The Ledge 2007 Fiction Awards Competition PRIZES: First prize: $1000 and publication in The Ledge Magazine. Second prize: $250 and publication in The Ledge Magazine. Third prize: $100 and publication in The Ledge Magazine. ENTRY FEE: $10 for the first story; $6 for each additional story. $18 subscription (two issues) to The Ledge gains free entry for the first story. ALL STORIES must be previously unpublished and not exceed 7,500 words....

Announcing – The 2007 Prize For Poetry www.torhouse.org The annual Tor House Prize for Poetry is a living memorial to American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). The winner will receive $1,000 for an original, unpublished poem not to exceed three pages in length. $200 will be awarded for Honorable Mention. Final Judge: Al Young Open to well-crafted poetry in all styles, ranging from experimental work to traditional forms, including short...

Starcherone Books Contest The 2007-08 contest, offering $1000 and publication with Starcherone Books, is now accepting entries. Contest is open to story collections, novels, or indeterminate prose works up to 400 pages. Manuscripts will be blind-judged; the author’s name should appear on the first of two title pages and nowhere else in the manuscript. There is an administrative fee of $30. Please do not send cash. The postmark deadline is...

Backwards City Review announces its third-annual literary awards, with top prizes of $500 and publication in Backwards City Review #6, due out this fall. The entry-fee is $15 and includes a year’s subscription to the journal. The deadline for entries is May 15, 2007. You can find full details on the web. All themes and genres are accepted, and all entries are considered for publication. Online submissions are, as always, highly...

The Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University is pleased to announce its call for submissions for the Sixth Annual VCU First Novelist Award. The Fifth Annual VCU First Novelist Award, for a book published in 2005, will go to Karen Fisher for her novel A Sudden Country, published by Random House. The award will be presented at the First Novelist Forum, to be held in the fall of 2006 at VCU. Previous awards have gone to Lorraine...

BOMB Magazine 2007 Fiction Contest BOMB Magazine announces its 3rd Fiction Contest! Our 2007 judge is esteemed short story writer Amy Hempel, author of The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, one of the New York Times’s “Top 10 Best Books of 2006.” The winner receives a $500 honorarium and publication in BOMB Magazine, a not-for-profit quarterly, now in its 26th year of publishing interviews between artists, writers, architects,...

2007 Wabash Prize for Fiction Final Judge: Dan Chaon First Prize: $1000 and winning entry published in Fall 2007 issue. Entries of honorable mention also published in Fall 2007 issue. Complete Guidelines for Contest Submissions Deadline: Entries must be received by March 15, 2007. This is NOT a postmark deadline. Entries received after March 15, 2007 will be returned unread. For each submission, send one piece of fiction (or a series of related...