Sponsor: Wingfeather Books, a small press Event: Short Story Competition Benefiting Disaster Relief Fund (use of “American Red Cross” brand permission pending) A portion of the proceeds, after contest costs are recovered, will be donated to the Disaster Relief Fund Entry Fee: $10  Genre: Paranormal Romance – Short Story Competition – 4,000 words or less Cash Prize: $375 total, $100 first place  Prize Includes:...

My name is Margaret Bates and I am the co-founder and treasurer of Legendary Women, Inc. (http://legendarywomen.org). We are an organization dedicated to promoting positive portrayals of women in the media and to empowering women in their daily lives via philanthropy. We have teamed up with Random Acts (http://www.therandomact.org/) to host a literary contest to encourage individuals to create one thousand to five thousand (maximum) word...

The theme for The Baltimore Review’s winter contest is Destination. Where are your characters going? Why? How will they get there? And what awaits them at the end of their journey? Only one way to find out. Hop in your car, train, plane—at least shake out those typing fingers—and get going. Three winners will be selected from among all entries. 3,000-word limit for fiction and creative nonfiction. One to three poems in an entry. All entries...

Submit between February 1, 2013 at noon and April 2, 2013 at noon Entry Fee: $24 for non-subscribers; free for subscribers Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Ploughshares will be given annually for a poem or group of poems, a short story, and an essay. Writers who have not published a book or chapbook are eligible. Submit three to five poems or up to 5,000 words of prose with a $24 entry fee, which includes a subscription to...

 The New Jersey Second Amendment Society (NJ2AS) is holding its first high school essay writing contest. Beginning November 1st, high school students are invited to submit an essay up to 500 words about the Second Amendment. Inspired by the recent surge in firearm ownership throughout NJ the New Jersey Second Amendment Society created this contest to help students explore their belief and understandings about the second amendment to the US...

For the third year, Austin Community College will award $1,500 to the best book of literary fiction published in 2012. DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2013 Traditionally the winner is flown to Austin for a campus reading. Books of prose may be submitted by author or publisher; send three copies; books must bear a publication date between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012. The reading fee is $30. The nomination form can be found here:...

Switchback, a publication of the MFA Program at the University of San Francisco, is now accepting submissions for issue 17. Switchback publish only the very best fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art and appears both online and in ebook format. For issue 17, an Editor’s Prize will be awarded in the amount of $200.00 to the submission best addressing the issue theme (Broken). Additional prizes in the amount of $75.00 and $50.00 respectively...