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Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers Deadline: October 31, 2018 1st place wins $2,500, publication in Glimmer Train and 10 copies. 2nd place wins $500, or if chosen for publication, $700. 3rd place wins $300, or if chosen for publication, $700. (All submissions are considered for publication.) ►Please note: This is Glimmer Train’s last New Writer contest of the year. The next—and final one—will be held in March/April 2019. Open only to emerging writers who haven’t had fiction appear in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine.)… Read Article →

$750 New Letters Publication Award in Fiction Deadline: October 28, 2018 (@ midnight PST) 2018 Story Topic: Children For more information and to submit, visit http://newletters.org/writers-wanted/october-fiction-award

The Crambo is accepting submissions! The Crambo welcomes submissions of poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, screenplays, cartoons, short graphic fiction, and visual art. Graduate students from any university are welcome to submit. All work must be original, previously unpublished, and in English. They do not accept simultaneous submissions. It is the author’s responsibility to retract their submission if their work is accepted by another publication. Please feel free to submit as many pieces as you wish. Please create separate submissions for different genres (poetry, fiction, art, etc.). The submission process: Read and accept Article Submission Agreement. Provide… Read Article →

The Sonora Review is pleased to announce that it is open to contest submissions for Issue 75: DESIRE until November 5th.    Sonora Review is run entirely by graduate students in the MFA program at the University of Arizona. They are among the oldest student-run literary journals in the country, and the SR has been devoted since its founding in 1980 to offering a venue for exciting new and emerging authors, as well as prominent southwestern writers and artists.   Guidelines: The theme is DESIRE. For a sense of what they are looking for, please see the contest submissions preview. Include a cover letter with a brief biography, your… Read Article →

Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest: Two Weeks Left! Just over two short weeks remain to enter Boston Review‘s poetry contest! This year’s contest will close on June 1st and will be judged by Mary Jo Bang. Boston Review has long been home to award-winning and critically-lauded poetry, publishing poets such as John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Anne Carson, Major Jackson, Juan Felipe Herrera, and many more. Submit your entry today for the chance to join their ranks! With your entry, you will receive a complimentary copy of Boston Review’s forthcoming literary issue. Enter by June 1,… Read Article →

The winner of the Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize will receive $2,500 and publication in an upcoming issue of American Short Fiction. Submissions will be open until June 1, 2018. General Guidelines – Submit your entry online between March 8, 2018 and June 1, 2018. – The winner will receive a $2,500 prize and publication in an upcoming issue of American Short Fiction. – Please submit your $20 entry fee and your work through Submittable.  International submissions in English are eligible. The entry fee covers one 6,500 word fiction submission. – All entries must be single, self-contained… Read Article →

CALYX is looking for new and emerging poets from different demographics. The winner will receive $300 cash and publication in CALYX Journal Vol. 31:2, Winter 2019. Three runners-up will receive a one-issue subscription and publication on the CALYX website. The contest runs from now through June 30, 2018 and is open to any theme or subject. Please submit up to 3 poems (6 pages maximum) of unpublished poetry (both online and hard copy submissions are accepted). There is a $15 reading fee. Further details are attached, and full guidelines can be found on their website at http://calyxpress.org/LoisPrize.html All women-identified poets are encouraged to enter.  

CONTEST GUIDELINES  Emerging writers are welcome in ALL categories, but this category is exclusively open to writers whose fiction has not appeared, nor is scheduled to appear, in any print publication with a circulation over 5000. (Entries must not have appeared in any print publication.) Most entries run from 800 – 4000 words, but any lengths up to 12,000 words are welcome. PRIZES 1st place wins $2500, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 10 copies. 2nd place wins $500, or, if chosen for publication, $700 and 10 copies. 3rd place wins $300, or, if chosen… Read Article →

The deadline for submissions to the 2018 John R. Milton Writers’ Conference at the University of South Dakota has been extended to June 1, 2018.  Additional information about speakers and registration is available at: www.usd.edu/miltonconference.   This year’s conference theme is “This Lonely Frontier: Exploring Boundaries of Space, Identity, and Genre,” and confirmed keynote and featured speakers include Percival Everett, Ellen Forney, Karen Salyer McElmurray, and Erika Wurth.