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| Writer's Digest Short Short Story Contest | Updated September 24th, 2008 |
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We're looking for fiction that's bold, brilliant...but brief. Send us your best in 1,500 words or fewer. But don't be too long about it—the deadline is December 1, 2008. First Place: $3,000 Second Place: $1,500 Third Place: $500 The First-Place winner has the option of a FREE "Best Seller Publishing Package" from Trafford Publishing, a leading provider of book-publishing services. Winners' names will appear in the May/June 2009 issue of Writer's Digest magazine. Send entry form, short story, payment, and SASE. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard with your entry if you want to be notified of its receipt. Entries outside the word limitation will be disregarded. Type the word count on the first page of your entry along with your name, address, phone number and email address. The entry fee is $12 per manuscript. You may enter as many manuscripts as you wish. Winners will be notified by February 13, 2009. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Flash Fiction |
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| tags: $1000+ prize Fiction contest flash fiction horror literary mystery novel excerpt romance sci-fi short story thriller western womens fiction | |
| Passages North Just Desserts Short-Short Fiction Prize | Updated August 03rd, 2008 |
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The Northern Michigan's literary magazine, Passages North, is awarding $1000 and publication to a short short story of no more than 1000 words. First Prize: $1000 Two Honorable Mentions 1000-word maximum Entry Fee: $10 for up to two stories Judge: Liza Wieland Deadline: FEBRUARY 15, 2008 All entrants receive contest issue. Send SASE for announcement of winners. Make checks payable to Northern Michigan University. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Flash Fiction |
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| tags: $1000+ prize Fiction contest flash fiction literary literary magazine low entry fee magazine publication short story | |
| New South Writing Contest | Updated October 05th, 2008 |
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New South publishes quality literary art promoting the work of emerging and established writers. New South holds no subject biases. The staff will select the best work regardless of style or genre. Two prizes, one in Fiction and the other in Poetry will be awarded to a US writer. Fiction Prize First Place: $1000 Second Place: $250 Deadline: All entries must be postmarked by March 4, 2008 Reading Fee: $15.00 per entry Each entry must include the following: • A check or money order (NO CASH) made payable to GSU (or Georgia State University) for fifteen dollars ($15). Entry fee includes a copy of the Spring / Summer 2008 issue, which will contain the winning entries. • A cover letter with a 3 to 4-line bio, title(s) of the work submitted, and your name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. • SASE for result notification. We recycle all manuscripts. Address fiction submissions to Jody Brooks, Fiction Editor. Manuscripts must be typed or letter quality printed. Include name, address, phone, email, & word count on the first page of the manuscript only. Submissions should not exceed 7500 words. Short-short stories are welcome. Submit one (1) short story per $15 Reading Fee Simultaneous submissions considered with notification. All rights revert to author after publication. Current students, staff, and faculty at Georgia State University are not eligible. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Literary |
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| tags: $1000+ prize Fiction contest flash fiction literary low entry fee publication short story university review | |
| New Millennium Awards for Short-Short Fiction | Updated May 23rd, 2008 |
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New Millennium Awards for Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction are sponsored by New Millennium Writings. Winners and selected finalists published in the 2008 issue New Millennium Writings, which you will receive for entering. Winners will also be published online at this web site. Send submissions any time between now and midnight, June 17, 2008 . Simultaneous & multiple submissions are welcome. Put name, address, phone, email, and category entered on the first page of each entry. A $17 reading fee is required for each entry. Winners of NMW Awards are showcased along with interviews and profiles of famous writers such as Ken Kesey, John Updike, Lee Smith, Cormac McCarthy, Lucille Clifton, Shelby Foote, Paul West, Norman Mailer, Sharyn McCrumb, William Kennedy and tributes to writers for the ages, including Faulkner, Hemingway, Dickinson, Keats, Percy, Warren and others. Short-Short Fiction Prize should total no more than 1,000 words. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Flash Fiction |
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| New Millennium Awards for Short-Short Fiction | Updated May 23rd, 2008 |
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New Millennium Awards for Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction are sponsored by New Millennium Writings. Winners and selected finalists published in the 2008 issue New Millennium Writings, which you will receive for entering. Winners will also be published online at this web site. Send submissions any time between now and midnight, June 17, 2008 . Simultaneous & multiple submissions are welcome. Put name, address, phone, email, and category entered on the first page of each entry. A $17 reading fee is required for each entry. Winners of NMW Awards are showcased along with interviews and profiles of famous writers such as Ken Kesey, John Updike, Lee Smith, Cormac McCarthy, Lucille Clifton, Shelby Foote, Paul West, Norman Mailer, Sharyn McCrumb, William Kennedy and tributes to writers for the ages, including Faulkner, Hemingway, Dickinson, Keats, Percy, Warren and others. Each Fiction entry should total no more than 6,000 words. Previously published pieces OK if online or under 5,000 print circulation. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story |
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| Katherine Anne Porter Prize | Updated August 04th, 2008 |
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The University of North Texas Press announces the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. The winner of this annual award will receive $1000 and publication by UNT Press. Entries will be judged by an eminent writer. Entries can be a combination of short-shorts, short stories, and novellas, from 100 to 200 book pages in length (word count between 27,500 and 50,000). Material should be previously unpublished in book form. Please include two cover sheets: one with title only, and one with title, your name, address, e-mail, phone, and acknowledgment of any previously published material. Your name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript except on the one cover page. Manuscripts for the 2009 award should be postmarked between July 1 and August 29, 2008. The winning manuscript will be announced in January 2009. Manuscripts cannot be returned and must be accompanied by a $25 entry fee (payable to UNT Press) and a letter-sized SASE for notification. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Literary |
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| The Calvino Prize | Updated July 02nd, 2008 |
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The Calvino Prize is an annual fiction competition sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Louisville. They will be awarded to outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino. Please note that these prizes are meant to encourage experimental writing, in the mode of Calvino, and are not meant to encourage merely imitative work. First Place: $1000 and Publication Second Place: $300 The first place entry will be published in the Salt Hill Journal of Syracuse University. Further, the winner will be invited to read the winning entry, all expenses paid, at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference held at the University of Louisville every February. The 15 finalists will be posted on the website 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 except 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 do not send publication history of the author. Deadline: October 15, 2008. Winner announced December 15, 2008. The entry fee is $25 and should be made payable to: The University of Louisville. 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, 2008. 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 pace winners have no restrictions. send: Complete MS looking for: Novel specifically: Literary |
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| The Calvino Prize | Updated July 02nd, 2008 |
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The Calvino Prize is an annual fiction competition sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Louisville. They will be awarded to outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino. Please note that these prizes are meant to encourage experimental writing, in the mode of Calvino, and are not meant to encourage merely imitative work. First Place: $1000 and Publication Second Place: $300 The first place entry will be published in the Salt Hill Journal of Syracuse University. Further, the winner will be invited to read the winning entry, all expenses paid, at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference held at the University of Louisville every February. The 15 finalists will be posted on the website 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 except 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 do not send publication history of the author. Deadline: October 15, 2008. Winner announced December 15, 2008. The entry fee is $25 and should be made payable to: The University of Louisville. 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, 2008. 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 pace winners have no restrictions. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Literary |
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| Opium Magazine Shya Scanlon 7-Line Contest | Updated June 17th, 2008 |
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Write a story that is seven lines or less within margins that are 8.5" or less. Fiction, non-fiction, prose poetry or any other excellence is allowed. The winning story, along with a handful of finalists, will appear in Opium7 which will debut on Oct. 6. The Deadline: August 15, 2008 The Reward: $1,000, and publication in Opium7. The Cost: $10 for a single entry; $17.50 for two Online entry only. looking for: Short Story specifically: Flash Fiction |
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| Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose | Updated November 17th, 2008 |
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Submit up to 3 previously unpublished prose poems or short stories, each no more than 500 words in length. Your name and address should appear on the cover letter only. All entries will be eligible for publication, though only 1 will receive the $500 prize. Include a SASE for results. Your $15 reading fee, payable to Gulf Coast, will include a 1-year subscription. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Flash Fiction |
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