Please review the guidelines for each contest below.
H.O.W. Journal
Fiction Contest
12 Desbrosses Street
New York, NY, 10013
Submissions must be received in the H.O.W. offices by August 15th, 2011.
H.O.W. Journal
Nonfiction Contest
12 Desbrosses Street
New York, NY, 10013
Submissions must be received in the H.O.W. offices by August 15th, 2011.
H.O.W. Journal
Poetry Contest
12 Desbrosses Street
New York, NY, 10013
Submissions must be received in the H.O.W. offices by August 15th, 2011.
Fleeting has teamed up with
Stack to find the best short stories and poetry in the world.
We’re looking for
short stories of up to 1500 words and
poetry of up to 40 lines. As ever, we seek writing that is daring, witty, erudite, lucid and infectious.
The winner will be treated to a year’s subscription to Stack Magazines, a personalised monthly selection of the best independent magazines from the UK, Europe and America.
Two runners-up will receive three months’ each. All winning entries will be published.
Please send your work, plus a short bio, to stack@fleetingmagazine.com. Entry costs £1 per piece.
Send your fee via PayPal.
The Competition closes at midnight on September 30th, 2011. Watch our pages and the Twitter feeds
here and
there for live updates.
We look forward to reading your work.
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The
Tenth Glass Woman Prize reading period is now in effect, from March 22, 2011 through September 21, 2011.
Deadline:
September 21
GUIDELINES FOR The tenth Glass Woman Prize:
The Tenth Glass Woman Prize will be awarded
for a work of short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose) written by a woman. Length: between 50 and 5,000 words.
The top prize for the tenth Glass Woman Prize award is US $500 and possible (but not obligatory) online publication; there will also be one runner up prize of $100 and one runner up prize of $50, together with possible (but not obligatory) online publication.
Subject is open, but must be of significance to women. The criterion is passion, excellence, and authenticity in the woman’s writing voice. Previously published work and simultaneous submissions are OK. Authors retain all copyright is retained by the author.
There is no reading fee.
Previous winners are welcome to submit again for any subsequent prize.
Submission deadline: September 21, 2011 (receipt date). Notification date: on or before December 21, 2011.
The winners will be announced on this web page. Submissions will not be returned, rejected, or otherwise acknowledged except for the winner and results announcement on this web page. I promise that every submission will be read with respect and with commitment to the voices of women in this world.
Only one submission per person per submission period, by email, with
“Glass Woman Prize Submission” in the subject line and the
text pasted in the body of the email (
no attachments!*)
to:
glasswomanprize(AT)gmail(DOT)com
IMPORTANT:
- “Glass Woman Prize Submission” in subject line
- Text in body of email
- Please put your email address in the body of the email as well
I will regretfully ignore and delete submissions of anything other than specified above, for example: submissions with
any kind of attachment*, more than one piece of writing in a given prize reading period, more than 5,000 words, poetry, plays, or submissions without “Glass Woman Prize Submission” in the subject line of the email.
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Writing Contest: A Classic Re-Told
The Salem Literary Festival National Writing Contests returns in 2011!
Call for Manuscripts: June 15, 2011-August 15, 2011
The Salem Literary Festival announces the addition of a national writing contest, offering a $200
prize for the winning work of short fiction on a theme of A Classic Re-Told. Submissions will be read by a panel consisting of members of the Literary Festival Planning Committee and the local literary community; a selection of up to 20 finalists will be forwarded to a judging panel comprised of well-known authors and local legends (TBA). The winning author will be invited to read at the Salem Literary Festival, to be held September 23-25, 2011.
A Classic Re-Told: Choose a childhood fairy tale or story from classic
literature and rewrite it, or mash-up some old favorites with a modern twist!
The Salem Literary Festival Prize will honor an original piece of innovative fiction which
includes sharp dialogue, fully-fleshed-out characters, and an ending that makes us want to talk
about it.
Submission Details: Manuscripts should be a maximum of 3,000 words, consecutively numbered, and double-spacedwith 1” margins. Handwritten manuscripts are not accepted. The title should appear on each page of the manuscript; the author’s name should not. Please include a separate title page with the author’s name, address, phone, and email address; an acknowledgment page or biographical note, if included, should be separate. Translations are not eligible for this award. Previously published works will be considered, but publication should be noted.
Please submit entries electronically via the link below. Submissions must include a $25.00 administrative and reading fee per manuscript. This fee can be paid via PayPal below. Multiple submissions will not be accepted. Entries must be received between June 15 and August 15, 2011
Contest Submission
Contest Submission Payment
Cool Prizes! The winning author will receive a $200 honorarium. In addition, the winning author will be invited to read their piece at the Salem Literary Festival in September 2011, receive feedback from a literary agent, and will be featured in the Salem Gazette, published in the e-magazine Art Throb (http://www.nsartthrob.com/), and the winning story will be posted on the Literary Festival website. Finalists may also be posted on the Literary Festival website. The Salem Literary Festival committee reserves the right to add additional publication,as well as other benefits, to the prize package.
Click on the title to read
SOMETHING REAL FINE by Dann Anthony Maurno, 2010 Salem Literary Festival’s Writing Contest Winner! Congratulations, Dann!
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hayshortstory
Deadline: hayshortstory
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Hay Short Story Competition for 2011. Elizabeth Haycox is again our sponsor and we are looking forward to reading many wonderful stories from you.
This year there is no ‘theme’ – we are simply looking for well-written, imaginative and original stories of no more than 2,000 words.
As ever, we know you will be inventive and imaginative.
*There is no theme for 2011
*The maximum length of submissions is 2,000 words. There is no minimum length.
*Entries will only be accepted as printed typescript, in English, Double-spaced and with numbered pages. Name and contact information should be on the title page ONLY. Entries will be numbered to ensure a fair contest through anonymity.
*Email entries will not be accepted. Please send your entry/entries to : Hay & District Community Support, Oxford Road, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, HR3 5AL.
*The closing date for entries is the 31st July 2011.
*Authors may enter as many stories as they like. There is an entry fee of £6.00 for each story submitted. Cheques should be payable to Hay & District Community Support. Each submission must be accompanied by an entry form.
*Entries will not be returned. Please keep a copy. No corrections or alterations can be made after receipt, and no fees can be refunded.
*The Hay Short Story Contest is not responsible for the loss or damage of any entries.
*The prizes are as follows: 1st prize £400, 2nd £200, 3rd £100.
*Winners will be announced at the Hay Winter Festival in December 2011. The results will be published on this website, if you would like to be informed by post please send a SAE marked “winners” to Hay & District Community Support, Oxford Road, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, HR3 5AL.
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Debut Novel Competition
Deadline: 14 August
Are you an unpublished writer?
With a piping-hot manuscript ready to blow readers’ socks off?
If you can answer ‘yes’ to both of those questions, then we want to hear from you. This is our first debut novel competition, with publication for the winning book scheduled for 2012. All being well, we are keen to make this an annual competition, but there are various factors which need to be considered before we can commit to that. For now, though, let’s look at this year’s event.
Being a new, small publisher, we’re reliant on attracting submissions from unpublished writers. We are working closely with a couple of writers at the moment with a view to publishing their novels and giving new writers their breakthrough chance is something very close to our hearts. It’s that ethos which has given rise to this debut novel competition. There is a lot of top quality fiction out there which needs a platform and we want to give one writer the opportunity to make a name for themselves.
Below are the rules for this year’s competition. If anything isn’t clear, or if you have a question not answered by the rules, please drop us a line at submissions@nemesispublishing.com
One final note – you will see that we are not charging an entry fee for this competition. We thought long and hard about this – there is, of course, an investment in our time in running such a competition, not least in reading each submission. However, as just about every writing competition has an entry fee attached, and because (in our experience) unpublished writers don’t have huge stashes of cash hidden around the house, we didn’t feel it was appropriate to charge for something that, ultimately, we hope to make some money on. It just doesn’t sit right, least not for our first attempt.
So, here you are…
THE RULES
1. Closing date for receipt of entries is midnight (London) on 14 August 2011.
2. Entrants must be over 16 years old.
3. There are no restrictions on the length of manuscript. However, ideally they should fall within the 70,000-130,000 range. A manuscript won’t be rejected if it falls outside these guidelines, but length may be an influencing factor when choosing a winner. Please submit your full manuscript when entering.
4. All entries must be accompanied by a synopsis of no more than 1,000 words and an author bio of no more than 500 words.
5. There is no restriction on genre.
6. There is no geographical restriction on entry, but all entries should be in English.
7. Entries can be submitted by post or online, although to save trees, we’d prefer to receive the latter. Postal entries must be typed and and all entries must be double-spaced. Address for postal entries:
Nemesis Publishing, Debut Novel Competition 2011, 62 Ballacriy Park, Colby, Isle of Man, IM9 4LX. Email entries should be sent to
submissions@nemesispublishing.com with ‘Debut Novel Competition 2011’ and the title of your manuscript in the subject box.
8. Authors may enter only one manuscript. There is NO payment fee for this competition. It is free to enter.
9. Entries will not be returned. Please keep a copy. No corrections or alterations can be made after receipt.
10. Manuscripts must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been previously published or broadcast or placed in another writing competition. Any entry found to have been plagiarised will be disqualified. Simultaneous submissions are welcome – but please let us know as soon as possible if your manuscript is to be published elsewhere or has been placed in another debut novel competition.
11. Entrants must not have written a novel published under a valid ISBN.
12. If you require acknowledgement of receipt of your postal entry then please enclose a stamped addressed postcard marked ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Online entries will be acknowledged by email.
13. A shortlist of six manuscripts will be announced by 15 October 2011, with the winning manuscript announced by 30 November 2011.
14. The winning author will retain worldwide copyright on their work (including film and dramatic rights). Nemesis Publishing will hold first publication rights (print, audio and e-book). Exact publication details will be finalized once the winner has been chosen, but it’s envisaged that the winning manuscript will initially receive UK print publication and worldwide e-book publication.
15. Entry implies an acceptance of all the Nemesis Publishing Debut Novel rules. Entries that fail to comply with the entry rules and requirements will be disqualified.
16. Entries that are illegible or received after the closing date will not be considered. Nemesis is not responsible for delayed or lost entries. Proof of postage is not proof of receipt.
17. Events may occur that render the publication of the winning entry impossible due to reasons beyond the control of Nemesis, and Nemesis may, at its absolute discretion, vary, amend, suspend or withdraw the winning prize of publication with or without notice.
18. The winning author agrees to Nemesis using their name, country of residence and photograph in relation to publicity material and activities.
19. Nemesis will use the personal details of entrants only for the purposes of this competition. Personal details will not be kept on file by the Publisher and will not be passed onto any third parties.
20. The decision of Nemesis is final and no correspondence will be entered into in relation to the competition.
