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| Summer Literary Seminars Kenya and Russia Contest | Updated August 03rd, 2008 |
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Three prizes, valued at $5,150 each, to attend the Summer Literary Seminars program in either Kenya or St. Petersburg, Russia, and publication in Maisonneuve, Walrus, or St. Petersburg Review are given annually for a single poem or a work of fiction or creative nonfiction. The prizes include airfare, accommodations, and tuition. Second prize in each category is full tuition, valued at $2,350, and third prize is a portion of tuition, valued at $1,175. send: Complete MS looking for: Novel |
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| SLS Fiction Poetry Contest | Updated October 28th, 2008 |
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Summer Literary Seminars (SLS: www.sumlitsem.org) is announcing its annual 2009 unified (SLS-Italy, Lithuania, Kenya) literary contest, held this year in affiliation with Fence Magazine. Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in Fence (an established literary journal), as well as the participating literary journals in Canada, Russia, Kenya, Italy, and Lithuania. Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any one of the SLS-09 programs – in Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy (May 15-30); Vilnius-Nida, Lithuania (July 20-August 4); or Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya (December). Contest Deadline: February 28, 2009. Fiction Judge: Lynne Tillman. Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the program of their choice, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount. A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the SLS-09 programs. Reading fee: $15 US. Enter: One short story or novel excerpt, maximum 25 pages per entry. Only previously unpublished work can be submitted. Multiple entries are permissible, as long as they are accompanied by separate reading fees. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story |
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| Writer's Digest Contest | Updated October 16th, 2008 |
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GRAND PRIZE: $3,000 cash and a trip to New York City to meet with editors or agents. Writer's Digest will fly you and a guest to The Big Apple, where you'll spend three days and two nights in the publishing capital of the world. While you're there, a Writer's Digest editor will escort you to meet and share your work with four editors or agents! Plus, you'll receive a free Diamond Publishing Package from Outskirts Press. Compete and Win in 10 Categories! - Inspirational Writing (Spiritual/Religious) - Memoirs/Personal Essay - Magazine Feature Article - Genre Short Story (Mystery, Romance, etc.) - Mainstream/Literary Short Story - Rhyming Poetry - Non-rhyming Poetry - Stage Play - Television/Movie Script - Children's/Young Adult Fiction LENGTH REQUIREMENTS- IMPORTANT- Inspirational Writing: 2,500 words maximum- can be FICTION or NON-FICTION Entry Fee: $15 for the first manuscript; $10 for each additional manuscript submitted in the same online session. Add $2 per manuscript to all entries postmarked after Thursday, May 15, 2008. Entries postmarked after Monday, June 02, 2008, will not be accepted. Entry must be accompanied by an Entry Form, and the required entry fee. If you are entering more than one manuscript, you may mail all entries in the same envelope and write one check for the total entry fee; however, each manuscript must have its category indicated in the upper left-hand corner. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Religious/Inspirational |
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| Writer's Digest Contest | Updated September 02nd, 2008 |
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GRAND PRIZE: $3,000 cash and a trip to New York City to meet with editors or agents. Writer's Digest will fly you and a guest to The Big Apple, where you'll spend three days and two nights in the publishing capital of the world. While you're there, a Writer's Digest editor will escort you to meet and share your work with four editors or agents! Plus, you'll receive a free Diamond Publishing Package from Outskirts Press. Compete and Win in 10 Categories! - Inspirational Writing (Spiritual/Religious) - Memoirs/Personal Essay - Magazine Feature Article - Genre Short Story (Mystery, Romance, etc.) - Mainstream/Literary Short Story - Rhyming Poetry - Non-rhyming Poetry - Stage Play - Television/Movie Script - Children's/Young Adult Fiction LENGTH REQUIREMENTS- IMPORTANT- Children's/Young Adult Fiction: 2,000 words maximum. Entry Fee: $15 for the first manuscript; $10 for each additional manuscript submitted in the same online session. Add $2 per manuscript to all entries postmarked after Thursday, May 15, 2008. Entries postmarked after Monday, June 02, 2008, will not be accepted. Entry must be accompanied by an Entry Form, and the required entry fee. If you are entering more than one manuscript, you may mail all entries in the same envelope and write one check for the total entry fee; however, each manuscript must have its category indicated in the upper left-hand corner. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Children's and YA |
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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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| Intersection for the Arts James D. Phelan Award | Updated August 03rd, 2008 |
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Under the terms of the trusts, the awards are intended to encourage young writers of an unpublished manuscript that is completed or in-progress. All applicants must, therefore, be between 20 and 35 years of age on March 31, 2008. Applicants for the 71st annual James D. Phelan Award must have been born in the state of California but need not be current residents. The unpublished work-in-progress submitted may be fiction (novel or short stories), nonfictional prose, poetry, graphic novel, or drama. Plays may be submitted in standard script format. Eligible writers may submit one application form and three copies of one manuscript to apply for one, two, or all three awards. We will only accept one application and three copies of a single manuscript per writer. There is no application fee. No candidate may win more than one award. Previous winners are ineligible to receive the same award again. Winners will be announced by September 30, 2008. Judges reserve the right to make no awards if, in their view, no manuscripts are worthy. Applications and manuscripts for the 2008 awards will be accepted beginning February 1, 2008. Only submissions received via U.S. or International mail or courier services will be accepted. You may not hand-deliver your submission. Without exception, all submissions must bear an official U.S. or International mail or courier service postmark and be postmarked by March 31, 2008. Do not assume that submissions dropped in a mailbox will be stamped with a timely postmark. Manuscripts must be completely unpublished in its entirety or any parts contained therein. The manuscript must be no longer than 40 (forty) numbered, double-spaced pages (poetry need not be double-spaced), typed or printed on white 8.5 x 11 inch paper. For clarification: manuscripts cannot exceed 40 numbered pages maximum - not 40 double-sided pages, which would be 80 pages total. Manuscripts which are handwritten or are otherwise illegible will not be considered. Please bind manuscripts only with paper or binder clips; please do not use folders. The award judges will use a name-blind process. Manuscripts should be copied on the front and back of each page, and must include a separate cover page that gives the work's title and the length of the manuscript submitted for Award consideration. The applicant's name and address should not appear anywhere on the manuscripts submitted for consideration. Applicants may, however, use the manuscript's title and page numbers on the pages of the manuscript. Manuscripts with inappropriate identifying information will be deemed ineligible. No application will be accepted without the applicant's signature, signifying agreement to the conditions of the competition and verifying the validity of all statements contained therein. Proof of birth, age, and residence may be required and must be furnished within ten days if requested; please do not send or include this information with your application. Award-winning manuscripts become the property of The San Francisco Foundation and will become part of the Foundation's permanent archives located at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. Authors will retain full rights for the publication/distribution of their works. Final Checklist for Submissions 1) Three copies (double-sided) of manuscript (40 pages maximum - not 40 double-sided pages). 2) No name on manuscript. 3) Signature on application form. 4) Postmark on envelope (no later than March 31, 2008). 5) Self-addresses stamped postcard for confirmation of receiving manuscript (optional). send: Complete MS looking for: Novel specifically: Literary |
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| Writer's Digest Contest | Updated June 26th, 2008 |
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GRAND PRIZE: $3,000 cash and a trip to New York City to meet with editors or agents. Writer's Digest will fly you and a guest to The Big Apple, where you'll spend three days and two nights in the publishing capital of the world. While you're there, a Writer's Digest editor will escort you to meet and share your work with four editors or agents! Plus, you'll receive a free Diamond Publishing Package from Outskirts Press. Compete and Win in 10 Categories! - Inspirational Writing (Spiritual/Religious) - Memoirs/Personal Essay - Magazine Feature Article - Genre Short Story (Mystery, Romance, etc.) - Mainstream/Literary Short Story - Rhyming Poetry - Non-rhyming Poetry - Stage Play - Television/Movie Script - Children's/Young Adult Fiction LENGTH REQUIREMENTS- IMPORTANT- Mainstream/Literary Short Story and Genre Short Story: 4,000 words maximum. Entry Fee: $15 for the first manuscript; $10 for each additional manuscript submitted in the same online session. Add $2 per manuscript to all entries postmarked after Thursday, May 15, 2008. Entries postmarked after Monday, June 02, 2008, will not be accepted. Entry must be accompanied by an Entry Form, and the required entry fee. If you are entering more than one manuscript, you may mail all entries in the same envelope and write one check for the total entry fee; however, each manuscript must have its category indicated in the upper left-hand corner. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story |
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| Crazyhorse Fiction Prizes | Updated September 04th, 2008 |
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Each year Crazyhorse offers the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for a single short story. The competition is open, the prize awards are currently $2000 and the winning piece of prose is published in Crazyhorse. More than one manuscript (up to 25 pages each) may be entered. For each fiction or poetry manuscript entered, please include the following reading fee, which includes a one-year/two-issue subscription to Crazyhorse: $16 per manuscript for new entrants, $14 per manuscript if you have entered the Crazyhorse prizes before. For each additional fiction mss entered and entry fee paid, your subscription to Crazyhorse will extend by one year/two issues. Please mail manuscripts and entry fee payment by Dec. 16, 2008. Each entry should have a cover page placed on the top of the manuscript with the entrant’s name, address, e-mail, and telephone number; please do not include identifying information on the manuscript itself, as all manuscript entries are made anonymous for review. Include reading fee payment with each entry: a check written out to “Crazyhorse.” Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for notification of winners; entry manuscripts can not be returned; receipt of entry can only be confirmed by including a self-addressed stamped postcard with your entry or by USPS delivery confirmation. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story specifically: Literary |
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| Intersection for the Arts Joseph Henry Jackson Award | Updated August 03rd, 2008 |
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Under the terms of the trusts, the awards are intended to encourage young writers of an unpublished manuscript that is completed or in-progress. All applicants must, therefore, be between 20 and 35 years of age on March 31, 2008. Applicants for the 51st annual Joseph Henry Jackson Award must be residents of and currently living in northern California (anywhere in California north of the line dividing Monterery County from San Luis Obispo County) or the state of Nevada for three consecutive years immediately prior to the March 31 contest deadline. The unpublished work-in-progress submitted may be fiction (novel or short stories), nonfictional prose, graphic novel, or poetry. Eligible writers may submit one application form and three copies of one manuscript to apply for one, two, or all three awards. We will only accept one application and three copies of a single manuscript per writer. There is no application fee. No candidate may win more than one award. Previous winners are ineligible to receive the same award again. Winners will be announced by September 30, 2008. Judges reserve the right to make no awards if, in their view, no manuscripts are worthy. Applications and manuscripts for the 2008 awards will be accepted beginning February 1, 2008. Only submissions received via U.S. or International mail or courier services will be accepted. You may not hand-deliver your submission. Without exception, all submissions must bear an official U.S. or International mail or courier service postmark and be postmarked by March 31, 2008. Do not assume that submissions dropped in a mailbox will be stamped with a timely postmark. Manuscripts must be completely unpublished in its entirety or any parts contained therein. The manuscript must be no longer than 40 (forty) numbered, double-spaced pages (poetry need not be double-spaced), typed or printed on white 8.5 x 11 inch paper. For clarification: manuscripts cannot exceed 40 numbered pages maximum - not 40 double-sided pages, which would be 80 pages total. Manuscripts which are handwritten or are otherwise illegible will not be considered. Please bind manuscripts only with paper or binder clips; please do not use folders. The award judges will use a name-blind process. Manuscripts should be copied on the front and back of each page, and must include a separate cover page that gives the work's title and the length of the manuscript submitted for Award consideration. The applicant's name and address should not appear anywhere on the manuscripts submitted for consideration. Applicants may, however, use the manuscript's title and page numbers on the pages of the manuscript. Manuscripts with inappropriate identifying information will be deemed ineligible. No application will be accepted without the applicant's signature, signifying agreement to the conditions of the competition and verifying the validity of all statements contained therein. Proof of birth, age, and residence may be required and must be furnished within ten days if requested; please do not send or include this information with your application. Award-winning manuscripts become the property of The San Francisco Foundation and will become part of the Foundation's permanent archives located at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. Authors will retain full rights for the publication/distribution of their works. Final Checklist for Submissions 1) Three copies (double-sided) of manuscript (40 pages maximum - not 40 double-sided pages). 2) No name on manuscript. 3) Signature on application form. 4) Postmark on envelope (no later than March 31, 2008). 5) Self-addresses stamped postcard for confirmation of receiving manuscript (optional). send: Complete MS looking for: Novel specifically: Literary |
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| Crab Orchard Review Fiction Contest | Updated May 27th, 2008 |
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Crab Orchard Review is a biannual journal of creative works published by the Department of English of Southern Illinois University Carbondale featuring new fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and book reviews of small press and university press titles. The Jack Dyer Fiction Prize: One story per $10 entry; a writer may send up to three entries in one genre or a total of three entries if entering all competitions (short story, poetry, and literary non-fiction). One winner and two finalists will be chosen in each category. The three category winners will be published and the finalists offered publication (with a minimum payment of $150) in the Winter/Spring issue of CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW. The winners and finalists will also be announced in the March/April POETS & WRITERS and on the CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW Website. First prize is $1500. send: Complete MS looking for: Short Story |
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