The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2007 The winner of this annual award receives $1000 and publication by the University of North Texas Press. This year’s judge has asked to remain anonymous until the conclusion of the competition. Postmark deadline: November 15, 2006 Submit 50- to 80-page, typed manuscript, including an additional title page that does not bear the name of the poet. All pages indicating the poet’s identity will be...

2nd Annual Sonnet Contest 2006 Dancing Galliard Awards Daybreak Press is proud to announce a call for entries to the Second Annual Dancing Galliard Sonnet Contest. We seek original sonnets from new as well as established authors. Sonnets should be fourteen lines with symmetrical prosody (it should have form enough to create a musical effect when read aloud). While the judges are somewhat partial to formal styles, free sonnets are encouraged as...

BRITTINGHAM AND POLLAK POETRY PRIZE SUBMISSION GUIDE The University of Wisconsin Press awards the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Each winning poet will receive $2,500 ($1,000 cash prize and $1,500 honorarium to cover expenses of reading in Madison). Prizes are awarded annually to the two best book-length manuscripts of original poetry submitted in an open competition. Each manuscript submitted will be...

The MacGuffin’s 1st National Short Story Contest Judge TBA First Place Prize $500 *Two Honorable Mentions * Contest Rules 1. Each entrant will receive one FREE issue of The MacGuffin including the one with the Contest winner 2. Staff members and their families are not eligible. 3. An entry consists of one short story. Max, 3000 words. Double spaced. First page, start half way down. Title and page number on each page. Do not place name and...