Fall for the Book Poetry Contest

Co-Sponsored by: Fall for the Book (http://fallforthebook.org/) and The Writer’s Center (https://www.writer.org/)
Deadline: SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Guidelines:

Write a poem of 60 lines or less

Incorporate a quote from one Fall for the Book 2009 author into your poem

Email your poem as an MS Word attachment (.rtf or .doc) to
FFTBcontest@gmail.com. Include your name, contact information, and the source of your quote in the body of the email, but leave your name and contact information OFF the actual poem, as submissions will be read anonymously

1st PLACE: $50 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble
2nd PLACE: membership to The Writer?s Center
3rd PLACE: one-year subscription to Poet Lore

Details online–>

Glimmer Train’s Best New Start Contest

Reposted by Rick from GlimmerTrain.org

Guidelines for the BEST START fiction category:

Best Start is meant to encourage new writers to tackle that story!

This category is different from our others in that the piece should be an engaging and coherent narrative, but it does not need to be a complete story; it needs to be an important part of a story in progress. You could think of it as a writing sample, but we hope you’ll feel free to reach a bit. Maybe you’re experimenting with a new voice, developing a character, working on clarity in a complex bit of plot or trying to make your dialogue believable and significant. You could be playing with point of view, working to build tension, or looking for a satisfying ending. Or you might be two pages into something brand new.

What we want is to read is an engaging slice of a story you’re excited about writing.

* All pieces should be original fiction and not have appeared in a print publication.
* No fiction for children, please.
* It’s fine to submit more than one piece.

To make a submission: Please send your work via our new online submission procedure. It’s easy, will save you postage and paper, and is much easier on the environment. Just click the yellow Submissions button above to get started!

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 will be posted at www.glimmertrain.org.

* March. Results will be posted on May 31, and announced in the June bulletin.
* June. Results will be posted on August 31 and announced in the September bulletin.
* September. Results will be posted on November 30 and announced in the December bulletin.
* December. Results will be posted on February 28 and announced in the March bulletin.

Reading fee:

* $10 per piece.

Prizes:

* The 50 most engaging pieces will each win $50 and make Glimmer Train’s Best Start list, which will be announced in our bulletin and in a number of other online publications.

Other considerations:

* Please be SURE that your complete contact info at the site is correct so, if you make the Best Start list, you’ll get your check. (Log in and click on Contact Preferences, update as needed, and scroll down to confirm any changes.) We never, ever share your contact info with others.
* Word count not to exceed 1,000.
* Open to any writer whose fiction has not appeared in a nationally distributed print publication with a circulation over 3,000.

We look forward to reading your work!

Glimmer Train Fiction Open

Reposted by Rick from GlimmerTrain.org

Guidelines for the GLIMMER TRAIN FICTION OPEN:

Open to all writers, all themes, so have at it!

* We don’t publish stories for children, and we don’t publish works longer than 20,000 words.
* We do consider unpublished novel excerpts if they feel like complete stories.
* It’s fine to submit more than one story or to submit the same story to another category.
* 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: Please send your work via our new online submission procedure. It’s easy, will save you postage and paper, and is much easier on the environment. Just click the yellow Submissions button above to get started!

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. (Exception: The December Fiction Open closes Jan. 2 each year.) Results will be posted at www.glimmertrain.org.

* March. Results will be posted on May 31.
* June. Results will be posted on August 31.
* September. Results will be posted on November 30.
* December. Results will be posted on February 28 (or 29, if there is one).

Reading fee:

* $20 per story.

Prizes:

* 1st place wins $2000, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue.
* 2nd-place: $1000
* 3rd-place:$600

Other considerations:

* Open to all writers, all themes.
* Word count range: 2,000 – 20,000

We look forward to reading your work!

I write to discover what I know.
–Flannery O’Connor

Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize (Deadline Sept.10)

Reposted by Rick.

If you’ve got one ready to go, here’s a prize contest for you.
From Hunger Mountain website (www.hungermtn.org)

What is the Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize?
An annual contest for the best writing in the boundless field of creative nonfiction. A chance for your creative nonfiction to be read by Hunger Mountain editors and guest judges!

What will the winner receive?
One first place winner receives $1000 and publication!
Two honorable mentions receive $100 each.

Who can enter the contest?
Anyone! Everyone!

Who is this year’s judge?
The 2009 judge is Robin Hemley, author of Do-Over! In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments.

When is the deadline?
The postmark deadline is September 10th.

What are the guidelines?
* $20 entry fee. Make checks payable to “Hunger Mountain” or pay with a credit card on paypal (scroll to bottom of page for Paypal link)
* Entries must be postmarked by September 10th
* Submit one piece of creative nonfiction, not to exceed 10,000 words
* Writing must be original, written in English, and previously unpublished
* Your name or address should not appear anywhere on the essay
* Enclose a standard index card with essay title and your name, address, phone number, and email address
* Enclose an SASE for notification of winners
* Enclose a postage-paid postcard for acknowledgement of entry (if you’d like)
* Entries must be typed, double-spaced, and on one side of the paper only
* Use a paper clip or send unbound—no staples or binding, please
* Once submitted, entries cannot be altered
* All entries will be considered for general publication as well as for the CNF Prize
* No simultaneous submissions, artwork, or translations please
* Electronic entries will be accepted soon.
* Multiple entries allowed—each entry must be sent separately and include a separate entry fee
* No entries will be returned
* Email hungermtn@vermontcollege.edu if questions arise

Send Creative Nonfiction Entries to:
CNF Prize
Hunger Mountain
Vermont College of Fine Arts
36 College Street
Montpelier, VT 05602

For more information, to view last years winner, or to enter and pay online, go to Hungermtn.org

The Mississippi Review Prize 2009

Awarding $1,000 each in fiction and poetry and publication in the print issue of Mississippi Review

Our annual contest awards prizes of $1,000 in fiction and in poetry. Winners and finalists will make up next winter’s print issue of the national literary magazine Mississippi Review. Contest is open to all writers in English except current or former students or employees of The University of Southern Mississippi. Fiction entries should be 1000-5000 words, poetry entries should be three poems totaling 10 pages or less. There is no limit on the number of entries you may submit. Entry fee is $15 per entry, payable to the Mississippi Review.

Each entrant will receive a copy of the prize issue.

No manuscripts will be returned. Previously published work is ineligible. Contest opens April 2. Deadline is October 1. Winners will be announced in late January and publication is scheduled for May next year. Entries should have “MR Prize,” author name, address, phone, e-mail and title of work on page one.

Postmark deadline: October 1, 2009
Winners announced: Jan 2010
Issue publication: April 2010

Details online –>

2009 Juked Fiction and Poetry Prizes

Now accepting entries!

Winner in each genre receives $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue, Juked #7.

Final Judges: Dan Chaon (fiction) and Dora Malech (poetry)

Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2009

Entry Fee: $10

Fiction: one story per entry, no length requirement

Poetry: up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry

Complete guidelines at: http://www.juked.com/prize/

About our judges:

Dan Chaon is the author of the best-selling novel You Remind Me of Me. He has also published two short story collections, Fitting Ends and Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. Walter Mosley chose his short story, “The Bees,” to be included in Best American Short Stories 2003, and his story “Big Me” was selected by Michael Chabon as the second prize story in The O. Henry Awards 2001. His new novel, Await Your Reply, will be published in late August 2009. Chaon is the Houck Associate Professor of the Humanities at Oberlin College.

More on Dan:
“Big Me” at The Gettysburg Review
“Raymond Carver” at SmokeLong Quarterly
Interview with The Believer

Dora Malech’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Denver
Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Redivider, and other journals. She was recently
Visiting Lecturer and Primary Convenor for the MA Creative Writing Program at Victoria University’s Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand. Her chapbook, Inside & Elsewhere, came out in 1999.

More on Dora:
“Here Name Your” at The New Yorker
“Makeup” at Poetry
“Oh Grow Up” at Verse Daily

Hillerman Prize Lives On

The Hillerman Prize lives on! A $10,000 award for the best first mystery
set in the Southwest continues the spirit of Tony Hillerman’s work.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JUNE 1.

Sponsored by St. Martin’s Press and Wordharvest, the Hillerman Prize will be awarded again in November, 2009 in Albuquerque. The contest is open to self-published books and to authors who have published non-mysteries.

All manuscripts submitted: a) must be original, previously unpublished works of book length (no less than 220 typewritten pages or approximately 60,000 words) written in the English language by the entrants; b) must not violate any right of any third party or be libelous, and c) must generally follow the guidelines.

Complete Guidelines: http://www.wordharvest.com/novel_contest.php

Wag’s Revue Contest

The deadline Wag’s Revue inaugural contests in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction is May 31.

First prize in each category receives $500 and publication in Wag’s Revue, and all submissions are considered for publication. There is no limit to the number of entries an author may submit. The submissions fee is $20.

Winners will be announced June 20.

To view our complete submissions guidelines, visit our website at
www.wagsrevue.com/submit.html

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 features 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 will feature an interview with T. C. Boyle, new
nonfiction by Lauren Slater, new poetry by K. Silem Mohammad, and much more.

Read more at www.wagsrevue.com

Bomb Magazine Fiction Contest

BOMB Magazine announces its 4th Fiction Contest

Judged by novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem

$500 Prize & Publication in BOMB Magazine

Deadline April 15

Submission Guidelines

Winner receives $500 and publication in BOMB Magazine
Final Judge: Jonathan Lethem (author of Fortress of Solitude and
The Disappointment Artist)
Deadline: April 15, 2009
Reading Fee: $20 — includes a free one-year subscription to BOMB
(overseas addresses should add $20); make all checks and money
orders payable to BOMB Magazine.

Mail entries to:
BOMB Magazine
2009 Fiction Contest
80 Hanson Place, #703
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Manuscripts of one story maximum must be less than 20 pages.
Include cover letter with name, address, phone number and title of
story; do not write a name on the actual manuscript, as all entries
will be considered anonymously.
Include SASE for response; manuscript will not be returned.
Simultaneous submissions OK, but reading fee is not refundable.
Email generalinquiries@bombsite.com with any questions.

Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize

Deadline FAST approaching…. March 2. But worth the $1000 prize!

Stony Brook $1,000 Short Fiction Prize
sponsored by the MFA in Writing and Literature Program at Stony Brook Southampton.

Please remind undergraduate students that submissions must be postmarked by March 2, 2009. For information and guidelines, please visit the website at
http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/southampton/fiction/

In addition to the Short Fiction prize, the MFA programs sponsors the
following summer conferences:

Southampton Children’s Literature Conference, July 8 – 12
Southampton Writers Conference, July 15 – 26
Southampton Screenwriting Conference, July 29 – August 2
Southampton Playwriting Conference (Sessions I, II, III, July 8 -
August 2)

Please visit the website for details.