Founded in 2001, Winning Writers provides fast, easy and affordable access to expert literary contest information. It’s celebrating its 12th year in business by hosting four international contests that will award over $16,000 in prizes. Here are summaries of the contest guidelines: Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (no fee) 12th annual free contest seeks humor poems. Eleven cash prizes totaling $2,000 will be awarded. Top prize of $1,000....

Fermoy International Poetry Festival are calling for submissions for this year’s International competition for entry into the BLUE MAX REVIEW. This year’s festival will run from Thursday August 1st to Monday August 5th and once again the three international winners will be flown to Ireland for the Fermoy International Poetry Festival and will read at the festival. We are delighted to announce that poet Noel King is this year’s competition...

$2,500 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2013 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a thirty-one year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of emerging writers of short fiction whose voices have yet to be heard. Lorian Hemingway, granddaughter of Nobel laureate...

TSKW Robert Frost International Poetry Contest  TSKW was honored to take over the prestigious literary tradition founded by the Heritage House Museum 20 years ago, which honors Robert Frost and encourages the creation of new poetry and haiku. TSKW will accept contest entries between January 1 and March 1, 2013 PRIZES FOR EACH CATEGORY: (POETRY AND HAIKU) 1st Place – A Two Week Residency at The Studios of Key West* + $200 Cash prize 2nd Place  –...

On behalf of the editors at The Lascaux Review, welcome to the second annual Lascaux Flash Fiction Contest! Essential Stuff                                  Using the photo prompt below, compose a work of short fiction, maximum length 250 words. The prompt is for inspiration only; entries will not be judged on how well they relate to it. Title and byline are not included in the word count.       Title and artist will be revealed at the end of...

The contest is open to residents of North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida who have not yet published a full-length collection of poetry. Submit: 18-23 pages of poetry $20 entry fee Self-addressed, stamped envelope Cover sheet (with name, address, phone, e-mail) NO NAME OR OTHER INFORMATION ON MANUSCRIPT. Include a separate cover page with contact information. to: Robin Greene,...

A prize of $1,000 and publication in Ploughshares will be given to work by an emerging writer in each of three genres-fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.  Writers who haven’t published or self-published a book can submit 3-5 poems or under 6,000 words of prose with a $24 entry fee (which includes a one-year subscription to Ploughshares) . Deadline: April 2, 2013 at 12 noon EST.  The entry fee is waived for writers subscribed to Ploughshares...