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The GCWA Magnolia Quarterly Contest is open for Fall 2009
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SPS STUDIOS BIANNUAL POETRY CARD CONTEST
NO ENTRY FEE

Deadline June 30, 2009
1st prize: $300. 2nd prize: $150. 3rd prize: $50.
Poems can be rhyming or non-rhyming, although we find
that non-rhyming poetry reads better.

2009 Autumn House Poetry Prize and Autumn House Fiction Prize
Postmark Deadline: June 30

The winners will receive book publication, a $1,000 advance against royalties, and a $1,500 travel grant to participate in the 2009 Autumn House Master Authors Series in Pittsburgh. All finalists will be considered for publication. Final judge for the Poetry Prize is Alicia Ostriker. Final judge for the Fiction Prize is Sharon Dilworth.
 All full-length collections of poetry 50-80 pages are eligible. Fiction submissions should be approximately 200-300 pages. All fiction sub-genres (short stories, short-shorts, novellas, or any combination of sub-genres) are eligible. Include a stamped, self-addressed envelope (SASE) for contest results. Autumn House Press assumes no responsibility for lost or damaged manuscripts. All entries must be clearly marked "Poetry Prize" or "Fiction Prize" on the outside envelope. $25 entry fee (check or money order) must be enclosed. Send manuscript and fee to: Autumn House Press, P.O. Box 60100, Pittsburgh, PA 15211

L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest

PO Box 1630, Los Angeles, CA 90078.

Deadline: 06/30/09.

Entry Fee: none. First prize: $1,000.

Type: Fantasy, dark fantasy, science fiction (short stories, 17,000 words MAX).

The Tallahatchie RiverFest

The deadline to enter work is June 30, 2009

 held in historic downtown New Albany, celebrates the heritage of our region by encouraging and promoting the arts. We celebrate the creative spirit of the artists, craftsmen, writers and musicians whose roots are deep within the region through which this river flows. As the birthplace of novelist William Faulkner, it is appropriate for New Albany to recognize his achievements and encourage others to explore individual expressions through the written word.
2009 William Faulkner Awards for short fiction writing competition and the one-act playwriting competition.
ADULT AND COLLEGE SHORT STORY COMPETITION
The adult and college short story competition is open to all age 18 and older. The work must be original, unpublished short fiction with no more than 5,000 words.  The entry fee is $10 per work. First place carries an award of $100, second place carries an award of $50, and third place carries an award of $25.

STUDENT SHORT STORY COMPETITION
In the student competition the short story must be the original, unpublished work of a high school student in grades 9 - 12. The competition is free for high school students. First place carries an award of $100, and the second place award is $50. We will give a third place award of $25.
One Act Playwriting Competition
This will be the 6th year that the Tallahatchie RiverFest will incorporate one act playwriting into the literary competition of the festival. First place carries an award of $100, second place  No script will be accepted postage due. Send original unpublished one act play and four copies of manuscript on a disk. The original copy must include a cover page with title, name, address, and phone number for notifying winners. Additional copies should include only the title of the entry. Lost, misplaced, or misdirected entries are not the responsibility of the sponsor. No script will be returned and only winners will be notified.

The 4th Annual Dixie Kane Memorial Contest

Deadline: July 1.
The Southern Louisiana (SOLA) Chapter of the Romance Writers of America, Inc., a nonprofit literary organization, kicks off its 4th Annual Dixie Kane Memorial writing contest this week with a deadline date of July 1.  Top prize is $50 plus a certificate.  Other prizes consist of 1st, 2nd, 3rd place, and honorable mention certificates and final round judges by literary editor Kate Duffy and literary agent Pamela Ahearn.  Send the first five pages of your complete or incomplete manuscript.  The entry does not necessarily have to be romance.  For more information and entry form, go to http://www.solawriters.org  or email the contest coordinator at   ngenovese@gmail.com.

ALEHOUSE PRESS HAPPY HOUR AWARDS

Postmark Deadline: July 1, 2009

$15 ENTRY FEE FOR THREE POEMS.

$1,000 prize for best poem. $100 for four runners up.

 Contest open to all poets across the country and around the world. Maximum length:  40 lines per poem. Any topic. Any form.

All entries considered for publication in the 2010 issue of Alehouse.

CHEERIOS SPOONFULS OF STORIES CHILDREN'S BOOK CONTEST

NO ENTRY FEE

Deadline: July 15, 2009

Cheerios® is searching for the next great children's book author. It could be you! Just enter your original children's book story by July 15, 2009. Limit 500 words. The Cheerios New Author Contest encourages aspiring authors to write and submit an original story for a book for children ages 3 to 8.

One (1) Grand Prize of $5,000 cash will be awarded.  In addition to the cash prize, the Grand Prize winning story submission will be offered to a reputable Children's Book Publishing company for possible future publication. Two (2) First Prizes of $1,000 each will be awarded.  The $1,000 First Prizes will be awarded as checks made payable to each of the two (2) First Prize winners. You are not eligible to enter and will be disqualified if you are a professional writer, such as a novelist, magazine, blogger or newspaper writer who writes books or articles for pay, or you have authored a work of fiction that has been published or is about to be published in exchange for payment.

DYNAMIC DIALOGUE CONTEST
Deadline: July 15, 2009 - NO ENTRY FEE
Share your characters' gift of gab. Write a complete story--not a scene--that consists of pure dialogue. No narrative whatsoever, not even a he said or she replied. If it isn't spoken, and within quotation marks, it can't be on the page. Grand prize $100. Length may be up to 1,000 words. But not a word more. (Your contact information and your title are not included in the word count.) Entries must be original and unpublished.

HOUSTON WRITERS GUILD NOVEL CONTEST

Deadline July 30, 2009

Any genre. $500 first prize. Submit first ten pages of your novel, book, screenplay plus a synopsis. English only. Opened to all unpublished and not under contract novelists and screenwriters anywhere in the world.

Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest

P.O. Box 3141, Chicago, IL 60654.

Deadline: 07/31/2009
Entry fee: $5 per poem, $10 per short story. First prize: Poetry/$250, Writing/$500
Type: Poetry (1 poem/30 lines MAX), prose (1 short story, 5 pages MAX)

Deadline: 08/01/09.
Submit to: Rattle. E-mail (via pasted-in text) to: submissions@rattle.com.
Theme: Sonnets. --  Type: Poetry and essays (5,000 words MAX).
URL: http://www.rattle.com/callsforsubs.htm

THE NEW ESQUIRE FICTION CONTEST

NO ENTRY FEE

All entries are due by midnight of August 1,

The story must be based on one of three titles.

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. Your story cannot exceed 4,000 words. We are serious about that, too. You may submit only one story.  2009 and must be submitted electronically at http://esquiresubmissions.com. First prize: publication in Esquire and $2,500.

MEMPHIS MAGAZINE FICTION CONTEST

 Entries must be postmarked by August 1, 2009.

$10 ENTRY FEE

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. Authors must live within 150 miles of Memphis.Stories
should be between 3,000 and 4,500 words. Stories are NOT required to have a Memphis or Southern theme.

THERESA A. WHITE LITERARY AWARD
$12 ENTRY FEE

Deadline August 1, 2009

Limit 500 words prose. First Prize: $500 and publication in the Spring/Summer 2010 print issue of Quiddity as well as public-radio broadcast (offered via WUIS, NPR member and PRI affiliate) Honorable mentions may also be offered publication and broadcast.

FLATMANCROOKED CONTEST
$15 ENTRY FEE
1st place receives $1,000 and publication in the final anthology of '08/'09 season. Top 10 finalists will also be published in the final anthology and get special recognition on the website. The first 50 people to enter get a copy of Flatmancrooked's First Winter, which features new fiction from Jorge Luis Borges and National Book Award-winner, Ha Jin. Entries must be submitted via the online form by midnight (PST) on August 15, 2009. Paper entries will not be read, only recycled. Entries must be original, primarily in English, previously unpublished and unawarded.

PAST LOVES DAY CONTEST
NO ENTRY FEE
Deadline August 16, 2009
To foster awareness of PAST LOVES DAY, September 17, Spruce Mountain Press is sponsoring its 3rd annual Past Loves Day Story Contest. Write your true story of an earlier love, in no more than 700 words. Your story may be heart-warming or humorous.
Just tell it as if you were talking to a good friend.
First Prize: $100, Second Prize: $75, Third Prize: $50, Honorable Mention(s)

Announcing the call for entries into the third annual

Moonbeam Children's Book Awards

 designed to honor the year's best children's books, authors and illustrators. The new book awards program is accepting entries until August 22nd, 2009 for books with 2008 or 2009 copyrights or that were released in 2008 or 2009, and is open to authors, illustrators, and publishers of children's books written in English or Spanish and intended for the North American market.

Gulf Coast's 2nd Annual Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose

Deadline: August 31, 2009.

Entry fee: $15 (includes a one-year subscription)

Prize: $500 and publication in the upcoming issue of Gulf Coast for one prose poem, micro-essay, or piece of flash fiction. Mary Robison will select the winner. Can submit up to three unpublished prose poems, short stories, or micro-essays no more than 500 words.

The GCWA Magnolia Quarterly Contest is closed for Fall 2009
September 1, 2009
Horticulture Magazine Contest
Prizes: First Place: $250 each
Second Place: $100 each
Third Place: $50 each
 The names and poems of the First Place winners will be printed in an upcoming issue of Horticulture magazine. Afterwards, the names and poem titles of all winners and honorable mentions will be posted on www.hortmag.com.
 Entry Deadline: September 1, 2009
NEWPORT REVIEW FLASH FICTION CONTEST
ENTRY FEE $7
Stories will be considered from June through the postmark deadline of September 1, 2009. Seeking 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. Stories limited up to a maximum of 1,000 words.
First Prize: $150 and publication
Second Prize: $100 and publication
Third Prize: $50 and publication
Honorable Mention: Publication

Planet Earth Awards 2010
San Francisco, CA (June 15, 2009) - A professional organization, the Bay Area Travel Writers (BATW) announces the second biennial travel book and travel article competition for writers from around the country and the world. Travel journalists, writers and authors are welcome to enter Planet Earth Awards 2010 with works of this description:
Travel writing that helps to sustain or enhance the unique and valuable character of a place--its environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage, and/or the well-being of its residents.

Categories: Best Travel Article or Essay for Planet Earth, Best Travel Book for Planet Earth

Submission deadline: September 1, 2009
Submissions accepted: between July 1 & September 1
Prizes: $200 Gold, $100 Silver and $50 Bronze in each category

High Prairie Poets

New Mexico State Poetry Society Bi-Monthly Contests

Open to All Poets

July 20th, Sept 20th, etc.

Manuscript:  Poems must be in English, aligned on left margin of paer, 12 point font, Don't "CAP" titles.

Line LImit:  32 lines. Entry Fee:  $3 first poem $1 each additional

Prizes:  $25, $10, $5, 3 HM.  None are published

Submission:  Two copies of each poem, one with name, address and title of poem, the other just with poem.  No cover letter or bio.  No obscene language

Notification:  10th of following month.

Address:  Carol Dee Meeks, Silver Arrow Estates, 2601 South Elm Place, Apt. #108, Broken Arrow, OK, 74012

ORLANDO PRIZES by AROHO
$15 ENTRY FEE
The Orlando Prizes are limited to women writers who are U.S.
citizens. Four categories - $1,000 awards in each category.
Short Fiction - Deadline September 1, 2009. Maximum 20 pages.
Nonfiction - Deadline September 1, 2009. Maximum 25 pages.
Poetry - Deadline October 1, 2009. Maximum 90 lines.
Sudden Fiction - Deadline October 1, 2009. Maximum 1,000 words.

LIFE LESSONS CONTEST
NO ENTRY FEE

Deadline September 7, 2009.
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.  Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, age 19 or older at time of entry. Limit one entry per person or e-mail account. Essays should be submitted in English at a maximum of 1,500 words and typed and double-spaced on 8˝-by-11-inch paper.

FRESH BLOOD CONTEST
NO ENTRY FEE
Leisure Books is partnering with Rue Morgue magazine in association with horror fiction web site ChiZine, to present "Fresh Blood," a new writing contest specifically for unpublished horror authors. The winner will receive a contract for publication in Leisure's 2011 lineup, as well as a contract from ChiZine Publications for a limited-edition hardcover release, also in 2011. Leisure is looking for finished horror novel manuscripts, either supernatural or non-supernatural, of 80,000 - 90,000 words. Entries should be sent to Submissions@dorchesterpub.com by
September 30, 2009.  "Fresh Blood" must appear in the subject line of the email.

2009 RROFIHE TROPHY
$10 ENTRY FEE
For an unpublished short story up to 5,000 words. Winner receives $500 cash, trophy. publication in Open City.
Deadline October 15, 2009. MARKET:
Burning River only publishes 1-2 prose or poetry chapbooks/ year with the intent of giving authors deserved attention and also, for our own resources sake.
If you’re an author who would like his or her work considered, please e-mail the 20-30 pg. manuscript with a brief bio to chapbook@burningriver.info.
Please allow 4-6 weeks for response and we do not accept simultaneous submssions at this time.  The work may have pieces copywritten by other publishers, but not the work as a whole.

Whim's Place Flash Fiction Contest

Deadline: QUARTERLY *  Entry Fee: $5

Prize: $250 plus publication

A quarterly flash fiction contest. Deadlines for each quarter are March 30, June 30, September 30, December 30. Submit flash fiction of 500 words or less. Submit by regular post or e-mail. Full contest rules and regulations available on website.

LORIAN HEMINGWAY SHORT STORY COMPETITIONS

"Life for Change"

seeks stories for a new type of contest. People write their story, others vote for it, and the author of the story with the most votes wins a payout.

 Right now payouts are $100 US, but the site aims to award over $12,000 per month.
Take a look and let me know what you think!  http://www.lifeforchange.com/life

Writer's Digest - Contests

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