Zócalo Public Square’s Second Annual Poetry Prize It’s a no-fee contest with a $500 award to the U.S. poet whose poem best evokes a sense of place. Our March 15, 2013 deadline is approaching, more information is available at: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/01/16/zocalo-public-square-poetry-prize/inquiries/prizes/

SRPR Editors’ Prize Contest (http://www.srpr.org/contest.php) First Place Prize: $1,000, publication, and introduction written by prominent outside judge Entry Fee: $20, includes one-year subscription to SRPR (two issues). Deadline: April 15, 2013 (postmark) Submission: ONLINE as well postal SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review) is pleased to announce the opening of our annual Editors’ Prize Contest! One winning poem will be awarded...

The Fiction Desk Ghost Story Competition 2013 The competition is for ghost stories from 2,000 – 5,000 words. Closing date: 31st May 2013 Prizes: First prize £500, second prize £100. Entry fee:  £6 for one story; £9 for two stories submitted together. For more details, see: http://www.thefictiondesk.com/submissions/ghost-story-competition.php

One could travel down a million different paths when considering women in art, and I’m inviting you to pick one of these paths and write your heart out! I am excited to be joining up with Ashley from Small  Strokes as the editor of this month’s Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival and I am calling on you to further shake the trees where women are missing, problematic, celebrated, or empowered making art. This means I will post a list of all of your...

“Variations Theatre Group, Inc (VTG) is proud to announce its Unchained Theatre Festival as part of our core mission, namely, to provide an opportunity for artists to develop new, arresting work.” DETAILS The festival will run for three weeks starting from May 18th, 2013 at our brand new Chain Theatre in Long Island City, NY. Each play will be given four showings, and  votes from a panel of judges and audience will decide which...

The third annual Ojai WordFest will host “A Celebration of Words” at Libbey Bowl on Saturday, April 13th. The event will be the highlight to the 8-day Ojai WordFest, which runs Saturday April 6 through Saturday April 13. Scheduled festivities will include stage readings and performances by authors, poets, playwrights, songwriters, and other word-artists. A “Book Fair at the Bowl” will be held on the lawn above the bowl...

It may be apocryphal, but the story goes that Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing a short story that ran fewer than ten words. One version of the story places the bet at the famed Algonquin round table. Whether true or not, there is an actual bet-winning short story attributed to Hemingway: For sale. Baby Shoes. Never worn.   You have to admit its pretty good. It builds, and there’s a whole world of background and emotion lurking...