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TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL PORTLAND PEN POETRY CONTEST By The Portland Branch of NLAPW DEADLINE: November 7, 2009 (postmarked)
ENTRY FEE: $5 per poem (check or money order—no cash), $4 per poem if entries received by August 31st
AWARDS: First Place $150; Second Place $50; Third Place $25
CONTEST RULES:
■Any form; any style; 40 line limit strictly enforced. No e-mail or fax entries.
■One poem per page; two-page poems must be stapled together.
■Two copies of each typed or computer-printed poem should be single-spaced with no photos or decorations. Copy one must have your name, complete address, telephone number and/or e-mail address in the upper right-hand corner. Copy two – no identification.
■Poems must be in English, the original work of the author, unpublished in any form, and not a winner beyond Finalist or Honorable Mention in any other contest.
■The Contest is open to adult men and women, except members of the Portland Branch, National League of American Pen Women.
■No poems will be returned. All rights revert to the author.
■First, Second, and Third Place Winning Poems will be published in The Portland Pen, the newsletter of the NLAPW, Portland Branch. Honorable Mentions will be awarded by certificate as merited.
Please tell us where you discovered our contest. Include an SASE for the Winner’s List. Send entry to: Portland Branch, NLAPW, Joan A. McLaren Henson, 12356 SW King George Drive, King City, OR 97224. Questions? E-mail mwjhenson@msn.com
Each year The Laureate Prize
for Poetry will honor one new poem that TNPR believes has the greatest
chance, of those entered, of standing the test of time and becoming part of what
we believe should be an ever-evolving literary canon. (Please, remember we are
talking about the future, not about trying to replicate the past!) To enter,
submit up to three of your best unpublished, uncommitted (not promised for first
publication elsewhere) poems (10 page total maximum per group of three), along
with your email address for results (no SASEs,please)
http://home.
Fee: $15.00. * IMPORTANT: MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE ONLY TO "TNPR"
The National Poetry Review, Post Office Box 2080, Aptos, California 95001-2080
The winner will receive $900 plus publication in The National Poetry Review.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but if the work is selected by TNPR for
the prize or for publication, it must be withdrawn from elsewhere unless you
have withdrawn it from us two weeks before our acceptance. Multiple submissions
are acceptable with a reading fee for each group of three poems. Page limit per
group: 10
Please note that close friends, relatives, and students of the judge or the
editor are not eligible for the prize. The judge will be asked to send back to
TNPR's editor any poem that s/he recognizes; shou
ld this happen, the entrant's fee will be refunded.
2009 KORE PRESS FIRST BOOK
AWARD Judge: Claudia Rankine Deadline:
July 31, 2009
A prize of $1,000 plus book publication by Kore Press will be given for a
book-length poetry manuscript.
We are now accepting submissions!
This competition is open to any female writer who has not published
a full-length collection of poetry. Writers who have had chapbooks of less than
42 pages printed in editions of no more than 400 copies are eligible.
How to Submit
Submit your manuscript and $20 reading fee at http://www.korepres
Comment box should include: daytime and evening telephone numbers, where you
heard about the contest
Manuscripts must be:
• a minimum of 48 pages and a maximum of 70 pages. no cover letter needed.
• anonymous (do not include your name anywhere
• original poetry written by applicant (translations are not eligible)
For more information about the First Book Award, please visit
Call for submissions for a new anthology of
holiday stories – fiction and memoir – to be released in Fall 2009.
"Thanksgiving to Christmas ~ A Patchwork of Stories"
http://www.DixonHea
Deadline extended to July 31, 2009
Guidelines:
All submissions must clearly reflect a Thanksgiving or Christmas theme.
Topics might include childhood memories, family gatherings and traditions,
humorous stories, holiday adventures, heartwarming moments, difficult times, war
years, shopping, pageants and parades – whatever might make for an interesting
read.
No more than 1500 words (fiction, memoir, essay)
Double-spaced
Times New Roman font preferred
Send as an attachment with "Holiday Anthology" in the Subject line
Include a cover letter and a very brief bio note (no more than 75 words) in the
body of the email
Please submit only previously unpublished work.
Rights and Compensation:
Contributors whose work is selected for inclusion in the anthology will receive
one free copy of the anthology and 25% discount on the purchase of additional
copies in exchange for first print rights, which includes additional printings
for a period of six months from the original printing date. All other rights
reside with the author(s).
E-mail submissions as attachments to: Dixon Hearne –
dixonh@socal.
Bloodroot Poetry Contest
Three prizes of $200, $100, $50, three honorable
mentions and publication in 2010 Bloodroot Literary Magazine edition.
http://www.bloodroo
CONTEST GUIDELINES:
* The competition is open to any poet who writes in English.
* Manuscripts should be typewritten or computer-printed on white 8-1/2" X 11"
paper.
* We can only accept hard copies.
* Electronic submissions will not be accepted.
* Submit original, unpublished, free verse, 10 lines to 2 pages.
* Entry fee: $15.00 for three poems, $5.00 each additional poem.
* Final judge: Kirk D.Glaser.
* Your name must not appear on the manuscript.
* Please provide name, address, email address, titles of poems in a cover
letter.
* You may include SASE for results and SAS postcard for confirmation (Optional).
* Entries must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2009.
* Manuscripts cannot be returned.
* Please no simultaneous submission to other publications.
Mail manuscript and entry fee to:
The Editors
Bloodroot Literary Magazine
PO Box 322
Thetford Center, VT 05075
Subito Press of the University of Colorado
invites submissions to its annual book competition. We will publish two
books of innovative writing, one each of fiction and poetry.
http://www.subitopr
Submissions will be accepted from June 1 to August 15, 2009 (postmark date).
Submit manuscripts of up to 70 pages of poetry or up to 100 pages of (double
spaced) fiction along with a $20 reading fee and an SASE for notification of
results. Manuscripts should include two cover sheets: one with title only, the
other with title, author's name, address, e-mail, and phone number. All
submissions will be judged anonymously by the creative writing faculty at the
University of Colorado; friends, relatives, and former students of University of
Colorado creative writing faculty are not eligible. Simultaneous submissions are
ok; please notify Subito immediately if your ms. is accepted elsewhere. Winners
will give a reading at the University of Colorado in the Spring of 2010.
Notification of winners will occur by January of 2010.
Send mss. to: Subito Press, Department of English, 226 UCB, Boulder, Colorado
80309-0226
Call for submission of
personal accounts from mothers who have survived domestic violence.
Our upcoming anthology, Motherhood and Domestic Violence (working title), will
explore the complexities of mothering in a violent home through stories, essays,
and poems written by survivors.
Women with children experience domestic violence on two levels. Besides
the cruelties inflicted upon themselves, mothers suffer the violence again as
they witness the effects on their children.
They endure the torment of being unable to create a safe and loving home for
their children and at the same time experience verbal and psychological abuse as
their abusive partner convinces them they are a bad mother. As many women say,
“You can’t do your job as a mom if you are living in domestic violence. All your
energy is taken up with mothering him or just getting through the day.”
Possible Topics:
The stories we receive from survivors will in large part dictate the structure
of our book. We will focus on the survivor’s experience being a mother while
living in violence, rather than on the impact of domestic violence on children.
We are interested in thoughts, feelings, and recollections of events – whatever
the survivor is willing to share about her experience.
Possible topics might include:
Your reactions to your children witnessing your abuse.
Losing or giving up custody of your children.0
Making decisions about the abusive relationship based on what you thought was
best for your children.
What do you wish you had done differently?
What do you think you did well?
Things to consider:
Writing can be wonderfully therapeutic and a lot of distressing feelings can
come up in the process. We recommend that the writers be out of their domestic
violence relationship and have successfully moved through the trauma stage.
They should have a strong support system.
Guidelines:
• Good writing skills are helpful, but not necessary – we will work closely with
contributors to polish their writings. Or, if writing your story seems too
daunting, send us a tape. Mostly we are looking for the heart and wisdom of our
story-tellers.
• We prefer submissions to be typed and double-spaced, but if you don’t type,
please print clearly.
• Be sure to include your name, address, phone number and email address.
Remember to notify us at once if you move, change your phone number or email.
(If you wish to remain anonymous, let us know and we won’t include your name in
the book.)
• Send your submission by either mail or email.
• Include a stamped, self-addressed envelope so we can return submissions we are
unable to use. Submissions without this cannot be returned.
• Each contributor chosen for the anthology will receive a copy of the book when
it is published.
• Final drafts of stories, essays or poems must be postmarked on or before
November 1, 2009. The final selection process will begin then.
• Address your submissions to: Mary Zelinka, PO Box 3047, Albany, Oregon
97321-0700; or email to
motherhooddv@yahoo.
Submissions for Wag's Revue issue 3 are
now open in every genre—fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Electronic
submissions in any of the above genres are encouraged, as well.
To view our complete submissions guidelines, visit our website at
http://www.wagsrevu
Aspiring to marry the rigors of print with the freedoms of the internet, Wag's
Revue is an online quarterly of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. Its
first issue featured new fiction from Brian Evenson, and interviews with
Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Dave Eggers, n+1 co-founder Mark Greif, and
author Wells Tower. The second issue, which just hit the net, features an
interview with T. C. Boyle, creative micro nonfiction by Stephen Elliot,
anagrams of Shakespeare sonnets by K. Silem Mohammad, and much more.
Check out both issues at
www.wagsrevue.com
We look forward to reading your work.
The Betty Gabehart Prize: 2009
Guidelines
Download entry fee at
http://www.uky.
Each year the Kentucky Women Writers Conference offers opportunities for both
emerging and established voices to be singled out and cheered on by our
community. The Betty Gabehart Prize honors our good friend, patron, and former
director who led the conference during its seminal decade in the 1980s.
One winner will be chosen in each of three genres: poetry, fiction, and creative
nonfiction. Winners receive:
• $100
• two 2-day passes for herself and one guest
• the opportunity to read her winning manuscript during the conference on
September 11–12, 2009
• publication of the winning manuscript on our Web site:
www.thewomenwritersconference.org
Eligibility
• Please do not apply if you have won this award in the past five years (2004 or
later).
• Works that are previously published are not eligible for this award.
• The contest is open to any female writer of English.
• Employees or board members of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference are not
eligible.
Manuscript Format
• Fiction and nonfiction should be no more than 6,000 words in length; poems
have no word limit.
• Please submit two copies of the manuscript (there will be two judges per genre
category).
• The author's name or address must not appear anywhere on the manuscript.
• The manuscript must be on standard white paper, single-sided.
• Paginate correctly.
Submission Information
• Each work entered must be accompanied by its own entry form and entry fee, as
follows: $10 per poem, or $15 per
work of fiction or nonfiction, payable to Kentucky Women Writers Conference. You
may write a single check for
multiple entries.
• Submission of more than one work is permissible; each must be accompanied by
its own entry form and fee. If
multiple works are entered with a single entry fee, only the first work will be
accepted.
• Manuscripts must be postmarked by July 31, 2009.
• Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard if you would like
notification that the manuscript has been received.
We cannot return manuscripts.
• Contest results will be posted on our website on August 28, 2009. Winners will
be notified immediately.
Please send entries to:
Betty Gabehart Prize
Kentucky Women Writers Conference
University of Kentucky
232 East Maxwell Street
Lexington, KY 40506-0344
Direct inquiries to: <wwk.info(at)
Moment Magazine is now accepting submissions for
the 2009 Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest. Moment will award three
prizes to outstanding works of unpublished short fiction with Jewish content.
http://momentmag.
$1,000 plus possible publication, $500 plus possible publication, $250 plus
possible publication
Winners may be invited to Washington DC or New York City for an awards ceremony.
If so, the contest covers a round trip flight or train fare and one night hotel,
if necessary. All travel arrangements are to be made by Moment.
The judge published in promotional materials judges the finalists. At all times,
all decisions are final.
After the completion of the contest, Moment editors will review winning stories.
Editors will contact winners if their stories are being considered for
publication. Moment Magazine reserves the right at all times to select material
for publishing. All selected material is subject to editing by Moment editors.
Entry Fees:
$15 for each entry (multiple submissions are accepted).
Please make checks payable to: Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest.
Note: The $15 is a reader fee and does not in any way give persons who enter the
contest any legal rights.
Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked by December 1, 2009.
For each entry, submit the following:
>A cover letter containing author's full name, address, contact information and
the title of submission.
>The author's name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript.
>A check made out to The Moment/Karma Short Fiction Contest.
>A self-addressed stamped envelope for announcement of winners.
>Do not send submissions via email
>Maximum length for prose is 7,000 words. Send hard copies of your submission
printed out in 12-point font, double-spaced.
No previously published works, or works already accepted for publication
elsewhere, are eligible. Work may be under consideration elsewhere, but must be
withdrawn from the competition if accepted for publication.
Send entries to: Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest, Moment Magazine, 4115
Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 102 , Washington, DC 20016
Winners will be announced in 2010.
Current information about guidelines etc. is updated here on the website. We are
not responsible for information in previous guidelines or advertisements.
All deadlines may be extended or changed and may carry over into the next
calendar year.
Moment Magazine and Karma Foundation are not liable for any misprints or errors,
or anything else.
The contest is a labor of love. Please treat our staff with courtesy and
kindness.
The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2010
http://web3.
The winner of this annual award receives $1000 and publication by the University
of North Texas Press.
This year's judge will be J. D. McClatchy. To avoid conflicts of interest,
current or former students of the judge should not enter.
Postmark deadline: November 15, 2009
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 removed from the manuscript prior to its being forwarded to the final
judge.
Manuscripts cannot be returned, but must be accompanied by:
$25 fee, payable to UNT Press and a letter-sized SASE for notification
Previously published portions of the manuscript should be identified on a
separate acknowledgment page. Once a winner is declared and contracted for
publication, UNT Press will hold the rights to the poems in the winning
collection. They may no longer be under consideration for serial publication
elsewhere and must be withdrawn by the author from consideration.
Winning manuscript will be announced by March 15, 2010.
Send manuscripts to: John Poch, Vassar Miller Prize, Department of English,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
Publisher Seeks Submissions
for 2010 MOTIF Anthology
http://www.motesboo
MOTIF is an anthology series published annually by MotesBooks of Louisville, Ky.
Volume 1: Writing By Ear featured 116 writers, including Patty Griffin, Silas
House, Buddy & Julie Miller, Maurice Manning, Evie Shockley, Neela Vaswani,
Frank X Walker and Pamela Duncan.
Each volume in the MOTIF series focuses on a theme – for Volume 2 the theme is
CHANCE.
Submissions may be poems, short stories, song lyrics, short memoirs, essays,
letters, creative nonfiction, or other forms.
Combinations of forms are
acceptable up to the limits described: Prose must be under 3,000 words. Send no
more than three poems/lyrics. All genres will be considered as long as “chance”
is referenced or illuminated in the works. Submissions may address the theme
either directly or indirectly, but “chance” should figure significantly and
artfully in the piece. The definition or concept of “chance” can be interpreted
in any way the writer sees fit, but could include ideas related to chaos,
serendipity, mistake, the occasion for wonder, kismet, accident, fate, destiny,
cause and effect, encounters, and/or predestination.
Each contributor whose work is accepted will receive one (1) complimentary copy
of the book upon publication as payment. Contributors will also receive an
ongoing contributor'
publisher's website, MotesBooks.com. Special marketing strategies will also be
utilized, including one or more public readings with selected contributors by
invitation of the editor or publisher.
Submit by email only. Send manuscript (Arial 12 pt., single-spaced) as a .doc or
.rtf file (MS Word) to MOTIF@
IMPORTANT: Use "MOTIF Anthology" as the subject line (email containing blank
subject lines will automatically be deleted; other subject lines may
inadvertently be tagged as spam). Include all author contact information
(including phone, snail mail, and e-mail address) with each submission.
Include a 50-60 word biographical note to appear in Contributor'
Do not send previously published or simultaneously submitted material.
Submission period closes September 1, 2009.
Acceptances will be notified by end of 2009. Publication slated for early 2010.
Editor is Marianne Worthington.
For clarifications, visit
www.MotesBooks.com or email MOTIF@MotesBooks.
What else are we up to? See our growing fiction, non-fiction & poetry catalog:
Writing It Real’s Summer
No-Contest Contest runs through August 31st.
www.writingitreal.com
http://www.writingi
Please visit www.writingitreal.
Electronic submissions are accepted as well as mailed submissions.
The contest offers all entrants response to their work as well as professional
consultations and publication for three winners.
Write info@writingitr
Sheila Bender’s Writing It
Real is looking for articles of three to fifteen pages on writing personal
essay, memoir, poetry, fiction, nonfiction articles and general creative
writing. We accept articles that include instructional exercises, interviews
with writers and publishers, reviews of books that include writing ideas, and
discussions of topics of interest to those who write from personal experience.
Payment is in subscriptions. We provide special edition links for authors to
share their article with others. We accept articles that have already appeared
elsewhere as long as the author has reprint permission. The editor will help
authors revise academic articles for a lay audience.
Please email info@writingitr
You can visit the writingitreal.
The Morton Marr Poetry Prize is an
endowment by Marilyn Klepak of Dallas in honor of her father, whose love of
poetry has encouraged her to pass this love on to others. Generous supplemental
donations were also provided by Mr. and Mrs. David T. Searls, Jr. The first
prize is $1,000 and the second place prize is $500. Both prizes earn publication
in Southwest Review pages. Judging for 2008 was Charles Martin. To see the 2008
winners, click here.
RULES: This contest is open to writers who have not yet published a first book
of poetry. Contestants may submit no more than six, previously unpublished poems
in a "traditional" form (e.g. sonnet, sestina, villanelle, rhymed stanzas, blank
verse, etc.). Poems should be printed blank with name and address information
only on a cover sheet or letter. (If work is submitted online, please omit the
author's name from the final "submission content text area"). There is a $5.00
per poem entry/handling fee. Postmarked deadline for entry is September 30,
2009. Submissions will not be returned. For notification of winning poems,
include a SASE. Winners will be announced in December. Entries should be
addressed to: The Morton Marr Poetry Prize, Southwest Review, P.O. Box 750374,
Dallas, TX 75275-0374.
For instructions on entering this contest via e-mail, visit
http://smu.edu/
RHINO: THE POETRY FORUM
FOUNDERS’ PRIZE
A POETRY CONTEST OPEN TO ALL POETS WITH A DISTINCTIVE VOICE
One winning poem will receive $300 and publication in the next issue. Two
runners up will receive $50. The poems selected will be posted on our web site.
Send up to 5 unpublished poems (no more than 5 pages total).
GUIDELINES: Submissions must include a cover letter listing your name, address,
email address and/or telephone number as well as titles of the poems. No
identifying information should appear on the poems. Manuscripts will not be
returned. Include a SASE for notification of results.
Enclose a $10 entry fee (make checks payable to RHINO).
Label your contest submission: “Founders’ Contest.” Submissions must be
postmarked between June 1 -September 1. No electronic submissions please.
All contest submissions will also be considered for regular publication in the
2010 edition of RHINO. Mail submission to: RHINO, The Poetry Forum, P.O. Box
591, Evanston, IL 60204
Winners and runners up will be announced on our web site: www.rhinopoetry.org
The Calvino Prize
Submission Guidelines
http://louisville.
Submit up to 25 industry standard (double-spaced, 12-point font, pages numbered)
pages of a novel, novella, short story, or short collection. Entries which use a
smaller font or are single-spaced in order to make a longer work appear to be
only 25 pages will be trimmed to approximately 25 industry standard pages. Work
previously published is eligible and simultaneous submissions are accepted. An
excerpt from a larger work is allowed; however, remember that the selection will
be judged on its own merit and so should be able to stand on its own.
Please submit TWO copies of your submission bound by a paper clip, binder, or
single staple. DO NOT USE MULTIPLE STAPLES. The author's name should not appear
on the work. All entries will be read anonymously.
Please send two cover pages: one listing only the title of the manuscript; the
other listing the title, author's name, address, telephone number, and e-mail
address.
Please tell us in what magazine you learned of this contest.
Please do not send publication history of the author.
Submit anytime between July 1 and October 15, 2009. Deadline: October 15,
2009. Winner announced December 15, 2009.
The entry fee is $25 and should be made payable to: The University of
Louisville.
Mailing Address: The Calvino Prize, English Department, Room 315, Bingham
Humanities Bldg., University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
If you would like confirmation of receipt of manuscript, please enclose a
self-addressed, stamped standard US Postal Service post card.
All results will be posted to the University of Louisville's website following
the announcement on December 15, 2009. Finalists and winners will be notified
via email.
For questions, email Paul Griner, Director of Creative Writing at pfgrin01(at)
Faculty and employees of the University of Louisville and the University of
Syracuse may not enter the contest.
The judges reserve the right to withhold the award if no entry is deemed worthy.
Previous first place winners may not enter for three years after winning.
Second place winners have no restrictions.
Final Judge 2009: Harold Bloom
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OF
ORIGINAL POETRY CHOPIN IN POETRY
Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Edited by Maja Trochimczyk Forthcoming in
March 2010 to honor the 200th Anniversary of Chopin’s Birth.
Moonrise Press
www.moonrisepress.com
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
§ Original poetry about any aspect of music and life of Fryderyk Chopin
(1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer
§ Deadline – August 1, 2009
§ Language – English
§ Length – maximum 39 lines per poem, 3 poems
§ Format – email majat@verizon.
§ Address and contact information of the author included in the body of the
message
PUBLICATION DATA
1. The book will be published by Moonrise Press, with an ISBN number.
2. The authors will retain individual copyright, granting permission to print in
the anthology only.
3. The book will be distributed by online print-on-demand company and available
through a network of partners, including Bowkers Books in Print, lulu.com,
Amazon, etc.
4. The authors will receive an off-print of their submission, and a 30% discount
on the book price
NAUGATUCK RIVER REVIEW FIRST
ANNUAL NARRATIVE POETRY CONTEST! Contest Submission Period: July
1st through September 1st
Judge for 2009 Contest: Lesléa Newman
Lesléa Newman is the author of over 50 books including Heather Has Two Mommies,
A Letter To Harvey Milk, Writing From The Heart, In Every Laugh a Tear, The
Femme Mystique, Still Life with Buddy, Fat Chance and Out of the Closet and
Nothing to Wear. She has received many literary awards including Poetry
Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Highlights for Children Fiction Writing
Award, the James Baldwin Award for Cultural Achievement, and two Pushcart Prize
Nominations. Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award finalists. She is
Poet Laureate of Northampton, MA.
First prize is $1000 and publication in Naugatuck River Review
Second prize $250 and publication
Third prize of $100 and publication
Winners will be published in the Winter 2010 Issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All entrants will receive one issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All poems will be considered for publication in the Winter 2010 Contest issue
(Issue 3).
Contest deadline is September 1st, 2009.
Electronic submissions ONLY will be accepted through our Submission Manager.
Contest submission fee of $20 includes an issue of the journal.
Links to Submission Manager and Paypal will be up July 1st.
Electronic submissions ONLY of 3 poems per poet of no more than 50 lines each.
Payment of $20 on Paypal or send a check to: Naugatuck River Review Contest,
P.O. Box 368, Westfield, MA 01085
http://www.naugatuc
Dogs and the Women Who Love
Them True Story Contest Official Entry Form can be found at
http://www.angelani
Dogs and the Women Who Love Them True Story Contest Rules:
The Angel Animals Network (AAN) is accepting story submissions about dogs and
the women who love them. The stories should demonstrate the benefits for a woman
who fulfills a life purpose by partnering with a dog to perform extraordinary
physical, emotional, or spiritual service.
Stories must be original, based on real dogs, people, and events. Preference
will be given to emotionally evocative and well-written creative nonfiction
stories. Please do not submit journalistic articles, profiles, testimonials,
essays, or fiction for this contest.
Story submissions must be no more than 2,000 words in English. They should be
typed or legibly handwritten. Each story submission must be accompanied with an
Angel Animals Network official entry form (below), completed by the contestant
submitting the story.
Contest story submissions will not be returned. Please do not include
photographs. You may view the list of 1st place and 2nd place winners on the
Angel Animals Network Website after winners are announced. You can also
subscribe to the free weekly, online Angel Animals Story of the Week Newsletter
and look for winners to be announced there.
To be eligible, contest entries must be postmarked
If stories are selected as winners of the Dogs and the Women Who Love Them True
Story Contest and later found to contain distortions or falsehoods, the AAN is
not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate entry or story information.
Any contest entries, but especially those of the winners, will be considered for
possible publication in the new book Dogs and the Women Who Love Them by Allen
and Linda Anderson to be published by New World Library in Fall 2010. However,
the contest and the new book are separate projects. Entering or winning the
contest doesn’t mean the story will be published in the book. Allen and Linda
Anderson will contact entrants if they are considering a contest story for
possible publication in the book. Previous books in the Angel Animals series
have included many stories that were contest entries.
Entry Fee: There is no entry fee to submit a story for the contest.
Number of Entries: Each individual is limited to submit three separate
entries.
Eligibility:Employees/volunteer
Judging: Judging the stories for this contest will be based on the
exceptional nature of the dog(s) who demonstrates partnering with a woman to
fulfill a life’s purpose including a dog who performs some
type of extraordinary physical, emotional, or spiritual service. Other
categories on which stories will be judged are: readability, spiritual
connection between human and animal, dramatic/emotional appeal, inspirational,
and represents good practices for animal health and welfare. A panel of judges,
who are known for their service to animals, will select the finalists. All Dogs
and the Women Who Love Them True Story Contest decisions are final.
Prizes:
Grand Prize: One grand prize of $250 will be awarded to the first-place winning
contestant.
2nd Place Prize: A second place prize of $25.00 will be awarded to 5
contestants.
Honorable Mentions: There will be 5 entries chosen as Honorable Mention
BIRTH PARENT ANTHOLOGY
http://www.catalyst
Catalyst Book Press is seeking literary essays telling personal stories of
adoption, open adoption, birth parent connections, the adoption triad, and
unification with children after closed adoption for an anthology for and about
birth parents. Authors of accepted essays will receive $50 for their stories and
one copy of the publication.
Submissions can be sent by August 15, 2009 to co-editors Ann and Amanda
Angel, 15255 Turnberry Dr., Brookfield, WI 53005. For more information, please
email Ann at alangel78@
If you wish your manuscript returned, please include an SASE.
The editors of this anthology will be selecting submissions that reflect the
following:
A literary or creative nonfiction style that allows the reader an empathic
experience.
Stories that reflect a variety of experiences and outcomes within the adoption
triad.
Stories should be typed, double-spaced in 12 point Times Roman or Courier font,
using traditional manuscript format.
While there is no length requirement for individual stories but writers are
requested to keep in mind that the anthology will run about 220 pages and will
include a minimum of 12 stories.
At this time, we cannot accept poetry submissions.
Tamara Sellman, director of
MRCentral, announces the third annual Magic Carpet Ride, an innovative
one-on-one creative writing mentorship exclusively designed to serve magical
realist writers.
This mentorship, valued at $2000*, will be awarded annually, and on a
competitive basis, to a single applicant who is able to demonstrate:
• a deep commitment to completing their work in progress
• strong writing skills
• a desire to learn and to succeed
• a good understanding of the magical realist nature of their manuscript
The purpose of the Magic Carpet Ride mentorship is to assist a promising magical
realist writer from anywhere in the world in the completion of a polished
manuscript by the end of the session which can then be actively submitted to
potential publishers. This competitive opportunity is the only of its kind to
provide specialized instruction, direction, and motivation specifically for a
writer of literary magical realism.
Postmark deadline for receipt of all application materials for the 2010
mentorship session is October 31, 2009.
Email deadline for receipt of all application materials for the 2010
mentorship session is midnight [Pacific time], October 31, 2009.
More info:
E-mail:magicalreal
"Tamara’s mentorship doesn’t turn the author’s work into something they won’t
recognize which is what so many editors do—she showed me how to make it more
uniquely my own." Carol O., 2007 mentorship winner
"The overwhelming impression I get of Tamara is that she cares: she cares about
fiction, about Magical Realism, and she exhibits a genuine caring to help me be
the best writer I can be, to help my book be the best book it can be." Shawn D.,
2008 mentorship winner
Tebot Bach announces
The Patricia Bibby First Book Award 2010.
http://www.tebotbac
$1,000 and Book Publication
Patricia Bibby was a beginning poet whose poems expressed her love of life while
living with cancer. Her kindness, humor, and optimism inspired the love of many
new friends in the poetry community. She died in 2004, at 43, without having
been published. In naming the First Book Award after Patricia Bibby, Tebot Bach
honors the aspirations and spirit of all beginning poets. Gail Wronsky serves as
judge for this competition that looks for a fresh, new voice in poetry.
Competition Guidelines: Winner will receive $1,000 and book
publication
Judge: Gail Wronsky
The competition is open to all poets writing in English who have not committed
to publishing collections of poetry of 36 poems or more in editions of over 400
copies.
Entries of 50–84 pages of original poetry in English must be postmarked by
October 31, 2009. Entries postmarked after October 31, 2009 will not be
read. Manuscripts will not be returned. Manuscripts must be bound with a binder
clip. No staples, folders, or printer-bound copies. No photographs, images, or
illustrations.
1. Title page
2. Table of contents
3. Collection of poems
Items 1 and 2 are not included in the 50–84 page count.
Manuscripts should be letter-quality, typewritten, and single-spaced.
Photocopies are acceptable. Please do not submit your only copy, as manuscripts
will not be returned.
Tebot Bach assumes no responsibility for damaged or lost manuscripts.
Manuscripts must be previously unpublished.
Translations and multi-authored collections are not eligible.
Past and current students and employees of the Loyola Marymount University are
not eligible. Past and current volunteers and employees of Tebot Bach are not
eligible. Poets who have studied with Gail Wronsky in more than 2 workshop
settings are not eligible.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but Tebot Bach must be notified
immediately if a collection is accepted for publication via email:
info@tebotbach.
Please include a non-refundable reading fee of $25, check or money order, made
out to Tebot Bach. Include a business-size SASE (self-addressed envelope) for
notification. Include a SAPC (self-addressed postcard) for notification of
receipt of manuscript. Postcard should include title of manuscript.
Mail manuscript, check or money order payable to Tebot Bach, SASE, SAPC in one
envelope to: Patricia Bibby Award, Tebot Bach, Post Office Box 7887, Huntington
Beach CA 92615-7887
Green River Writers Annual Contest Deadline: July 31, 2009
Multiple fiction and poetry
categories
Visit links below for contest guidelines and entry instructions
http://www.greenriv
http://www.greenriv
2009 Inspirit Poetry Contest
http://www.gbgm-
THE FOURTH Annual National Inspirit Poetry Prize. $500 prize and publication in
the journal Inspirit for the best unpublished poem (limit 100 lines, no
translations) exploring issues of Christianity, culture, faith, and/or nature.
Submit SASE, $10 reading fee drawn to Rabbit Press, and 2 copies each of up to 3
poems (one set with author identification; one without). Deadline: August 15;
winner announced September 15. Submit to Inspirit, c/o Baughman Memorial UM
Church, 228 Bridge St., New Cumberland, PA 17070
The Warren Adler Short Story
Contest 2009 Contest Theme: Short Fiction in Varied Genres. To submit story
and pay entry fee, visit
http://www.warrenad
The Warren Adler Short Story Contest is fast becoming the most prestigious
online short story contest thanks to the extraordinary literary quality of our
submissions. We are pleased to announce our next contest. The theme is simply
short fiction in all of its varied genres. We are looking for original,
imaginative pieces featuring compelling characters and creative plots. Whether
you specialize in mainstream fiction, romance, horror, fantasy, science-fiction,
satire, mystery, or any of their subcategories, we want to read your work.
Entries must not exceed 2,500 words and we will only accept stories submitted
using our web form (see Pay Now button below), no exceptions. Stories from all
the points of the globe will be considered provided that they are written in
English. Mr. Adler will select which story will be awarded the Grand Prize of
$1,000.
The People's Choice winner will be determined by public voting. Warren Adler's
top choice, along with the People's Choice winner, will be announced in July.
Submissions will be accepted from April 13, 2009 to July 13, 2009. The
entry fee is $15.
Five cash prizes will be awarded:
1st Prize: $1,000; People's Choice Prize $500; Remaining finalists receive $150
each
Authors retain worldwide publishing rights.
Contest Rules:
Contest is open for worldwide entries from April 13, 2009 until July 13, 2009
A $15 fee in advance is required for each story submission.
When you are ready to submit your story, make your payment below to proceed to
the story submission form.
Each story can be no longer than 2,500 words and must be written in English and
previously unpublished
2009 Springfield Writers'
Guild Annual Literary Contests
http://www.swgsite.
JIM STONE MEMORIAL AWARD
Each of the following three categories will have a $100 first place prize winner
and two honorable mentions. All winners will receive a certificate. There is a
$2 fee for each entry. See Guidelines Section for full details.
Poetry can use any subject and any form limited to one single spaced page
Fiction can use any subject limited to 1,500 words
Non-Fiction can use any subject limited to 1,500 words
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Each of the remaining nine categories have four awards: $20 First Place, $10
Second Place, Third Place, Honorable Mention
There is a $1 fee for each entry.
Prose: Prose entries are limited to 1,000 words
Essay or Article -- Ozarks Related
Short Story -- Any Genre
Nostalgia/Reminisce
Humor -- Any Subject
Essay or Opinion Piece
Poetry: Poetry entries are limited to one single spaced page
Rhyming -- Any Subject and Any Form
Comic Verse -- Any Form
Free Verse -- Any Subject
Haiku -- Traditional (5, 7, 5 -- Nature Theme)
Guidelines for Entries:
All entries must be the original, unpublished work of the contestant.
Do not enter the same prose or poetry in more than one category.
All manuscripts must be typed on 8 1/2 X 11 paper in standard manuscript form.
Prose must be double spaced.
Poetry must be single spaced.
Except for Haiku, all entries must have a title.
Place the category name and number, plus the number of words (for prose) in the
upper left corner of each entry. List the poetry form where applicable.
DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THE ENTRY. Include a cover sheet listing ALL entries by
category name and number, title, and the first line of the manuscript or poem.
Put your name, address, phone number and e-mail address on the cover sheet.
Keep all originals, no copies will be returned. No entries or winners will be
published.
Winners will be announced and awards given at the October, 2009 regular SWG
meeting or mailed to those unable to attend.
DEADLINE: All entries must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2009.
SWG is not responsible for lost, misdirected, or postage-due entries.
For a list of winners, please include a SASE with you entry.No limit on entries
per category. However, no entrant may win more than one award per category
entered, regardless of the number of entries.
MAIL CONTEST FEES AND ENTRIES TO: Jerry Wible, SWG Contest, 2987 E. Kemmling
Lane, Springfield, MO 65804
For more information: E-Mail
mandybarke@yahoo.
13th Annual
Robert Frost Foundation Annual Poetry
Guidelines for the 2009 Robert Frost Award http://frostfoundat
Poems should be postmarked (or emailed) between March 1, 2009 and September
15, 2009 to be considered for the 2009 award.
Please send two copies of your poem written in the "spirit of Robert Frost"
(whatever you feel that may be). One copy should have your name, address, email
and phone #. The other copy should not have this information on it.
Poets may submit up to three poems on plain paper of not more than three pages
for consideration.
Prior published work may be submitted; for all work submitted to the
Robert Frost Foundation, you retain copyright and the Robert Frost Foundation
will request your permission if we choose to publish your work on our web site
or in other foundation publications.
Original manuscripts should have your name, address, email and phone #; please
include a second copy of each page that will be sent to the judges and therefore
should not have any information that identifies you as the author.
Please note: Email submissions are acceptable in the following formats:
--a single MS. Word document attached that presents one page per poem. For
example, page 1 should have your name, address, email and phone #; page 2
should other should not have this information on it.
--the text from any word processing document pasted into the body of the email.
Email submissions to should be sent to frostfoundation@comcast.
Manuscripts will not be returned.
If you wish to receive information regarding the winning poet, enclose a
self-addressed stamped envelope or include your email address.
Please enclose a $10.00 per poem entry reading fee made payable to The
Robert Frost Foundation. In the case of electronic submissions, manuscripts
submitted via email will be held until reading fees are received via regular
mail.
Officers and Directors of The Robert Frost Foundation as well as festival
organizers are not eligible to enter the award.
Mail entries to the foundation's address:
Attention: Poetry Award, The Robert Frost Foundation, 51 Lawrence Street,
Lawrence, MA 01841, Lawrence Public Library -- 3rd Floor
Writers Contests - Houston
Writers Guild http://www.houstonw
FALL 2009 WRITERS CONTESTS - $500 First Prize Novel! Entry Deadline Postmark
July 30, 2009 or Hand Delivery to Meeting go to
http://www.houstonw
for Entry Blank
Contest entry Fees: Novel: Members -- $15 for first entry, additional entries
$12 each. Non Members -- $18 for first, additional $12 each. Lifetime award
Novel for published authors $20 each.
No nonmember surcharges on the following: Short stories $10 per entry, Personal
Essays, $10 per entry, Poems: 3 poems for $10, 6 poems: $15, Entry Blank
GENERAL RULES APPLY TO ALL ENTRIES
Contest #1: Novel - Any Genre. Mainstream, Literary, Romance,
Romantic Suspense, Historical, Saga, Mystery, Thriller, Spy, Action, Adventure,
Sci-fi, Fantasy, Non-Fiction, Memoir
PRIZE: $500 FIRST PLACE. In case of ties, prize money will be divided
among tie holders
Send the first 10 pages your Novel, Book, or Screenplay + Synopsis
Contest entries in English only
Open to all unpublished and not under contract novelists & screenwriters
anywhere in the world
Submit TWO COPIES of the first 10 pages of your novel or screenplay and TWO
COPIES of a 1 page synopsis - Do not send the entire manuscript!
Contest #2 Short Story - Any Genre
PRIZE: $50 FIRST PLACE
Want to win? Make sure your story has a Beginning, a Middle and an End and Opens
With a Hook
Limit: 2500 WORDS (more or less)
Submit TWO COPIES
Contest #3 Personal Essay
PRIZE: $30 FIRST PLACE
Inspire us! Make us Laugh or cry! Something Personal -- your opinion on any
subject or a character study or a slice of life piece.
Limit: 1,500 words
Submit TWO COPIES
Contest #4: Poetry
PRIZE: $30 FIRST PLACE
3 poems or 6 poems
Only one poem per page
Submit TWO COPIES each poem
Contest #5: Lifetime Award Novel - Any Genre
PRIZE: $100 FIRST PLACE
The exception to the rule - Previously published novelist may enter
Rules applicable to novel Contest #1 apply
Submit TWO COPIES of each entry
Financial Awards in each category will depend on a minimum of ten entries in
that category. Categories may be combined. Prize money for each category
will be divided among tie winners for that category and prize.
Winners announced at workshop on September 12, 2009
Winners will also be posted to this website mid-October, 2009
Entry Blank
GENERAL RULES
You do not have to pay/attend the workshop in order to enter the contest.
Membership is not required to attend workshop or enter contests; however, a $10
fee is charged non-members in addition to the workshop and/or contests entry
fees (only one $10 fee for both workshop and all contests).
YOU MAY ENTER MORE THAN ONE CONTEST, AND YOU MAY SEND MORE THAN ONE ENTRY TO ANY
CONTEST.
SEND TWO (2) COPIES OF EACH ENTRY.
No limit to number of entries.
All entries must be in English and from unpublished writers anywhere in the
world who are not under contract to any publisher anywhere EXCEPT entrants in
the short story contests may have been previously published in periodicals, but
the entry cannot have been published.
Unpublished writers who have previously won first place in a novel contest may
submit another novel. Unpublished writers may resubmit any novel that has not
won first place in a previous FBWG contest. Our judging factors have changed
slightly and so have the judges.
If you are not attending the Workshop, include adequate postage on SASE for
return of score sheet and manuscript.
You do not have to pay for the workshop in order to enter the contest.
Leave your name off the manuscript. Use the "header" to install like this: Great
American Novel/Contest #1 (Insert page # on right). Substitute the title of
your novel or other work for "Great American Novel." (The title counts as part
of the scoring. It should not be banal.)
Your name should only appear on the cover page. One cover page is sufficient if
you detail all your entries on it.
Novels should include a brief synopsis no more that one page, single-spaced (two
copies). Less is better. Give us the two-sentence dramatic statement (see Dwight
Swain, Techniques of the Selling Writer. State your genre. The synopsis is not
judged. Send two copies of the one-page, single-spaced synopsis
All entries must be double-spaced in Times New Roman or Courier 12-point font.
Do not use a smaller font in order to crowd more words on the page as our judges
are already half blind. Be sure to number the pages and include title in the
header, but omit your name. The title page does not count as a page.
Margins should be at least 1 inch (22-24 lines per page). Pages must be
numbered. No staples. Paper clips only.
Discounts may be available for students and others. Send email to learn if you
qualify: rpaulding@sbcglobal.
Illinois State Poetry Society
16th Annual Contest
Categories; 1) free verse, 2) formal verse, 3) a poem related to Abraham Lincoln
and/or Charles Darwin. Prizes $50, $30, $10. 3 HM. Maximum length: one poem
page. Type size 11 pt or higher; no columns. Poems in English only. Submit two
copies of each poem, first copy with ID (name/address/
HELEN SCHAIBLE INTERNATIONAL
SHAKESPEAREAN/
Sponsored by Poets & Patrons of Chicago, Illinois Open to all. Submit only one
entry of either a Shakespearean or Petrarchan sonnet. The entry must be
original and unpublished.
Submit 2 copies, typed double-spaced, on standard 8 ” X 11" paper with name and
address on one copy in the upper right corner, but no ID on second copy.
First Prize $50.00. Second Prize $35.00. Third prize $15.00.
Three Honorable Mentions Unranked
Three Special Recognitions Unranked
There is no fee. Winners will be notified by November 1, 2008. The poet keeps
all rights. No entries will be returned. Enclose a SASE for the winner's
list. All rules printed here. Rules do not change from year to
year, but the chairperson may, so check the latest listings in e.g.,
chicagopoetry.
Mail entries, postmarked by September 1, 2009 to Barbara Eaton, 416
Gierz Street, Downers Grove, IL 6055
Missouri State Poetry Society
Summer Contest 2009
http://www.nfsps.
Deadline: Postmarked September 1, 2009
Format: Submit two copies of each entry, category number and name in
upper left-hand corner of both copies, poet's name and address in upper
right-hand corner of one copy. If you are a member, put "Missouri State Poetry
Society" below your address. Put "Non-member" if you are not.
Limits: Poems may be 40 or fewer lines. They may be unpublished or
previously published if the poet retains the rights to the poem. Poets may enter
each category as many times as they wish. No poems will be returned.
Categories: Rhymed verse or blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter), any
subject, serious or humorous. Free verse, any subject, serious or
humorous. Humorous verse, any subject. Any form, summer subject,
serious or humorous.
Poet's choice: any form (including open-field, shaped, or concrete
poetry), any subject, serious or humorous
Fees: Non-members pay $1.00 per poem. Members pay $1.00 for two entries
in the same category. Make money order or check payable to MSPS and mail to
Billy Adams, 12600 McKinstry Road, De Soto, MO 63020. Include an SASE or your
e-mail address on a 3x5 index card for a list of the winners.
Prizes: $25, $15, $10, and three honorable mentions in each category.
Esquire Fiction Contest:
Deadline August 1, 2009
http://www.esquire.
Submit story at
http://esquiresubmi
This contest is open to all, and the winning story will be published in a future
issue of the magazine (as well as at
http://www.esquire.
We encourage you to enter, but you have to follow the rules. The first and most
important rule — besides, of course, that the story has to be original — is that
the story must be based on one of three titles that we have provided.
The titles are:
1. "Twenty-Ten"
2. "An Insurrection"
3. "Never, Ever Bring This Up Again"
A date, a thing, and a statement. No exceptions. Make of them what you will, do
with them something great. But no taking an old story and slapping one of our
new titles on it. We'll know, and we won't be happy.
Second rule: Your story cannot exceed 4,000 words. We are serious about that,
too.
Other rules: You may submit only one story. The contest begins on May 1, 2009.
All entries are due by midnight of August 1, 2009 and must be submitted
electronically
Read Simple Second Annual Life Lessons Essay Contest
When did you realize that you had
become a grown-up? Perhaps it was when you first paid taxes or met your son’s
first girlfriend. Whether the experience was difficult, funny, easy, or
bittersweet, share your lesson and you could win.
Enter Real Simple’s second-annual Life Lessons essay contest and you could have
your essay published in Real Simple; win round-trip tickets for two to New York
City, hotel accommodations for two nights, tickets to a Broadway play, and a
lunch with Real Simple editors; and receive a prize of $3,000.
For entry instructions, go to
http://www.realsimp
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
The New Plains Review, the recent literary home of such authors as Stephen
Dunn, Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell, and Julianna Baggott, seeks quality
fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for its Fall 2009 issue. All
submissions are automatically eligible for the $1000.00 editors’ prize.
Deadline is August 15, 2009. E-mail submissions are preferred (as a Word
attachment). Send to Executive Editor Shay Rahm-Barnett at <shayNewPlains(
E-mail, phone and postal contact is required on the first page of each piece you
submit. Submissions without complete contact information will not be
considered.
For full guidelines and to submit work please go here:http://www.libarts.
The 6th Annual Gival Press
Short Story Award
http://www.givalpre
Deadline: August 8, 2009 (postmarked) Our dates never change, if
the date falls on a Sunday, then Monday becomes the default postmarked date.
Guidelines:
Submissions of a previously unpublished original (not a translation) short story
in English must be approximately 5,000 to 15,000 words of high literary quality,
typed, double-spaced on one side of the paper only, with word count in the upper
left hand side of the first page, along with the title. The author's name should
not appear on the numbered pages of the ms which should be clipped together.
Author should keep a copy of the submission as it will not be returned.
Author Identification: Submit name, address, telephone number, email address on
a separate page, along with the title of the short story submitted. A short bio
should also be included.
If the short story wins, the author must make the manuscript available to Gival
Press on an IBM-compatible disk or CD in Rich Text Format (RTF)—this refers to
how one saves the document on one's computer disk.
Reading fee: $25.00 (USD) by check or money order drawn on an American bank for
each short story submitted. Payable to: Gival Press, LLC.
International entrants must send a check drawn on a USA bank routed through a
USA address, such as Bank of America; no international money orders are
acceptable.
Please note that Gival Press can also accept the entry free by major credit
card; however, we only take credit card information by phone (703.351.0079)
Mail to: Robert L. Giron, Editor, Gival Press Short Story Award, Gival Press,
LLC, PO Box 3812, Arlington, VA 22203.
Notification of the Winner: Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope
(SASE) for notification of the winner or visit our website (http://www.givalpre
We try our best to announce the winner in the fall of the same year.
Unfortunately it takes time to read and judge the entries and to contact the
individuals involved.
Prize: Author will receive $1,000.00 and the winning story will be published on
the Gival Press website and in a future anthology of short stories.
Judging: Short stories will be judged anonymously and the decision of the judge
will be final. The winner for the previous award will be the judge for the
following year.
Discount Offered to Entrants:
Anyone who has entered a Gival Press contest may purchase any books published or
distributed by Gival Press at a 20% discount off the retail price, with free
shipment. Credit cards are preferred. Kindly either call us (703.351.0079 -
leave a message if we can't answer when you call and we will call you back) or
send us an email with your phone number and we will call you, as we only accept
the credit card information by phone.
2009 Thomas A. Wilhelmus Award
http://www.usi.
Guidelines: RopeWalk Press will award a prize of $1000 for a poetry
chapbook written in English submitted under the following guidelines.
Each submission must:
►Be available for exclusive book-length publication by RopeWalk Press. Poems
published individually in journals or magazines may be included. Previously
self-published chapbooks and translations are not eligible. Simultaneous
submissions are acceptable, but if the manuscript is published/accepted by
another press while under consideration, the author must promptly notify RWP in
writing to withdraw the entry.
►Include an entry fee of $15 ($5 for each additional manuscript submitted). This
non-refundable fee includes a copy of the winning chapbook. Make check or money
order payable to RopeWalk Press.
►List the author’s name, street address, phone number, email address (if
applicable), title of manuscript(s)
►List only the title of manuscript and poem on each page thereafter.
►Consist of no more than 35 pages (no more than one poem per page) per each
individual submission.
►Be addressed to Thomas A. Wilhelmus Award, RopeWalk Press, University of
Southern Indiana, 8600 University Boulevard, Evansville, IN, 47712.
►Be postmarked by July 15, 2009.
►Include SAS postcard for receipt acknowledgement and/or SASE for contest
results. All manuscripts will be recycled. Results will also be posted on the
RWP web site.
All submissions will be considered for publication.
The First Annual Robert &
Adele Schiff Prose and Poetry Prizes
http://www.cincinna
The Cincinnati Review will award a single poem and a prose piece (fiction or
creative nonfiction) with publication and a prize of $300 each.
Writers may submit up to 8 pages of poetry or 6,000 words of prose, per entry.
Previouslypublished manuscripts, including works that have appeared online (in
any form), will not be considered. There are no restrictions as to form, style,
or content; all entries will be
Entry fee is $15, which includes one copy of the Summer 2010 prize issue. Checks
should be made payable to The Cincinnati Review.
Submissions will be accepted by mail from June 1st to July 31st 2009
(postmarked)
Schiff [Poetry or Prose] Prize, The Cincinnati Review, P.O. Box 210069,
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069
Winners will be notified October 1st, and an announcement will appear on our
website and in the Winter 2010 issue.
Delfino Prize for Queer Genre
Fiction
http://collectivefa
Winner receives $50 and publication in the January issue Collective Fallout
Finalists will all be published in the January or following July issues
Collective Fallout
Eligible stories must be queer-themes, between 3,000 and 10,000 words and fit
into one or more of the following genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, or Science
Fiction.
Entry fee is $5 per story. Multiple submissions up to 3 stories are accepted.
Make payments via Paypal to collectivefallout@gmail.
Reading period is June 15 – October 15.
Finalists will be announced on the blog between November 1 & 15.
The winner (selected from those finalists) will be informed early in December,
and announced in the January issue
2010 Open Season Awards.
The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites entries from
Canadian, American, and overseas authors for the first-annual
2010 Deadline: The deadline for the 2010 Open Season Awards
is November 1, 2009 (postmark date).
Guidelines
Poetry: up to three poems per entry; maximum length for each poem is 100 lines.
Short fiction and creative non-fiction: one story or article per entry; with a
maximum length of 2500 words. Please indicate word count on the first page.
Entry fee required for all categories: $35 CAD for Canadian entries; $40 US for
American entries; $45 US for entries from Mexico and outside North America.
Entrants receive a one-year subscription to The Malahat Review for themselves or
a friend.
Entrants may submit to any or all categories more than once; however, each entry
must be accompanied by its own entry fee.
Entrants’ anonymity is preserved throughout the judging. Contact information
(including an email address) must not appear on the submission, but on a
separate page, along with entry title (or titles in the case of poetry entries).
Entries already published, accepted, or submitted elsewhere are ineligible.
No entries will be accepted by email.
No entries will be returned, even if accompanied by an SASE.
The winner and finalists will be notified via email.
Other entrants will not be notified about the judges’ decisions even if an SASE
is enclosed for this purpose.
The winner and finalists in each category will be announced on the Malahat web
site, and in Malahat lite, the magazine’s electronic newsletter, in April 2010.
Winning entries will be published in The Malahat Review’s Spring 2010 issue.
Inquiries to <malahat(at)
Send entries to: The Malahat Review, Open Season Awards, University of Victoria,
P.O. Box 1700, STN CSC, Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2 Canada
Fiction Chapbook Competition —
Guidelines
http://www.csuchico
Eligibility
You may submit stories that have been published previously as long as your
manuscript has never been published. If your manuscript is currently under
consideration elsewhere, you must be prepared to withdraw it from the other
press immediately if accepted by Flume Press. Please include the appropriate
acknowledgements for any published stories.
Rules
Manuscripts should be 10-12,000 words, not including title, contents, and
acknowledgements pages. A single story or a collection of short shorts is
acceptable. Please include a cover sheet with your name, address, phone, and
e-mail address and total word count. Do not put your name on each manuscript
page.
A self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) is necessary for results notification.
The editors provide comments for all semifinalists and finalists.
The $20 (US) Reading Fee will be used to provide the cash prize to the winner
and help to produce the winning chapbook. Flume is a nonprofit press.
Deadline for submission: December 1, 2009. All manuscripts must be
postmarked by this date. Manuscripts with SASE will be returned and the winner
announced by June 2010.
Final Judges
The winner will be selected by final judges Rob Davidson, author of Field
Observations, and Paul Eggers, author of Saviors and
Prize
The winner will receive $500 and 25 copies of the chapbook. (Authors may
purchase additional copies at a 50% discount.) Average print run is 500 copies.
Flume advertises the winning chapbook in national literary magazines following
publication.
Biases
We are interested in serious literary fiction only, contemporary work that is
well-crafted and emotionally engaging. No “genre” fiction (e.g., sentimental
romance, sci-fi, horror) please.
Sample Copies
If you would like a sample copy, please mail $8 plus $2 shipping to
Flume Press at CSU, Chico, 400 W. First St., Chico, CA 95929-0830.
Poetry chapbooks: At Dusk on Naskeag Point, Tina Barr; Concentric Circles, Gayle
Kaune; Follower of Dusk, Luis Omar Salinas; Shovel Point, Judy Lindberg; Staving
Off Rapture, Ava Leavell Haymon; Cinnabar,
Fiction chapbooks: I Call This Flirting, Sherrie Flick; The Sheep Breeders
Dance by Aine Greaney; Mad to Live by Randall Brown.
Thanks for your interest in our competition.
2009 Fiction Chapbook Contest – Deadline Dec. 1.
Fairy Tale Lust: Erotic
Bedtime Stories for Women
Editor: Kristina Wright, Publisher: Cleis Press, Publication Date: Spring 2010,
Submission Deadline: August 15
Payment: $50 per story, upon publication
E-mail:fairytalelu
Once upon a time, an editor sent
out a call far and wide in search of deliciously naughty adult fairy tales…
In this collection of erotic fairy tales for women, I am seeking reinvented
classic tales as well as new fables that blend fantasy and desire. Writers are
encouraged to explore the vast realm of fairy tales and reinterpret those that
are familiar or lesser known, but are also invited to craft original stories
playing on classic archetypes. Diversity and creativity are key! Keep in mind
that Cinderella and Snow White have been retold many times over, so it would
take a very special touch to make them fresh.
Contemporary settings are preferred, but historical or fantasy settings will be
considered. The collection will be primarily heterosexual, though bisexuality
and lesbian encounters are also encouraged. I welcome playful, clever stories as
well as darker, more intense scenarios. The primary focus of sexual activity
should be on female pleasure. Everyone doesn't have to live "happily ever after"
but every story should have a strong plot and a satisfying resolution.
Submission Guidelines: Unpublished stories only, no simultaneous submissions.
Stories should be 1,500-4,000 words, double-spaced, 12 point font, in Microsoft
Word document format only. Do no
t put extra spaces between paragraphs. Include full contact information (real
name/pseudonym, mailing address and phone number) and a brief bio with your
submission.
Payment will be $50 per story and 2 copies of the book upon publication in
Spring 2010. Contributors retain the rights to their stories. I will notify
contributors of their acceptance in October, but keep in mind that Cleis Press
has final approval over the manuscript.
Send your submission as a .doc attachment to
E-mail:fairytalelu
The Second Annual Fiction
Writing Contest Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
http://www.tennesse
The Festival is pleased to announce the second annual Fiction Writing Contest.
We are now accepting submissions by mail. Online submissions coming soon.
Grand Prize $1,500 plus:
►VIP All Access Festival Pass ($500 value) for the 24th annual Festival: March
25-29, 2010
►Publication in the New Orleans Review
►Domestic Airfare and Accommodations to attend the 2010 Festival in New Orleans
►Public Reading at the 2010 Festival
Top Ten Finalists will be published on this website and read by a celebrity
author. (Author TBA).
Eligibility:
Deadline: November 16, 2009 (postmark). Winner will be announced
by March 1, 2010.
Final Round Judge TBA.
Send to: Fiction Contest, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, 938
Lafayette Street, Suite 514, New Orleans, LA 70113
Online payment and entries coming soon.
Entry Fee: $25. Manuscripts will not be returned.
Three times a year, Jerry Jazz
Musician awards a writer who submits, in our opinion, the best original,
previously unpublished work of approximately one - five thousand words. The
winner will be announced via a special mailing of our Jerry Jazz Musician
newsletter. Publishers, artists, musicians and interested readers are among
those who subscribe to the newsletter. Additionally, the work will be published
on the home page of Jerry Jazz Musician and featured there for at least four
weeks.
The Jerry Jazz Musician reader has interests in music, social history,
literature, politics, art, film and theatre, particularly that of the
counter-culture of mid-twentieth century America. Your writing should appeal to
a reader with these characteristics.
Contest details
http://www.jerryjaz
A prize of $100 will be awarded for the winning story. In addition to the story
being published on Jerry Jazz Musician, the author's acceptance of the prize
money gives Jerry Jazz Musician the right to include the story in an anthology
that will appear in book or magazine form. No entry fee is required. One story
entry only.
Submission deadline for the next contest is September 30, 2009.
Publishing date will be November 1, 2009.
Please submit your story by September 30, 2009 via Word or Acrobat attachment to
jm@erryjazz.
THE APPLICATION PERIOD WILL OPEN SOON FOR SOAPSTONE RESIDENCIES We will be accepting applications postmarked between July 1 and August 1, 2009 for residencies starting November 2009 to November 2010. Application forms can be downloaded from our web site: http://www.soapstone.org
Tenth Annual Poetry Contest
http://www.elixirpr
Elixir Press is sponsoring a poetry contest open to all poets writing in
English. There will be a Judge’s Prize of $2,000 and an Editors’ Prize of
$1,000. Both winning manuscripts will be published by Elixir Press. All
entries will be considered for publication. An outside judge, to be announced
later, will make the final decision for the first prize. The editors will make
the final decision for the second prize.
Manuscripts should be typed on one side of the page and on standard paper. No
dot matrix unless letter quality.
Send a business size SASE for reply only; manuscripts cannot be returned. An SAS
postcard for receipt of manuscript is optional.
Please use a 12 to 14 point font.
Do not send the only copy of your manuscript.
Do not send biographical material, photographs, CDs, videos, or illustrations.
Enclose a cover sheet stating the name of the manuscript and the author's
name,address, and telephone number and a cover sheet with the title alone.
Manuscripts must be paginated and include a table of contents and and
acknowledgments page if appropriate.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, so long as Elixir is notified immediately
if a manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Manuscripts must be at least 48 pages in length.
Please secure your manuscript with either a binder clip or file folder. Do not
otherwise bind your manuscript.
The entry fee is $25.
The postmark deadline for the contest is October 31, 2009.
Submit to: Elixir Press, P. O. Box 27029, Denver, CO 80227 Contact us at info@elixirpress.
2009 POETRY CONTEST
http://tworeview.
JUDGE: SHOLEH
1ST PRIZE: $100 2ND PRIZE: $50 3RD PRIZE: $25
Prizes include publication in the 2010 issue of Two Review. All submissions
considered for publication.
Submission Guidelines: Send up to five (5) unpublished poems, bio-sketch, SASE,
email address, and a $10.00 check made out to Cold Press Publishing to: Two
Review Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 200639, Anchorage, Alaska 99520. Deadline: July
31, 2009.
Two Review is a journal of international poetry and creative nonfiction
published annually. Traditional and modern forms, lyrical and narrative
approaches, and conventional or experimental styles are all welcome. All subject
matter is considered as long as the attention to craft is high and the language
is grammatically strong, syntactically unique, and illuminates in some way the
human experience. Writing about the modern world, its inhabitants, and the
events that shape them, from the personal day-to-day experiences of work and
family life to worldwide events that affect us all, is preferred. During
the course of 2008 the editors reviewed 7,000+ submissions from more than 1,000
poets and writers. The 2009 issue represents the work of poets and writers from
21 U.S. states and 6 countries.
Two Review is featured at select independent booksellers across the U.S. Copies
are also submitted to non-lending libraries at national poetry centers including
The University of Arizona Poetry Center, Richard Hugo House in Seattle, The
Poetry Center of Chicago, The Stadler Center for Poetry in Pennsylvania, and
Poets House in New York City.
Contest Submission Guideline
Contest Submission Period: July 1 through October 31, 2009
Prizes (Each Genre): First Place–$350.00, Second Place–$75.00,
Honorable Mention–Authors and Titles listed in Bacopa.
First and Second Place winners and selected Honorable Mention winners will be
published.
All authors whose work is published in Bacopa will receive one free copy.
Notification
First, Second and Honorable Mention winners will be notified via email.
All Winners will be posted on the WAG website as soon as selection is complete.
Categories and Word Limits
Fiction—3,300 words, Non-Fiction—3,300 words, Poetry—50 lines per poem,
Poetry—Submit up to three poems per contest submission. Submissions that exceed
the word or line count will not be considered.
No limit to the number of submissions a person may submit in any category
Each separate entry requires an Entry Fee
Each entry requires a separate Entry Form (see below)
Eligibility
Manuscripts in English and unpublished at the time of submission. (Please
notify Bacopa
WAG Membership is not required
Method of Transmission
Email Attachment(s) ONLY—NO mailed, paper manuscripts
Subject Line should read: CONTEST Fiction, or Non-Fiction, or Poetry
Name the attached manuscript file with the GENRE/TITLE of the manuscript (e.g.
Poetry/Love Note in the Snow)
Save the file in .rtf or .doc ONLY
Email the file as an attachment using our online Entry Form
Complete an Entry Form for each submission (See link below and follow
instructions in the form.)
Manuscript Format—Fiction and Non-Fiction
Double-spaced
One inch Margins, all sides, .05 Paragraph Indent, Right justified
12-point type in Arial or Times New Roman ONLY
Cover Page: The first page of our document should contain your Name, Address,
Email, Phone, Title, Word Count
Page 1 and following: Title/Page Numbers Upper Right
Page 1: Word Count under Title/Page Number
Save the File in .rtf or .doc ONLY
(NOTE: Author’s name must not appear on the manuscript.)
Manuscript Format—Poetry
You can send up to three poems per submission. Up to 50 lines per poem.
Poems need not be double-spaced
12-point type in Arial or Times New Roman ONLY
Cover Page: The first page of your document should contain your Name, Address,
Email, Phone, and the Title and Line Count for each poem.
Subsequent Pages: Put line count in upper right corner for each poem.
Save the file in .rtf or .doc ONLY. Name the file “Poetry Contest Submission.”
(NOTE: Author’s name must not appear on the manuscript.)
Entry Form available at
http://www.bacopaon
Fill out a separate Entry Form for each submission. Follow instruction on the
Entry Form.
Entry Fees
Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) Members in good standing, your first
submission in any genre is FREE. You will also receive a Free copy of Bacopa.
WAG Members–Additional Submissions are $9 each
All Others–$11 each submission
To join WAG, visit
http://www.bacopaon
Payment
You can remit payment by two methods: PayPal or Personal Check. After filling
out the online entry form, you will have an opportunity to use PayPal to submit
your payment. This is our preferred method.
To pay by Personal Check. Make your check payable to: Writers Alliance of
Gainesville.
Mail to: WAG Contest, PO Box 358396, Gainesville, FL 32635
Submissions not following all the above guidelines will not be considered.
Payment must be received by the contest submission deadline, 10/31/09, in order
for entries to be considered.
Fourth River Award for Poetry 2009 and
Fourth River Award for Creative Nonfiction 2009
http://fourthriver.
We are looking for poetry and creative nonfiction that capture the
places—natural, built and imagined, urban, rural or wild—where humans and nature
converge and collide.
First place winner in each category will be published in the Fourth River and
will receive a $500 cash prize upon publication.
Contest judges to be announced.
Contest Guidelines
Submissions should be postmarked no later than October 15, 2009
Previously published works and works accepted for publication elsewhere are not
eligible. Students, faculty and employees of Chatham University are not
eligible.
Include a title page with your name, address, phone number and the title of your
submission(s)
The reading fee is $5 for three poems or one essay (7,000 word maximum), and
includes a copy of Issue 7. Please make checks payable to Chatham University.
Multiple submissions are acceptable, but each submission must be accompanied by
a reading fee. Manuscripts will not be returned.
(Please note: the reading fee does not apply to regular submissions.
Send your submission, your reading fee and a self-addressed stamped envelope
to: The Fourth River, Chatham University,
Woodland Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Attention: Fourth River Award for (please insert genre here--Poetry or
Nonfiction).
Call for Submissions:
For fall, we are reading both unthemed and themed poetry and prose. For the
themed section, we are looking for poems that have something to do with school
subjects, e.g., history, geography, science, math, languages, Psych 101,
whatever and et cetera. Understand, we are not looking for retrospective poems
that deal with your school days, but rather poems that encounter the subjects
themselves. We welcome your submissions.
Please see the submit page for complete guidelines and specific needs and
preferences. http://www.umbrella
Editions Bibliotekos, Inc. plans to publish contemporary, creative prose works in collection format. We are looking for work that addresses themes such as Medical Humanities, Immigration, 9/11-2011, War and Peace, Adoption, Nature’s World, Faith and Doubt. Full CALL and guidelines: http://sites.google.com/site/ebibliotekos/ Periodic Updates: http://ebibliotekos.blogspot.com/ . Deadline for Medical Humanities is September, 2009. Deadline for Immigration is December, 2009.
General Editor: Gregory F. Tague, Ph.D EBibliotekos@gmail.com
Ronald Sukenick/American Book
Review Innovative Fiction Prize Sponsored by Fiction Collective Two
(FC2) and American Book Review
http://americanbook
Announcing the Winner of the 2008 Prize: Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
The 2009 contest will be open from August 15 - November 1.
Eligibility
The Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest is open to
any writer of English who is a citizen of the United States and who has not
previously published with Fiction Collective Two. Submissions may include a
collection of short stories, one or more novellas, or a novel. There is no
length requirement. Works that have previously appeared in magazines or in
anthologies may be included. Translations and previously self-published
collections are not eligible. To avoid conflict of interest, former or current
students or close friends of the final judge for 2009, to be announced, are
ineligible to win the contest. Employees and Board members of FC2 are not
eligible to enter.
Judges
Finalists for the Prize will be chosen by the following members of the FC2 Board
of Directors: Kate Bernheimer, R.M. Berry, Brian Evenson, Noy Holland, Lance
Olsen (Chair), Susan Steinberg, and Michael Martone.
The winning manuscript in 2009 was chosen from the finalists by Lidia Yuknavitch,
a member of the FC2 Board of Directors.
Selection criteria will be consistent with FC2's stated mission to publish
"fiction considered by America's largest publishers too challenging, innovative,
or heterodox for the commercial milieu," including works of "high quality and
exceptional ambition whose style, subject matter, or form pushes the limits of
American publishing and reshapes our literary culture."
For contest updates and full information on FC2's mission, history, aesthetic
commitments, authors, events, and books, please visit the website at:http://fc2.org.
Deadlines: Contest entries will be accepted beginning 15 August
2009. All entries must be postmarked no later than 1 November 2009. The
winner will be announced May 2010.
Prize: The Prize includes $1,000 and publication by FC2, an imprint
of the University of Alabama Press. In the unlikely event that no suitable
manuscript is found among entries in a given year, FC2 reserves the right not to
award a prize.
Manuscript Format
>Please submit either TWO hardcopies of the manuscript, or ONE hardcopy and one
Word file of the manuscript on a labeled CD.
>The manuscript must be:
— anonymous: the author's name or address must not appear anywhere on the
manuscript (the title page should contain the title only); include a separate
cover page with your name and contact information;
— typed on standard white paper, one side of the page only; paginated
consecutively; bound with a spring clip or rubber bands; no paper clips or
staples, please.
>Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for notification that
manuscript has been received, and a self-addressed, stamped, regular
business-sized envelope for contest results.
>We strongly advise that you send your manuscript first class.
>Please retain a copy of your manuscript; FC2 cannot return manuscripts.
Submission of more than one manuscript is permissible if each manuscript is
accompanied by a $25 reading fee. Once submitted, manuscripts cannot be altered;
the winner will be given the opportunity to make changes before publication.
Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are permitted, but FC2 must be
notified immediately if manuscript is accepted elsewhere. FC2 will consider all
finalists for publication.
Submission Address
Full manuscripts, accompanied by a check made out to the American Book
Review for the mandatory reading fee of $25, should be sent to:
Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize, American Book
Review, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston-Victoria, 3007 N. Ben
Wilson, Victoria, TX 77901-5731
CLMP Contest Ethics Code
CLMP's community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical
contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing
exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of
guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical
contest. To that end, we agree to: conduct our contests as ethically as possible
and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or
editors; provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of
interest for all parties involved; and make the mechanics of our selection
process available to the public.
This code recognizes that different contest models produce different results,
but that each model can be run ethically.
SHELTERING PINES PRESS FIFTH
ANNUAL CHAPBOOK COMPETITION, 2009
http://www.shelteri
Submissions are now open:
Official Rules
First Prize: $100 and fifty copies of your chapbook, Entry Fee is $15 per
Chapbook Deadline: Postmark October 15, 2009.
1. Submit between 10-24 pages of poetry.(One page = maximum 38 lines, including
spacing between lines). (Manuscripts either too short or too long
will be disqualified.
2. All contestants receive copy of winning chapbook.
3. No names are to appear on poems.
4. Send two cover pages:
A. One cover page (and acknowledgement page if you wish to send one)
should contain title of manuscript, name, address, phone and e-mail.
B. Second cover page should list TITLE ONLY.
5. Manuscripts should be paginated and secured with a binder clip.
6. Poems may have been previously published in journals, which should be
credited
on a separate, removable page.
7. Manuscript, as a whole, must be previously unpublished.
8. #10 SASE for results only.
9. No manuscripts will be returned.
10. If your manuscript is being simultaneously submitted to other competitions,
please notify us if accepted elsewhere. Your ms. can be pulled but unfortunately
your entry fee cannot be refunded.
GUIDELINES: & GENERAL INFORMATION:
· Initial and final judging will be "blind."
· Identifying cover sheet and acknowledgement page will be removed before
submission to any of the judges. Previously published poems should be credited.
· You may choose to list the TITLE ONLY of the chapbook on all pages of your
submission.
· You may submit a Table of Contents. No name on this page.
· We request a binder clip for ease of separation.
No staples or plastic covers please.
· Be sure to keep your address current until after publication so you can be
notified or receive a copy of the winning chapbook.
· Winner notified by December 15, 2009.
· Results including winner and top five finalists listed on web site by December
15th.
· We will consult with winner before publication about details of publication.
· Chapbook will be 5 1/2 x 8", professionally printed and saddled-stitched.
Publication in Winter 2009 by Sheltering Pines Press
Mail entries, with entry fee of $15 (check or money order please) to: Sheltering
Pines Press, 4th Annual Chapbook Competition, P.O. Box 1344, Kennebunk, ME 04043
The Bellevue Literary Review
Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
http://www.blreview
$1000 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, $1000 Carter V. Cooper Memorial Prize for
Nonfiction, $1000 Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry
Please note that we are temporarily unable to accept credit cards payments
online. See #12 to pay by check or credit card by phone. We apologize for the
inconvenience.
BLR Prize Guidelines:
1. BLR Prize awards outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing,
illness, the mind, and the body. First prize is $1000 (in each genre) and
publication in the Spring 2010 issue of the BLR.
2. Prose limited to 5000 words. Up to 3 poems (maximum 5 pages). Submissions
that exceed these limits will be disqualified.
3. Deadline August 1, 2009. Winners will be announced by December 31,
2009.
4. Entry fee is $15 per submission. For an additional $5, you will receive a 1
year subscription to the BLR. (Maximum: two submissions per person).
5. Manuscripts are submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document. (Save
with a *.doc extension). Please combine all poems into one document and use
first poem as title.
6. Do not put your name on the manuscript document. (This will be entered
separately on our website.) No cover letter needed.
7. When entering the title in the website, please prefix with "Contest." (e.
8. Work previously published* in print or electronically will not be considered.
(Please see footnote below for specific definition of “published.”)
9. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but we ask that you notify us
immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. (This will avoid potentially
awkward situations.)
10. Students/friends/
11. BLR acquires first-time North American rights. After publication, all rights
revert to the author and may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement
to BLR is made. All entries will also be considered for regular publication.
12. Due to administrative costs, if no entry fee is received, manuscript will be
placed with general submissions.
By mail: send check and printout of confirmation email to: Bellevue Literary
Review, Dept of Medicine, Rm OBV-612, NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue,
New York, NY 10016
By phone: 212-263-3973. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and
appreciate your forbearance.
13. Submit manuscript at
http://www.blreview
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E. Thanks for your patience!
*For the BLR , “published work” means published in print in North America, or
published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites,
and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on personal blogs or
websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We ask that authors be
honest about web postings. (If a work is discovered to have been posted or
published elsewhere--and
Questions? Please contact us: info@BLReview.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Super Arrow is looking to foster potential literature escapades for our
glittering, millennial universe. This online publication is based in St.
Louis, Missouri, and will have a printed component as its momentum builds. We
are looking to publish writing of all sorts, (both creative and more
occasionally critical), as well as visual and audio art. Submit to superarrowfliestru
The publication will be centered on a particular "assignment" for each issue,
and is designed to be a generative, community-based entity, more than an
exclusively exhibitive one.
If the first assignment doesn't particularly grab you, consider keeping an eye
out for future assignments that might not let you go, (hopefully in a good way).
It's my intention that each issue be curated more than edited, based on the
diverse personalities and aesthetics of submissions received. If you know
someone who might be into what Super Arrow is into, please forward them the url.
For the inaugural assignment (THIS IS NOT MY SPECIALITY), and a longer mission
statement, head to the blog, which can be found at superarrow.
Sincerely,
Amanda Goldblatt, Ed.
superarrowfliestru
We are currently seeking
submissions for a special online issue of The Mom Egg, a literary journal, to
be released in Fall 2009. Deadline for poetry, fiction, creative prose and
art for this issue is July 31, 2009. We are also accepting submissions
of other material, such as reviews and interviews. Submission guidelines may be
found on the website, <www.themomegg.com> .
The Mom Egg publishes work by mothers about everything, and by everyone about
mothers and motherhood.
The Fifth Annual Camber Press
Poetry Chapbook Award http://www.camberpr
Camber Press is pleased to announce the return of our poetry chapbook award. Our
ethos is to publish contemporary poetry exhibiting lucid delivery while not
sacrificing emotional depth, mastery of craft,
or originality.
First Prize: $1,000 and publication of chapbook
--Submission guidelines: The winning poet will receive $1,000 and have his or
her manuscript published by Camber Press, Inc.
--Only typed manuscripts no greater than 24 pages of original English-language
poems will be considered.
--Manuscripts must include a cover page listing the author’s name, address,
phone number, e-mail address, and manuscript title. Names should not appear
anywhere else. A title page with no biographical information and a table of
contents should follow. Simultaneous submissions are allowed if Camber Press is
immediately notified of acceptance elsewhere. Submissions will be recycled, not
returned. Include a self-addressed, stamped postcard if you wish acknowledgment
of receipt. A $15 entry fee payable to Camber Press must accompany all
submissions. International submissions are $15 provided they are in US funds on
a US bank. --Submissions must be postmarked no later than August 15, 2009.
--The winner will be announced no later than November 1, 2009. Include a
self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish to receive a print announcement of
the winner. E-mail us at info@camberpress.
information. Send entries to: Camber Press Poetry Award, Suite 3F, 1160 Midland
Avenue, Bronxville, NY 10708
Other details:
• If poems in your manuscript have been previously published in literary
journals or reviews, please include this information in an acknowledgments page.
Any manuscript previously published as a whole in book form is not eligible.
• Multiple manuscripts by the same writer will be accepted if submitted with a
corresponding entry fee for each work.
• If the poet’s name is present anywhere on the manuscript aside from the cover
page, the entry will be disqualified.
• If the poet needs to refer to his/herself during a poem, a pseudonym must be
used.
• Please do not send corrections or additions. The winner will be allowed to
make revisions before publication.
• Submissions postmarked after August 15, 2009, will not be considered for the
competition.
• Total manuscript pages do not translate to an equal number of book pages. Line
length, stanza breaks, book sections, type size, margins, and other factors
affect the number of pages a finished book will be. If unsure how many pages
your book will be or if your manuscript is too long, visit your local library.
Look at Camber Press titles and poetry chapbooks from other publishers.
By comparing these with your own poems, you can estimate the approximate book
length of your manuscript.
• Covers, tables of contents, dedication pages, acknowledgements pages, etc., do
not count toward the total of 24 pages.
• “No greater than 24 pages” does not mean your manuscript need be 24 pages. To
date, no poet submitting 24 pages has won the Camber Press Poetry Chapbook
Award. Please think of your best poems first, manuscript flow second, and “24
pages,” if ever, last.
• If you wish to bind your manuscript(s)
• Submissions will be recycled, not returned. Do not send a return envelope or
return postage. Do not send your only copy of your manuscript.
• To be advised of future Camber Press news, please join our e-mail newsletter
list at info@camberpress.com. Camber Press will not sell, trade, or distribute
your e-mail address to any other company, organization, or individual. We don’t
like spam, either. An e-mail to the same address will remove you from our future
mailings.
Judge: Mark Doty
Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award
for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems include School of the Arts,
Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published
four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven’s
Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007.
Doty’s work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los
Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards
and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only
American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K., and has
received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila
Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the
Arts. Doty lives in New York City and in Houston, Texas, where he is John and
Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at the University of Houston.
In the fall of 2009, he will join the faculty at Rutgers University in New
Brunswick, New Jersey.
Gemini Magazine announces free
Short Short Story Contest www.gemini-magazine.com/contest
Gemini Magazine announces its free Short Short Story Contest. Grand Prize is
$100 and publication in the October issue of Gemini. Three (3) Honorable
Mentions will also be published in the October issue.
Stories must be 1,000 words or less and may be written in any style or theme as
long as they are previously unpublished. Deadline is August 31, 2009.
There is no entry fee.
Send one entry per writer to
contest@
Gemini Magazine is a new online journal of the arts featuring fiction, poetry
and more.
Non-contest submissions should be sent to submissions@gemini-
The Rondeau Roundup, a
blog devoted to rondeaus and related forms, has been silent the past few months.
To re-launch the blog, we're having a contest for the best rondeau on the topic
of love, submitted by July 15, 2009.
Contest Rules:
*Only one rondeau may be submitted per person. No entry fee. Top three rondeaus
will be published on the blog (theroundeauroundup
*For this contest, we're looking for rondeaus that follow the standard
definition, as given on poets.org: "The rondeau’s form is not difficult to
recognize: as it is known and practiced today, it is composed of fifteen lines,
eight to ten syllables each, divided stanzaically into a quintet, a quatrain,
and a sestet. The rentrement consists of the first few words or the entire first
line of the first stanza, and it recurs as the last line of both the second and
third stanzas. Two rhymes guide the music of the rondeau, whose rhyme scheme is
as follows (R representing the refrain): aabba aabR aabbaR."
*Examples of the form: "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae, "We Wear the Mask"
by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
*No other poetic form will be accepted for this contest. Non-rhyming rondeaus
can be entered, but the blog moderator's preference is for rhymed and metered
rondeaus.
To enter, send a single rondeau (in the body of an e-mail) on the topic of love
to: rondeauroundup@
Winners will be announced on the Rondeau Roundup Blog on July 31, 2009
2009 NATIONAL WRITING CONTEST
GRANDMOTHER EARTH XIV NATIONAL WRITING AWARDS
http://www.grandmot
DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2009 (POSTMARK)
PO Box 2018, Cordova, TN 38088, PHONE: 901-309-3692; E-mail: gmoearth@aol.com
www.grandmotherearth.org
Work can be unpublished or published. Money award entries (and selected
finalists if permission is given) will be published in Grandmother Earth XVI.
Rights to previously published work must belong to the author. No profanity or
new age material will be accepted.
Poetry Awards
Any subject, Any form, 50-line limit
$100 First Prize, $75 Second Prize, $50 Third Prize, $25 Fourth Prize
Prose Awards
Any subject, fiction or non-fiction, 2000-word limit
$100 First Prize, $75 Second Prize, $35 Third Prize
Additional Awards:
$50, 1st Place; $35, second
place; $25, third place
1. Best Haiku, Senryu, or up to 6 lines short form
2. Best use of Humor, Poetry or Prose
3. Environmental theme,
Poetry or Prose
RULES:
1. To enter general awards, submit one typed copy (standard font) of each poem
(single space) or prose piece (double space) with no identification.
2. Send one copy with name and address in upper right corner. Both poetry and
prose should be single spaced on this identified copy. Staple and number
multiple pages.
3. Enclose an entry page with your name, address, phone number, email address,
if applicable, and title of all entries and amount of fees enclosed.
Include 25-30 words of biographical
4. In upper left corner of an extra copy indicate if your work is to be
considered for a specific additional award—if entering same work for both
general and additional awards there is no extra fee.
5. Place all entries with no identification in one stack and all with names in
another stack. Staple multiple pages of prose and poetry and put the page number
in the upper right hand corner of each copy.
6. Fees are $10 for 1-3 entries and $2 for each additional entry. (Make checks
payable to Grandmother Earth.) All entrants will receive one copy of Grandmother
Earth .XV--Retail: $9.95. All whose work is published will receive one extra
copy. See Student Rules on website for new guidelines. Work previously published
in any Grandmother Earth publication is not eligible for awards. There is no fee
for art or photography and payment is a contributor’s copy, except for the
special award.
7. Mail entries postmarked by July 15, 2009 to GEC CONTEST CHAIRPERSON,
PO Box 2018, Cordova, TN 38088. Notify us of any change in address after mailing
entries.
The Akron Series in Poetry was
founded to bring to the public writers who speak in original and compelling
voices. Each year, The University of Akron Press offers the Akron Poetry
Prize, a competition open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet
receives $1,000 and publication of his or her book. The final selection will be
made by a nationally prominent poet. The final judge for 2009 is Martín Espada.
Other manuscripts may also be considered for publication in the series. http://www3.
Guidelines for Submission
1. Manuscripts must be typed and consecutively numbered, for a total length of
at least 48 pages. Clear photocopies are acceptable. Please, do not send
manuscripts bound or enclosed in covers.
2. Manuscripts must include a cover page (with author's name, address, phone
number, and manuscript title), a title page (with no biographical information)
3. Manuscripts must be postmarked between May 1 and June 15 of each year.
Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but The University of Akron Press must
be notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
4. An entry fee of $25 is required for each manuscript submission. Make check or
money order payable to The University of Akron Press. The cancelled check will
serve as notification of receipt.
0A5. Contest results will be posted on our website www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetryprizewinner.html by
September 30. No manuscripts can be returned.
6. Books accepted for the Akron Series in Poetry must exhibit three essential
qualities: mastery of language, maturity of feeling, and complexity of thought.
The University of Akron Press is committed to publishing poetry that, as Robert
Frost said, "begins in delight and ends in wisdom." Intimate friends, relatives,
current and former students of the final judge (students in an academic,
degree-conferring program or its equivalent) are not eligible to enter the 2009
Akron Poetry Prize competition.
Send manuscripts to: The Akron Poetry Prize, The University of Akron Press,
Akron, OH 44325-1703,
Further Information:
For further questions on the submission of manuscripts to the UAP poetry series,
contact: Series Editor Mary Biddinger, University of Akron Press, Akron, OH
44325-1703
2008 Winner: Rachel Dilworth, "The Wild Rose Asylum: Poems of the Magdalen
Laundries of Ireland" Forthcoming in November
2009 PEARL POETRY PRIZE
http://www.pearlmag
$1,000 & BOOK PUBLICATION
Judge: Debra Marquart
GUIDELINES:
MANUSCRIPTS should include a title page with the author's name, address, phone
number, and e-mail address; an acknowledgment page listing previously published
poems; a table of contents, 48–64 pages of original poetry; and an SASE for
reply or return of manuscript. Manuscripts should be unbound, typed, pages
numbered, and name should appear on title page only. Clear photocopies and
computer print-outs are acceptable. We will consider simultaneous submissions,
but ask that you notify us if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
PRIZE: In addition to publication and the $1,000 cash prize, the winner also
receives 25 copies and a foreword by the finalist judge.
ELIGIBILITY:
$20 ENTRY FEE includes a copy of the winning book. All other proceeds go to the
continuing publication of Pearl.
JUDGING: The selection of manuscripts for final judging will be made by the
editors of Pearl. All entries are read anonymously.
SUBMISSION PERIOD: May 1 – July 15th postmark. The winner will be
announced and manuscripts returned after the first of next year.
SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: Pearl Poetry Prize, 3030 E. Second Street, Long Beach, CA
90803; checks made payable to Pearl
Poemeleon: A Journal of
Poetry is now accepting submissions for Volume IV Issue 1, the gender issue, and
for the Mystery Box Contest.
In addition to poems, we are looking for relevant essays
We are not accepting unsolicited book reviews at this time.
Please submit work only via the online submission form.
For full guidelines and to submit work please go here: http://www.poemeleo
DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2009
For the Mystery Box Contest please go here:
http://www.poemeleo
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
All styles/forms welcomed, but please browse recent issues to get a feel for
what we like.
Current and former contributors include Sherman Alexie, Jimmy Santiago Baca,
Tony Barnstone, Catherine Daly, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Richard Garcia, Eloise Klein
Healy, Bob Hicok, Major Jackson, Dorianne Laux, Sarah Maclay, Charles Harper
Webb, and Cecilia Woloch.
Visit the website at http://www.poemeleo
Miami University Novella
Contest
http://www.orgs.
The novella form has had a long and distinguished place in American literature,
and has triumphed in the hands of Herman Melville, Henry James, Katherine Anne
Porter, Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth,
Saul Bellow, William Gass, John Gardner, Andrea Barrett and Tobias Wolff, to
name just a few.
As commercial publishers are driven more and more by marketplace concerns,
novellas, by nature of their length, often fall between the cracks of short
story collections and novels and wind up being published—if at all—not as
individual volumes but as part of a collection of stories. Because the form is
such a pleasure for readers and writers alike—short enough to be read at a
single sustained sitting, but long enough to allow the writer greater freedom in
character and plot development than does the short story—we are happy to present
a rare venue for publishing individual novellas as stand-alone volumes.
Manuscripts submitted for the award will be read and evaluated by our creative
writing faculty, all of whom are active publishing writers. The manuscripts will
be read “blind;” in other words, all identifiers will be stripped from the pages
before the manuscripts are read, and the author’s history of previous
publication will not be available to readers. Each year a different member of
our faculty will serve as the final judge and will decide from among the list of
finalists submitted by the other readers.
Students, former students, faculty, former faculty, or anyone connected to Miami
University will not be considered for the award. Though we believe strongly in
the talent of those we have worked with and taught, we will do everything we can
to assure that this prize is administered impartially, fairly, and without
regard to association.
Miami University Press is a non-profit organization. Though we are requiring an
entrance fee (currently $25), we wish to make it clear that this money will be
used to pay for the administrative costs of the contest, to help with the costs
of publishing a book of high quality, and to allow each entrant to receive a
copy of the winning volume. We want that book to be a pleasure to hold in the
hands and to read. The winning volume will be distributed nationwide.
Submission rules and guidelines: Below are general guidelines for the contest.
*Entries for the 2009 contest must be postmarked by October 2, 2009.
*Submit manuscripts, 18,000–40,000 words, with two title pages: one with
author’s name, address and phone number, one without. Author’s name must not
appear elsewhere. Word count must be included on title page.
*Reading fee U.S. $25, payable to Miami University Press (check or money order;
no cash or credit cards).
*Winning entry receives $1,000 and book publication.
*All entrants receive copy of winning book.
Mail to: MU Press Novella Prize, English Department, 356 Bachelor Hall, Miami
University,Oxford, OH 45056
http://home.
Each year The Laureate Prize for Poetry will honor one new poem that TNPR believes
has the greatest chance, of those entered, of standing the test of time and
becoming part of the literary canon. To enter, submit up to three of your best
unpublished, uncommitted (not promised for first publication elsewhere) poems
(10 page total maximum per group of three), along with your email address for
results (no SASEs, please)
Fee: $15.00. * Postmark deadline: 8/31/09. Personal checks
only, please; NO money orders.
IMPORTANT: MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE ONLY TO "C.J. SAGE" C. J. Sage, TNPR, Post
Office Box 2080, Aptos, California 95001-2080
The winner will receive $600 plus publication in The National Poetry Review.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but if the work is selected by TNPR for
the prize or for publication, it must be withdrawn from elsewhere unless you
have withdrawn it from us two weeks before our acceptance. Multiple submissions
are acceptable with a reading fee for each group of three poems. Page limit per
group: 10
Please note that close friends, relatives, and students of the judge or the
editor are not eligible for the prize. The judge will be asked to send back to
TNPR's editor any poem that s/he recognize
MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE MASTERS OF ARTS IN WRITING PROGRAM & INKWELL
ANNOUNCE THE 12TH ANNUAL SHORT FICTION CONTEST & 13TH ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST
http://www.inkwellj
SHORT STORY CONTEST; $1500 GRAND PRIZE & PUBLICATION IN
INKWELL. COMPETITION JUDGE: Alice McDermott
GUIDELINES
1. Up to 3 previously unpublished stories, 5,000-word limit
2. Text must be typed, 12pt. font, double-spaced, one-sided
3. Cover sheet with name, address, phone, e-mail, titles and word counts
4. No name or address anywhere on manuscripts
5. SASE for contest notification only – manuscripts will be recycled
6. Entry fee: $15 per story
7. Checks (USD ONLY) made out to Manhattanville – INKWELL
THE 13TH ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST: $1000 GRAND PRIZE & PUBLICATION IN INKWELL.
COMPETITION JUDGE: Phillis Levin
GUIDELINES
1. Up to 5 previously unpublished poems, 40-line limit per poem
2. Only typed entries will be considered; 12pt. font
3. Cover sheet with name, address, phone, e-mail, titles and line counts
4. No name or address anywhere on manuscript(s)
5. SASE for contest notification only – manuscripts will be recycled
6. $10 for first poem, $5 per each additional poem
7. Checks (USD ONLY) payable to Manhattanville – INKWELL
NOTE: Indicate Poetry or Fiction Competition on envelope. If submitting to
both Poetry and Fiction Competitions, please use separate envelopes.
Submissions not adhering to the above guidelines will not be considered.
Mail to: INKWELL - Manhattanville College, 2900 Purchase Street, Purchase, NY
10577
DEADLINE FOR CONTESTS: Postmarked between August
1 and October 30, 2009
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
We are accepting submissions for "LifeBytes--Real Stories of Online Dating"
(est. publication date Fall 2010)
Who doesn't love sitting around with friends and family over coffee or a
cocktail sharing stories about life, work and love? LifeBytes is interested in
YOUR Online dating story. Make a cup of coffee or stir up a cocktail and tell us
your cyber dating adventures - the good, the bad and the ugly! "LifeBytes, Real
Stories" will be a compilation of the true stories that singles love to share
with one another about the ups and downs of searching for Prince (or Princess)
Charming.
We are looking for evocative stories that can be funny, poignant, provocative,
scary, weird, sexy, edgy or happy. We're looking for the full range of
experiences that make online dating such an adventure. Writers whose work is
chosen for publication will receive payment for their story in the market range
of $50- $100 (word count dependent).
Our extended deadline is September 15, 2009.
For complete submission guidelines please visit our website at:
http://www.lifebytesbook.com
Open call for submissions for
the Survivors of Domestic Abuse anthology. To be published in Fall ‘09
http://reliefanthol
The goal of this relief anthology is to raise dollars in support of women’s
shelters, women’s advocacy groups. The anthology will be published through a
print-on-demand (POD) model using Lulu.com
This is not a paying or a qualifying professional market (i.a.w. SFWA standards
for Qualifying Professional Markets.
Authors retain all rights on material. Authors may remove their submission from
the anthology at anytime by a written (emailed) request. By submitting to the
anthology you are agreeing use of your work(s) for non-pecuniary (no one is
making money off your work) purposes outside the donation to the various
non-profit women’s shelters/advocacy groups.
Submissions should be sent to:
jkrichard@
Electronic submissions only.
• Please place SUBMISSION-FALL 2009 in the subject line
• Send as an attachment .doc or .rtf, mac users may contact me directly for
conversion resources
• Use standard US letter page size (8.5″ width, 11″ length)
• Cover/Title page with title and author’s name (or pen name)
• Double spaced
• 12 pitch Times New Roman or Courier family fonts (please)
• No other special formatting is required nor desired
Fiction should have strong female leading characters. All genres considered.
Specifically seeking one (1) essay/article on surviving domestic abuse/abusive
relationship(
REPRINTS ARE ACCEPTABLE!
Deadline for submissions is midnight (Pacific Standard Time) September 30th,
2009.
The anthology will be made publicly available mid-October. All contributors will
receive an electronic (.pdf) copy of the anthology.
There is room for approximately 7-9 short stories in each anthology (word count
dependent).
2009 Juked Fiction and Poetry
Prizes
http://www.juked.
We are currently accepting entries for our 2009 JukedFiction and Poetry Prizes.
Winners in each of the genres will receive $500 and publication in print issue
#7. Our final judges this year are Dan Chaon (fiction) and Dora Malech (poetry)
Submission Guidelines:
First prize for each genre: $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue, Juked #
Current and former students of the judges are not eligible to compete.
Fiction: send one story per entry. There is no length requirement.
Poetry: send up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry.
Entries must be previously unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but notify us immediately if your work has
been accepted elsewhere.
Fee is $10 per entry. There is no limit on the number of entries you may
submit.
Include a cover page with your name, address, e-mail, telephone number and the
title(s) of your story or poems. Do not put your name anywhere else on the
manuscript.
We will notify via e-mail; do not include an SASE.
Results will be announced in October 2009.
Submitting by Mail:
Include entry fee, cash or check or money order, payable to Juked.
Indicate "Fiction" or "Poetry" on the front of the envelope.
Manuscripts will not be returned; they will be placed gently in the recycling
bin.
Postmark deadline is August 31st, 2009.
Mail to: Juked 110 Westridge Dr. Tallahassee, FL 32304
Submitting by E-Mail: go to
http://www.juked.
EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT
SHARKS AND RAYS IN OUR SHARK SUMMER POETRY CONTEST AND YOU MIGHT HAVE YOUR POEM
POSTED AND PUBLISHED!
Shark Poetry Contest: Aquarium of the Pacific
http://www.aquarium
The winner will have his or her poem posted on the Aquarium's website and
published in the Aquarium's exclusive magazine Pacific Currents, along with
passes to the Aquarium and a behind the scenes tour for four people. Entries
will be accepted online or via mail through July 31, 2009. Poems must be no
longer than 200 words. You must be 16 years old to enter. Only one entry per
person.
All entries must be received by July 30, 2009. Upload your poem at
http://www.aquarium
Please make sure to include all your contact information (name, email, phone,
mailing address) in the actual document as well.
2009 Anderbo Poetry Prize http://www.anderbo.
Winner receives: $500 cash & Publication on anderbo.com
Judged by William Logan
2009 Contest Assistant: Anderbo Poetry Editor Charity Burns
Guidelines:
–Poems should be typed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with the
poet’s name and contact information on the upper
right corner of each poem
–Entries must be postmarked by November 1, 2009
–Limit six poems per poet
–Poet must not have been previously published on anderbo.com
–Mail submissions to: Anderbo Poetry Prize, 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1412,
New York, NY 10012
–Enclose self-addressed stamped business envelope to receive names of winner and
honorable mentions All entries are non-returnable and will be recycled
–Reading fee is $10. Check or money order payable to RRofihe
–Winner and honorable mentions will be published on
anderbo.com in February of 2010
The Fiddlehead's
Poetry: $1,000 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, $500 each for the Two
Honorable Mentions
Fiction: $1,000 for Best Story, $500 each for the Two Honorable Mentions
Add it up — that's $4,000 Dollars
The winning entries will be published in the Spring 2010 issue of The Fiddlehead
(No. 243) and on our web site. The winning authors will be paid for publication
in addition to their prizes.
Rules:
Deadline: Postmarked by December 1, 2009
*Entries must be original and unpublished elsewhere. No simultaneous submissions
and no previously published (or accepted for publication) submissions. This
includes no simultaneous submissions to any other contest.
*One entry for the short fiction category is one story of up to 25 double-spaced
pages.
*One entry for the poetry category is up to 3 poems with no more than 100 lines
per poem. Poetry may be single-spaced.
*Word-processed or typed entries only. Please use white paper and only print on
one side.
*All entries must be submitted by mail. No faxed, digital, or emailed
submissions are allowed.
*Vetting for the contest is blind. Do not put your name and address on your
manuscript. Instead include a cover page with the title(s) of your entry, which
category (short fiction or poetry), and your name and contact information:
mailing address, phone number, and email address.
*Manuscripts will not be returned. Please keep a copy of your entry.
Contest winners only will be contacted by the end of February 2010. All entrants
receive a copy of The Fiddlehead's spring issue which includes the winning
entries. Winners will also be posted on the Fiddlehead website.
Entry Fee: $30 (CAD) for an entry from Canada and $36 (USD) for an entry from
the U.S. or overseas. Make your cheque or money order payable to The
Fiddlehead and enclose it with your entry. The entry fee includes a one-year
subscription to The Fiddlehead. Already a subscriber?—you'll receive a one-year
extension to your current subscription.
Multiple entries allowed, but only your first entry in each category will be
eligible for a subscription.
The Fiddlehead occasionally swaps its subscription list with other literary
organizations. If you don't wish to be included in such exchanges, please state
this on your entry's cover page.
Send Entries to: The Fiddlehead Contest, Campus House, 11 Garland Court,
University of New Brunswick, PO Box 4400, Fredericton NB, E3B 5A3 Canada
For further information contact us at
fiddlehd@unb.ca
NANO Fiction is proud to
announce our first annual NANO Prize, to be awarded to a flash fiction piece,
prose poem, or micro essay of 300 words or less. The winner will receive
$500.
http://www.nanofict
The entry fee is $12 for the first three pieces, and $2 for each additional
piece. Those twelve bucks also gets you a one year subscription to NANO Fiction.
RULES
Friends and family of the editors are not eligible to submit. While there will
be only one winner of the contest, all submitted pieces will be considered for
publication. Electronic entries will not be accepted. Mail all entries and cover
letters with a check or money order to: NANO Prize, PO Box 667445, Houston, TX
77266-7445
Make all checks payable to NANO Fiction. Contest deadline is August 1, 2009.
RULES AND GUIDELINES FOR THE
2009 MEMPHIS MAGAZINE FICTION CONTEST
http://www.memphism
Co-sponsored by Burke's Book Store and Davis-
We are seeking entries for our annual fiction contest. The winning story will
earn a $1,000 grand prize and will be published in a future issue of Memphis.
Two honorable mention awards of $500 each will be given if the quality of
entries warrants. Contest co-sponsors are Burke's Book Store, and Davis-Kidd
Booksellers. Below are contest rules:
1. Authors must live within 150 miles of Memphis.
2. Entries must be postmarked by August 1, 2009.
3. You may submit more than one story but each entry must be accompanied by a
$10 entry fee.
4. Stories are NOT required to have a Memphis or Southern theme.
5. Each story should be typed, double-spaced, with unstapled, numbered pages.
Stories should be between 3,000 and 4,500 words.
6. With each story should be a cover letter that gives us your name, address,
phone number, and the title of your story. Please do not put your name anywhere
on the manuscript itself.
7. Manuscripts may be previously published as long as previous publication was
not in a national magazine with over 20,000 circulation or in a regional
publication within Shelby County.
8. Manuscripts should be sent to FICTION CONTEST c/o Memphis magazine, P.O. Box
1738 Memphis, TN 38101
NOTE: We cannot accept faxes or E-mails.Authors wishing their manuscripts
returned must include a self-addressed stamped envelope with each entry.
The Earth Vision nature
writing contest (2009) short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetic prose, or
poetry .
http://www.evbooks.
First Prize $500, Second and third prizes: $100 each. Two (or more) honorable
mentions.
Entries are now invited for the EV nature writing contest. Only winners will be
notified and entries will not be acknowledged or returned.
The deadline for receipt of entries falls on October 15 (of each year).
The EV nature writing contest is held to support the cause of writing on the
subject of nature and deep ecology. Any outstanding proceeds support the EV
project.
This contest is open to any writer in English producing an original short piece
of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetic prose, or poetry on a theme of nature,
deep ecology, spiritual ecology, or any work that has some element of nature
woven into it.
Submissions can be published or unpublished material, length to range between
500 and 2500 words per entry (poetry can be smaller). One title per entry, you
can enter as many times as you like, new entry fee to accompany each entry.
Winners will retain all rights, and will be invited to post their entries on the
Earth Vision website.
2010 National Writing
Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry
http://www.prescott
$15 Entry Fee. $500 First-Place Prize. Postmark Deadline: October
1, 2009
Our annual contest awards $500 plus publication for the first-place winner in
fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Finalists will be noted as such in our
journal, selected for publication, and paid in copies. $15 entry fee, checks or
money orders payable to Alligator Juniper. Every entrant receives one copy of
the 2010 issue, a $10 value. The issue will come out in summer 2010. There is no
theme for the 2010 issue. Work is selected upon artistic merit. By entering our
contest you agree to allow us to select your work for publication even if it
does not place first. We encourage submissions from writers of all levels,
especially emerging or early-career writers. We accept simultaneous submissions;
please inform us in your cover letter and contact us immediately if your work is
selected elsewhere.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions accepted May 1 through October 1, 2009 (postmark deadline).
Include a brief cover letter, including the statement below.
Include S.A.S.E for response only; manuscripts are recycled, not returned.
Include a $15 entry fee payable to Alligator Juniper for each story or essay
(30-page limit per entry), or up to five poems.
Additional entries require additional fee.
Indicate category with a large F, NF, or P on cover letter and mailing envelope.
Manuscripts must be typed with numbered pages. Prose double-spaced.
Double-sided copies encouraged. No email submissions.
Send to: Alligator Juniper, Prescott College, 220 Grove Ave., Prescott, AZ
86301.
IMPORTANT: Unfortunately, due to past problems with misinformed entrants and
withdrawals, we ask that you include the following statement in your signed
cover letter: "I have read and understand the guidelines for Alligator Juniper’s
national writing contest."
Back issues are available for all but 1995 (the premier issue) and 2001. Send $8
to above address and request a copy from any year, 1996 to 2007, or $10 for a
copy from 2008 or 2009.
Selection Process:
*All entries are read and discussed by Prescott College students in
the Alligator Juniper practicum class. This class is overseen each fall by two
faculty members, each of whom is a working writer in the genres of poetry,
fiction, and creative nonfiction.
*All entrants receive a personal letter from one of our staff regarding the
status of their submission. We usually inform in late January. The individual
attention we devote to each manuscript takes time. We appreciate your patience.
2009 Contest: The Newport
Review Flash Fiction Contest
http://newportrevie
The 2009 Flash Fiction Contest will open for entries on June 1, 2009. Stories
will be considered from June through the postmark deadline of September 1,
2009. This year's guest judge will be announced.
We are looking for works that are short in length but linger long in memory:
small stories that pack a big emotional punch and make creative use of
language.
Please note that this year, we are accepting slightly longer stories, up to a
maximum of 1,000 words.
Complete Contest Guidelines: Deadline: Postmarked by September 1, 2009
Word Count: Short-short stories up to 1,000 words
Entry fee: $7 per story, 3 for $20
Mail manuscripts w/check or money order (made out to Newport Review) to:
Newport Review Flash Fiction Contest
P.O. Box 65
Warren, RI 02885
Manuscripts should include writer's name and complete contact information,
including email and phone. Include a business-size SASE if you wish notification
of contest results. Manuscripts will not be returned unless requested; include
SASE with sufficient return postage.
Unfortunately, we are not set up to accept PayPal or e-mail contest submissions
at this time.
Writers may submit a total of six entries. The contest is open to all writers,
published and unpublished, except writers personally affiliated with Newport
Review, its editorial staff or board of directors. Past contest winners and
those who have b
een published in the print edition of Newport Review are eligible to enter.
New prizes will be awarded:
First Prize: $150 and publication
Second Prize: $100 and publication
Third Prize: $50 and publication
Honorable Mention: Publication
Prize-winning stories and stories receiving honorable mention will be published
in a future issue of Newport Review. Other stories may also be considered for
publication.
Angel Animals Network contest seeks true stories of remarkable women and dog
companions who give service in extraordinary ways and fulfill their life's
purpose. Each entrant will b e considered for publication in Dogs and the Women
Who Love Them, to be published by New World Library in Fall 2010. No entry
fee. Deadline:
Info:
www.angelanimals.net/contests.html
To foster awareness of PAST
LOVES DAY, SEPTEMBER 17, Spruce Mountain Press is sponsoring its 3rd annual Past
Loves Day Story Contest. Both the Contest and the Day offer an opportunity to
acknowledge a truth that lingers in your heart.
http://www.ourpastl
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: No entry fee
Nearly everyone has memories of a former sweetheart. Write your true story of an
earlier love, in no more than 700 words. Tell us about someone whose memory
brings a smile or a tear, or both. What did she or he mean to you? In
particular, how did that person's presence in your life change you, and what do
you still carry with you? Your story may be heart-warming or humorous. Just tell
it as if you were talking to a good friend.
PRIZES: First Prize: $100, Second Prize: $75, Third Prize: $50, Honorable
Mention(s)
Winning stories will be posted (anonymously, if requested by author) on this
website. Many stories from the past two years are here (see links section
below).
At some point in the future, we would like to publish an anthology of stories
from these contests.
CONTEST CLOSING DATE: Entries must be sent by midnight, August 16, 2009.
Winners will be announced after Past Loves Day, September 17, 2009.
SEND YOUR ENTRY TO: e-mail: contest@
or regular mail: CONTEST, Spruce Mountain Press, 61 Katuah Rd., Plainfield, VT
05667
FOR ALL ENTRIES, BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS
You will find that just revisiting a meaningful part of your heart's journey
makes you a winner.
Three Candles Press is pleased
to announce the third Three Candles Press First Book Award for a best first book
of poems. The contest will be judged by Alexander Long, whose books include
Light Here, Light There, Vigil and A Condition of the Spirit.
http://www.threecan
Award: Winner receives $500.00 and 25 copies of the winning book. Deadline
Oct. 15th (post-mark date). The winner will be notified at the end of
December. Runners up and two alternates will be posted on the website by January
15th, 2010. The book will be available through Small Press Distribution, online
retailers such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and at fine booksellers in
America and Europe. The winner will receive a standard royalty contract.
Guidelines: Manuscripts of 60 - 95 pages should have one cover page containing
the poet's name, address, phone number, email address and title of manuscript,
and another with only the name of the manuscript. Please include only one
acknowledgements page.
How the Contest Works: Publisher Steve Mueske will read all submitted
manuscripts and forward the finalists to the judge (around 12 manuscripts)
Manuscripts should be printed on one side only and bound with a sturdy clip.
Contest entry fee is $22.00. Make checks payable to "three candles press".
Send materials to:
three candles press
open book award
PO Box 1817
Burnsville MN 55337
AN INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR
SUBMISSIONS
A multi-cultural, multi-national, and multi-community anthology of literary
criticism, critical essays, poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, creative
writings, and visual art on HIV and AIDS.
Edited by Kelly Norman Ellis and M L Hunter
A project of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative
Writing at Chicago State University
Published by Third World Press.
Scheduled to be released World AIDS Day 2009. Deadline for submissions:
Friday, August 14, 2009
There have been great strides implemented in the research, treatment, care, and
social awareness (both nationally and internationally) of HIV and AIDS. However,
the critical dialogue needed to eradicate this disease seems to have dissipated.
This anthology seeks to push this life-threatening issue into the consciousness
of not only America, but also the world. The current climate in America, under
the Obama administration, is hope and change. So what does that mean for a
disease that is tied to human sexuality, morality, and the need to feel love and
acceptance?
The editors are seeking creative writing in the genres of poetry, fiction,
literary nonfiction, memoir writing and journaling as well as visual art that
explore the intersection of the human condition with HIV and AIDS. The editors
are also seeking artwork in the mediums of photography, fine and graphic arts.
We are particularly interested in a vast array of literary criticism that
provides social commentary and theoretical and pedagogical models that assist in
understanding HIV and AIDS past and present. We also are interested in
interviews with survivors and non-survivors of HIV and AIDS.
Submissions should be sent by email attachment to
hivaidsanthology@gmail.
-A short biography including ethnic heritage and country of origin should be
submitted along with your work.
-Fiction submissions can be short stories or novel excerpts, and the nonfiction
section is open to personal narratives and essays.
-Scholarly essays should be no less than 5,000 words, and should not exceed
8,000 words. The length of other submissions may vary. We encourage authors to
make the writing style of their submissions accessible to as wide a readership
as possible, without sacrificing scholarly intellect.
-Poetry submissions are limited to five poems maximum. We will accept re-prints
of some poems. Please note if poems have been published elsewhere in cover
letter.
-Artwork submissions are open to all mediums, but pieces must be submitted
electronically. Winning pieces are selected based on composition and
originality.
Meeting House’s first book:
We’ll be releasing an anthology of short fiction in early 2010, and we’re
putting out an open call for submissions. Here are some guidelines: all
stories must be set in and around Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA; all stories
must be original and previously unpublished; writers do not currently have to be
working in New England to have their work considered (in contrast to our
standard submission guidelines); all stories must be submitted by 5p.m. on
Friday, September 18th, 2009, to be considered for publication.
Email your story to submissions@meetinghousem
http://meetinghouse
White County Creative
Writers offers fourteen contests in conjunction with our 14th annual writers'
conference. You do NOT have to attend the conference to enter. We extend a
heartfelt "thank you" to all the sponsors that make these contests possible.
Please give them your support.
http://www.whitecou
2009 CONTESTS -
1. WCCW Award - Children's Story (writer specifies age group) 1500 words maximum
- Sponsored by White County Creative Writers .
2. RobertsFamilyArk
3. Love Bytes Award - Love Poem, any form - 50 lines maximum Sponsor: Glassworks
Ink (link)
4. New Idea Award Short Story, humorous - write about three ladies who steal
a painting. 1500 words maximum Sponsor: Jean Gipson
5. Tumbleweed Award Western Novel - Three chapters, synopsis, and query
letter Sponsor: Dusty Richards
6. Family Matters Award - Essay on a person in your family of significance to
you. 2000 words maximum Sponsor: Debra Middleton
7. The Penpoint Group Award Short Story, Mystery 2,500 words
maximum Sponsor: The Penpoint Group
8. Central Arkansas Writers Award Essay: Cause and Effect Write about
decisions and events that have changed your life. 800 words maximum Sponsor:
Central Arkansas Writers
9. The Ozarks Mountaineer Award - Short Memoir, to be considered for
publication 2500 words maximum Sponsor:
10. New Writer Contest - Personal essay by someone who has never won money in a
contest 1000 words maximum Sponsor: Dorothy Hatfield
11. Bob Jones and Faye Williams Jones Poetry Award Free Verse, any subject 40
lines maximum Sponsor: Bob Jones and Faye Williams Jones
12. Word Weaving Short Story, no horror or erotica Must include these four
words: Kestrel, Molasses, Squid, Wink - 1500 words maximum Sponsor: Fiction
Writers of Central Arkansas
13. HPMEC Award Short Story Short Story - Sharing a train ride with Ernest
Hemingway 3000 words maximum Sponsor: Hemingway-Pfeiffer Creative Writers'
Retreat (link)
14. LovePat Award Personal Essay Subject: How I, A Writer, Use What I Read
The subject may be used as title or 2009 Contest Regulations
Noncompliance with any regulation will result in a disqualified entry
1. Registration to attend conference does not include contest fees. You do
NOT have to attend the conference to enter. Contest fees of $5 for first entry
and $3 for each entry thereafter must be mailed on or before July 24, 2009.
Total your
entry fees and make one check payable to White County Creative Writers. No fees
returned.
2. Deadline for postmarking contest entries is July 24, 2009. WCCW is
not responsible for manuscripts lost, delayed, or received too late for
judging. Do not send SASE: No entries will be returned. Entries will be
destroyed two weeks after conference.
3. Only one typed, unpublished manuscript may be entered in each contest.
Double-space prose; double- or single- space poetry. Use standard manuscript
form ( click here)
4. No entry may be entered in more than one contest. No one may enter the
contest for which he or she serves as sponsor, chairman, or judge. An entry that
won first place last year may not be entered in the same contest if this year's
contest is identical to last year's.
5. Put CONTEST NUMBER and NAME OF AWARD in upper left corner of each manuscript
(entry). Do NOT put your name on the manuscript. Attach a cover sheet to each
manuscript with - a) number and name of contest, b) title of entry, c) first
line of entry, d) your name, mailing address, and phone number. Include your
e-mail address if you wish.
6. Mail all contest entries and contest fees to: DOT HATFIELD, 802 WEST CENTER,
BEEBE, AR 72012
7. Prizes: 1ST PLACE - $25.00, 2ND PLACE - $15.00, 3RD PLACE - $10.00.
Certificates, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Honorable Mention. Number of Awards for each
contest will be determined by judges.
Winners not attending will be notified by mail the week after the conference.
For questions about contests or regulations, call (501) 882-7132 or e-mail
dothatfield@sbclobal.
dothatfield@
Spring 2010 Writing Contest
http://centralcoast
The two winners of the Central Coast Writers Branch 2010 writing contest will
each receive $500 and have their work published (print and online) in the Spring
2010 Homestead Review produced by Hartnell College.* Winning entries also will
be published on this Web site. Finalist judges will be Maria Garcia Teutsch and
Dr. Jessica Breheny (published authors in their respective genres of poetry and
fiction).
Contest Rules
Eligibility:
Entry Fee: Short stories: $15 per story. Poetry: $5 per poem.
Multiple Entries: Enter as many times as you wish, with separate fee for each
entry.
Maximum Length: Short story: 4,000 words. Poetry: no restriction.
Submission Period: September 15, 2009 through January 15, 2010 (by
postmark). Note:
Submit to: CCW Writing Contest, P.O. Box 51805, Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Make
your check payable to Central Coast Writers. Please note: Entries will not be
returned.
Format: Typed, white 8½ x 11 paper, single-sided, numbered pages, with title
only (not your name) on upper left corner of all pages. Short stories must be
double-spaced.
s you want it to appear. We prefer staples over paper clips for stories and for
poems longer than a page. Include a separate, single cover sheet for short
stories and a single cover sheet for poetry. The cover sheet(s) must include the
title(s) of your entry, your name, address, email address, phone number, and
word count for short stories. On your cover sheet, please let us know how you
heard about our contest (website, magazine ad, newsletter, flyer, friend, etc.).
Notification:
Questions: E-mail ccw-contests@
Platt Family Scholarship Prize
Essay Contest
http://www.thelinco
1st Prize $1000 | 2nd Prize $500 | 3rd Prize $250 Our topic for 2009:
“Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln: Getting Right with Lincoln”
From his campaign announcement in Springfield, to his victory speech in Chicago,
our new president has repeatedly made references to being inspired by Abraham
Lincoln. Which other presidents have been inspired by the Great Emancipator?
What lessons can be learned from Lincoln's presidency by President Obama?
Contest Rules Please examine the rules below closely before
contacting The Lincoln Forum or the contest coordinator with eligibility
questions.
*The scholarship essay contest is designed for students who are FULL TIME,
undergraduate students in an AMERICAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY during the Spring
2009 semester. The July 31 deadline is designed to give these students time to
finish their essays, if need be, after final exams.
*You do not have to be an American citizen, but you do need to be attending
an AMERICAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY during the eligibility period.
*It is NOT open to high school students. Key question to consider; when we
contact your college or university registrar will they be able to confirm that
you were enrolled as a full-time college student during the spring 2009
semester? If the answer is no, you are not eligible.
*The eligibility of entrants will be confirmed by the Lincoln Forum prior to the
awarding of prizes.
*Entries will be judged by the essay committee of The Lincoln Forum. Deadline
for entries is July 31, 2009
*Entries must contain a minimum of 1,500 and a maximum of 5,000 words.
*Essays may be submitted via regular mail (postmarked by July 31, 2009) or via
e-mail (time stamped before midnight PST July 31, 2009) to the address below.
*The essay must be typed and include a works-cited page or bibliography. End
notes are suggested but not required.
*There is no application form for the contest. The essay and your contact
information serves as your application.
*Applicants must
*Judging will take place during the fall. The three winners will be announced at
the Lincoln Forum annual meeting in Gettysburg on November 18th. Checks from the
Lincoln forum will be sent to the winners in December 2009. The scholarship
prize money is designed as a reward for academic excellence. It can be used for
any purpose the winner desires.
*The essay can be sent via email ( e-mail:<archives(
*Don McCue, curator of The Lincoln Shrine in Redlands, California serves as
coordinator of the Essay Contest.
If the above information does not answer your question please contact: Don
McCue, Curator -- Lincoln Memorial Shrine, 125 W. Vine St., Redlands, CA 92373,
phone: (909) 798-7632
E-mail: archives@
Airlie Press announces a call for
book-length poetry manuscripts. Deadline: September 15, 2009
For more information about Airlie Press, go to
www.airliepress.org
We are a nonprofit poetry collective founded in Oregon’s Willamette
Valley. A shared-work, consensus based group, our profits go toward the
production of new books of poetry. We are seeking manuscript submissions from
poets who live within a reasonable driving distance from the Monmouth area,
where the press’ business is conducted.
Authors whose manuscripts are selected by Airlie Press must commit to
responsibilities of the collective for a period of three years, including
attending monthly meetings, and contributing at least ten hours a month to the
collective-related work of editing, book production, and promotion. Authors’
books will be published during the second year of their commitment to Airlie
Press, and will involve more time commitment from the authors. Authors have
final say regarding the content and presentation of their books. All book
profits will be returned to the collective.
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit two copies of your manuscript, which must be postmarked
no later than September 15, 2009. Manuscripts received after that date
will not be read. Manuscripts cannot be returned.
Manuscripts must be 65-80 pages in length, with 1-½ inch-spaced lines.
Manuscripts must be paginated, with a title page, a table of contents, and an
acknowledgments page.
Your name and contact information must not appear anywhere on your
manuscript. We are accepting blind submissions only.
Please include a personal statement of no more than one page about why you would
like to join
our poetry collective and what particular interests and skills you might offer.
Attach to your
personal statement a copy of your manuscript’s title page with your name,
address and phone number, and email address. If you would like confirmation that
we have received your submission, please attach a self-addressed, stamped
postcard to your personal statement as well. A daylong meeting for prospective
new members will be held in early December 2009.
Airlie Press will select two manuscripts by December 15, 2009, and
announce its decision as soon as possible thereafter. The manuscripts will be
scheduled for publication by late fall of 2011.
The Warren Adler Short Story
Contest 2009 Contest Theme: Short Fiction in Varied Genres
http://www.warrenad
The Warren Adler Short Story Contest is fast becoming the most prestigious
online short story contest thanks to the extraordinary literary quality of our
submissions. We are pleased to announce our next contest. The theme is simply
short fiction in all of its varied genres. We are looking for original,
imaginative pieces featuring compelling characters and creative plots. Whether
you specialize in mainstream fiction, romance, horror, fantasy, science-fiction,
satire, mystery, or any of their subcategories, we want to read your work.
Entries must not exceed 2,500 words and we will only accept stories submitted
using our web form (http://www.warrenad
The People's Choice winner will be determined by public voting. Warren Adler's
top choice, along with the People's Choice winner, will be announced in July.
Submissions will be accepted from April 13, 2009 to July 13, 2009. The
entry fee is $15. Five cash prizes will be awarded.
1st Prize: $1,000, People's Choice Prize $500, Remaining finalists receive $150
each
Authors retain worldwide publishing rights.
Contest Rules:
-Contest is open for worldwide entries from April 13, 2009 until July 13, 2009
-A $15 fee in advance is required for each story submission.
-When you are ready to submit your story, make your payment below to proceed to
the story submission form.
-Each story can be no longer than 2,500 words and must be written in English and
previously unpublished
-Submit online and pay entry fee at
http://www.warrenad
Twice each year Black Lawrence Press
will run the Black River Chapbook Competition for an unpublished chapbook of
poems or short stories. The winner of this contest will receive book
publication, a $500 cash award, and twenty-five copies of the book. Prizes are
awarded on publication.
http://blacklawrenc
CONTEST GUIDELINES
Please make sure that your submission package includes the following:
-A cover letter with brief bio and contact information including your e-mail
address(es)
-An acknowledgments page for publications in which the poems/stories first
appeared (if applicable)
-A contest entry fee of $15.00 IMPORTANT: please make out check to Dzanc
Books (not Black Lawrence Press)
-A table of contents page
-Your manuscript (16-36 pages long) with numbered pages.
Deadline: There are two deadlines for this award: May 31 and October 31.
Send manuscript materials and contest entry fee to: BLACK LAWRENCE PRESS, The
Black River Chapbook Competition, 8405 Bay Parkway, C8, Brooklyn, NY 11214
About the judges: Black Lawrence Press does not use interns to screen entries.
All entries are judged by the editors.
Notification: Because of the high volume of entries received, all finalists and
semi-finalists will be announced on the Black Lawrence Press website. All
finalists for the spring competition will be announced by July 31st. All
finalists for the winter competition will be announced by December 31st. Winners
will be announced shortly thereafter.
Other Notes: We do not currently accept electronic submissions for this prize.
Please do not include a manuscript-sized SASE; all manuscripts will be recycled.
Include a valid e-mail address so that we may contact you when finalists are
announced.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but you must notify Black Lawrence
Press immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere for publication.
All finalists will be considered for standard publication.
The $500 award amount will begin effective Spring 2009 competition. Award
winners from previous competitions will be awarded $300, as per the guidelines
during those submission periods.
The Splinter Generation is currently accepting submissions from writers who were born between 1973 and 1993 for an ongoing online generational literary compilation.
We are looking for the best poetry,
creative nonfiction and fiction these writers have to offer. In particular,
we’re looking for work that captures what it is to be a member of our
generation. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, but the reading
period will end on November 1.
We have undertaken this project again because our generation — and literature in
general — is facing a challenging moment in history. While the problems of the
world may often seem insurmountable, we believe there is still power in
literature. Our voices still matter and we intend to find the strongest voices
of our generation. Many mainstream publishers no longer have the resources or
the will to publish important, emerging
writers. But we do. And we will, because this is a time when we need fresh
literature to make sense of our world.
Whether you have previously published or not, we want to hear something fresh.
We know this may mean thinking outside of what “literature” has generally come
to mean. Because we love writing, we are seeking work that is based on the
written word, but, in the spirit of our generation, the work may also (though it
does not have to) use links, video, audio, or any other tools the internet has
to offer. What we want is something powerful and something that embodies what it
means to be a member of this generation. Send us work that will wrap us in a
story while making us think deeply. In short, send us your best work that
represents who you are and advances what literature can be online.
Simultaneous Submissions are accepted and even encouraged. If you do submit
simultaneously, please let us know immediately if you’ve been accepted
elsewhere. Previously published work may be considered, but please let us know
the details of the previous publication in a cover letter.
Specifications: Prose: Maximum 2500 words, Poetry: Maximum three poems, any
length (besides epic)
Deadline: Rolling, but reading period closes November 1. We are publishing
excellent work as we get it, so if you have something excellent that is ready,
send it now! Certain authors we publish before October 1st may be asked to read,
either remotely or in person, at a reading series in Los Angeles this winter.
Please email submissions to
splintergeneration
Poetry Chapbook Contest:
www.UnlikelyStories.
Who We Are: In 1998, when UnlikelyStories.
What You'll Get: The contest's winner will receive publication and 20
free copies, additional copies cheap, and a unique marketing campaign including
audiovisual "movie trailers," review copies, and promotion at one of the Web's
longest-running 'zines. Oh, and $250 USD cash. All entrants will receive their
choice of 2009 Unlikely Books: I Can Sing Fire by Anne Lombardo Ardolino, Blue
Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights by Belinda Subraman, or the winning chapbook.
How It's Done:
Send:
*20-30 pages of poetry
*$15 USD by check/money order (or 16 USD by PayPal)
To: Make It New Media, 500 S. Mesa St., #392, El Paso, TX 79901,
WriteRealGood@UnlikelyStori
Due: September 15, 2009
Fully electronic submissions are encouraged: save a buck, save a tree, save our
filing cabinet. Should your payment arrive separately from your manuscript,
please make sure that the name on the manuscript is clearly indicated on the
payment. If we can't identify and contact the author, we can't accept the
manuscript.
Additional Guidelines: We will make every effort to respond to each
entrant in the latter half of September. We will also be working intensely with
the winning author with the goal of releasing the book in time for Christmas
sales. That will mean a biography, a publicity photo, and pre-release publicity
blurbs will be sought quickly. It's fine, even good, if pieces from the chapbook
have been published in other venues. But as a whole manuscript, the chapbook
must be previously unpublished, and it may not be a simultaneous submission.
Who Is Judging: Unlikely's Editor-in-Chief, Jonathan Penton, will not be
involved in the selection process. Instead, he will receive the manuscripts and
strip them of all identifying information, fowarding them to the judges.
Chapbooks will be judged by Michael Harold, Anne McMillen, and Belinda Subraman.
They'll be assisted by Violetta Tarpinian and
Who Is Ineligible: The judges have never selected poetry for Unlikely and
will not know whose manuscripts they are reading. Still, to avoid any appearance
of impropriety, current and past staff of UnlikelyStories.
Who Will Benefit: Funds will go to Make It New Media, LLC, an
experimental printing company founded by some of the staffers at UnlikelyStories.
Call for submissions: New online journal
seeks poems. The Rat's Ass Review. Guidelines are at http://ratsassrevie
Send your submissions to
rats.ass.review@comcast.
Editor plans to publish poetry that he likes. No theory, no themes, just his
personal taste. Also no pay. Online only
RockSaw Press is seeking Midwestern
influenced chapbook manuscripts.
We are accepting unsolicited chapbook manuscripts from May 1st through August
31st (postmarked) and are looking to accept six to eight manuscripts this
summer that will be printed during the 09-10 academic year. All genres
considered. Specific submission guidelines and information can be found on the
website (www.RockSawPress.com).
Or contact us
at
rocksawpress@gmail.
The editors of Packingtown Review, a journal of the University
of Illinois at Chicago, published by the University of Illinois Press, invite
submissions for its second issue to be released in 2010.
The journal publishes creative work including:
§ drama,
§ poetry,
§ fiction,
§ creative nonfiction,
§ literary translation,
We seek submission of scholarly papers including:
§ interdisciplinary scholarship,
§ literary criticism,
§ comparative literature,
§ critical theory,
§ rhetorical studies,
§ cultural studies,
§ political theory
We also accept for consideration:
§ interviews,
§ critical reviews of books, films and the arts in general,
§ genre-bending work that explores or challenges form,
§ graphic art and photographs
Whether scholarly or literary, we welcome edgy, fresh writing that may be
experimental or that explores boundary crossings of/between genre(s) and form(s).
What does it mean when poetry and prose are indistinguishable? What is lost – or
found – in translation? When literary form is fluid, what happens to the
relationship between art and criticism? Between the creative and the scholarly?
Please send up to 8,000 words (excerpts of longer works are acceptable) of prose
(or genre-bending pieces), 40 pages of drama, or 3 to 5 poems (no more than 10
pages) to:
Packingtown Review, UH 2027 M/C 162, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 S.
Morgan, Chicago, IL 60607
Turtle Light Press
is glad to announce its bi-annual Haiku Chapbook Competition. In general, we
are open to both traditional and modern-style haiku but have a particular
fondness for haiku that deal with both people and nature. Please submit an
original, unpublished collection or sequence of poems on a theme of your choice
between 12 - 24 pages, two haiku per page maximum, postmarked by December 1,
2009. For entry fee and more details, please go to: www.turtlelightpress.com/Books/chapbook.shtml
Turtle Light Press (732) 317-1308 http://www.turtleli
2009 RRofihe
Trophy For an unpublished short story (up to 5,000 words)
http://www.opencity
Winner Receives: $500 cash, Trophy, Publication in Open City
Judged by Rick Rofihe. 2009 Contest Assistant: Carolyn Wilsey. Carolyn
Wilsey has read fiction for Esquire and Swink
Guidelines
--Stories should be typed, double-spaced, on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with the author’s
name and contact information on the first page and name and story title on the
upper right corner of remaining pages.
--Submissions must be postmarked by October 15, 2009
--Limit one submission per author
--Author must not have been previously published in Open City
--Mail submissions to RRofihe, 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1412, New York, NY
10012
--Enclose self addressed stamped business envelope to receive names of winner
and honorable mentions
--All manuscripts are non-returnable and will be recycled.
--Reading fee is $10. Check or money order payable to RRofihe
PALABRA A Magazine
of Chicano & Latino Literary Art invites
submissions of unpublished short stories, flash fiction, poetry, novel excerpts
and short plays that explore new avenues of Chicano & Latino
writing. Innovative/hybrid work is welcome.
Fiction and novel excerpts to 4000 words, flash fiction 3 maximum of up to 750
words, poems 5 maximum of any length, plays to 15 pp. Work can be in English,
Spanish, Spanglish or any combination thereof. Multiple and simultaneous
submissions are okay. There is some pay. Submissions are accepted year-round.
Detailed guidelines and information are available on the website: www.palabralitmag.com. Queries
at <info(at)palabralit
Submit via USPS only to PALABRA, P.O. Box 86146, Los Angeles, CA
90086-0146. Include SASE. Manuscripts will not be returned.
PALABRA A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art, P. O. Box 86146, Los
Angeles, CA 90086-0146
The 2009 New
England Shakespeare Festival Sonnet Award To Benefit the New England
Shakespeare Festival
$500 First Prize, $250 Second Prize, $150 Third Prize Judge: A.M.
Juster
Winners will be published in the Raintown Review, and will have a video clip of
a Shakespearean Actor reading their poems posted on the New England Shakespeare
Festival website in Summer 2010.
Winners will be announced on the New England Shakespeare Festival and Raintown
Review websites by October 1, 2009.
1) Sonnets must be Shakespearean (i.e., consist of fourteen lines, follow the ababcdcdefefgg
2) Submissions must be original and unpublished.
3) Writers may enter as many sonnets as they wish.
4) The entry fee is $3 per sonnet. Checks should be payable to "New England
Shakespeare Festival."
5) Entries may be submitted using the Sonnet Contest Online Entry Form or via
regular mail. If submitting by mail, send two copies of each poem. The author's
name, address, telephone number and email, if available, should be typed on the
upper left-hand corner of one poem. The other copy should include the poem, the
title and the name of the contest only for anonymous judging. Please write "NESF
Sonnet Contest" in the upper right-hand corner of each entry.
6) Entries sent by mail must be postmarked not later than August 1, 2009 and
mailed to: The New England Shakespeare Festival Sonnet Award, C/O Stephen Scaer,
111 East Hobart Street, Nashua, NH 03060
http://www.newengla
Perigee's 2009
Poetry Contest is now open and seeking quality submissions from MFA and
creative writing students across the nation. Noted poet Steve Kowit and finalist
judge Suzanne Lummis are seeking your most finely crafted, memorable poems. Here
are the important details you'll want to know: Deadline: August 31st,
2009.
Prizes: $600 in cash ($300/$200/$
Reading fee: As if being a student wasn't expensive enough, economic times are
tough. So we've reduced our reading fee by 50%, to only $5, but we haven't
reduced the prize money one cent.
Results: Winners and honorable mentions (if any) will be announced on October
1st, and published in our October 15th, 2009 issue.
This year's finalist judge is Suzanne Lummis, founder and director of the Los
Angeles Poetry Festival, and editor of Speechless the Magazine. Her poems appear
in the anthologies Californ
he Movies: The Poem Noir." In 2006 she taught "L.A. Stories," fiction and film,
at Emerson College in Burbank.
This is our most popular contest, so don't wait long to submit. You'll want to
get your poems in right away to get ahead of the pack. We invite you to read
complete guidelines and submit your work through our re-designed web site: www.perigee-art.com.
CALL FOR
SUBMISSIONS: Gemini Magazine
Gemini Magazine, a new online journal of the arts, is seeking submissions of
fiction, poetry, movie/book reviews and more. The first issue of the zine is
online now.
Gemini is edited by David A. Bright, who has contributed fiction and poetry to
The Cafe Irreal, flashquake, The Iconoclast, Nuvein Online and other journals.
Guidelines: There are no guidelines or restrictions on writing style or content.
Work by both new and experienced writers will be considered.
Previously unpublished submissions may be emailed to <submissions(
(no attachments)
The editors of
Blue Light Press warmly invite you to submit a manuscript to the 2009 BLUE LIGHT
POETRY PRIZE and CHAPBOOK CONTEST. Contest rules and previous winners are
listed below. Please share this E-mail with other poets, and if you teach
writing, please let your students know about our contest. If you have received
this from a friend and want to be on our E-mail list, please send an E-mail to
Bluelightpress@aol.com BLUE LIGHT
PRESS Announces THE 2009 BLUE LIGHT POETRY PRIZE and CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Guidelines:
1. Manuscripts should be 10 to 24 pages, typed or printed with a laser or
inkjet printer.
2. The winner will be published by Blue Light Press, receive a $100.00
honorarium and 50 copies of his or her book, which can be sold for $10.00 each,
for a total of $600.00.
3. Submit your manuscript between February 1 and June 15, 2009.
4. There is a $10.00 reading fee. Make your check payable to Blue Light
Press.
5. Include a self-addressed stamped envelope. No manuscript will be returned
without a SASE.
6. The winner will be announced in November 2009, and the book will be
published in the spring of 2010.
7. If you win the contest, you will need to give us your manuscript on a CD.
Acceptable formats:
IBM - WordPerfect, Word, or RTF (Rich Test Format). Macintosh - Clarisworks,
Quark Express, Word, or RTF (Rich Test Format).
8. Send your manuscript, $10.00 check, and SASE to Blue Light Press Poetry
Prize,
1563 - 45th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122. Do not submit by E-mail.
9. Please do not send manuscripts by registered or certified mail, as this
requires a trip to the post office. If you want confirmation of receipt,
include a postcard with your manuscript. If your manuscript comes a few days
late, we will read it.
Vision Statement:
We like poems that are imagistic, emotionally honest, and contain a vision where
the writer pushes through the imagery to a deeper level of insight. Our books
are artistically designed.
Books by Blue Light Press:
Recent books include poets Michelle Demers, Leah Shelleda, Nancy Tupper-Ling,
Kevin Zepper, Becky Sakellariou, Alice Rogoff, Diane Frank, Sarah McKinstry-Brown,
Stewart Florsheim, Steve Schneider, Christopher Buckley, Ed Meek, Xue Di, and
Ken McCullough. In 2009, look for books by Nancy Berg, Rustin Larson, Will
Walker, and Suzanne Niedermeyer. We also have a new anthology forthcoming.
Tallahassee
Writer's Association is now accepting submissions for 2009's Seven Hills Review
Literary Contest! http://www.twaonlin
Contest fees are $10/ TWA member and $15 non-member per piece entered. Entries
may be submitted in 4 genres: Fiction/Short Story (any genre), Creative
Non-Fiction, Children's Literature, and Flash Fiction (fiction up to 500
words). Previously published works are ineligible for contest; however
simultaneous submissions (with notification) are considered. Send 3 copies of
piece (without any identifying information)
http://www.twaonlin
Send submissions or queries to TWA Seven Hills Contest (category of entry) P.O.
Box 3428, Tallahassee, FL 32315
THE 2009 BARROW STREET PRESS BOOK CONTEST http://www.barrowst
The Barrow Street Press Book Contest award will be given
for the best previously unpublished manuscript of poetry in English. The winner
will receive book publication by Barrow Street Press, and $1000.00.
Judge: David Wojahn Deadline: June 30, 2009
Fee: $25.00 If entrants would like to receive a copy of the winning book,
please include a book mailer with $2.59 postage. Thank you.
Guidelines
1) Submit a 50 - 70 page unpublished manuscript of original poetry in
English. Include acknowledgement page for individual poems which have
been published.
2) The manuscript should be typed, single-spaced, on one side of the page only,
on white 8 ½" x 11" paper. Clear photocopies are acceptable. Please do not
send your only copy, as manuscripts cannot be returned.
3) Include 2 title pages. The author's name, address, and telephone
number should appear on the first title page only, and should not appear
elsewhere in the manuscript.
4) Include SASE for notification of contest results. A0
5) Please include a check for $25.00, payable to Barrow Street.
6) Send entries to: Barrow Street, PO Box 1558, Kingston, RI 02881
Our best wishes,
The Editors www.barrowstreet.org
Steel Toe Books will
select its next two titles through a contest, judged by Denise Duhamel. In
addition to a judge's choice, there will be an editor's choice. Both authors
will receive $500 and a publication contract. All entrants will receive copies
of the two winning books. Students and past students of the judge and editor
are not eligible. The deadline is June 30.
http://www.wku.
Submission process:
Send the following:
a check or money order for $24
a copy of your 48-80 page manuscript for consideration
an acknowledgements page
two cover pages, one with your name and contact information, one without
Do not send a SASE for notification. Upon selecting a new title, we will make
an announcement on the web site, on our News page.
Mail the packet to: Steel Toe Books, c/o Tom C. Hunley, Department of English,
Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd. #11086, Bowling Green,
KY 42101-1086
2009 Philip Levine
Poetry Book Prize $2000 prize and publication
by Anhinga Press
Final Judge: Garrett Hongo Postmark Deadline: 9/30/09 Previous Winners:
Shane Seely, Neil Aitken, Lynn Chandhok, Roxane Beth Johnson, Steve Gehrke, Fleda
Brown.
2009 Guidelines
Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in book form,
48-80 pages, no more than one poem per page. Include two manuscript title
pages: one with name and contact information and one with the name of the
manuscript ONLY.
Manuscripts are screened and judged anonymously. Multiple submissions are fine
as long as the manuscript is withdrawn immediately upon its acceptance
elsewhere.
All poets are eligible except: faculty, current students and graduates of the
MFA Program at California State University, Fresno; and close friends, family
or recent students of the judge.
The entry fee is $25. Checks should be made out to “CSU Fresno Levine
Prize.” Poets can submit more than one manuscript, but each will be considered
a separate entry and must be accompanied by the
$25 fee.
Mail submissions to: Philip Levine Poetry Book Prize, c/o MFA Program in
Creative Writing, California State University, Fresno, 5245 North Backer
Avenue M/S PB 98, Fresno CA, 93740-8001
www.csufresno.edu/english/philip_levine
Microfiction/
I am co-editing a microfiction and prose poetry anthology with Jan Fortune-Wood,
and we are calling for submissions on any subject, under 600 words per piece. It
is free to submit your work, and you may submit as many pieces as you wish. The
anthology is due to be published in 2010. We are looking for pieces of
microfiction, sometimes called short short fiction or flash fiction, and pieces
of prose poetry that tell a story in under 600 words. There is no minimum word
limit.
Microfiction and prose poetry are very short prose pieces that harness a poetic
world but still contain a story with a beginning, middle and end, and imply a
lot more than their small structure can contain. They are flashes of something –
an epiphany, perhaps – that often subvert expectation and work in a minimal
structure. Some argue that there is a definitive boundary between prose poetry
and microfiction, but you may submit either for this publication.
You may submit as many pieces as you wish, and those chosen will appear in a new
Cinnamon microfiction and prose anthology to be published in late 2010,
co-edited by Holly Howitt and Jan Fortune-Wood.
Submission Guidelines: Please read these carefully. Due to the large
volume of submissions expected we will only be able to process those submissions
that conform to the guidelines.
>The deadline for submissions is: 15th August 2009. Each piece must be no
longer than 600 words. There is no minimum length.
>Pieces can be on any subject and you may send several pieces, but please submit
them as a single word attachment using a .doc or .rtf format.
>Submit pieces to both Holly Howitt: cinnamonant
>Submissions without virus protection will not be opened and read so please
ensure your virus protection is up to date. We hope to inform everyone who has
sent a submission of which pieces will be included by late November 2009. Please
ensure that you inform us if your email address changes after sending the
submission.
The decisions of the editors are final. All those whose work is selected will
receive a copy of the anthology.
Skulls
and Crossbones Call for Submissions
http://mindancerpre
A collection of short stories that features women pirates in any setting, any
time period.
Editors: Andi Marquette and R. G. Emanuelle.
Publisher: Mindancer Press (Bedazzled Ink), print and ebook editions
Stipulations:
No longer than 7000 words; no shorter than 4000 words
Will consider original and previously published stories.
$35 per story, paid after contract is signed. Story rights revert back to
authors 18 months after date of publication. Each contributor will receive one
print copy as well as one ebook copy of the anthology.
GLBTQ/heterosexual characters are welcome BUT EACH STORY MUST FEATURE A WOMAN
PIRATE, either as the main character or the focus of the story (e.g. another
sailor on the ship who hates the woman pirate and through his/her eyes, we
observe the woman pirate). Again, the main character or the focus of the story
MUST BE A WOMAN PIRATE. We will consider main characters that identify as
transgendered (male to female), but that identity must figure prominently in the
story as a driving force and/or something that speaks to the character’s
experience as a woman pirate.
Extra caveat: The focus of the story cannot be a romantic hook-up/sex/
Absolutely NO stories that feature acts of pedophilia, incest, bestiality, or
rape.
Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2009
Final selections will be made by October 1, 2009, with publication tentatively
slated for January 2010
To submit your story, send as an email attachment in RTF format, double-spaced
to pirateanthology@gmail.
Please include your name, pen name (if applicable), mailing address, email
address, story title, and word count on the first page of your submission.
If you have questions, drop us a line at pirateanthology@gmail.
Moonlight Mesa Associates, Inc. Launches Short Story Contest
Moonlight Mesa Associates, Inc. is launching its First Annual Cowboy Up Short Story Contest. The contest will be open from June 1, 2009 to December 1, 2009 and will be awarding cash prizes. Submission guidelines are available on the company’s website: www.moonlightmesaassociates.com.
Entry is open for original, unpublished western stories, up to 2500 words in length. Stories must feature a cowboy or two, or other western characters. Entries may be fiction or nonfiction, modern or classic. The top three winners will be notified in December. Cash prizes will be awarded!
Moonlight Mesa Associates, Inc., located in Wickenburg, Arizona, and own and operated by Becky Coffield, is a small, independent publishing house specializing in western writing, both fiction and nonfiction. Cowboy Poetry is another genre that Coffield is considering on adding to the company’s program. Coffield plans on publishing between two and four works a year.The publisher has five readers ready to go for the current contest, so get those stories rollin’ on in!
POETRY SOCIETY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE National Contests
Send to: Betsy Snider, PO Box 225, Acworth, NH
03601
Please note limit is forty lines. Name and address must appear in the upper
right hand corner of the copy on which they appear. NO identification is to
appear anywhere on the second copy.
The Poetry Society of New Hampshire sponsors four National Contests open to all
poets, members or not. Judges for the contests are not members of the Poetry
Society of New Hampshire. Prizes are awarded to four places, 1st place, $100,
2nd place, $50, 3rd and 4th places $25 each. Winning poems will be published in
our quarterly magazine, The Poets Touchstone, and winning poets will receive one
copy of the issue in which their poems appear. Rights revert to the author after
publication.
Guidelines: Entries that do not meet the guidelines will not be considered or
returned.
Poems must be postmarked by the deadline date.
Subject and form are open.
Length limited to 40 lines.
One poem per page.
Poems must be typed.
Two copies of each poem, one with NO identification (no name, no address), the
other with the name and address in the upper right corner.
#10 SASE for winners list only. Poems will not be returned.
Entry fee is $3 for the first poem, and $2 each for others. Entries limited to 5
poems per poet per contest.
Poems must not be previously published, have won a prize, nor be currently
entered in another contest.
Poems must be postmarked by the deadline date. Deadlines are: August 15th,
November 15th
Mail poems and check payable to the Poetry Society of New Hampshire to the
address above.
Call for Submissions of poetry
and/or short stories (500-1,200 words) for online magazine, the American
Diversity Report (www.americandiversityreport.com).
We receive more than 20,000 unique viewers in 60 countries per month. If
chosen, your bio will remain listed/posted 24/7. Your article will be
available in our Archives post-
Themes for June, July & August issues: Wellness, Healing, Healthy Lifestyle
Electonic submission only - as a word.doc attachment to deborah@
Do not use graphics, footnotes - do not indent paragraphs
Submit by mid-month for following month's issue.
Subscribe (It's free at www.americandiversityreport.com)
to get notice of upcoming published articles (including your own)
2009 is the sixth year of the
Bedbug Press competition. The winning poet receives a $ 500
prize and publication of her or his book-length manuscript. The scheduled date
to announce the winner is December 15, 2009.
http://www.bedbugpr
You may submit as early as April 15, 2009. The deadline for submission is a
postmark on or before August 16, 2009. No late entry will be read or
returned. This is a first-book contest. A published book of over 40 pages of
poetry makes the poet ineligible.
Send submissions to: Poetry Contest, Bedbug Press, Inc., P.O. Box 39,
Brownsville, OR, 97327
Guidelines:
The poet must be a resident for at least two years of either the United States
or Canada.
The manuscript is to be in English.
The reading fee is $20, and includes a free copy of any one of our poetry
books.
Make check for reading fee to Bedbug Press, and clip to front of manuscript.
The poet's name is not to appear on the manuscript, nor is any personal
information.
Two title pages are required, the first with the poet's name, address, telephone
number, email address, and the title of the manuscript. The second title page is
to include only the title.
The manuscript is to be submitted in the form of hard copy---no discs.
Please use a one-and-a-quarter inch spring clip to hold manuscript pages
together.
The manuscript may not have been published before as a whole; however, it may
certainly contain published poems. Credit for the publication of each published
poem should appear on the Acknowledgments Page (publication first, title of poem
second).
The manuscript may be submitted simultaneously to other publishers; however, if
it is accepted for publication and the poet wishes to accept the publication,
the poet must notify Bedbug Press.
The manuscript will not be returned.
Please enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard, which will be mailed to you
upon receiving your manuscript.
Please also include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for notification of
results.
Manuscript should be typed with one poem per page on one side of the page.
Manuscripts are to be a minimum of 60 pages, and a maximum of 71 pages. This
count includes contents pages, pages that number a section, or present a
quotation.
Please also tell us why you chose to submit your ms to our contest; will you be
submitting to other contests? What criteria do you look for in a contest and/or
publisher?
Address any questions about the contest to: Tony Gorsline, publisher Bedbug
Press, Inc. P.O. Box 39, Brownsville,
NOTE: A manuscript from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana or Alaska, and from
Alberta or British Columbia in Canada, will also be considered for the Northwest
Poetry Series. There is no prize for acceptance in the Northwest Poetry Series.
Sunsets and Silencers, an
monthly online and biannual print journal, is currently seeking submissions.
We are open to a wide variety of styles and want to publish only the most
innovative and creative work. S&S publishes short fiction, flash fiction,
creative non-fiction, poetry, essays, paintings, photography, and comic strips
as a platform for emerging and established artists to showcase their work.
We are careful about the work we publish, and we read and consider every
submission, carefully. We want to provide exposure to artists and writers who
create out of a restless fever, and that are fearless in the choice to submit.
So, send what you have, but pay attention to our mandates below:
(1) Sunsets and Silencers accepts online submissions only.
(2) Limit yourself to three pieces per submission, unless you're a poet. For
poetry, send up to five poems at a time. Poems should be sent as word documents
or a file that is attached as .doc
(3) Online: 3,000 words max. Paste your work into an email: <charles.
(4) Do not submit previously published work.
(5) Along with your submission, please send us a short biography: the world
wants to know who you are.
(6) Response time is usually one to two months.
(7) We claim First Electronic Rights and First North American Rights, meaning
Sunsets and Silencers must be the first publication to feature the work online
and/or in print.
(8) Submitting artwork online is a bit of a
challenge. For reproduction quality we need scans of 300 dpi or higher but for
e-mail opening we need lower resolutions. So when submitting artwork on-line,
send low resolution and if we wish to use your work we will arrange to get the
higher resolution scans. Usually a JPEG is enough to get you started.
(10) As of right now we are a non-paying entity. However, we are working to
change that!
The Toronto Quarterly
We are now taking your poetry, short stories, artwork, photography, book and
music review submissions for issue four of The Toronto Quarterly. The submission
deadline is August 1, 2009.
Send your submissions to: thetorontoquarterl
Call for Genre Fiction: Oregon
Literary Review
The Oregon Literary Review's "Genre" section is currently looking for science
fiction, western, horror, and detective fiction for its upcoming Summer/Fall
2009 Issue.
Guidelines are as follows:
>Stories should be between 4000-10000 words.
>Original illustrations accompanying the stories are accepted.
>Preference is given to pulp-style stories. Submissions must be MS Word .doc or
.rtf
>Submissions should include author's name, a short bio, and email address.
The Oregon Literary Review is an online non-profit. For more information, visit http://www.oregonli
Stories may be submitted via email to the genre editor at
spassvogel42@comcast.
The Akron Series in Poetry
was founded to bring to the public writers who speak in original and compelling
voices. Each year, The University of Akron Press offers the Akron Poetry Prize,
a competition open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives
$1,000 and publication of his or her book. The final selection will be made by a
nationally prominent poet. The final judge for 2009 is Martín Espada. Other
manuscripts may also be considered for publication in the series.
Guidelines for Submission
1. Manuscripts must be typed and consecutively numbered, for a total length of
at least 48 pages. Clear photocopies are acceptable. Please, do not send
manuscripts bound or enclosed in covers.
2. Manuscripts must include a cover page (with author's name, address, phone
number, and manuscript title), a title page (with no biographical information)
3. Manuscripts must be postmarked between May 1 and June 15 of each year.
Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but The University of Akron Press must
be notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
4. An entry fee of $25 is required for each manuscript submission. Make check or
money order payable to The University of Akron Press. The cancelled check will
serve as notification of receipt.
5. Contest results will be posted on our website www.uakron.edu/uapress/
6. Books accepted for the Akron Series in Poetry must exhibit three essential
qualities: mastery of language, maturity of feeling, and complexity of thought.
The University of Akron Press is committed to publishing poetry that, as Robert
Frost said, "begins in delight and ends in wisdom." Intimate friends, relatives,
current and former students of the final judge (students in an academic,
degree-conferring program or its equivalent) are not eligible to enter the 2009
Akron Poetry Prize competition.
Send manuscripts to: The Akron Poetry Prize, The University of Akron Press,
Akron, OH 44325-1703
For further questions on the submission of manuscripts to the UAP poetry series,
contact: Series Editor Mary Biddinger, University of Akron Press, Akron, OH
44325-1703
The 2009 International
Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize Download extensive contest
guidelines at
http://www.knockout
We're also proud to announce Knockout's new poetry contest, the 2009
International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize, a new poetry contest in
honor of poet Reginald Shepherd, who left us on September 10, 2008. For more
information on Reginald Shepherd's work, visit his blog at reginaldshepherd.
Here is the essential contest information, but DO NOT submit to the contest
without reading the entire contest submission guidelines.
Download guidelines at
http://www.knockout
The contest will be judged by Carl Phillips.
The entry fee is $12 and all entrants will receive a copy of Knockout with their
entrance fee.
The first-place winner will receive (1) a $300 gift certificate to Powell's
Books, (2) publication in a forthcoming issue of Knockout, and (3) five copies
of the issue in which their poem appears.
The second-place winner will receive (1) a $50 gift certificate to Powell's
Books, (2) publication in a forthcoming issue of Knockout, and (3) two copies of
the issue in which their poem appears.
The third-place winner will receive (1) a $25 gift certificate to Powell's
Books, (2) publication in a forthcoming issue of Knockout, and (3) two copies of
the issue in which their poem appears.
Submissions to the contest will be accepted beginning Wednesday, October 15,
2008, and ending Saturday, August 1, 2009.
Winners will be announced on Knockout's website
www.knockoutlit.
Submissions must be sent in ONE SINGLE Microsoft Word document file attachment
(.doc NOT ..docx format) to
knockoutrsprize@gmail.
The FC2 Catherine Doctorow
Innovative Fiction Prize
http://fc2.org/
Eligibility: The FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize is
open to any U.S. writer in English with at least three books of fiction
published. Submissions may include a collection of short stories, one or more
novellas, or a novel of any length. There is no length requirement. Works that
have previously appeared in magazines or in anthologies may be included.
Translations and previously published novels and collections are not eligible.
To avoid conflict of interest, former or current students or close friends of
the final judge are ineligible to win the contest. Employees and FC2 authors are
not eligible to enter.
Judges: Finalists for the Prize will be chosen by the following
members of the FC2 Board of Directors: Kate Bernheimer, R. M. Berry, Noy
Holland, Brenda Mills, Lance Olsen (Chair), Matt Roberson, Susan Steinberg, and
Lidia Yuknavitch.
The winning manuscript will be chosen from the finalists by Carole Maso, who
will write the foreword to the winning manuscript.
Selection criteria will be consistent with FC2’s stated mission to publish
"fiction considered by America’s largest publishers too challenging, innovative,
or heterodox for the commercial milieu," including works of "high quality and
exceptional ambition whose style, subject matter, or form pushes the limits of
American publishing and reshapes our literary culture.”
For contest updates and full information on FC2’s mission, history, aesthetic
commitments, authors, events, and books, please visit the website at:
http://fc2.org.
Deadlines: Contest entries will be accepted beginning 15 August.
All entries must be postmarked no later than 1 November. The winner will be
announced 1 May.
Prize: The Prize includes $15,000 and publication by FC2, an
imprint of the University of Alabama Press. In the unlikely event that no
suitable manuscript is found among entries in a given year, FC2 reserves the
right not to award a prize.
Manuscript Format
Please submit TWO hardcopies of the manuscript.
The manuscript must be:
--anonymous: the author's name or address must not appear anywhere on the
manuscript (the title page should contain the title only); include a separate
cover page with your name, contact information, and a list of three previously
published works of fiction with ISBNs and publishers;
--typed on standard white paper, one side of the page only; paginated
consecutively; bound with a spring clip or rubber bands; no paper clips or
staples, please;
Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for notification that
manuscript has been received, and a self-addressed, stamped, regular
business-sized envelope for contest results.
FC2 strongly advises that you send your manuscript first class.
Please retain a copy of your manuscript; FC2 cannot return manuscripts.
Submission of more than one manuscript is permissible if each manuscript is
accompanied by a $25 reading fee. Once submitted, manuscripts cannot be altered;
the winner will be given the=2
0opportunity to make changes before publication. Simultaneous submissions to
other publishers are permitted, but FC2 must be notified immediately if
manuscript is accepted elsewhere. FC2 will consider all finalists for
publication.
Submission Address: Full manuscripts, accompanied by a check made out to
American Book Review for the mandatory reading fee of $25, should be sent to:
FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize
University of Houston-Victoria
School of Arts and Sciences3007 N. Ben Wilson
Victoria, TX 77901-5731
CLMP Contest Ethics Code: CLMP's community of independent literary
publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect
writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to
act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the
foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to:
1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical
behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors;
2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of
interest for all parties involved; and
3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public.
Dara Wier to judge new
Mississippi Review Poetry contest. Three $1000 prizes and three books
published promptly.
The Mississippi Review Poetry Series is a new contest for book-length poetry
manuscripts open to all poets working in English. Judged by Dara Wier, this
year’s series offers three $1000 prizes plus early 2010 publication and 100
copies of winning books to prize winners. Each entrant receives a set of the
three prize-winning books. Manuscripts maximum 56 pages of poetry. Fee is $25
per entry, payable to Mississippi Review. No limit on number of entries. No
manuscripts returned. Include name, address, phone, e-mail, and title on page
one. Postmark deadline August 1, 2009. Winners announced September 2009.
Address to MR Poetry Series, 118 College Drive #5144, Hattiesburg, MS
39406-0001.
THE JOURNAL’S SIXTH ANNUAL SHORT
STORY CONTEST
http://www.the-
The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University, would like to
announce the Sixth Annual Journal Short Story Contest.
This year’s judge is Lee K. Abbott, author of the short story collections Dreams
of Distant Lives, Strangers in Paradise, Love is the Crooked Thing, The Heart
Never Fits Its Wanting, and Living After Midnight, and All Things, All at Once.
The Journal Short Story Contest offers $1000 and publication of the winning
story in The Journal’s Autumn/Winter 2009 issue. All styles, subject matter, and
forms are welcome. Simultaneous submissions are accepted provided immediate
notice is given if work is accepted elsewhere. Please submit only previously
unpublished fiction up to 7500 words. All manuscripts will be considered for
publication.
Deadline for postmark of manuscripts is May 1st.
A reading fee of $10 must accompany each manuscript (please make checks payable
to The Journal).
Manuscripts should be submitted anonymously with the title of the work and all
contact information listed on a separate cover letter. Manuscripts will not be
returned. Please number pages and double-space all entries.
Send previously unpublished story along with reading fee to:
Short Story Contest
The Journal
Department of English
The Ohio State University
164 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
For a list of winners, please include an SASE. Faculty and students of The Ohio
State University are ineligible to enter20this contest. If the judge deems no
story prize-worthy, The Journal reserves the right not to award the prize.
For complete details, please visit our website at
www.english.osu.edu/journals/thejournal/
Call for Submissions: The
Cartier Street Review.
We accept contemporary poetry, articles on contemporary poetry, short prose,
poet interviews and poetry reviews by email to:
violetwrites@nyc.rr.
with 'CSR Submission' indicated in the subject line. We accept attachments or
you may include the submission in the body of the email. Although we try to
publish by the first of each month there are no deadlines, we publish a new
edition of the review based on sufficient qualifying content.
The Cartier Street Review.http://modernpoet.
We have an open call now for June. The Cartier Street Review accepts
contemporary poetry, articles on contemporary poetry, short prose, poet
interviews and poetry and book reviews. We feature emerging and recognized
writers alongside overlooked voices. Cartier is international literary magazine
and will publish in other languages alongside translation if desired.
Please query if any questions regarding our interest. We will try to answer all
queries in a timely manner.
Santa Barbara Poetry Writers
Contest. Winner receives full scholarship to workshop
http://www.sbpoetry
POETRY CONTEST GUIDELINES:
Send 3 copies of each poem with your name removed. Include a separate cover
sheet listing titles or first lines of each submitted poem, your name, address,
phone number, email address, and any other relevant contact information. Line
limit for each poem is 45 lines.
Contest entries must be postmarked by June 27, 2009.
Submit Poems to: SBSPW Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 30302, Santa Barbara CA 93130
Contest fee is $12 for each 3-poem entry. Checks should be made out to SBSPW.
Note: If the contest winner is not able to attend the workshop, the prize will
be offered to the second place contestant. A refund will be given if the
tuition has already been paid.
Calling all YA and children’s
writers! Hunger
Hunger Mountain, the arts journal of Vermont College of Fine Arts, will launch
our new online arts journal early this summer. Our new site will include YA and
Children’s Literature; we’ll feature articles on hot topics and trends in YA and
children’s literature, interviews with publishing industry insiders, and fiction
selections by well-known and up-and-coming YA and children’s authors. Upcoming
issues will feature pieces by Katherine Paterson, Carrie Jones, Cynthia Leitich
Smith, K.A. Nuzum, Rita Williams-Garcia, Sara Zarr and many others!
Writers of Young Adult Fiction, Middle Grade Fiction, and Picture Books are
encouraged to enter the Katherine Paterson Prize for YA and Children’s Writing.
Newbery Award-winning author Katherine Paterson will judge. One winner will
receive $1000.00 and publication in Hunger Mountain
Entries may include: Young Adult Fiction (novel excerpt or short story) Middle
Grade Fiction (novel excerpt or short story) Picture Book (text only)
Submission Fee: $20 per entry
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by June 30th, 2009
Contest Guidelines:
Your packet should include four items:
A one-page cover sheet that includes: Your name, address, email and phone
number, The title of your manuscript, The category of your manuscript (YA, MG,
PB)
A brief (one to two paragraph/200 word) bio of yourself
A brief (one to two paragraph/250 word) synopsis of your manuscript
Your manuscript: Up to 5,000 words of middle grade/young adult fiction, or one
picture book manuscript (text only)
Entries must be double-spaced, with margins of at least 1”
Please number the pages of your entry, and label each page with the title
Please DO NOT label the manuscript with your name (entries will be judged
anonymously)
Please paperclip (do not staple) your entry
Entry Fee: Check or money order for $20, payable to Hunger Mountain
Self-addressed, stamped envelope for notification of award winners
A self-addressed, stamped postcard for us to acknowledge receipt of your entry
(optional)
Packets should be mailed to: Katherine Paterson Prize for YA and Children’s
Writing, Hunger Mountain, Vermont College of Fine Arts, 36 College Street,
Montpelier, VT 05602
Call for Submissions: The Sylvan Echo
Submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, critical writing, book
reviews, and editorials by new and established writers will be accepted
through June 20, 2009.The journal is also interested in original artwork and
photography. Please read our submission guidelines carefully as we take them
very seriously (http://sylvanecho.
· With the exception of poetry, artwork, and photography, you may submit 1
piece per genre. Should you submit more than one piece per genre, we will ignore
your second and subsequent submissions (and will look less than favorably on
your first submission, as well).
· Submit your work by email to <editor(at)sylvanec
· All work should be sent as an attachment in the following formats: Poetry and
prose as 12pt doc or rtf attachments; artwork and photography as the highest
resolution bmp, tif, or jpg.
· List the genre in your subject line, e.g. Submission: poetry.
· Each submission must be accompanied by a brief (50-150 word) bio, written in
the third person.
· By submitting to The Sylvan Echo you are acknowledging that all creative work
is original and that you own all rights.
Tattoo Highway, an online journal of
prose, poetry and art, is now reading for TH/19: "Reflections/
http://www.tattoohi
GENERAL GUIDELINES: Our tastes are eclectic. We like fresh, vivid language, and
we like stories and poems that are actually about something -- that
acknowledge a world beyond the writer's own psyche. If they have an edge, if
they provoke us to think or make us laugh, so much the better. We strongly
suggest reading a previous issue or two before submitting.
While we particularly welcome poetry and short "screen-reader-
longer work. We encourage hypertext and new media (e.g., Flash .swf)
submissions, also photographs and original graphics.
All readings are "blind" (authors' names and other identifiers are removed).
Writers may submit up to 5 poems, prosepoems or flash fictions (500 words
max), or 2 longer prose pieces. While we prefer to see work that has not been
previously published, we do consider work that has appeared in
small-circulation print journals. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please
let us know promptly if you place a piece elsewhere.
As always, we're featuring our contest: "A Picture Worth 500 Words." Details on
website.
HOW TO SUBMIT: Email submissions to <submissions(
Rich Text Format (RTF) attachments or as plain text in the body of your message,
and with TH19 in the subject line. For hypertext and Flash
submissions, provide us with an URL where we may view the work online. Send
graphics in .jpg format
Quiddity international literary journal
and public-radio program is pleased to announce the Teresa A. White Literary
Award. The 2009 award is affectionately referred to as the “buck-a-word”
contest. $500 and public-radio broadcast feature
for 500 (or fewer) words!
First Prize: $500 and publication in the Spring/Summer 2010 print issue of
Quiddity as well as public-radio broadcast (via WUIS, NPR member and PRI
affiliate), Honorable mentions may also be offered publication and broadcast.
Contest begins March 1, 2009, and ends August 1, 2009 (postmark deadline).
Submit one work of prose totaling no more than 500 words (title included) as
well as $12 payable to Quiddity.
U.S. submissions should include both an email address and a self-addressed,
business-size (#10), stamped envelope (SASE). International submissions should
include an email address to which an electronic reply may be sent.
Work should be previously unpublished; simultaneous submissions with immediate
notification are okay, but the contest awards only for FNASR, so works accepted
elsewhere will be withdrawn from consideration, and please note: the entry fee
will not be returned.
All entries must be typed and must include a cover letter with author's name and
contact information (address, telephone, and email address) as well as the title
and word count of the work submitted. The author’s name or any identifying
information should not appear on the manuscript itself.
Entries that do not meet the guidelines will not be considered, and entry fees
are not refundable.
All contest submissions will be considered for regular inclusion in the
journal.
Winners will be announced by September 1, 2009.
Mail entries to: 2009 Teresa A. White Literary Award, Quiddity, 1500 North
Fifth Street, Springfield, Illinois 62702, U.S.A.
Announcing the Second Annual Donald
Barthelme Prize for Short Prose:
http://www.gulfcoas
Named in honor of Gulf Coast's founder, the Donald Barthelme Prize awards $500
and publication in the upcoming issue of Gulf Coast for one prose poem,
micro-essay, or piece of flash fiction.
The 2009 prize-winning entry will be selected by Mary Robison.
Guidelines: Submit up to 3 previously unpublished prose poems, short stories, or
micro-essays, each no more than 500 words in length.
Your name and address should appear on the cover letter only.
All entries will be considered for publication, though only one will receive our $500 prize.
Include an SASE for results.
Manuscripts will not be returned.
Your $15 reading fee, payable to "Gulf Coast," will include a one-year
subscription.
Postmark deadline: August 31, 2009.
Send Entries to: Barthelme Prize, Gulf Coast Journal, Department of English,
University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3013
damselfly press, an online literary
journal for women is pleased to announce the publication of our seventh
issue and call for submissions for the eighth issue. We are seeking electronic
submissions of original fiction, poetry, and non fiction by female
writers only slated for online publication in July.
The deadline to submit for the eighth issue is June 15th.
These are the e-mails per genre editor:
Fiction- jennifer@damselflypress.
Poetry- lesley@)damselfl
Non fiction-
nonfiction@damselflypres
Visit the damselfly press website http://damselflypre
DOS PASSOS REVIEW accepting fiction,
creative nonfiction, and poetry submissions NOW-July 31, 2009. Limit 3-5
poems, 3,000 words prose.
Send to: Editor, The Dos Passos Review, Dept.of English, Longwood University,
201 High St., Farmville, VA 23909. sase for reply only.
See Web site for specific guidelines: www.brierycreekpress.org.
RULES AND GUIDELINES FOR THE 2009 MEMPHIS
MAGAZINE FICTION CONTEST Cosponsored by Burke's Book Store and Davis-
We are seeking entries for our annual fiction contest. The winning story will
earn a $1,000 grand prize and will be published in a future issue of Memphis.
Two honorable mention awards of $500 each will be given if the quality of
entries warrants. Contest cosponsors are Burke's Book Store, and Davis-Kidd
Booksellers. Below are contest rules:
1. Authors must live within 150 miles of Memphis.
2. Entries must be postmarked by August 1, 2009.
3. You may submit more than one story but each entry must be accompanied by a
$10 entry fee.
4. Stories are NOT required to have a Memphis or Southern theme.
5. Each story should be typed, double-spaced, with unstapled, numbered pages.
Stories should be between 3,000 and 4,500 words.
6. With each story should be a cover letter that gives us your name, address,
phone number, and the title of your story. Please do not put your name anywhere
on the manuscript itself.
7. Manuscripts may be previously published as long as previous publication was
not in a national magazine with over 20,000 circulation or in a regional
publication within Shelby County.
8. Manuscripts should be sent to
FICTION CONTEST c/o Memphis magazine, P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101
NOTE: We cannot accept faxes or E-mails. Authors wishing their manuscripts
returned must include a self-addressed stamped envelope with each entry.
2009 Anderbo Poetry Prize http://www.anderbo.
Winner receives:$500 cash, Publication on anderbo.com
Judged by William Logan. 2009 Contest Assistant: Anderbo Poetry Editor
Charity Burns
Guidelines:
–Poems should be typed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with the poet’s name and contact
information on the upper right corner of each poem
–Entries must be postmarked by November 1, 2009
–Limit six poems per poet
–Poet must not have been previously published on anderbo.com
–Mail submissions to: Anderbo Poetry Prize, 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1412,
New York, NY 10012
–Enclose self-addressed stamped business envelope to receive names of winner and
honorable mentions
–All entries are non-returnable and will be recycled
–Reading fee is $10. Check or money order payable to RRofihe
–Winner and honorable mentions will be published on anderbo.com in February of
2010
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2009 Juked Fiction and Poetry Prizes
http://www.juked.
We are currently accepting entries for our 2009 Juked Fiction and Poetry
Prizes. Winners in each of the genres will receive $500 and publication in
print issue #7. Our final judges this year are Dan Chaon (fiction) and Dora
Malech (poetry)
Submission Guidelines:
First prize for each genre: $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue, Juked #
Current and former students of the judges are not eligible to compete.
Fiction: send one story per entry. There is no length requirement.
Poetry: send up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry.
Entries must be previously unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but notify us immediately if your work has
been accepted elsewhere.
Fee is $10 per entry. There is no limit on the number of entries you may
submit.
Include a cover page with your name, address, e-mail, telephone number and the
title(s) of your story or poems. Do not put your name anywhere else on the
manuscript.
We will notify via e-mail; do not include an SASE.
Results will be announced in October 2009.
Submitting by Mail:
Include entry fee, cash or check or money order, payable to Juked.
Indicate "Fiction" or "Poetry" on the front of the envelope.
Manuscripts will not be returned; they will be placed gently in the recycling
bin.
Postmark deadline is August 31st, 2009.
Mail to: Juked, 110 Westridge Dr., Tallahassee, FL 32304
To submit via e-mail, visit
http://www.juked.
Benu Press is accepting completed
manuscripts for the Social Justice and Equity Award in Creative Non-Fiction.
http://www.benupres
Contest dates: June 4, 2009 through July 9, 2009. Notification by
September 18, 2009.
Benu Press is a small, independent press committed to publishing creative
non-fiction, poetry and fiction. We believe in the transformative power of
literature. To that end, we seek to publish inspiring and thought-provoking
books about the practical dimensions of social justice and equity.
Writing Competition Rules and Guidelines
Entries must include a $25 reader’s fee as well as the entry form.
The author’s name should not appear beyond the cover sheet.
Title of book should appear on all pages of the manuscript.
Manuscript must be 144 – 350 pages and spring clipped (not spiral bound).
The contest readers will perform a blind review of each entry.
Winning entry will be published by Benu Press and the author will be awarded
$1,000 in addition to 17% royalties. The initial run will be 1,000 copies. The
winner will also receive 20 copies of the book.
*Benu Press will sell books to authors at a 35% discount, and these copies may
be sold directly to customers at readings and events. Benu Press will not sell
books to authors on a sale or return basis.
*Manuscript must be written in English, and must not contain excessive adult
language or exploitive themes.
*Manuscripts will NOT be returned. Benu Press20is not responsible for lost
manuscripts.
*Unsuccessful submissions will be shredded and recycled.
*Books that have been previously published are not eligible.
*All work must be original work by the author. Should any part of the entry be
discovered to be copied or plagiarized, both writer and entry will be
disqualified.
*Author must submit one (1) hard copy of the manuscript OR
Entries must be sent to: Benu Press Writing Competition, PO Box 5330, Hopkins,
MN, 55343.
Questions can be directed to: <submissions(
Any entry that is not complete or does not follow guidelines will be
disqualified.
5th Annual Burnside Review Poetry
Chapbook Competition
http://www.burnside
We are sponsoring our fifth annual poetry chapbook competition. Winner will
receive twenty-five copies and a two hundred dollar cash prize. Competition
runs March 15th to June 30th. Winner will be announced approximately
September 1st, with publication date set for winter. The same dedication and
care will go into the production of the chapbook as with our journal—quality
cardstock cover with photography, linen paper, excellent layout. We will make
the publication process as cooperative as possible.
Guidelines
—18 to 24 pages of poetry. Individual poems may be previously published.
—2 cover sheets, one with the title of the manuscript, your name, telephone
number, and address. The second cover sheet should list only the title of the
manuscript.
—A page acknowledging previously published poems
—A self addressed stamped envelope
—Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us if the manuscript
is accepted elsewhere
IF BY POST: Include a self addressed stamped envelope and a check or money order
for $15- made out to Burnside Review. Entry must be postmarked by June 30th to:
Burnside Review Poetry Chapbook Contest, P.O. Box 1782, Portland OR 97207.
IF BY ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: E-
.. Fee and entry must be submitted within 24 hours of each other. Receipt of
entry will be sent after both arrive. (This method will save money and trees.)
The initial readers of the manuscripts will be Burnside Review staff members.
They will choose between five and ten manuscripts as finalists to be passed on
to the judge for selection of the winning collection.
We ask that former students or colleagues of the Burnside Review Chapbook
Contest’s judge—as well as any writer whose relationship with the judge
constitutes an unfair conflict of interest—refrain from entering the contest.
The Burnside Review staff reserves the right to disqualify entries deemed
conflicts of interest and will return those entry fees.
At no time will the judge have the names of the finalists.
Winner will receive 25 copies of the chapbook printed by Burnside Review Press
and a cash prize of $200-.
All questions happily answered by e-mail : <sid(at)burnsiderev
Martha Ronk is the Irma and Jay Price professor of English at Occidental
College. Her poetry books include Why/Why Not, Eyetrouble, State of Mind, and
Vertigo, winner of the 2006 National Poetry Series. A 2006 National Endowment
for the Arts Fellow, her poetry has been widely published in journals and
magazines. She lives in Los Angeles.
Mississippi Review Poetry Series
http://www.mississi
The Mississippi Review Poetry Series is an annual contest awarding three
publication prizes for book-length poetry manuscripts. It is open to all poets
working in English except current or former students or employees of Southern
Miss. There will be three $1000 prizes and we will produce three full-length
(48-64 page) paperback perfect-bound books. Each will bear the cover price of
$12 but the three winning books will be packaged as a set for MR subscribers.
Each winner will receive the cash prize plus 100 copies of his or her book as
payment. Manuscripts may total no more than 56 pages of poetry. Fee is $25 per
entry, payable to Mississippi Review. There is no limit on the number of entries
an author may submit. Each entrant will receive a set of the three prize-winning
books. No manuscripts will be returned. Postmark deadline: August 1, 2009.
Winners announced: September 2009. Publication scheduled: January 2010. With
questions call 601.266.5600. Please put MR Poetry Series, name, address, phone,
e-mail, and title on page one of entry.
Send to: Mississippi Review Poetry Series, 118 College Drive # 5144, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
Fiction Chapbook Competition —
Guidelines
http://www.csuchico
Eligibility: You may submit stories that have been published previously
as long as your manuscript has never been published. If your manuscript is
currently under consideration elsewhere, you must
be prepared to withdraw it from the other press immediately if accepted by Flume
Press. Please include the appropriate acknowledgements for any published
stories.
Rules:
*Manuscripts should be 10-12,000 words, not including title, contents, and
acknowledgements pages. A single story or a collection of short shorts is
acceptable. Please include a cover sheet
with your name, address, phone, and e-mail address and total word count. Do not
put your name on each manuscript page.
*A self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) is necessary for results notification.
The editors provide comments for all semifinalists and finalists.
*The $20 (US) Reading Fee will be used to provide the cash prize to the winner
and help to produce the winning chapbook. Flume is a nonprofit press.
Deadline for submission: December 1, 2009. All manuscripts must be
postmarked by this date. Manuscripts with SASE will be returned and the winner
announced by June 2010.
Final Judges: The winner will be selected by final judges Rob Davidson,
author of Field Observations, and Paul Eggers, author of Saviors and
Prize: The winner will receive $500 and 25 copies of the chapbook.
(Authors may purchase additional copies at a 50% discount.) Average print run is
500 copies. Flume advertises the winning chapbook in national literary
magazines following publication.
Biases: We are interested in serious literary fiction only,
contemporary work that is well-crafted and emotionally engaging. No “genre”
fiction (e.g., sentimental romance, sci-fi, horror) please.
Sample Copies: If you would like a sample copy, please mail $8 plus $2
shipping to Flume Press at CSU, Chico, 400 W. First St., Chico, CA 95929-0830.
Poetry chapbooks: At Dusk on Naskeag Point, Tina Barr; Concentric Circles, Gayle
Kaune; Follower of Dusk, Luis Omar Salinas; Shovel Point, Judy Lindberg;Staving
Off Rapture, Ava Leavell Haymon; Cinnabar,
Fiction chapbooks: I Call This Flirting, Sherrie Flick; The Sheep Breeders
Dance by Aine Greaney; Mad to Live by Randall Brown.
Thanks for your interest in our competition. 2009 Fiction Chapbook Contest –
Deadline Dec. 1.
Art Affair 2009 Contests for Poetry, Western Fiction, and General Short Story
Art Affair 2009 Poetry Contest Rules
http://www.shadetre
Art Affair's poetry contest is open to any writer. Poems may be any style, any
subject, and no more than 60 lines in length. Enter your own original work only.
Please do not include a SASE; entries will not be returned.
Entries must be postmarked by October 1, 2009 and should be unpublished
and/or unaccepted for publication when entered into the contest.
Please type your name, address, telephone number, and title of manuscript on a
cover page which will be removed before judging. On your manuscript, type line
count in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
You may enter as many poems as you wish, but each entry requires an entry fee.
Prizes: $40.00, $25.00, $15.00 (Prize money and certificates will be mailed to
the winners and a list of winners will be published on the website in December
2009.)
Entry Fee: $3.00 per poem (Make check payable to Art Affair) Deadline:
October 1, 2009
Mail entries to: ART AFFAIR - POETRY CONTEST, P.O. BOX 54302, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
73154
Art Affair 2009 Western Short Story Contest Rules
Art Affair’s western fiction contest (maximum: 5,000 words) is open to any
writer. Enter your own original work only. Please do not include a SASE;
entries will not be returned.
Entries must be postmarked by October 1, 2009 and should be unpublished
and/or unaccepted for publication when entered into the contest. Manuscripts
must be double-spaced and in 12-point font.
Please type "Western" and your name, address, telephone number, and title of
manuscript on a cover page which will be removed before judging. On your
manuscript, type page/word counts in the upper right-hand corner of the first
page.
You may enter as many western short stories as you like but each entry requires
an entry fee.
Prizes: $50.00, $25.00, $15.00 (Prize money and certificates will be mailed to
the winners and a list of winners will be published on the website in December
2009.)
Entry Fee: $5.00 per manuscript (Make check payable to Art
Affair) Deadline: October 1, 2009
Mail entries to: ART AFFAIR - CONTEST (Mark your entry "Western"), P.O. BOX
54302, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73154
Art Affair 2009 (General) Short Story Contest Rules
Art Affair’s short fiction contest (maximum: 5,000 words) is open to any
writer. Enter your own original work only. Please do not include a SASE;
entries will not be returned.
Entries must be postmarked by October 1, 2009 and should be unpublished
and/or unaccepted for publication when entered into the contest. Manuscripts
must be double-spaced and in 12-point font.
Please type your name, address, telephone number, and title of manuscript on a
cover page which will be removed before judging. On your manuscript, type
page/word counts in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
You may enter as many short stories as you like but each entry requires an entry
fee.
Prizes: $50.00, $25.00, $15.00 (Prize money and certificates will be mailed to
the winners and a list of winners will be published on the website in December
2009.)
Entry Fee: $5.00 per manuscript (Make check payable to Art
Affair) Deadline: October 1, 2009
Mail entries to: ART AFFAIR - CONTEST (Mark your entry "Short Story"), P.O. BOX
54302, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73154
The
Left Coast Eisteddfod is a Welsh-American Performing Arts festival in
Portland, Oregon.
We are seeking Artist, Craft and cultural Vendors for the Left Coast
Eisteddfod. View a slideshow on the event and download the Vendor application
PDF here:
http://americymru.ning.com/profile/LeftCoastEisteddfodBlog or email
americaneisteddfod@gmail.com
The 2009 Eisteddfod will be on Saturday, August 22nd at
McMenamin's Crystal Ballroom and will feature:
http://scribesvalle
Mail Entries to: Short Story Contest, Scribes Valley Publishing, 6824 Drybrook
Lane, Knoxville, TN 37921-7312
Current deadline: July 31, 2009
Short stories word limit: 5000 words.
Cover page: author's name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address,
approximate word count, and optional author bio. For electronic submissions,
this information should be included at the top of your story in the uploaded
file.
Subsequent pages: title, last name, and page number at top.
Snail-mailed submissions: typed, single-sided, font size that doesn't require a
magnifying glass.
Send copies only as materials will not be returned!
Entry Fee: $8.00 US per story (nonrefundable
No limit on submissions. If entering by mail, please include check or money
order payable to Scribes Valley.
You can submit your manuscript on-line using the link above. The entry fee
($8.00) can be made securely on-line by credit card.
Please proofread your submission for spelling and grammatical errors.
Include a SASE (if entering by snail-mail) if you would like a reply from
Scribes Valley. We usually send the judge's rating sheet if your entry is not
chosen for publication.
We try to notify authors by email when their entries are received. If you do not
receive notification, drop us an email.
Rules
*Contests are open to everyone, regardless of nationality, age, or publishing
history, as long as it is legal in the submitter's place of residence.
*All work must be original and unpublished. The author must own all rights to
the submitted material. We require First Anthology Rights for those stories we
publish.
*Simultaneous submissions are okay. However, if the work is published (or
accepted for publication) elsewhere before the contest ends, the author must
inform Scribes Valley Publishing so the story may be removed from contest
consideration.
*Contest decisions are final. Due to the volume of submissions, individual
comment on stories may not always be available, but we'll give it a shot.
Winners will be notified via any or all of the following: mail, e-mail,
telephone. Please be sure all information in your submission is correct and
current. If a winner is not reachable after all avenues are exhausted, another
winner will be chosen.
Philosophy of Religion,
Humanism and Spirituality http://bluefogjourn
Editors: Rohitash Chandra and Ece Kayincioglu
This anthology invites submission of Poems and Essays which directly or
indirectly reflects on the theme on the Philosophy of Religion, Humanism and
Spirituality. Submission of Essays must include academic referencing in Howard
style. The following subtopics can also be examined:
1) The status of women in traditional religions.
2) Religious tolerance.
3) Science and Philosophy of religious development
4) Spirituality: Modern thought, rituals, and impact of tradition and culture.
5) The goal of science and spirituality
6) Metaphysics of Religious thought.
6) Other ideas and issues…
Poetry must indirectly or directly unveil the above themes. Inspirational, and
philosophy work is invited. Poetry can also include themes on freedom from wars,
love, unity, eliminating racism through humanism, self-help and thoughts on the
improvement of mankind in general.
Contributors are invited to submit two Poems or Essays to: bluefogjournal@gmail.
ITO EN (North America), INC., the
world's leading purveyor of green tea products and beverages, today announced
its call-for-entries for"Haiku Project 2009." Inspired by the spirit of
change in our country today, participants can enter a haiku around the themes of
"Change," "Hope" and "Progress". The winning haiku will grace the bottles of ITO
EN's award-winning tea line, TEAS' TEA, a naturally brewed ready-to-drink tea
line that is rich in antioxidants and Vitamin C.
"The themes of change, hope and progress are spoken of daily in the news media,
by our leaders and in our personal lives," said Rona Tison, senior vice present
of corporate relations for ITO EN. "From the beginning of time, poetry,
especially haiku, has been used to convey the most important of messages. This
year, ITO EN invites you to express yourself -- your views and feelings -- about
these themes through the time-honored medium of haiku."
To be eligible for the Haiku Project 2009, entrants must submit a haiku (a three
lined poem in three metrical phrases with the number of syllables of 5 (first
line), 7 (second line), and 5 (third or last line)) that reflects your vision of
tomorrow based around Change, Hope and Progress, to haikuproject@itoen.
Submissions will start on March 6, 2009 and run for a period of 4 months.
ITO EN representatives will evaluate all submissions and select the winners of
the 2009 Haiku Project. The winning contestants will be notified by ITO EN and
may be required to sign and return a Submission Release Form before their haiku
will be printed on the bottles of TEA'S TEA in 2010*.
For more information on Haiku Project 2009, please visit www.haikuproject.net
Room Magazine Annual 2009
Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-fiction Contest
http://www.roommaga
It's that time of year again—sharpen your pencils or fire up your laptop and
send us your fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction contest entries.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked no later than June 15, 2009.
Entry Fee: $27 per entry (includes a complimentary one-year subscription to
Room). Payment by cheque or money order made out to Room. Non-Canadian entries:
$39 Canadian dollars
Prizes: 1st prize in each category – $500, 2nd prize – $250. Winners will be
published in a 2010 issue of Room. Other manuscripts may be published.
Judges: Creative Non-Fiction: Deborah Campbell, Fiction: Mary Borsky, Poetry:
Sachiko Murakami
Rules & Details:
Send entries to: Room Contest 2009, P.O. Box 46160, Station D, Vancouver, BC
V6J 5G5, Canada
More than one entry will be accepted as long as fee is paid for each entry. No
manuscripts will be returned. Only winners will be notified.
Poetry: max. 3 poems or 150 lines | Fiction: max. 4,000 words
There will be blind judging, therefore, do not put your name or address on entry
submission, but enclose a cover sheet with your name, address, phone number and
title(s) of entry. Entries must be typed on 8.5 X 11 white paper. Prose must be
double-spaced. Each entry must be original, unpublished, not submitted or
accepted elsewhere for publication and not entered simultaneously in any other
contest or competition.
The First Annual Marick Press
Poetry Prize Competition http://www.marickpr
The First Annual Marick Press Poetry Prize competition will open for submissions
on March 1, 2009. The award consists of a $1,000 cash award and publication by
Marick Press.
Manuscripts must be between 48 and 80 pages in length. Poems must be original,
but may have appeared in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks. Translations are
not eligible for this competition. The competition is open to all poets writing
in English.
Manuscripts must be postmarked by October 15th. They must be typed and
should include a table of contents. The author’s name, address, email address,
and telephone number should appear on the cover sheet only. Manuscripts will not
be returned and will be recycled at the end of the competition. Please include a
self-addressed, stamped, business-size envelope with your submission if you wish
to be notified of the results.
Manuscripts must include a $15 entry, reading, and processing fee. Checks should
be made out to Marick Press.
The manuscript, along with a
self-addressed, stamped postcard for notification that it has been received, if
so desired, should be sent to: Marick Press Poetry Prize, P.O. Box 36253, Grosse
Pointe Park, MI 48236
If you send the manuscript via express mail services, the manuscript
should be sent to: Marick Press Poetry Prize, 1342 Three Mile Drive, Grosse
Pointe Park, Michigan 48230
Manuscripts are screened by the editorial staff, and the Marick Press Poetry
Prize 2009 will be judged by Alicia Ostriker. The winner of the Marick Press
Poetry Prize will be announced March 15, 2010.
CHOPIN IN POETRY:
Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Edited by Maja Trochimczyk
Forthcoming in March 2010 to honor the 200th Anniversary of Chopin’s
Birth. Moonrise Press www.moonrisepress.com
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
§ Original poetry about any aspect of music and life of Fryderyk Chopin
(1810-1849), Polish pianist and composer
§ Deadline – August 1, 2009
§ Language – English
§ Length – maximum 39 lines per poem, 3 poems
§ Format – email majat@verizon.
§ Address and contact information of the author included in the body of the
message
PUBLICATION DATA
1. The book will be published by Moonrise Press, with an ISBN number.
2. The authors will retain individual copyright, granting permission to print in
the anthology only.
3. The book will be distributed by online print-on-demand company and available
through a network of partners, including Bowkers Books in Print, lulu.com,
Amazon, etc.
4. The authors will receive an off-print of their submission, and a 30% discount
on the book price.
Do you love to write? Enter
our 2009 Family Circle Fiction writing contest.
One grand prize winner will receive $750, publication in Family Circle, a
certificate for one online mediabistro.
Family Circle Fiction Writing Contest, c/o Family Circle Magazine, 375 Lexington
Avenue , 9th Floor, New York, NY 10017
All entries must be typed, double-spaced, and page-numbered on 8-1/2-x-11-inch
paper, and must include your name, address, daytime phone number, and e-mail
address (optional). No purchase necessary to enter or win. Contest begins March
1, 2009, and ends August 31, 2009. All entries must be postmarked on or
before August 31, 2009, and received by September 7, 2009. Entries must be
original, unpublished, and may not have won any prize or award. Up to two
entries per individual will be accepted, but each entry must be a unique short
story. Open to amateur writers who are legal residents of the 50 United States,
or the District of Columbia, age 21 or older. Void where prohibited. Operator:
Meredith Corporation.
More Details at;
2009 Holland Prize Guidelines http://www.loganhou
Logan House announces the fifth annual Holland Prize for the best unpublished
book of poetry in American English.
The author will receive $500, and the winning manuscript will be published in
2009.
Each entrant will receive a copy of Disciples of an Uncertain Season and Other
Poems by Larry Holland, for whom the Prize is named, as well as a copy of the
winning book.
Manuscripts should be 60-80 pages and should be submitted with a $25 reading fee
and SASE for prize announcement to: Logan House, Holland Prize, 205 ½ South
Douglas, Wayne City, NE 68787
Deadline is August 1.
Manuscripts will be recycled.
The Holland Prize is dedicated to publishing the best manuscript that comes
across our desks, irrespective of the poet’s subject, style or geography.
Friends and close associates of Logan House are not eligible for the contest.
For additional questions email us at
info@loganhouse
“LifeBytes...
http://www.lifebyte
$500 and public-radio broadcast feature for 500 (or fewer) words!
Quiddity international literary journal and public-radio program is pleased to
announce the Teresa A. White Literary Award. The 2009 award is affectionately
referred to as the “buck-a-word” contest.
First Prize: $500 and publication in the Spring/Summer 2010 print issue of
Quiddity as well as public-radio broadcast (via WUIS, NPR member and PRI
affiliate)
Honorable mentions may also be offered publication and broadcast.
Contest begins March 1, 2009, and ends August 1, 2009 (postmark deadline).
Submit one work of prose totaling no more than 500 words (title included) as
well as $12 payable to Quiddity.
U.S. submissions should include both an email address and a self-addressed,
business-size (#10), stamped envelope (SASE). International submissions should
include an email address to which an electronic reply may be sent.
Work should be previously unpublished; simultaneous submissions with immediate
notification are okay, but the contest awards only for FNASR, so works accepted
elsewhere will be withdrawn from consideration, and please note: the entry fee
will not be returned.
All entries must be typed and must include a cover letter with author's name and
contact information (address, telephone, and email address) as well as the title
and word count of the work submitted. The author’s name or any identifying
information should not appear on the manuscript itself.
Entries that do not meet the guidelines will not be considered, and entry fees
are not refundable.
All contest submissions will be considered for regular inclusion in the
journal.
Winners will be announced by September 1, 2009.
Mail entries to: 2009 Teresa A. White Literary Award, Quiddity, 1500 North Fifth
Street, Springfield, Illinois 62702, U.S.A.
River
Poets Journal seeking submissions for “Special Edition” in editorial
collaboration with Joseph Reich, poet, philosopher, social worker, dreamer,
family man...
http://riverpoetsjo
Deadline: August 31, 2009
Title:
Jukebox Junction USA: a poetic history to how music moved you
Theme: Please consider that song you recall from your adolescence and youth,
which significantly and profoundly moved you from a sentimental and nostalgic
point-of-view; Perhaps it was when you found out he/she liked you, when he/she
broke up with you, used to just love to croon in the shower for one reason or
another, loved to drive to and always heard on the radio, some life-transition,
loss or abandonment, some arrested stage of development, or maybe simply just
that stage of growth and development in which you may have felt unconditionally
satisfied and contented.
We are interested in hearing from all backgrounds and age groups, all
topographical regions, all generations and genres, which may include all the way
back to good ol New Orleans Dixie Jazz, perhaps a great solo by Coltrane or
Miles Davis, Doo-Wop from The Fifties, the great folk singers and rock and
rollers of The Sixties; Soul, Motown, Philadelphia Sound; Wherever you may have
been in The Seventies, whether it be Hard Rock, Reggae, Bubblegum Rock, Disco,
All that strange (English Influenced) New Wave, Alternative, Progressive or Punk
from The Eighties, Grunge or Rap in The Nineties, all the way up to the present
day.
In writing your poem, please base it on one simple verse (and supply us with
it). One that sentimentally and transcendentally stands out, or sticks in your
mind. Take us back to that place in time from a lyrical or narrative, or
psychological and social and cultural point-of-view, taking into consideration,
of course, and making the effort to integrate a sense of "time and place,"
atmosphere and mood. Also, please note, in keeping with the nature and
consistency of this theme, submissions will be limited solely to American songs.
This
sample demographic (for eclectic purposes) will be used for your heading (as
opposed to a bio) and to introduce the poem; Please submit no more than five
poems.
Name of Song: Thunder Road. Name of Album: Born To Run. Artist: Bruce
Springsteen. Year: 1975
Setting: Far Rockaway. Love Interest: T. Rodriguez. Hometown: Muncie, Indiana.
Season/Weather: Fall, brisk and drizzly
Verse: Screen door slams/Mary's dress waves/Like a vision she dances across the
porch as the radio plays/Roy Orbison sings for the lonely/Hey, that's me and I
want you only/Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone,
again/Don't run back inside/Darling you know just what I'm here for...
(And Then Title of Your Poem, Your Name, and Poem...)
So again, we will need 3 things:
1. Your demographics for each song
2. The verse for each individually submitted poem
3. The poem
Email: judithlawrence@comcast.
2009 RRofihe Trophy http://opencity.
Winner Receives: $500 cash, Trophy, Publication in Open City
Judged by Rick Rofihe. 2009 Contest Assistant: Carolyn Wilsey. Carolyn Wilsey
has read fiction for Esquire and Swink
Guidelines:
--Stories should be typed, double-spaced, on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with the author’s
name and contact information on the first page and name and story title on the
upper right corner of remaining pages.
--Submissions must be postmarked by October 15, 2009
--Limit one submission per author
--Author must not have been previously published in Open City
--Mail submissions to RRofihe, 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1412, New York, NY
10012
--Enclose self addressed stamped business envelope to receive names of winner
and honorable mentions
--All manuscripts are non-returnable and will be recycled.
--Reading fee is $10. Check or money order payable to RRofihe
Rick Rofihe is the author of Father Must, a collection of short stories
published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. His fiction has appeared in The New
Yorker, Grand Street, Open City, Swink, Unsaid, and on epiphanyzine.
He currently teaches privately. He is the editor of the new online literary
journal, anderbo.
The SFWP (Santa Fe Writers
Project) Literary Awards Program is back in 2009 with Pagan Kennedy as the
final judge! (www.pagankennedy.net).
Featuring cash prizes and possible review by the Irene Goodman Literary Agency (www.irenegoodman.com),
the winner and two runners-up will receive: 1st prize: $1,750, 2nd prize:
$1,000, 3rd prize: $1,000
ENTER NOW— at
http://www.sfwpawar
The SFWP Literary Awards Program
This year’s judge, Pagan Kennedy, will select authors who represent excellence
in writing. Ms. Kennedy will judge prose fiction and non-fiction of any genre.
We will not be accepting poetry, plays or screenplays.
The top prize winners will be forwarded to the Irene Goodman Literary Agency (www.irenegoodman.com)
for review towards possible representation.
The Program has already begun and will run through July 15th, 2009.
Review and judging will begin in August.
The program is open to all authors except for those previously published by a
major house (Random House, Viking, etc. See our FAQ page,
www.sfwpawards
Please take a moment to review the guidelines below. If you have questions or
comments, visit our site at www.sfwpawards.
submissions@
Each entry should be no more than 25 pages in length. This can include any
number of related short stories or essays, the first 25 pages of a longer work,
or relevant excerpts or chapters from a work -- however you feel your writing is
best represented. All entries should be 12-point font and single sided. There is
no minimum word or page count. Please number your pages.
Multiple entries will be accepted.
Entries must include a copy of the Entry Form.
A $25 reading fee must accompany each submission. We can accept a check or money
order in US funds, made payable to "Santa Fe Writers Project." This fee is
non-refundable after the awards have been granted. All decisions made by the
judge are final.
Credit card payment for the reading fee will be accepted via PayPal (access
through our entry form on the website).
If you are a student, the reading fee is $20. To receive this discount, please
include a photocopy of a current student ID or similar proof of enrollment.
Please include two self-addressed stamped envelopes so we can notify you of
receipt and of the results.
SFWP will not keep submissions on file or use them for any purpose without the
permission of the respective authors. We do not share personal contact
information with any individual, organization or marketing agency.
SFWP claims no control over your work. There are no stipulations if you are
selected for the 2009 Awards. Participation in any SFWP-related activity is
voluntary.
We will not be able to return manuscripts. Please keep a copy of your work.
The contest is open to international submissions. The reading fee can be sent as
an international mail order, a check drawn from a US account or via
http://www.sfwpawar
Entries may include a synopsis, outline or introductory letter. These will not
be counted towards your overall page limit. Entries will be blinded. Do not send
personal correspondence to the Judge.
You may participate in other contests and programs as well as pursue publication
during the SFWP 2009 Awards Cycle. There will be no penalties if your work wins
another award or is published before the judging begins.
The SFWP Publishing division will review all entries for possible publication.
They are not obligated to select any of the winners for publication, nor are any
applicants obligated to work with the Publishing division.
Winners will also be featured on our online literary journal at http://www.sfwp.
Remember: All entries must be accompanied by a $25 reading fee ($20 for
students). Send your entry, your entry form and the fee to: Santa Fe Writers
Project, #350, 369 Montezuma Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501
SOME BACKGROUND: SFWP’s program began in 2000 and has been judged by National
Book Critics Circle Award-winner Jayne Anne Phillips, two-time NEA fellow and
Hemingway Award finalist Richard Currey, Granta "best novelist under 40" and
Guggenheim fellow Chris Offutt, Pulitzer winner Robert Olen Butler, and popular
essayist Ayun Halliday.
For more on the history of SFWP’s Literary Awards Program, please visit
http://www.sfwpawar
“Winning the Grand Prize for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards
Program launched the best year of my professional life. SFWP is a first class
organization, one that actually uses its program to promote writers.” K.L. Cook,
author of Last Call and The Girl from Charnelle
The Apple Valley Review,
www.applevalleyreview.com
http://www.leahbrow
Submissions are accepted year-round via e-mail. We prefer work that has both
mainstream and literary appeal. All work must be original, previously
unpublished, and in English. Please do not submit genre fiction, explicit work,
or anything particularly violent or depressing. Also, please note that we do not
accept simultaneous submissions. All published work is considered for our annual
editor's prize.
The Spring 2009
The Apple Valley Review would also like to congratulate Kathy Anderson--the
recipient of the Apple Valley Review Editor'
The current issue, previous issues, subscription information, and complete
submission guidelines for the Apple Valley Review are available at www.applevalleyreview.com.
Send submissions via e-mail to Leah Browning, Editor.
—Send one prose piece or two to six poems at a time.
—Include the word “fiction,” “poetry,” or “essay” in your subject line.
—Type or paste your submission in the body of the e-mail message. We
will not open any unsolicited attachments.
—Include a cover letter with your name, address, phone number, e-mail
address, and a short biography.
Please expect to wait up to two months for a reply. Occasionally with e-mail,
there are technical difficulties. We cannot be responsible for delay or loss of
submissions. To submit, or to check on the status of your submission after two
months have passed, please send a message to our editor at
editor@leahbrow
Microfiction/
You may submit as many pieces as you wish, and those chosen will appear in a new
Cinnamon microfiction and prose anthology to be published in late 2010,
co-edited by Holly Howitt and Jan Fortune-Wood.
Submission Guidelines. Please read these carefully. Due to the large
volume of submissions expected we will only be able to process those submissions
that conform to the guidelines.
The deadline for submissions is: 15th August 2009.
Each piece must be no longer than
600 words. There is no minimum length.
Pieces can be on any subject and you may send several pieces, but please submit
them as a single word attachment using a .doc or .rtf format.
Submit pieces to both Holly Howitt: cinnamonant
Submissions without virus protection will not be opened and read so please
ensure your virus protection is up to date. We hope to inform everyone who has
sent a submission of which pieces will be included by late November 2009. Please
ensure that you inform us if your email address changes after sending the
submission.
The decisions of the editors are final. All those whose work is selected will
receive a copy of the anthology.
Howl House Press is here, and
pleased to be posting our submission guidelines for our first anthology.
So lofty are our hopes, we think it'll be an annual publication. Our goal is
simple: to find the darkly marvelous and the painfully strange, and present it
to as many appreciative readers and viewers as possible. That's it. Why? Because
we do love the weird stuff.
http://www.howlhous
Not everyone's a writer, or an artist, or a photographer, but everyone's a fan
of something. Come in any time and share what you read or watch. We look forward
to the coming months, and the jagged and delicious discontent we're sure to find
in our inbox.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Howl House Press is seeking submissions for its first
annual anthology. Target date for release is December 1, 2009.
This volume will contain the darkest and most heartfelt manifestations of the
pain of love and desire. We are looking for the following:
- Poetry (up to 30 lines)
- Short shorts (up to 300 words)
- Photography (black and white or colour)
- Other visual art (query).
The volume remains untitled. We'll let our contributors be our guide. We intend
to publish in both e-book and printed format.
Rules for Submission:
- Shorts or poetry in doc. or .txt format only.
- Photography and artwork in digital format, .jpgs preferred.
- No child pornography or animal sex. We will never condone abuse or violence.
- We offer no payment at this time; will pay in a contributor'
- Howl House Press will retain first time electronic and print rights.
We will accept submissions until August 31, 2009. Please email howlhouse@gmail.
*Update February 14, 2009
With this being our first publication, it's a little harder to convey what it is
we're looking for, but I'll try my damnedest:
Depictions of love, tinged with the pain only love in its many twisted and often
inexplicable forms can bring. Imagery dark and beautiful. Pleading and
submissive, reckless and victorious. Well-written, well-presented and original
eroticism and BDSM encouraged. Expressions of 'alternative' forms of sexuality
is more than welcome, but absolutely NO child pornography or bestiality will be
considered.
We are looking for fiction, photography and art. Non-fiction will be considered,
please query first. Unpublished material only, if you please.
Shel Desormeaux, Editor
Howl House Press howlhouse@
Bellevue Literary Review's 2010 contest is now open:
http://www.blreview
The Bellevue Literary Review Prizes recognize exceptional writing about health,
healing, illness, the mind, and the body. First prize is $1000 and publication
in the Spring 2010 issue of the Bellevue Literary Review.
$1000 Bellevue Literary Review Goldenberg Prize for Fiction -- Judged by Gail
Godwin
$1000 Bellevue Literary Review Carter V. Cooper Memorial Prize for Nonfiction --
Judged by Phillip Lopate
$1000 Bellevue Literary Review Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry -- Judged
by Tony Hoagland
Deadline: August 1, 2009.
Prose should be limited to 5000 words. Poetry submissions should have no more
than 3 poems (max 5 pages). Previously published work cannot be considered.
Entry fee is $15 per submission. For an additional $5, you will receive a 1-year
subscription to the BLR. For complete guidelines and to submit your
work, visit
www.BLReview.org. (Feel free to contact
info@BLReview.
Bloodroot Literary Magazine Poetry Contest
Three prizes of $200, $100, $50, three
honorable mentions and publication in 2010 Bloodroot Literary Magazine edition.
http://www.bloodroo
CONTEST GUIDELINES:
* The competition is open to any poet who writes in English.
* Manuscripts should be typewritten or computer-printed on white 8-1/2" X 11"
paper.
* We can only accept hard copies.
* Electronic submissions will not be accepted.
* Submit original, unpublished, free verse, 10 lines to 2 pages.
* Entry fee: $15.00 for three poems, $5.00 each additional poem.
* Final judge: Kirk D.Glaser.
* Your name must not appear on the manuscript.
* Please provide name, address, email address, titles of poems in a cover
letter.
* You may include SASE for results and SAS postcard for confirmation (Optional).
* Entries must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2009.
* Manuscripts cannot be returned.
* Please no simultaneous submission to other publications.
Mail manuscript and entry fee to: The Editors, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, PO
Box 322, Thetford Center, VT 05075
Accepting short fiction &
poetry, creative non-fiction, interviews, social justice concerns for the 9th
issue of the literary journal Ginosko, the summer issue.
Editorial lead time 1-2 months; accept simultaneous submissions and reprints;
accept excerpts; length flexible. Copyright reverts to author. Receives postal
submissions & email—prefer email submissions as attachments in Microsoft Works
Word Processor.
Publishing as semiannual ezine, winter & summer. Selecting material from ezine
for printed anthology.
Check downloadable issues on website for style & tone:
http://www.ginoskol
Use latest version of Adobe Reader.
ezine circulation 3400+. Website traffic 750-1000 hits/month.
Also looking for artwork, photography, to post on website and links to exchange.
Ginosko (ghin-océ-koe): To perceive, understand, realize, come to know;
knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of
truth by experience.
Member CLMP. Listed in Best of the Web 2008.
Ginosko Literary Journal, Robert Paul Cesaretti, Editor, PO Box 246, Fairfax,
CA 94978, USA
Fairy Tale Review Red Issue Complete
guidelines may be found on the website,
http://fairytalerev
The Red Issue, the sixth issue of Fairy Tale Review, will be the first themed
issue ever, devoted to work hewn from "Little Red Riding Hood." I will read from
February 15, 2009 to June 15, 2009 for this issue. I welcome email
submissions per the guidelines on the FTR website. The issue is forthcoming in
Fall 2010. I can only consider unpublished work, though new translations of
previously published work always are welcome (with the appropriate permission to
translate in hand from the writer or the estate for work not in the public
domain). There are no length or form guidelines or restrictions. Reviewing a
previous issue is the best way to get a sense of the journal. Work from Fairy
Tale Review has been cited by Best American Short Stories (2005), included in
Best American Fantasy (forthcoming 2009), and included in Best New American
Voices (2007). Contributors receive two free copies of the issue in which their
work appears and a 40 percent discount on additional copies from the
co-publisher and distributor, The University of Alabama Press; no monetary
payment, sorry. FTR's Advisory Board of fairy-tale scholars and authors includes
Maria Tatar (Harvard), Donald Haase (Wayne State Univeristy), Jack Zipes (Univ.
of Minnesota), Lydia Millet (Tucson, AZ) and Marina Warner (Univ. of Essex, UK).
SHENANDOAH: THE WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY REVIEW is pleased
to announce the celebration of the journal’s 60th anniversary with a special
issue centering on the works of Flannery O’Connor.
The editor seeks essays, poems, short stories, reviews, photographs and other
artwork about, related to or in honor of the fiction and life of Ms. O’Connor.
Any queries about particular submissions should be directed to
rodsmith@
Deadline: October 1, 2009
A prize of $1,000 will be awarded to the best O’Connor-related work published in
the issue, which is planned for fall 2010. Materials should be addressed
to O’Connor Issue, Shenandoah, Mattingly House / 2 Lee Avenue, Washington and
Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450-2116
Guidelines for the FAMILY MATTERS category: for Glimmer Train.
We are interested in reading your original, unpublished short stories about
family!
We don't publish stories for children, I'm sorry.It's fine to submit more than
one story or to submit the same story to different categories.
When we accept a story for publication, we are purchasing first-publication
rights. (After we've published it, you can include it in your own collection.)
To make a submission: Visit online submissions site
http://www.glimmert
Dates:
The category will be open to submissions for one full month, from the first
day through
midnight (Pacific time) of the last day of the month. Results
July 31st. Results will be posted on September 30.
October 31st . Results will be posted on December 31.
Reading fee: $15 per story.
Prizes:
1st place wins $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of
that issue. 2nd-place: $500. 3rd-place:$300.
Other considerations:
Open to all writers.
Stories--about family--not to exceed 12,000 words. (No minimum, though it's rare
for a piece under 500 words to read as a full story.)
This category has stimulated lots of questions about fiction/non-
POETRY SOCIETY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, National
Contests, Lynne Birdsall, PO Box 1615, Concord, NH 03302-1615
Please note limit is forty lines. Name and address must appear in the upper
right hand corner of the copy on which they appear. NO identification is to
appear anywhere on the second copy.
The Poetry Society of New Hampshire sponsors four National Contests open to all
poets, members or not. Judges for the contests are not members of the Poetry
Society of New Hampshire. Prizes are awarded to four places, 1st place, $100,
2nd place, $50, 3rd and 4th places $25 each. Winning poems will be published in
our quarterly magazine, The Poets Touchstone, and winning poets will receive one
copy of the issue in which their poems appear. Rights revert to the author after
publication.
Guidelines
Entries that do not meet the guidelines will not be considered or returned.
Poems must be postmarked by the deadline date.
Subject and form are open.
Length limited to 40 lines.
One poem per page.
Poems must be typed.
Two copies of each poem, one with NO identification (no name, no address), the
other with the name and address in the upper right corner.
#10 SASE for winners list only. Poems will not be returned.
Entry fee is $3 for the first poem, and $2 each for others. Entries limited to 5
poems per poet per contest.
Poems must not be previously published, have won a prize, nor be currently
entered in another contest.
Poems must be postmarked by the deadline date. Deadlines are: August 15th,
November 15th and February 15th,
Mail poems and check payable to the Poetry Society of New Hampshire at the
address above.
We are www.SpeakWithoutInterruption.com - a new blog, and we are contacting you to invite writers to participate in our new site as contributors. The original concept for our blog came from the frustration we felt – while watching, or listening, to TV and radio shows where guests/hosts could not finish their conversations because others kept interrupting them. We now have expanded our concept to include anyone who would like to "Speak Without Interruption". We have a tab on our site www.speakwithoutinterruption.com entitled "The Writer's Corner" – our invitation is listed there along with our personal invitation today. Our theory is to give both amateur, and professional, writers a forum to share their views and thoughts. If anyone is interested they can e-mail SpeakWithoutInterruption@gmail.com and provide us with an idea of the type of topics they would like to write about and post. Once participation is approved then we will send a User Name and Password so the party can post articles as they desire.
Bob Grant, President, SpeakWithoutInterruption.com. www.speakwithoutinterruption.com speakwithoutinterruption@gmail.com
Residencies, teaching and instructor positions
THE APPLICATION PERIOD WILL OPEN SOON FOR SOAPSTONE RESIDENCIES. We will be accepting applications postmarked between July 1 and August 1, 2009 for residencies starting November 2009 to November 2010. Application forms can be downloaded from our web site: http://www.soapstone.org
Position: Managing Editor – Part
Time
River Styx, one of the nation's premier independent literary magazines, invites
applications for the part-time position of Managing Editor. The areas of primary
responsibility include general editorial, event coordination, volunteer
management, grant writing, and data base management. Candidates must have a
minimum of a BA, with experience in literary publishing and computer literacy in
both MAC and PC environments. Attention to detail, creativity, self-initiative
and a passion for literature are critical to success in this position.
Experience with nonprofit management is highly desirable. Please send
application letter, resume, and writing samples by July 6 to: Richard Newman,
Editor, River Styx, 3547 Olive St., Suite 107, St. Louis, MO 63103 or email to <richard.newman(
Affiliate Instructor, Writing
Full-time Affiliate Instructor in Writing to teach first-year core writing
course and upper-level course(s) in area(s) of expertise. One year contract,
with possibility of renewal. Must be ABD in English/Writing OR have MFA in
Writing (with national publications) by hire date. Must have appropriate
academic credentials and demonstrated ability to teach first-year composition.
PhD with two-years college-level teaching experience; course work in Composition
& Rhetoric; and demonstrated ability to teach upper-level courses in creative
writing, rhetoric, and/or professional writing highly desired. Demonstrated
engagement with scholarly community through recent presentations and/or
publications and experience using Blackboard and other teaching technologies
preferred.
For more information about this position, and to apply, please go to www.loyola.edu/careers
Loyola College is a dynamic, highly selective Jesuit Catholic institution in the
liberal arts tradition and is recognized as a leading independent, comprehensive
university in the northeastern United States. Loyola enrolls over 3,200 students
in its undergraduate programs and 3,000 students in its graduate programs. The
College welcomes applicants from all backgrounds who can contribute to its
educational=
0mission. Loyola is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, seeking
applications from under-represented groups. Additional information is available
at www.loyola.
Seton Hill University seeks published novelist of popular fiction (preferably
mystery/suspense)
Seton Hill University is a Catholic, liberal arts University, serving
undergraduate, adult and graduate students. Seton Hill is located 35 miles east
of Pittsburgh. Visit
www.setonhill.edu for more information.
Send a letter, C.V., official transcripts, statement of teaching philosophy,
sample publications, and three letters of reference.
The review process will begin immediately and will continue until the position
is filled.
Application Information
Postal Address: Michael Arnzen, Division of Humanities, Seton Hill University,
Seton Hill Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601
Email Address: <arnzen(at)setonhil
The Richard J. Margolis Award
of Blue Mountain Center combines a one-month residency at Blue Mountain
Center with a $5,000 prize. It is awarded annually to a promising new
journalist or essayist whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom and concern
with social justice. The award was established in honor of Richard J. Margolis,
a journalist, essayist and poet who gave eloquent voice to the hardships of the
rural poor, migrant farm workers, the elderly, Native Americans and others whose
voices are seldom heard. He was also the author of a number of books for
children.
Blue Mountain Center is a writers and artists colony in the Adirondacks in Blue
Mountain Lake, New York.
http://www.margolis
How to Apply
Applications should include at least two examples of the writer's work
(published or unpublished, 30 pages maximum) and a short biographical note
including a description of his or her current and anticipated work. Please send
three copies of these writing samples. Samples will not be returned.
Send applications to:
Richard J. Margolis Award of Blue Mountain Center
c/o Margolis & Bloom
535 Boylston Street, 8th floor
Boston, MA 02116
Deadline: July 1, 2009
The award winner will be announced in November.
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