Short Fiction Contest December 1, 2006 deadline Baltimore Review.org Submissions accepted between August 1st -December 1st, 2006. Prizes: First Place: $500 + publication in The Baltimore Review Second Place: $250 Third Place: $100 Judges: The Editors of The Baltimore Review Rules: Submit one short story per entry fee. Stories must be original and unpublished elsewhere. All styles and forms are accepted. Maximum word count: 6,000 words. All...

The 2007 Third Coast Fiction and Poetry Award First Prize: $1,000 & Publication Final Judges For fiction: Chang-rae Lee For poetry: Carolyn Forché Send entries to: Third Coast 2007 Fiction or Poetry Contest Department of English Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331 Open to all writers unassociated with the judges or Third Coast. Postmark deadline: October 15th, 2006. Prize-winning issue: Fall 2007. Entry fee: $15 per...

OXFORD MAGAZINE Oxford Magazine is an online literary magazine edited and published by graduate students at the Department of English at Miami University of Ohio. Since our premiere in 1984, our journal has received Pushcart Prizes for both fiction and poetry, and has published authors such as William Stafford, Robert Pinsky, Stephen Dixon, Andre Dubus, and Stuart Dybek. In 1997, Writers Digest named Oxford Magazine one of the fifty best...

Juniper Prize for Fiction Since 1976, the University of Massachusetts Press has annually awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry, publishing the winning collection of poems in book form. Since 1990, it has also published the annual winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize competition. In 2004, in collaboration with the UMass Amherst MFA Program for Writers and Poets, the Press established a third contest the Juniper Prize for Fiction—to honor and...

Pudding House Chapbook Competition Deadline: September 30 annually 10-36pp ms. Prefer around 24-28pp. $15 entry fee payable to Pudding House. Send to Pudding House Chapbook Competition 81 Shadymere Lane Columbus Ohio 43213 (614) 986-1881 $2000.00 First Place divided between author ($1,000.00) & a shelter program for the homeless ($1,000.00) plus publication 20 free copies; deep discounts on optional additionals Identify author/address on...

Loyola University Chicago. Creative Writing Instructor, Poetry. The College of Arts & Sciences invites applications for a non-tenure-track position in English (Creative Writing, Poetry) at the rank of instructor beginning fall 2007. This position carries a three-year contract with possibility of renewal & offers a competitive salary & teaching load. Requirements for the position include publication of poems in nationally-known...

Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Contest $500 and 50 copies of the winning chapbook will be awarded for the finest collection of poetry received. Everyone is allowed to submit regardless of previous publication history. Every entrant will receive the equivalent cost of the entry fee in Pavement Saw Press titles. The chapbooks are published in an edition of 400 copies. While chapbooks rarely receive exposure, ours have been reviewed in Poets and...