The Producers Club Short Play Contest for fall is back! This Contest is to encourage emerging writers and find original shows we can produce. There is no fee to submit your play to the contest. We select the best of 5 plays from the submissions we receive. We are in the middle of producing previous contest’s five short plays. We have have directors like Richard Kline, Bob McAndrew and John J Bruno directing the plays. They are scheduled...

We’re Looking For We want page-turning thrillers, crime novels and mysteries. The finalists will be voted on by the public, so readers need to be pulled in for you to win. Submit a novel of at least 50,000 words and no more than 150,000. We’d be happy with a great beginning to a series. Include your name and the title on every page of the manuscript. We will only judge one submission per person. If you submit multiple, the first...

Our competition this year is for poems on the theme of “stories” (this can be broadly interpreted). There are no style or length restrictions but it should be stressed that a short poem is just as likely to be selected as a longer one. Competition Judge; Jim Bennett 1st prize is £100. All shortlisted poems will be published as a “Poem of the Week” on the PK Blog and the top five will be invited to be part of our CITN...

Sports Fiction & Essay Contest Submit Online by May 31 It’s last call to enter the 2013 Sports Fiction & Essay Contest sponsored by Winning Writers. The final judge is Jendi Reiter. We’ll award $3,000 in prizes. Fiction Category First Prize, $1,000 cash Five Honorable Mentions, $100 cash each Essay Category First Prize, $1,000 cash Five Honorable Mentions, $100 cash each Entries should be original and unpublished Each entry...

Northwind Story Contest Prize: $1,000.00 Entry fee: $15.00 Deadline: 07-31-2013. The Story Contest is open to all fiction and narrative non-fiction writers. Entries must be previously unpublished, either in print or online, between 1,500 and 8,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner or runner-up in another contest. First Prize is $1,000 and publication. Second Prize is $250 and publication. Third Prize is $100 and...

Over $4,000 in Prizes, Feedback and Exposure! Submit the first three chapters of your novel. Grand prize award of: $1,806 self-publishing solution from CreateSpace. $300 cash. Feedback on every chapter you submit. The chance to meet other authors, get motivated, and get noticed.   Two runner-ups will receive: CreateSpace copyediting service valued at approximately $600. $150 in cash Feedback Everyone who enters receives feedback, motivation,...

The Saturday Evening Post   2014 Great American Fiction Contest In its nearly three centuries of existence, The Saturday Evening Post has published short fiction by a who’s who of American authors including F. Scott Fitzgerald; William Faulkner; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; Ray Bradbury; Louis L’Amour; Sinclair Lewis; Jack London; and Edgar Allan Poe. Now you have the opportunity to join that illustrious line-up by taking part in The Saturday...