Announcing The Briar Cliff Review Eleventh Annual Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contest $1000 First Place for each category Plus Publication in Spring 2007 Entries will be judged by the Editors of The Briar Cliff Review. $15.00 entry fee per story/creative nonfiction piece or three poems. Omit author’s name on manuscript. Deadline: November 1, 2006 Guidelines: Short story/creative nonfiction word limit up to 6,000. Short stories and...

Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition for Ohio Poets Poets currently residing in Ohio may enter the Open Chapbook Competition. Poets currently enrolled in Ohio institutions of higher education may enter the Student Chapbook Competition. Two to four manuscripts from each category are chosen each year to be published by Kent State University Press. In addition, the winners are invited to give a reading on the Kent State campus. Maggie Anderson is...

New College of Florida. Writer in Residence, spring semester 2007 (February-May). The successful candidate will have two published books or the equivalent, & two years experience teaching wcreative writing which can include instruction as a graduate student. MFA, MA, or equivalent degree preferred, but experience considered. We especially welcome candidates who, as Writer in Residence, will be interested in getting to know our campus...

The Program in Creative Writing at The University of Alabama invites applications for the Coal Royalty Chair in Creative Writing. This one-semester, non-renewable position is open tto poets & prose writers in (roughly) alternating years. We have filled this position through the 2007/08 academic year, & now seek a distinguished writer (preferably a poet, possibly a prose writer) for Fall 2008 or Spring 2009. Applicants should have at...

The 2006 Mid-American Review Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, Creative Nonfiction Award, James Wright Poetry Award 1st Prize, each genre: $1000 + Publication Four Finalists: Notation + Possible Publication 2006 Final Judges: Fiction: Aimee Bender Author of Willful Creatures, An Invisible Sign of My Own, and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Nonfiction: Phillip Lopate Author of Getting Personal, Portrait of My Body, and Totally, Tenderly, Sweetly...

It is Rosebud’s great honor to announce The 4th Biennial X.J. Kennedy award for creative nonfiction. Mr. Kennedy is one of America’s most admired editors, poets and essayists. He was the judge of the first competition and remains a valued supporter of and advisor to the award. The current contest will be judged by Rosebud editor and VOICE OVER columnist Roderick Clark and by Robert Wake, Editor of Cambridge Book Review Press. As...

The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize: $2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse. Each year Crazyhorse offers the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for a single short story and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize for a single poem. The prize awards are currently $2000 for each genre, and the winning poem and piece of prose are published in Crazyhorse. To enter: To enter, please mail a manuscript of up to twenty-five pages...