Spire Spring Poetry Chapbook Contest www.spirepress.org The winning entry will be published with a full-color cover and receive $500 cash, plus 20 copies and a royalty contract * All finalists will be considered for publication * Contest Guidelines: 1) Each submitted manuscript should be 18-30 numbered pages of poetry; 2) No author names should appear on any manuscript, but the chapbook title should appear on each page; 3) Two cover letters:...

The Bechtel Prize is awarded annually in recognition of an exemplary article or essay related to: Creative writing education, Literary studies, and/or The profession of writing. The winning essay appears in Teachers & Writers magazine, and the author receives a $3,500 honorarium. Entries selected as finalists for the Bechtel Prize may also be published in Teachers & Writers. The authors of finalist essays selected for publication in the...

Many Mountains Moving Press 2007 Poetry Book Contest Guidelines Prize: The winner receives $500 and publication by MMM Press in 2008. Deadline: May 1, 2007 (postmark). Entry fee: $20 {Entitles entrants to a free back issue and the opportunity to buy a new MMM Subscription for $10.00, and any one of the MMM Press Books, They Sing at Midnight, invisible sister, & Feeding the Fear of the Earth, also for $10 (shipping included). Final Judge:...

Lyon College Creative Writing Residency 2008 Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing of Creative Nonfiction Complete Application Guidelines Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, a highly selective four-year liberal arts college, seeks a distinguished writer of creative nonfiction for its 3rd biennial Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing, a six-week residency scheduled during the spring 2008 semester (exact dates negotiable). While the...

The third Annual Prose for Papa short story contest is held in conjunction with the 2007 Ernest Hemingway Festival, Sun Valley, Idaho Sept. 20-Sept. 23rd, 2007. Details for the Ernest Hemingway Festival short story contest 2007, Prose For Papa: Non-refundable $10 entry fee must be sent with the entry. Checks should be made out to SVKCVB. Cash prize of $500. First place winner will be published in the Hemingway Festival magazine and on this...

Mighty River Short Story Contest Deadline: August 1, 2007. $500 and publication in Big Muddy. Best short story relating to Mississippi River, River Valley, or sister River.$15 fee includes copy of Big Muddy with winning story. MRSS Contest, Southeast Missouri State University Press, MS 2650 One University Plaza, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701. Guidelines: www6.semo.edu/universitypress/mrss The Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest Deadline: August 1,...

Outrider Press in affiliation w/TallGrass Writers Guild announces deadline extension to 3/31. www.outriderpress.com Postmark deadline: 3/31. Cash prizes: $2000; $1000 in poetry/$1000 in prose. Each published contributor receives one free copy of the anthology; perfect-bound, trade paper original of approximately 230 pages. We nominate for Pushcart Prizes. Theme: “A Walk Through My Garden”; in the tradition of writers who garden (or...