRY, THE MAIN CONTENT OF WHICH ADDRESSES INDIVIDUAL WORKS FROM ANY ARTISTIC GENRE. PLEASE IDENTIFY THE SPECIFIC WORK OF ART THAT IS THE FOCUS OF YOUR POEM. ACCEPTABLE EKPHRASTIC VERSE TRANSCENDS MERE DESCRIPTION. WINNERS WILL BE SELECTED BY THE EDITORS OF EKPHRASIS ACCORDING TO THESE GUIDELINES. ALL...

Main Street Rag’s Annual Chapbook Contest www.mainstreetrag.com (go to website for details regarding online submissions) 2007 Guidelines Deadline: May 31, 2007. Reading Fee: $15 Winner receives $500 and 50 copies of chapbook. ***Top two runners up will also be awarded $100.*** All entries receive a copy of the winning manuscript and are considered for publication. Runners-up will also be offered publication and every manuscript entered...

The 2007 Orchid: A Literary Review SHORT FICTION CONTEST www.orchidlit.org 1st Prize: $1100 + Publication in Issue #11 (Spring 2008) Four Finalists: Notation + Possible Publication 2007 Final Judge Stuart Dybek Stuart Dybek is the author of three books of fiction: I Sailed With Magellan, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods. Both I Sailed With Magellan and The Coast of Chicago were New York Times Notable Books, and The...

The 2007 Million Writers Award for best online fiction is now open for nominations. Readers and editors wishing to nominate a short fiction story published in an online magazine or journal during 2006 should first read the rules, then visit the links below. This year’s award is sponsored by the Edit Red Writing Community (formerly known as Spoiled Ink). As a result of this sponsorship, the award features a $300 prize for the overall...

Cranky announces its first-ever chapbook contest. The details? http://www.crankymag.org/contest.html You: Poet with 20-45 pages of poetry waiting to be let out to play. Maybe a few of these poems have been published in literary journals, but the set has not been previously published anywhere, though your poems are deliciously crisp and black (like ants). You live in a cold-water flat and could use the $500 first prize. Unlike the runners-up at...