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Updated May 20th, 2009
Rating-big-rating-one
fee: $15, word count: < 25 pages, prize $1000, Deadline is March 17th, 2010

The Arts & Letters Prizes competition offers publication and a $1000 Prize for winners in: Fiction (Short Story), Poetry, and Drama (One-Act Play), and a NEW prize for Creative Nonfiction (Essay). Please make checks or money orders payable to “GCSU” (note “Arts & Letters” in the memo section). All submissions will be considered for publication.

For fiction and creative nonfiction: Submit one story or essay, typed, double-spaced, no more than 25 pages long.

Submit only original, unpublished work in English. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the editors are notified immediately that the work has been accepted elsewhere. Authors may submit more than one manuscript; however, each submission should include the required entry fee of $15. Include a cover sheet with your name, address (where you want your subscription/s to be sent), and phone/email contact information; also include the title of your work. For those submitting more than one manuscript, you may designate a gift subscription to be sent (please provide name & address where you want the subscription sent). Send a no. 10 self-addressed, stamped envelope for announcement of winners (usually in July). No manuscripts can be returned. The author’s name should not appear anywhere in the manuscript.

send: Query or MS

looking for: Short Story

 
 
Updated August 13th, 2009
Rating-big-rating-one
fee: $15, word count: < 8 pages, prize $1000, Deadline is March 17th, 2010

The Arts & Letters Prizes competition offers publication and a $1000 Prize for winners in: Fiction (Short Story), Poetry, and Drama (One-Act Play), and a NEW prize for Creative Nonfiction (Essay). Please make checks or money orders payable to “GCSU” (note “Arts & Letters” in the memo section). All submissions will be considered for publication.

For poetry: Submit up to 8 PAGES of poetry, typed, single-spaced, one poem (or part of a poem) per page.

Submit only original, unpublished work in English. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the editors are notified immediately that the work has been accepted elsewhere. Authors may submit more than one manuscript; however, each submission should include the required entry fee of $15. Include a cover sheet with your name, address (where you want your subscription/s to be sent), and phone/email contact information; also include the title of your work. For those submitting more than one manuscript, you may designate a gift subscription to be sent (please provide name & address where you want the subscription sent). Send a no. 10 self-addressed, stamped envelope for announcement of winners (usually in July). No manuscripts can be returned. The author’s name should not appear anywhere in the manuscript.

send: Query or MS

looking for: Poetry

 
 
Updated December 02nd, 2009
Rating-big-rating-four
fee: no fee, word count: 600-1200, prize $2000, Deadline is March 20th, 2010

The Ayn Rand Institute ANTHEM Essay Contest is For 9th and 10th Graders only.

Select ONE of the following three topics:

1. Why do you think the Council of Vocations assigns Equality the job of Street Sweeper? Is it due to error, incompetence or a more sinister motivation? Explain.

2. The old locks and lack of guards in the Palace of Corrective Detention indicate that prisoners never tried to escape. Why do you think they did not? Explain.

3. In a single, unified essay, explain the meaning and wider significance of EACH of the following quotes in the story:
a. “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.” (Ch. 12)
b. “It is the mind which thinks, and the judgment of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth.” (Ch. 11)
c. “And we thought that we could trust this being who looked upon us from the stream, and that we had nothing to fear with this being.” (Ch. 8)

Essays will be judged on both style and content. Judges will look for writing that is clear, articulate and logically organized. Winning essays must demonstrate an outstanding grasp of the philosophic meaning of ANTHEM. Contest is open to students worldwide.

To avoid disqualification, a stapled cover sheet MUST include: your name and address; your e-mail address (if available); the name and address of your high school; topic selected (#1, 2 or 3 from list above); your current grade level and (optional) the name of the teacher who assigned the essay, if you are completing it for classroom credit.

Winners, finalists, semifinalists and all other participants will be notified via e-mail and/or by mail by July 2010.

FIRST PRIZE: $2,000
5 SECOND PRIZES: $500
10 THIRD PRIZES: $200
45 FINALISTS: $50 Cash Awards
175 SEMIFINALISTS: $30 Cash Awards

You MUST include a stapled cover sheet with the following information: your name; mailing address; e-mail address (if available); the name and address of your high school; topic selected (#1, 2 or 3 from the list above); your current grade level and (if applicable) the name of the teacher who assigned the essay.

send: Complete MS

looking for: Article

 
 
Updated October 14th, 2009
Rating-big-rating-one
fee: $45, prize $1000, Deadline is March 26th, 2010

The UCLA Extension Screenplay Competition is a fresh and exclusive opportunity for three outstanding Writers’ Program students to gain industry exposure, individual mentoring and training, and cash prizes.

Contestants must have taken 3 feature film courses in the Writers' Program within specified time limit. Scripts have been developed in a Writers' Program course. Original material.

Complete the application and verification forms and mail them along with the entry fee and two copies of your script to UCLA Extension Screenplay Competition, c/o UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, 10995 Le Conte Ave, Room 440, Los Angeles, CA 90024. E-MAIL AN EXTRA COPY OF THE SCRIPT.

All entries must be accompanied by a verification form, signed by your instructor, to verify that your script was developed in a Writers’ Program course. Writers’ Program staff cannot be responsible for facilitating an instructor’s signature on the verification form. If your attempts to notify an instructor are unsuccessful, you may mail the verification form – along with a self-addressed stamped envelope – to your instructor in care of the Writers’ Program and we will forward it. Entries without a completed verification form by the application deadline cannot be considered, so be sure to get started on this early.

Each screenplay must be accompanied by a $45 nonrefundable entry fee ($25 for students enrolled in the Certificate Program in Feature Film Writing between March 2008 and March 2010. Certificate student status will be verified.) Checks should be made payable to “UC Regents”.

Your name should not appear on the cover, title page, or any other page of the script. Please use the last four digits of your social security number on the title page for identification.

Screenplays must be in English, printed single-sided on three-hole white paper and fastened with brads. Each page should be numbered and should total 90-140 pages. Scripts should be submitted in standard spec format in 12-point font (Courier or Times New Roman preferred).

send: Complete MS

looking for: Screenplay

 
 
Updated May 20th, 2009
Rating-big-rating-one
fee: $25, prize $2500, Deadline is March 31st, 2010

Each year, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) invites publishers to nominate book-length translations, published in the preceding calendar year, for the ALTA National Translation Award. The award-winning book and translator are announced and featured at the annual ALTA conference held each fall, and a press release is distributed to selected major publications. The translator selected for this award receives a cash gift, currently set at $2500.

To be eligible for the award, a translation must have been published during the preceding calendar year by a U.S. or Canadian publisher and must be a book-length work, in English, of fiction, poetry, drama, or creative non-fiction (literary criticism and philosophy are not eligible). For nominated books selected as finalists, publishers will be asked to provide an original-language version of the text; any finalist for which no original-language version is provided will be excluded from further consideration.

The criteria for judging the award are: (1) the significance of the literary contribution of the original as well as of the translation; and (2) the success of the translation in recreating the artistry of the original. Translations of contemporary works will receive preference, although important retranslations or first-time translations of older works will also be considered to the degree that they make significant contributions to literature.

The deadline for nominating books published in the preceding calendar year is March 31. For each nominated book, send a letter of nomination, four copies of the book, and a $25 entry fee

send: Complete MS

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

specifically: Translation
 
 
Updated May 20th, 2009
Rating-big-rating-one
fee: $25, prize $2500, Deadline is March 31st, 2010

Each year, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) invites publishers to nominate book-length translations, published in the preceding calendar year, for the ALTA National Translation Award. The award-winning book and translator are announced and featured at the annual ALTA conference held each fall, and a press release is distributed to selected major publications. The translator selected for this award receives a cash gift, currently set at $2500.

To be eligible for the award, a translation must have been published during the preceding calendar year by a U.S. or Canadian publisher and must be a book-length work, in English, of fiction, poetry, drama, or creative non-fiction (literary criticism and philosophy are not eligible). For nominated books selected as finalists, publishers will be asked to provide an original-language version of the text; any finalist for which no original-language version is provided will be excluded from further consideration.

The criteria for judging the award are: (1) the significance of the literary contribution of the original as well as of the translation; and (2) the success of the translation in recreating the artistry of the original. Translations of contemporary works will receive preference, although important retranslations or first-time translations of older works will also be considered to the degree that they make significant contributions to literature.

The deadline for nominating books published in the preceding calendar year is March 31. For each nominated book, send a letter of nomination, four copies of the book, and a $25 entry fee

send: Complete MS

looking for: Play

specifically: Translation
 
 
Updated May 20th, 2009
Rating-big-rating-one
fee: $25, prize $2500, Deadline is March 31st, 2010

Each year, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) invites publishers to nominate book-length translations, published in the preceding calendar year, for the ALTA National Translation Award. The award-winning book and translator are announced and featured at the annual ALTA conference held each fall, and a press release is distributed to selected major publications. The translator selected for this award receives a cash gift, currently set at $2500.

To be eligible for the award, a translation must have been published during the preceding calendar year by a U.S. or Canadian publisher and must be a book-length work, in English, of fiction, poetry, drama, or creative non-fiction (literary criticism and philosophy are not eligible). For nominated books selected as finalists, publishers will be asked to provide an original-language version of the text; any finalist for which no original-language version is provided will be excluded from further consideration. The criteria for judging the award are: (1) the significance of the literary contribution of the original as well as of the translation; and (2) the success of the translation in recreating the artistry of the original. Translations of contemporary works will receive preference, although important retranslations or first-time translations of older works will also be considered to the degree that they make significant contributions to literature.

The deadline for nominating books published in the preceding calendar year is March 31. For each nominated book, send a letter of nomination, four copies of the book, and a $25 entry fee

send: Complete MS

looking for: Novel

specifically: Translation
 
 
Updated May 20th, 2009
Rating-big-rating-one
fee: $25, prize $2500, Deadline is March 31st, 2010

Each year, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) invites publishers to nominate book-length translations, published in the preceding calendar year, for the ALTA National Translation Award. The award-winning book and translator are announced and featured at the annual ALTA conference held each fall, and a press release is distributed to selected major publications. The translator selected for this award receives a cash gift, currently set at $2500.

To be eligible for the award, a translation must have been published during the preceding calendar year by a U.S. or Canadian publisher and must be a book-length work, in English, of fiction, poetry, drama, or creative non-fiction (literary criticism and philosophy are not eligible). For nominated books selected as finalists, publishers will be asked to provide an original-language version of the text; any finalist for which no original-language version is provided will be excluded from further consideration.

The criteria for judging the award are: (1) the significance of the literary contribution of the original as well as of the translation; and (2) the success of the translation in recreating the artistry of the original. Translations of contemporary works will receive preference, although important retranslations or first-time translations of older works will also be considered to the degree that they make significant contributions to literature.

The deadline for nominating books published in the preceding calendar year is March 31. For each nominated book, send a letter of nomination, four copies of the book, and a $25 entry fee

send: Complete MS

looking for: Poetry

specifically: Translation
 
 
Updated October 14th, 2009
Rating-big-rating-one
fee: no fee, word count: 60‑90 pages, prize $500, Deadline is March 31st, 2010

This competition is open to African American poets only. If you have already had a book published by Lotus Press, you are ineligible. However, inclusion in a Lotus Press anthology does not disqualify you.

Any other serious African American poet, whether previously published or not, may submit a book length manuscript for consideration. Poems submitted by another person, anthologies, or collaborations by more than one poet are not eligible.

The poems in the manuscript should total approximately 60‑90 pages, exclusive of a table of contents or other optional introductory material. Begin each poem on a new page, no matter how short it may be, and number the pages.

Poems that have been published individually in periodicals or anthologies are acceptable, but we will not consider an entire collection that has been previously published, whether self‑published or not.

Manuscripts entered in the Madgett competition may not be submitted to other publishers for general consideration but may be submitted to other competitions as long as you notify us that you have done so or plan to do so. If you are notified that your manuscript has won another competition, you MUST inform us of this immediately.

Send two complete copies of your manuscript, typed or computer‑generated on white, letter‑size paper, with the pages consecutively numbered, to the address below. Do not include your name on any of the pages. Include with each copy a cover sheet which contains the title of the collection only and no other information.

On one separate sheet of paper, list: (1) the title of the manuscript; (2) your name, address, telephone number(s) and e‑mail address, if you have one; and (3) a brief statement signed with your legal name, indicating that (a) all the poems in the collection are original and uncollected (not appearing in a published volume of your work) and (b) you are an African American.

Enclose a stamped, self‑addressed post card so that we may acknowledge receipt of your material.

Award entries must be received between January 2 and March 31, 2010. You will be notified of the winner's and the judges' names no later than June 1, 2010. The decision of the judges is final.

The award winner will receive $500 in cash and publication of the manuscript by Lotus Press, Inc. early in 2011.

send: Complete MS

looking for: Poetry

specifically: African-American
 
 
Updated October 14th, 2009
Rating-big-rating-three
fee: $12, word count: <5000, prize $2000, Deadline is March 31st, 2010

Welcome to Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest sponsored by Tom Howard Books. Any type of original short story, essay or other work of prose is eligible. Judge: John H. Reid

Submit: Short stories, essays or other works of prose, up to 5,000 words each. There are no restrictions on style or theme. Each entry should be your own original work. You may submit the same work simultaneously to this contest and to others, and you may submit works that have been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights.

First prize: $2,000. Second prize: $1,000. Third prize: $500. Fourth prize: $250. There will also be five High Distinction Awards of $200 each, and five Most Highly Commended Awards of $100 each.

Please include a cover sheet with your submission. It should note your name, address, phone number, email address (if you have one) and the titles of your entries.

send: Complete MS

looking for: Article

 
 
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