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Inspired by Tagore
Any writer from the age of 8 onwards, with an interest in South Asian Culture, can enter.
There are 2 categories: one for writers aged between 8 and 15, one for writers aged 16 and over. Please state your age on your entry form.
Entries can be poetry, short stories, reportage, and writers can submit up to 6 pieces of work, maximum length 400 words, using Tagore’s poetry and writing as a starting point.
Each piece must be given a title and must be in English.
Entries must not have been published or broadcast previously, and must be the original work of the author. Please note entries cannot be returned under any circumstances.
The closing date is 31 January 2012.
Completed entry forms should be emailed to: inspiredbytagore@sampad.org.uk
or printed off and posted to
sampad, c/o mac, Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston, Birmingham B12 9QH, UK
Results
All winners will be notified by May 2012. The winning entries will be published in a book that will be launched in 2012 and winners will be given a copy of this book.
There will be a special prize for the overall winners:
Best writer in 8 to 15 category will receive £200 and best writer in 16 and over category will receive £300. All winning writers will be published.
Copyright
The copyright of each piece remains with the author. Authors of the winning works will grant sampad the right to publish or broadcast the works. Other uses of the pieces are subject to permission from sampad.
Note
The judges’ decision is final. No other correspondence will be entered into.
http://www.sampad.org.uk/
http://www.sampad.org.uk/learning/opportunities/competitions/
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Serendipity Poetry Competition
Happy, unexpected, accidental discoveries - amazing coincidences - the magic of Serendipity.
Entry form details and rules:-
PRIZES:- 1st £100 2nd £50 3rd £25
JUDGED by the Thynks Team
Rules;-
For postal entries:-
1.Entries will be disqualified if not in accordance with the rules.
2.Poems MUST be your own work with your copyright, not more than 40 lines.
3.Each poem must have a title.
4.Deadline is january 31st 2012.
5.Winners to be announced on March 31st 2012 and prize monies distributed. The prizewinners will have their poems published in the 2nd Bards for Blidworth Anthology in 2012.
6.Copyright remains with the poets.
7.Poems sent by post to be typed or clearly printed on A4 white paper with a title but not poet's name. The poet's name, address, phone number, email if applicable, should be written on the entry form below, or a copy of it,
along with the title(s) of the poem(s). Poems sent online see below***
8.The entry fee of £3 per poem needs to be enclosed. UK Cheques or postal orders are acceptable (no cash) and should be made out to 'Thynks Publications Limited.' Poets paying in foreign currencies will need to enter online.***Click here to make an online entry.
10.Correspondence cannot be entered into. The Judges decisions are final.
11.Entries cannot be returned, so poets should keep copies of their work.
12.Competitors who would like acknowledgement of receipt or notification of winning entries can enclose stamped addressed envelope(s) marked 'Receipt' or 'Results' . (You will be informed by email if you have given your email address so SAE's won't be necessary).
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If sending by post please cut and paste the entry form below into a Word document and print off to send with your entry.
....................................................................................................Please complete this form and send with your 1.poems, 2.entry fee, 3.entry slip, 4.SAE's (optional) to
Serendipity Poetry Competition
18 Hillside Road
Blidworth,
Nottinghamshire
NG21 0TR
Name................................................... Address.......................................................................................
Tel....................................................... Email..........................................................................................
Titles (continue on the back if necessary)
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http://www.christinemichael.org/
http://www.christinemichael.org/Seren ... rycomp.html?1310232821205
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Switchback Flash Contest
Switchback is proud to announce the start of our monthly Flash Contest. Each month we will be giving you a prompt and we want you to give us your best work inspired by that prompt. The winning entry as decided by our editors will then be featured on the site. Submissions can be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or even art, so long as it's amazing and 500 words or less.
The January prompt is: "No, that's not funny."
• Contest submissions can be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or even art.
• Submissions must be 500 words or under.
• Please send us only one submission per prompt.
• Please submit only previously unpublished works.
• We accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us immediately of acceptance elsewhere.
• The deadline for submissions is the last day of the month.
Visit www.swback.com for more information.
SWITCHBACK is a publication of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program of the University of San Francisco.
http://www.swback.com/
http://www.swback.com/call/
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100-Word Story Competition
Our 100-word story competition was such a hit when we launched it last year that we’ve decided to do it all over again.
So come on all you budding authors out there: this is your chance for publishing glory—as long as you can write a compelling story in just 100 words, that is!
To get your creative juices flowing, click here to see last year's winners, or click here to read some more of our favourite entries which were posted online from April to September...
In the October issue of Reader's Digest five authors helped us launch this year's competition by contributing their own 100-word creations:
Maeve Haran
He had planned his whole life on the back of an envelope. She didn’t possess a pen let alone a lifeplan. She was a free spirit. She went with the flow. Love picked him like a tornado and swept him in her wake.
After ten years she demanded a divorce. She needed certainty in her life, the security of knowing her future. He had learned to live from day to day. It irritated the hell out of her. “We always kill the thing we love,” she told him blithely as he got out the kitchen knife..
She hadn’t meant herself.
Jonathan Coe
Some detectives charge a fixed fee. Findlay Onyx charged by the hour. Arriving at Dunstable Towers, he found that Lord Dunstable had been stabbed in the library.
Lady Dunstable had been shot through the heart on the croquet lawn. Agnes, the maid, was poisoned in the parlour. Gardener Stubbs had been bludgeoned in the hollyhocks with a blunt instrument.
Meanwhile Hamilton, the butler, was sitting in the kitchen, smoking a reflective cheroot, his clothes bloodsoaked and a dagger, revolver, half-empty arsenic bottle and garden rake laid on the table before him.
“Now let’s not jump to conclusions,” said Findlay, warily.
Julian Barnes
In January they met.
By February he was beginning to doubt they were suited.
In March she became pregnant.
All April and May they discussed the matter.
In June she decided to have the baby.
In July he persuaded himself that he had always wanted a child.
Throughout August all was quiet.
In September he offered to give up his job as her career was more important to her than his was to him.
In October she accepted and he became a house-husband.
By November she was beginning to doubt that they were suited.
In December the child was born.
Cecelia Ahern
Adam was aware of how nervous he sounded, and of how his heart had lost
its usual rhythm.
“Susan.” He swallowed. “I love you. I’ve loved you since the moment we met. I know you’re getting married in two hours and
I know it’s bad timing.”
He smiled, sadly. “Understatement of the year. But I just had to tell you—I love you so much, and I always will.”
His face was hopeful, sincere, showed love and heartbreak, all at the same time. Then he looked away from the mirror. One of these days he’d tell her.
Not today.
Anthony Horowitz
Gary Blake had sold secondhand cars all his
life, some of them nice
little motors, others…well, that was the game, wasn’t it? And here he was, on
his back in the operating theatre, in need of a heart transplant. Who’d have thought it? He would quit smoking. Drink less. Lay
off the white powder. He promised himself.
The surgeon leaned
over him. “Nice to see you again, Mr Blake.”
When had they
met before?
“I’ve got a perfect
heart for you. Only one owner. Ticking over
nicely. A real bargain…”
Gary felt the touch of the scalpel and screamed.
How to enter
▪ Send your stories—which should be original, unpublished and exactly 100 words long—to theeditor@readersdigest.co.uk by January 31, 2012.
▪ There are three categories—one for adults, and two schools’ categories: one for children aged 12–18, and one for children under 12.
▪ In the adult category, the entry voted best by our panel of judges will each receive £1,000, and two runners-up will receive £100 in book tokens.
▪ In each of the school categories, the prize for the winner is £500 of high-street vouchers of their choice, and £500 for their school. Mark each entry either “Adults”, “Schools 12–18 category” or “Schools under-12 category”. Winning entries will be published in a future issue.
Rules
Please ensure that submissions are original, not previously published, and are exactly 100 words long. Don’t forget to include your full name, address, email and daytime phone number with all correspondence. We may use entries in all print and electronic media. We cannot acknowledge or return your story. Do not send SAEs. Contributions become world copyright of Vivat Direct Ltd (t/a Reader’s Digest).
Entry is open only to residents of the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Republic of Ireland. It is not open to employees of Vivat Direct Ltd (t/a Reader’s Digest), its subsidiary companies and all other persons associated with this competition, their immediate families, and relatives living in an employee’s household. The judges’ decision is final.
http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/
http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/magazi ... ory-competition-2011.html
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Central Coast Writers Branch Spring 2012 Writing Contest
$1000 Total Awards
Four winners (two in each category of Poetry and two in each category of Prose) will receive $250 apiece. The winning work will be published (print and online) in the Spring 2012 Homestead Review produced by Hartnell College.
CATEGORIES
Poetry categories are Unrhymed Poems (free verse, blank verse, cameo, cinquain, haiku, shadorma, story stanza, etc.) and Rhymed Poems (couplet, triolet, triplet, sonnet, rondeau, vignette, etc.) no longer than 50 lines. Prose categories are Non-Fiction (essays, articles, memoirs, etc.) and Short Fiction (writer’s choice mystery, romance, western, etc.) each no longer than 2,500 words.
FINALIST JUDGES
(Details about the judges’ publications appear at the bottom of page 2.)
Poetry, Unrhymed: Maria Garcia Teutsch, editor-in-chief for Ping-Pong magazine and the Homestead Review.
Poetry, Rhymed: Lee Ann Russell, author of “How to Write Poetry” and 7th place winner in 2011 Writer’s Digest Poetry Contest.
Prose, Fiction: J. Roderick Clark, publisher and editor of Rosebud magazine.
Prose, Non-fiction: Barbara Callahan Quin, founding publisher and editor of Great Spirit Publishing.
Contest Rules
Eligibility: Open to all work not previously published. Simultaneous submissions allowed, but you must notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Our contest is open to all writers—you do not need to be a member of California Writers Club/Central Coast Writers branch to enter.
Entry Fees: There are two classes of entry fees: Non-member and Member. A Non-member is an entrant who does not belong to any branch of California Writers Club regardless of whether he/she has been a member in the past. A Member is any person who is a current paid-up member of Central Coast Writers, or any other branch of California Writers Club, and whose CWC membership qualifies him/her for a contest-fee discount.
Non-member Fees: Prose: $10 per entry (fiction/non-fiction); Poetry: $5 1st poem; $3 2
nd and subsequent poems.
Member Discounts: Prose: $8 per entry fiction/non-fiction); Poetry: $3 1st poem; $2 for 2nd and subsequent poems.
Multiple Entries Allowed: Enter as many times as you wish; one check covers all entries.
Maximum Length: Prose: 2,500 words. Poetry: 50 lines maximum.
All entries must be in English, standard 12-point black-ink font, with no fancy script, scrawls, doodles or illustrations. A work must stand on its words!
SUBMISSION PERIOD (by postmark): SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 – JANUARY 31, 2012.
FORMAT GUIDELINES
Format: Typed, white 8½ x 11 paper, single-sided, numbered pages, with title only (not your name) on upper left corner of all pages.
Prose pieces must be double-spaced. In upper left corner, please indicate the nature of the piece, such as “Personal Essay,” “News Feature,” “Memoir” or “Short Story.”
Poetry should be formatted as you want it to appear. If you know the poetic form of your submission, please write it in the upper right
margin.
We prefer staples over paper clips for prose and poems longer than one page.
Cover Sheet(s): Include a single cover sheet for prose and a single cover sheet for poetry.
The cover sheet(s) must include the title(s) of your entry(ies), your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and word count for
prose and line count for poetry. On your cover sheet, please let us know how you heard about our contest (website, magazine ad, newsletter, flyer, friend, etc.).
HOW TO ENTER
Make check payable to:
Central Coast Writers
Send with submission to:
CCW Writing Contest
P.O. Box 997
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Keep copies of your manuscripts, as no submissions will be returned. Winners will be notified around March 31, 2012 and announced in
Scribbles, the Central Coast Writers’ newsletter, and online at our web site: www.centralcoastwriters.org . For snail mail copy of winners list, include a #10 SASE with your entry and write “Winners List” in lower left margin of the envelope.
Questions may be e-mailed to: ccw-contests@comcast.net
http://www.centralcoastwriters.org/
http://www.centralcoastwriters.org/im ... W_CONTEST_RULES_Final.pdf
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Washington Writers' Publishing House Contest: Become an Author
WWPH's Annual Contest: Become an Author
Submit your book-length poetry or fiction manuscripts to Washington Writers' Publishing House's annual poetry and fiction competitions. All writers living in Washington, D.C., and within 60 driving miles of D.C., including Baltimore, MD, are eligible. WWPH will select and publish one winner in poetry and one winner in fiction for publication. WWPH is a non-profit, cooperative press, and all winners must be willing and able to serve on the press in some capacity for a minimum of two years.
Poetry Guidelines
Until January 31, 2012, Washington Writers' Publishing House (WWPH) will accept manuscripts from Washington and Baltimore area poets for its annual book competition. The winning manuscript will be published in the fall.
Poets living within 60 driving miles of the Capitol (Baltimore area included) are invited to submit TWO copies of a POETRY manuscript (50-70 pages, single or 1-1/2 spaced), each copy with an acknowledgments page for poems previously published in journals or anthologies, a reading fee of $20.00, and a stamped, self-addressed reply envelope. Manuscripts will not be returned; rather they will be recycled.
Guidelines: Author's name should not appear on the manuscript. The title page of each copy should contain the title only. Provide name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and title on a separate cover sheet accompanying the submission. A separate page for acknowledgments may be included for poems previously published in journals and anthologies.
Mail to:
Washington Writers' Publishing House
C/O Bravo Household
3541 S Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
The winner will receive $500 and 50 copies of the book. Staffed by previous winners who volunteer their time and skills, WWPH is a non-profit cooperative poetry press reflecting the cultural and racial diversity of the Greater Washington-Baltimore area. Judging is traditionally performed by former WWPH winners who read the anonymous manuscripts, and in case of a tie, turn the finalists over to a judge outside the area.
IMPORTANT: The winning poet becomes a member of the organization and should be prepared to actively participate in the work of the press, including such areas as publicity, distribution, production, and fundraising. Our tradition of poets actively working on behalf of other poets is essential to the continued vitality and success of WWPH. Contest entrants should be willing to make this commitment should their work be selected for publication.
Fiction Guidelines
Until January 31, 2012, Washington Writers' Publishing House (WWPH) will accept manuscripts from Washington and Baltimore area fiction writers for its annual book competition. The winning manuscript will be published in the fall.
Fiction writers living within 60 driving miles of the Capitol (Baltimore area included) are invited to submit TWO copies of a FICTION manuscript, novel or a collection of short stories (no more than 350 pages, double or 1-1/2 spaced), each copy with an acknowledgments page for stories or excerpts previously published in journals or anthologies, a reading fee of $25.00, and a stamped, self-addressed reply envelope. Manuscripts will only be returned with appropriate return packaging and postage. Literary fiction only, please.
Author's name should not appear on the manuscript. The title page of each copy should contain the title only. Provide name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and title on a separate cover sheet accompanying the submission. A separate page for acknowledgments may be included for stories or excerpts previously published in journals and anthologies.
Mail to:
Elisavietta Ritchie
P.O. Box 298
Broomes Island, MD 20615
The winner will receive $500 and 50 copies of the book. Staffed by previous winners who volunteer their time and skills, WWPH is a non-profit cooperative poetry press reflecting the cultural and racial diversity of the Greater Washington-Baltimore area. Judging is traditionally performed by former WWPH winners who read the anonymous manuscripts, and in case of a tie, turn the finalists over to a judge outside the area.
IMPORTANT: The winning author becomes a member of the organization and should be prepared to actively participate in the work of the press, including such areas as publicity, distribution, production, and fundraising. Our tradition of poets actively working on behalf of other poets is essential to the continued vitality and success of WWPH. Contest entrants should be willing to make this commitment should their work be selected for publication.
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/
http://www.washingtonwriters.org/submit.shtml
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Swanezine Poetry Competition
Swanezine is accepting entries for the Winter 2012 Poetry Competition
ENTRY is FREE
Closing date for entries is January 31st 2012
The three winning and three short listed entries plus Commended Entries and Judges Report will be announced here on February 3rd 2012 and published on the Poetry Collection page on the Swanezine.
The Competition Rules
Maximum lines: Fifty (50)
Language English.
There is no age restriction.
There is no set theme; the main criterion being quality work.
We do not accept entries that promote goods, products, or businesses.
Maximum of two entries per author.
Authors can only win one place per competition.
Entries must be your own work and not submitted to other competitions.
Entries must not have been previously published, or broadcast in any format.
Copyright and Publishing
Authors retain copyright of their material.
The three winning and the three short-listed entries will be announced on the Swanezine Poetry Collection page on February 3rd 2012 and their Poems will be published within two weeks.
Once the three winners and the three short-listed Poems have been announced, Swanezine retains the right to publish these Poems within a maximum of 2 weeks from the announcement. To clarify: these Poems must NOT be published elsewhere until after their publication on the Swanezine and within 2 weeks whichever is the sooner; after which all rights revert to the authors upon publication. Note: This does not apply to non winning and non short-listed entries who may submit or publish elsewhere.
Submissions
Entries are only accepted by E-mail.
In the subject line of your email, write: Poetry Competition.
Your Poems must be in the body of the E-mail: Do NOT send attachments, they will be deleted.
Include your name, address, and E-mail address in the body of the E-mail, and the following disclaimer copied from this page and pasted into the body of your email:
" I ( your name ) confirm that I am the author of this work and that it has not been previously published or broadcast in any form, I agree and accept the rules of this competition"
We do NOT publish winner’s addresses or e-mail.
The judges' decision will be final and no individual correspondence can be entered into.
Please ensure that you send your Submissions to Swanezine
Submission of an entry to the Swanezine Poetry Competition implies acceptance of all the rules of the competition.
http://sites.google.com/site/swanezine/
http://sites.google.com/site/swanezine/poetry-competition
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William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
The following provisions govern the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing awarded by Stanford University Libraries.
The Saroyan Prize Committee will be appointed by the Stanford University Librarian in consultation with the President of the Saroyan Foundation, and will be responsible for all aspects of the administration of the Saroyan Prize.
The Stanford University Librarian in consultation with the President of the Saroyan Foundation, will appoint a team of no fewer than three Nominating Jurors for each Saroyan Prize to be awarded.
Two prizes of $5,000 will be awarded, one each in fiction and non-fiction. Poetry and other literary forms will not be considered.
Only works published in book form between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011, available for individual purchase by the general public, and primarily in English are eligible for the Saroyan Prize in 2012.
Works by members of The Saroyan Prize Committee, members or officers of the William Saroyan Foundation, or previous winners are not eligible for the 2012 Saroyan Prize.
Only complete entries received by Stanford University Libraries no later than
January 31, 2012 will be considered. A complete entry includes:
a. A completed entry form. Complete form here.
b. Five copies of the work.
c. A non-refundable $50 entry fee. Payment may be made using Visa,
MasterCard, or American Express at the above website, or by check. Checks should be made payable to Stanford University/Saroyan Writing Prize, and should indicate the title(s) of the work(s) they accompany.
Completed entries should be sent to:
Administrator of The Saroyan Prize Committee
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
The Saroyan Prize Committee will assemble and manage a team of Stanford University alumni and Stanford University Library staff to perform an initial screening of all entries.
The Nominating Judges for each Saroyan Prize will review the screened entries, and put forward to the Stanford University Librarian a list of not less than three and not more than five Finalist works for each Prize.
The winner of each Prize will be selected by the Stanford University Librarian, in consultation with the President of the William Saroyan Foundation, and based on the recommendations of the Nominating Judges. However, the University Librarian has the authority in extraordinary circumstances to award the Prize to any qualified entry.
Nothing in this plan shall be deemed to limit in any way the authority and control of The Saroyan Writing Prize Committee.
Finalists and prizewinners of the Prize will be listed permanently at this website.
Terms and conditions subject to change without notice.
http://library.stanford.edu/saroyan/
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Descriptive Poetry Competition
1st Prize: £100
2nd Prize: £75
3rd Prize: £50
Entry fee: £2.50 (free to Creative Competitor Premier1 members)
Closing date: January 31st 2012
Using the photo for inspiration, create a poem that brings the scene alive.
You have a maximum of 20 lines.
Poems must be original and previously unpublished. Creative interpretation welcome.
We prefer submissions to be made by email to info@creative-competitor.co.uk
http://creativecompetitor.com/
http://creativecompetitor.com/2011/12 ... ptive-poetry-competition/
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Laine Cunningham Novel Award
Call for Entries!
Third Annual Long Form Fiction Contest for Novella and Novel length works
1. The purpose of our contest is to provide a venue for writers to have their work read and commented on by
our editors and judges. Additionally, the winner of this contest will have his/her work published here on these
pages. And last but not least, the winner will receive a monetary prize, along with a personal library! (Award monies are provided by the prize sponsor and the entry fee for the contest helps offset The Blotter’s costs.)
2. Our pre-reader judges are intelligent and highly proud of their educations. Our final judge is smart, well-read and dangerous if she doesn’t have her morning coffee. But we told her that she could be the final judge and
what can you do?
3. In a world chock-full of scandal, transparency is very important to us, and we make every effort to eliminate any conflict of interest situation from going down in our contest. Blotter volunteers and their family members and/or employees are prohibited from entering our contest.
To enter the contest, please submit your work with a $25 entry fee by check or money order to: The Blotter Magazine, 1010 Hale Street, Durham, NC 27705. Entries must be received between October 1, 2011 and
January 31, 2012 (you see, we’re already giving you an extension, so don’t put it off!)
Your entry must contain the following: no less than 10 pages, no more than 20 pages of the opening of your novel or novella, (or subject/character-connected short story chapbook) typed & double-spaced, without your
name. On a separate cover page type your name, snail-mail and e-mail address, telephone number , the title of your novel or novella and a one page synopsis of your novel or novella. Sounds easy because it is!
BONUS: Enter the writing contest AND get a year’s subscription to The Blotter for only $30! (Regular annual subscription donationss are $25 total and you don’t even get to enter a writing contest with that price!)
Well, now. $650 in cash prizes, plus books and other fun stuff we’ve been accumulating around here that we think has value. All placements, including honorable mentions, will receive an award certificate, proof positive
of your success as an author, suitable for mocking your sophomore English teacher, who always wondered how
it was that you graduated at all.
Our contest will be run in line with the rules of ethics and mechanics recommended by the Council of Literary
Magazines and Presses, as outlined in their 2006 monograph on the subject. You can’t view for free, but you may
purchase the monograph entitled “Publishing Contests: Ethics and Mechanics” through the CLMP at
http://www.clmp.org/about/monographs.html. This is the document we have used in coming up with the rules and conditions of this contest.
So that’s it, then - now get to work!
http://www.blotterrag.com/
http://www.blotterrag.com/contest%202012.pdf
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Amy Writing Awards
First Prize:
$10,000
Second Prize:
$5,000
Third Prize:
$4,000
Fourth Prize:
$3,000
Fifth Prize:
$2,000
Award of Outstanding Merit (10 prizes):
$1,000
The Amy Foundation Writing Awards program is designed to recognize creative, skillful writing that applies in a sensitive, thought-provoking manner the biblical principles to issues affecting the world today, with an emphasis on discipling.
To be eligible, submitted articles must be published in a secular, non-religious publication (either printed or online) and must be reinforced with at least one passage of scripture.
NOTE: Entries published in 2011 must be postmarked on or before January 31, 2012 to qualify for the 2011 Amy Writing Awards.
Rules
ELIGIBILITY
The article must have been published in a mainstream, non-religious publication (either printed or online), as determined by the Awards Panel.
The article must contain at least one passage of scripture.
The article must have been published between January 1 and December 31 of the current calendar year.
Books, poetry, fiction and/or manuscripts are not accepted.
CONTENT
God's word must be quoted directly from the Bible and the Bible must be acknowledged as the source.
Biblical quotations must be taken from an accepted and popular edition of the Bible, such as the New International Version, The Living Bible, the King James, or the Revised Standard Version.
The article must present the biblical principles on an issue as relevant, timely and deserving of thoughtful consideration, with an emphasis on discipling.
Examples of issues for consideration, but not limited to these, are family life, divorce, values, pornography, morality, U.S. National interests, abortion, religion and addictions. The biblical impact on individual character and outlook are also appropriate issues.
The need for obedience through biblical truth should be evident.
JUDGING GUIDELINES
In addition to content, qualified articles will be judged on the following primary considerations:
Persuasive power of the article. We are looking for articles that contain a discipling message, not articles that tug at emotional heartstrings.
Author's skill in relating God's word to current interest issues.
Author's sensitivity in presenting a biblical perspective to the search for meaning in life.
Extent to which creativity and skillfulness are used to present God's position on issues affecting the world today in a sensitive, thought-provoking manner.
Decisions by the Judges and Awards Panel will be final.
For examples of prize-winning articles, click here.
SUBMISSION
Submission of a printed entry must be in the form of the actual full page(s) or tear sheet(s) from the newspaper or magazine containing the publication name and date. (Download submission form.)
Submission of an online entry must be in the form of a printout of the article on the website of the newspaper or magazine. The web address (URL) of the article and the contact information for the online editor must also be submitted. (Download submission form.)
The total number of qualified entries (both printed and/or online) that may be submitted by a single author is limited to ten.
All entries must be postmarked on or before January 31 of the following year.
Entries will not be returned.
Articles may be submitted to: The Amy Foundation Writing Awards, P. O. Box 16091, Lansing, MI 48901-6091. Winners are notified by May 1.
SUPPLEMENTAL CONTEST RULES FOR ONLINE ARTICLES ONLY
Beginning with the 2008 Amy Writing Awards, articles are accepted that have been published on the web pages of mainstream, non-religious newspaper news, or magazine websites as determined by the Amy Writing Awards panel. Articles published in print, as well as those published online will be judged in one contest.
If a submission did not appear in a print newspaper or magazine, but was posted on a mainstream, non-religious newspaper, news or magazine website, the rules remain the same as for those articles that appeared in a newspaper or magazine except:
Only online articles that appear on mainstream, non-religious news or magazine websites as determined by the Amy Writing Awards panel will be accepted. Decisions of the judges are final.
Articles or entries from “blogs” or newsletters are not eligible.
Only entries sent in a printed format on paper exactly how they appeared on the website will be accepted. URL addresses of columns will not be accepted as an entry. Articles must be sent via US Mail, not via email.
http://www.amyfound.org/
http://www.amyfound.org/amy_writing_awards/amy_writing_awards.html
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Main Street Rag's Annual Poetry Book Award
NEXT DEADLINE:
January 31, 2012 (POSTMARK)
Reading Fee: $22/entry, $27 for those who want to receive a copy of the winning book.
****Notification in April for Winter 2011/2012 publication. ****
Winner receives 50 books and $1000. Runners up also considered for publication.
Send between 48 and 84 pages of poetry, no more than one poem per page, 12 point type in an easily readable font like Arial or Times New Roman. Do not include Table of Contents in page count and print/submit on a letter size sheet of paper.
Include a separate cover letter with manuscript title, author's name, and all pertinent contact information. Author’s name should not appear anywhere in manuscript.
Our goal is "blind" judging. Do Not Include Dedication and/or Credits/Acknowledgements Pages in entry. For the purpose of fairness, it is important that judges know as little about the author as possible and these pages are not relevant to the judging process. In the past, if these items accidentally slipped through registration, readers were instructed to disqualify manuscripts that arrive with credits, acknowledgements, or author's name on them anywhere. This year we have changed that rule. Since our primary goal for the MSR Poetry Book Award is to select manuscripts for publication, we will no longer disqualify those who blatantly disregard the rules. They can't win, but they will still be considered for publication.
For notification of receipt, entries can include a post card, but if they include an email address, we will send a verification of receipt via email the day it arrives. Entries should include a #10 SASE ( This is a standard business size: 4 X 10) for winner notification if they do not choose to be notified by email. Please not not waste postage on a 9 X 12 since no manuscripts will be returned regardless of what size envelope is provided.
No restriction on content style or subject--we're looking for the best manuscript.
*Although MSR frowns on simultaneous submissions for our magazine, it is acceptable for our book contests. Upon notification, however, winner must immediately withdraw his/her mss from consideration elsewhere.
Mailing Instructions:
All checks should be made payable to Main Street Rag, PO BOX 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001.
DO NOT US Postal Service Media Mail. The USPS has changed its standards for Media Mail and is enforcing it much more readily than it once did. Use First class and if you are worried about it arriving, pay the extra 70 cents for Delivery Confirmation.
DO NOT use clips or binding of any kind. We have THOUSANDS of clips here from years of submissions and we remove anything that comes in a binder or folder and throw away the binder or folder away. If you want to pay for those materials and the additional shipping to get the manuscript here only to have it thrown away, that's your choice. It will not go to any readers in a binder of any kind.
DO NOT send anything that must be signed for (Signature Receipt or Express Mail) since it means having to stand in line to receive it and we don't have time for that--particularly on the days immediately preceeding and immediately after the postmark deadline. And please don't use FED EX to send anything to our physical location since their local drivers are literacy challenged (they don't read instructions and we may not receive what you send as a result).
http://www.mainstreetrag.com/
http://www.mainstreetrag.com/PoBkCont.html#anchor284395
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The Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction
$1,000.00 and publication in The Chattahoochee Review is awarded for the winning essay in the annual Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction, which honors the founder and former editor of the Review. We accept essays of up to 5,000 words, double-spaced, with a $15.00 reading fee per essay, which includes a one-year subscription, postmarked between October 1 and January 31. Entries should include a cover sheet with name, address, and phone number.
No theoretical, scholarly, or critical essays will be considered, but all other approaches and topics are welcome. No electronic or simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Only unpublished essays will be considered. While manuscripts will not be returned, authors may include a stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification of receipt of manuscript.
http://depts.gpc.edu/~gpccr/
http://depts.gpc.edu/~gpccr/prizes.htm
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ILP International Literature Award
FINAL JUDGE: Colson Whitehead
The charge went that American literature is too insular, that it’s neither concerned with nor does it engage the outside world. The critic was the Secretary of the Swedish Academy that decides the Nobel Prize. You can be sure that Canadian literature was lumped in there as well. We’re afraid that, to a degree, he was right.
Also, of course, in many ways he was wrong. Maybe a certain stripe of North American literature is too insular. Maybe a certain stripe does not engage the outside world. But the rivulets of work that do engage and which are anything but insular—these rivulets run deep.
The ILP hopes to encourage this tradition with its annual contest, which seeks to award the author of the winning entry airfare, accommodations, and tuition to the Disquiet program in Lisbon, Portugal in 2012 AND publication of the winning piece in the magazine of art and politics Guernica. Finalists and other entrants deemed to be of the highest quality will be offered partial tuition scholarships and may be considered for publication.
What to submit: We wish to cast the net wide in our definition of eligible entries. Work of any genre (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) that broadens the landscape of North American literature outside of the borders of North America is eligible. Examples of eligible entries, to give you an idea, might include a poem about a Hungarian grandmother; an essay based on your time in some foreign land--maybe travel writing, maybe more conventional journalism, maybe something in between; a short story featuring a North American abroad a la, perhaps, Paul Bowles... But these should not be read as sign posts. We wish to be surprised. In general, if your work flies in the face of this charge of insularity, submit it.
Eligibility: Entries must be in English. Writers must live or have lived in Canada or the United States but need not necessarily be citizens or permanent residents. Entries may not be previously published.
Length: One entry may include three poems or a single prose piece up to thirty double-spaced pages in length. Multiple entries must be accompanied by multiple reading fees. Poets wishing to submit more than three poems may do so by including additional reading fees. Prose submissions more than thirty pages are ineligible.
Judging: The final judge is Colson Whitehead:
Colson Whitehead is the author of The Intuitionist (2000), John Henry Days (2001), The Colossus of New York (2003) Apex Hides the Hurt (2006), Sag Harbor (2009) and the forthcoming Zone One (Oct. 2011). John Henry Days was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, and received the Young Lions Fiction Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Apex Hides the Hurt was a recipient of the PEN/Oakland Award. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s and Granta. Colson Whitehead has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.
Reading fee: $15USD (Checks made payable to Dzanc Books; if check is drawn in Canadian funds, please use converter here for the proper amount.) Reading fee may be applied to ILP tuition in the event entrant does not win.
Deadline: Postmark or electronic mail date stamp of Jan. 31, 2012.
How to enter:
By regular mail: Send the entry and the reading fee, to one of the following addresses
Dzanc Books
ILP International Literature Award
1334 Woodbourne Street
Westland, MI 48186
USA
Electronically:
Save your entry in Rich Text Format (RTF).
Fill out the online application.
Questions: disquietinternational@gmail.com
*In the event that a winner is not chosen, all entrants will receive refunds in full on their entry fees. Though unlikely, the ILP reserves the right to award the winner a cash prize of $1,000USD in lieu of the ILP related prize (airfare, accommodations, and tuition).
Scholarships
A collaboration between Dzanc Books and the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) has made possible four full scholarships for writers of Luso descent from North America to attend the ILP in Lisbon in 2012.
To be eligible for the scholarship, entrants must be residents of the United States or Canada who have a genealogical link to a Lusophone country.
The four winners will receive airfare, accommodations, and full tuition to the 2012 ILP in Lisbon to attend Frank Gaspar’s multi-genre workshop “Writing the Luso Experience” with other writers from Portugal and North America.** Runners-up will be offered partial tuition scholarships.
What to submit: 1) A 250-word statement about your background and what the scholarship would mean to you. 2) A maximum ten page writing sample in any genre (poetry, ficion, nonfiction).
Reading fee: $20USD (Checks made payable to Dzanc Books; if check is drawn in Canadian funds, please use converter here for the proper amount.) Reading fee may be applied to ILP tuition in the event entrant does not win.
Deadline: Postmark or electronic mail date stamp of Jan. 31, 2012.
How to enter:
By snail mail: Send the entry and the reading fee to
Dzanc Books
ILP Scholarship for Writers of Luso Descent
511 Avenue of the Americas
#023
New York, NY 10011
USA
Electronically:
Save your entry in Rich Text Format (RTF).
Fill out the online application.
**In the event that a winner is not chosen, all entrants will receive refunds in full on their entry fees. This prize is contingent on funding allotments from FLAD and while it is unlikely it is possible that the number or the amount of individual awards may be reduced. In this eventuality winners will be notified in advance.
Questions: disquietinternational@gmail.com
http://www.disquietinternational.org/
http://www.disquietinternational.org/ ... ships/contestscholarships
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Gary Gildner Poetry Award
$ 500 plus publication.
$ 15 reading fee includes publication consideration.
Submit up to three poems, no more than 40 lines each, and check payable to I-70 Review Inc.
Deadline: January 31, 2012.
Winner of the contest chosen Gary Gildner.
Include name and address on cover letter only.
Must include SASE for response.
Send to:
Gary Gildner Poetry Award
I-70 Review
913 Joseph Drive
Lawrence, KS 66044
http://www.i70review.fieldinfoserv.com/
http://www.i70review.fieldinfoserv.com/garygildnerpoetr.html
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The Iowa Review Writing Contest
Each January, The Iowa Review holds a writing contest in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
Judges for the 2012 Iowa Review Awards are Timothy Donnelly (poetry), Ron Currie, Jr. (fiction), and Meghan Daum (nonfiction).
Winners receive $1,500; first runners-up receive $750. Winners and runners-up are published in our December 2012 issue.
Rules
Submit up to 7,500 words of prose (double-spaced) or 10 pages of poetry (one poem or several, but no more than one poem per page). Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine assuming you inform us of acceptance elsewhere.
Judges will select winners from a group of finalists chosen by Iowa Review editors. All manuscripts, whether selected as finalists or not, are considered for publication.
Manuscripts must include a cover page listing your name, address, e-mail address and/or telephone number, and the title of each work, but your name should not appear on the manuscript itself.
Enclose a $20 entry fee; make checks payable to The Iowa Review.
Enclose an additional $10 for a yearlong subscription to the magazine (optional).
Label your envelope as a contest entry, for example Contest: Fiction.
One entry per envelope. (If you submit more than one entry, even within the same genre, you must enclose a $20 entry fee with each entry.)
Postmark submissions between January 1 and January 31, 2012.
Enclose a SASE for final word on your work. (Manuscripts will not be returned.)
Mail submissions to:
The Iowa Review
308 EPB
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Eligibility and Conflicts of Interest
Current students, faculty, or staff of the University of Iowa are not eligible to enter the contest.
Work is ineligible to win our contest if it is slated for publication before December 2012, whether in another magazine or as part of a book, or if it has been named winner or runner-up in any other contest. Please withdraw work from our contest immediately if these conditions apply.
Judges are instructed not to award the prize to entrants with whom they have had a personal or professional relationship. Despite reading the entries with author names removed, judges may sometimes be able to guess the identity of the entrant. Even if they can't tell during the judging process, they have the right to change their decision if it turns out that the entrant is someone with whom there is any appearance of conflict of interest. Therefore, we advise entrants not to enter the contest if the judge is someone they know personally or have worked with professionally.
http://iowareview.uiowa.edu/
http://iowareview.uiowa.edu/rules
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The British Haiku Awards
The British Haiku Awards are an annual international competition, comprising two categories: haiku and haibun. Entries for the 2011 award can be submitted up until 31 January 2012.
Rules of the British Haiku Awards
Submissions must be in English, unpublished at the time of submission, remaining so until results are declared, and not concurrently entered for any other competition. There is no limit on the number of entries from any single competitor.
Deadline: in the administrator’s hands by 31 January, 2012. Haiku and haibun entries may be sent in the same envelope.
Entry procedures: For haiku, send each poem on three separate 5 x 3 in. (125 x 75mm) cards (or paper cut to the same size.) On one only of the 3 copies write your name and address on the back. For haibun *, send three copies of each haibun, each copy on a separate A4 sheet or sheets. One copy should bear your name, address, phone number and email address (if applicable.) The other two copies should bear no identification. Enclose the appropriate fee[s] (see below) and post to: The Administrator, British Haiku Awards, Newton House, Holt Road, North Elmham, Norfolk, NR20 5JQ, UK. No entries for haiku or haibun will be returned, so do keep your own copies.
* Haibun must contain at least 100 words of prose and at least one haiku, and must not exceed 2,500 words in length. Each haibun should be given a title.
Fees: The entry fee for up to 3 haiku is £3 (or US$ 6) and £1 (US$ 2) per haiku thereafter, the fee for haibun is £3 (or US$ 6) per entry. Cheques and money orders payable to: The British Haiku Society (N.B. not ‘BHS’.) Due to high currency and clearance charges, payment can only be accepted in sterling by cheque drawn on a bank with branches in the UK; or by British postal order or International Money Order; or (at the sender’s risk) in sterling bank notes, dollar bills, or Euro bank notes at the current rate of exchange..
No current trustee of the British Haiku Society is eligible to enter.
Adjudication process: BHS appoints two judges for each category, haiku and haibun (four different judges in all.) Each judge sees all entries submitted in the category assigned to him/her, and without consulting the other judge makes his/her own independent choice of best haiku /haibun and, in the case of haiku only, one runner-up in each category. Their choices will be final and no correspondence can be entered into about the results. If two judges’ choices happen to coincide, a Double Award will be declared, i.e. one winner receives both prizes.
Prizes: For haiku, prizes of £125 will be awarded to each of the two best and £50 to each of two runners-up. (Double awards: £250 and £100.) For haibun, prizes of £125 will be awarded to each of the two best, but at present there will be no runner-up prize. (As the number of entries for the haibun category increases it is hoped eventually to bring this into line with the haiku category and award runner-up prizes as well.)
Publication of results: As soon as they are known, results will be put up on the BHS website at www.britishhaikusociety.org.uk and published in the June issue of the BHS members’ newsletter. All haiku selected for awards will be published in the June 2012 issue of the BHS journal, Blithe Spirit. It is hoped the selected haibun may also appear in full in that issue, but as their length is unpredictable, for space reasons the journal editor will use his/her discretion about spreading publication over two issues, i.e. June and September 2012.
for personal early notification of results, please enclose a self-addressed envelope with appropriate UK stamp, or US $1, or two International Reply Coupons (e.g. US$ 7 covers the entry fee for 3 haiku and notification.)
Copyrights revert to authors after publication in the British Haiku Society journal, Blithe Spirit, but entry for either award signifies agreement to your work being published digitally by the Society or copied for archival purposes (for example, by the British Library or the Poetry Library, London).
Judges for the British Haiku Awards 2011 are as follows:
Haiku: Dee Evetts and Clare McCotter
Haibun: Lynne Rees and Jeffrey Woodward
http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/
http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/201 ... ritish-haiku-awards-2011/
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Choc Lit Short Story Competition
Let your imagination take flight!
We're looking for short stories of up to 1,500 words in which the central theme is chocolate - eating it, drinking it, cooking with it, or anything else.
PRIZES
1st prize £200, publication here and Choc Lit’s authors corner blog and a box of chocolates from Plush Chocolates.
A Runner Up will receive £50 and a box of chocolates from Plush Chocolates.
RULES
Your entry must be a maximum of 1,500 words.
All stories should be clearly typed or printed and double spaced.
No stories will be returned, so make sure you keep copies of your entries.
All work must be your own and not previously published.
We are happy to accept authors living outside of the UK but monetary prizes will be cheques in sterling and there may be restrictions in sending chocolates to certain countries.
Entry fee is £3 per story.
All entries must be received by 31st January, 2012.
The judges decision is final.
JUDGES
Your judges are Choc Lit authors Margaret James and Sue Moorcroft. Both are experienced creative writing tutors. Margaret also writes the monthly Fiction Focus for Writing Magazine and Sue is head fiction judge for short story competitions at Writers Forum.
HOW TO ENTER
Please post your stories to:
Short Story Competition,
Choc Lit Ltd,
Penrose House,
Crawley Drive,
Camberley,
Surrey, GU15 2AB.
Please enclose a cheque for £3 per story - i.e. to enter 3 stories would cost £9. Cheques are payable to ‘Choc Lit Ltd.’ If confirmation of entry is required via post please enclose a stamped addressed envelope.
Or email info@choc-lit.co.uk with the subject header ‘Short Story Competition’
and attach your story to the email as a Word or RTF (text file). Send payment via Paypal to orders@choc-lit.co.uk quoting ‘Short Story Competition’ and the name you entered. We will confirm receipt via email.
GOOD LUCK!
http://www.choc-lit.co.uk/
http://www.choc-lit.co.uk/html/choc_lit_short_story_competiti.html
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The Chudleigh Phoenix Short Story Competition
Competition Rules
Stories must be a maximum of 1500 words, with an open theme.
Closing date for entries: 23:59 GMT on 31st January 2012.
Results will be announced in the April/May 2012 issue of Chudleigh Phoenix and on this website.
Entries must be in English.
Entries may be submitted by post or electronically via email.
Entry fee is £5 sterling; no other currencies will be accepted.
Multiple entries are permitted, providing each one is accompanied by correct fee.
ENTRIES MUST BE ENTIRELY THE COMPETITOR’S OWN WORK and MUST NOT HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED (including internet) or have won a prize in any other competition.
Entries should not be submitted simultaneously in any other competition.
WRITERS RETAIN THEIR OWN COPYRIGHT AND MAY SUBMIT THEIR WORK TO OTHER SOURCES AFTER 30th APRIL 2012.
ENTRIES WILL NOT BE RETURNED, so please keep a copy.
No correspondence will be entered into. The judge’s decision is final.
PRIZES: First Prize £100; Second Prize £50; Third Prize £25. An additional £25 prize will be awarded to the best entry from a local writer. Local is defined as living in the TQ13 postal area.
Prize winners will agree to their stories being published on this website for a period of up to 12 months after the results are announced.
Submission of an entry will be taken as acceptance of these rules.
Postal Submissions
Entries submitted by post should be typed and printed in black on A4 white paper.
Pages should be numbered and there should be no identifying marks on your entry (this includes names and addresses, drawings, clip art, or any other marks that will make the entry stand out from the other entries).
Your name, address and telephone number should be enclosed on a separate sheet, which should also state the title of the story and the word count.
The entry must be accompanied by a cheque or postal order for £5 made payable to The Chudleigh Phoenix.
Entries should be addressed to: Chudleigh Phoenix, The Granary, 3 Palace Mill, Rock Road, Chudleigh, TQ13 0JJ, UK.
Please ensure that you pay the correct postage for your entries. ENTRIES WITH UNDERPAID POSTAGE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR THE COMPETITION.
If you require acknowledgement of receipt, please include a stamped, addressed envelope with 'receipt' written on the back.
If you require a printed list of winners, please include a stamped addressed envelope with 'winners' on the back.
Electronic Submissions
Before making an electronic submission, you must pay your entry fee via PayPal. Alternatively, you can send a cheque or postal order to the above address.
Entries submitted electronically should be emailed to chudleighphoenix@heathside.com.
Paste your entry into the body of the email. Do not send as an attachment. EMAILS WITH ATTACHMENTS WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT BEING OPENED.
Include with your entry, your name and proof of payment from PayPal
http://www.chudleighphoenix.co.uk/
http://www.chudleighphoenix.co.uk/2012comp.html
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James White Award Short Story Competition
The James White Award is a competition for original short stories of not more than 6,000 words by non-professional writers. The closing date for entries to this year’s competition is midnight (GMT) January 31, 2012. The winner will be announced at Eastercon 2012 during the BSFA Awards ceremony. It is open to entrants from any country but all stories must be in the English language.
The prize for the winner of the James White Award is £200 plus publication in Interzone, the UK’s leading science fiction magazine.
The preferred method of entry is using the online form at but entries by post are also accepted.
Who may enter?
This aim of the competition is to highlight new writers. It is open to writers of any age and nationality, but it is not open to professional authors.
Stories must be in English and must be less than 6,000 words in length. Stories over 6,000 words will be disqualified.
Each author is allowed to enter one story per year. Authors who attempt to submit more than one story will have all their entries disqualified.
Each story must be accompanied by a completed entry form.
The competition is free to enter but we encourage authors (and others) to support the competition by making a donation, if they can.
For the purposes of this competition a “professional author” is defined as one who is eligible for active membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America – that is a writer with three short story sales to qualifying markets or one novel sale to a qualifying market.
The date on which this criteria will be judged is the closing date of the competition – not when the submission is made.
A full list of qualifying markets can be found at the SFWA website. We make one addition to that list, which is Interzone.
Your story
Submissions must be original – they should be the sole work of the author/s in whose name they are submitted – and should not have previously appeared in any publication – in any language or format.
Stories should be Science Fiction (though we will take a broad definition of what that term means).
Stories may not have been entered in The James White Award in any previous year.
Stories may not feature characters/locations/ etc. that are part of other copyrighted works – i.e. nothing set in the universes of Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate etc.
Complete the form
Online entries must be accompanied by a completed online form.
Mailed stories must be accompanied by a printed copy of the entry form. The entry form can be downloaded on the “How to Enter” page on the James White Award website or is available from the awards administrator. It should be attached with a paperclip (not staple) to the front page of each story.
Formatting your manuscript
If you are sending a printed copy, please print on one side of the paper only, double space the text, leave a sensible margin around the text on all sides (approx. 2.5cm) and indent the first line of each paragraph.
More advice on sensible manuscript formatting can be found on our writers’ guidelines page.
Your name should only appear on the entry form.
Do not put your name anywhere on you manuscript.
The James White Award is judged anonymously, only the administrator knows the identity of a story’s author.
Each page of the story should have a header containing the story title and page number. The author’s name should NOT appear on the page header.
Please end your story with ‘The End’.
Administration
The closing date for submissions is midnight (GMT) on January 31, 2012.
The competition administrator reserves the right to disqualify a story should it fail to meet any of the above criteria. However, the administrator may, at his or her discretion, offer the opportunity for the author to re-submit a story.
Shortlisted authors will be informed when the shortlist has been agreed.
When the shortlist has been agreed a statement will be made on this website. Stories that have not been successfully shortlisted should then be considered released for submission elsewhere.
This year’s James White Award will be presented at Eastercon 2012 as part of the BSFA Awards ceremony. Entrants are welcome to attend the award ceremony if they wish (success in the competition is not contingent on being a member of the convention), but travel to the ceremony and any costs incurred are the sole responsibility of entrants.
The competition administrator reserves the right to refuse to accept or disqualify any submission: in such a case, the administrator will inform the author as soon as possible, giving the reason for refusal or disqualification.
The award adminstrator and the judges will not enter into correspondence on stories. They cannot offer critiques of stories or advice on how to get published.
The decisions of the judges are final.
The judges may decide not to award the prize if in their opinion there is no entrant of sufficient quality.
After the competition has ended, details of the shortlist and the winning entry will be published on the website.
Any tax liability resulting from the prize is the sole responsibility of the winner.
We regret that manuscripts cannot be returned after the judging. Please keep a copy.
If anything is unclear, or if you have any questions, please use “Contact Us” page for further information on how to contact the awards administrator.
http://www.jameswhiteaward.com/
http://www.jameswhiteaward.com/rules
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Merton Prize Poetry of the Sacred
First Prize, $500; Three Honorable Mention Prizes, $100 each.
Winning Poems will be published in The Merton Seasonal, a publication of scholarly articles about noted spiritual leader Thomas Merton and will be posted on the Merton Institute web site: www.mertoninstitute.org.
Only ONE unpublished poem type written in English may be submitted.
Please limit the poem to no more than 100 lines.
Type your name, address, phone numberemail address, and the title of your poem on a cover page. Attach (1) one copy of your titled poem to the cover page.
Submit your poem on a page with no identifying information. All identifying information should be on your cover page. Include a submission fee of $15.00 with the poem.
Poems will not be accepted via email. The poem must be sent via through the postal service. Deadline to submit poems is January 31, 2012
Submit poem to: Merton Institute, 415 West Muhammad Ali Blvd., Louisville, KY40202. Include the $15 submission fee payable to The Merton Institute.
No poems will be returned.
Poems will be judged on literary excellence, spiritual tenor, and human authenticity.
Winners will be announced by April 1, 2012. Please visit the Institute website for contest results.
All contestants will be notified via email of the contest results.
What is poetry of the sacred?
Poetry that expresses, directly or indirectly, a sense of the holy or that, by its mode of expression, evokes the sacred. The tone may be religious, prophetic, or contemplative.
http://www.mertoninstitute.org/
http://www.mertoninstitute.org/retrea ... red/tabid/92/Default.aspx
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The Caine Prize
ELIGIBILITY
Unpublished work is not eligible for the Caine Prize.
Submissions should be made by publishers only.
Only one story per author will be considered in any one year.
We require 6 copies of the work in its originally published version.
If the work is published in a book or journal, we would like to receive at least one copy of the book / journal and five photocopies; but particularly where several stories are submitted from one anthology we would like if possible to receive six copies of the book / journal itself.
If the work is published online, we would like to receive six photocopies.
Only fictional work is eligible.
Please note that works which do not conform to the criteria will not be considered for the prize. Please do not waste your own time and postage by sending in material which is unsuitable. Works not eligible for entry include stories for children, factual writing, plays, biography, works shorter than 3000 words and unpublished work. If you are not sure whether your work is eligible, please email us for advice.
HOW TO ENTER
Publishers should post six hard copies of the story for consideration to:
Lizzy Attree
The Caine Prize for African Writing
The Menier Gallery
Menier Chocolate Factory
51 Southwark Street
London SE1 1RU
Entries should be accompanied by a letter from the publisher conveying a short CV or brief biography of the writer, and specifying which African country the writer comes from.
FULL RULES
The Prize is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. Indicative length is between 3000 and 10,000 words.
“An African writer” is taken to mean someone who was born in Africa, or who is a national of an African country, or whose parents are African, and whose work has reflected African sensibilities.
There is a cash prize of £10,000 for the winning author and a travel award for each of the short-listed candidates (up to five in all).
For practical reasons, unpublished work and work in other languages is not eligible. Works translated into English from other languages are not excluded, provided they have been published in translation, and should such a work win, a proportion of the prize would be awarded to the translator.
The award is made in July each year, the deadline for submissions being 31 January. Works received after that date will be put forward to the next year's prize. The short-list is selected from work originally published in the five years preceding the submissions deadline and not previously considered for a Caine Prize. The deadline for the next prize is 31 January 2012; works must have been published between 1 February 2007 and the closing date.
In general it is unwise to delay the submission of entries until shortly before the deadline: postal and delivery hiccups can easily result in material arriving too late. It is far better to submit material a few weeks in advance.
NB: There is no application form. Submissions should be made by publishers, in the form of six original published copies of the work for consideration. If published in a magazine or journal we will accept one original copy plus five photocopies, but would prefer six original copies. These should be sent to the address below.
We are happy to take submissions from internet magazines, but must insist that we receive six hard copies of these, as of other submissions. Also it is important that internet entries be carefully edited: past judges have not viewed favourably entries containing typos and other errors.
The judges will consider only one work per writer in any one year, and only short stories are eligible.
Every effort is made to publicise the work of the short-listed authors through the broadcast as well as the printed media.
Winning and short-listed authors will be invited to participate in writers’ workshops in Africa, London and elsewhere as resources permit.
For further information, please contact Lizzy Attree at The Caine Prize for African Writing and Jenny Casswell at Raitt Orr and Associate
http://www.caineprize.com/
http://www.caineprize.com/rules.php
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NCLA International Student Short Story Competition
The UK International Student Short Story Competition is organised by the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA) and any international students working with the NCLA will be ineligible to enter for the competition.
The competition is open to all current international (including EU) students in UK universities and those who have graduated within the last two years. To be eligible students must be taking (or have taken) a full degree course at a UK university.
The entry fee is £5 per story (entrants can send as many stories as they like). Cheques should be made payable to Newcastle University. You may also pay online at: http://webstore.ncl.ac.uk/ (click on 'Read More' and then click on 'Tickets').
All entries must be in English, and must be stories drawn from the experiences of living as an international student in the UK.
Entrants should not have had a full-length book published.
Entries must be the entrant’s own original work, must not have been previously published, and must not exceed 4,000 words.
Entries must be double-spaced, must show no name, address or identifying marks other than the title and word count, and sent as an email attachment (in MS word document or Rich Text Document format) to ncenla@ncl.ac.uk or posted to NCLA, School of English, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, and marked ‘competition’.
Entries must be accompanied by a covering letter containing the entrant’s full names, contact details, UK University, country of origin, and the title and word count of the entrant’s story.
No corrections can be made after receipt of entries.
The deadline for submission of entries is 31 January 2012.
Entries will not be returned or acknowledged.
The decisions of the judging panel are final and binding, and no correspondence will be entered into about the results.
Winners will be notified by April 2012.
Details of the winners and the shortlisted entries will be available on the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts website (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla) and on the competition’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/UK-Inte ... ory-Prize/140335025993039) from April 2012.
The top three entries will be rewarded with cash prizes: 1st prize: £1000, 2nd prize: £500, 3rd prize: £200.
The shortlist of stories will be eligible for publication in an anthology. The shortlisted entrants will retain the copyright to their work but grant the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts the non-exclusive right to publish free of charge their entries.
The authors of the published stories will each be entitled to receive two complimentary copies of the anthology when published.
The Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts reserves the right to edit the shortlisted entries in consultation with their authors.
Entries must not infringe any copyright or contain defamatory or otherwise unlawful matter.
Each winner agrees to the use of his/her name and photograph for publicity purposes.
Entry implies acceptance of all the rules.
Failure to comply with the entry requirements will result in disqualification.
All enquiries about the competition should be directed to ncenla@ncl.ac.uk.
The NCLA reserves the right to amend these Rules where it is deemed necessary to do so or where circumstances are beyond NCLA's control. Any changes to the Rules will be posted on the NCLA website.
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla/
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla/projects/competitions/isssc/
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The Global Short Story Competition
Organised by Certys Limited, supported by Darlington Arts Centre in Darlington, County Durham, England
This competition has been organised by Certys Limited, of Darlington, supported by Darlington Arts Centre.
1 Entries are invited of no more than 2,000 words. There is no theme.
2. Entries must be by writers aged 17 or over.
3. There will be a cash prize for the winner of each monthly competition.
4. Entry is £5 per story. Payment details can be found elsewhere on this site. You may enter the competition every month. However, no more than 4 entries per individual will be accepted in any one judging period.
5. Entries must be written in English, selected because it is one of the world’s major languages.
6. Entries cannot be returned.
7. Entries can be submitted either electronically or by post (see below).
8. Entries will remain the copyright of the author but winning stories will be posted on this website.
9. No Certys director or judge, or family member, is allowed to enter.
10. Failure to observe these rules will result in disqualification.
Queries can be directed to John Dean at 00 44 (1) 325 463813 or e-mail john.dean@certys.co.uk
PRIVACY INFO
Postal Entries:
Those who would rather post their entries can send them direct to administrator John Dean, at 18 Milbank Court, Darlington, Co Durham, England DL3 9PF, marked Global Short Story Competition, and containing a £5 entry fee. Cheques should made payable to Certys Limited.
Prizes:
The prize for the monthly competition is £100 and £250 for the annual one
http://www.globalshortstories.net/
http://www.globalshortstories.net/rules.html
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Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant
DEADLINE: January 31
The Walter Rumsey Marvin Gran t was established by Dr. Marvin's family to encourage young writers. Dr. Marvin served as the Director of the Ohioana Library Association from 1954 to 1965. The Marvin Grant is a $1,000 award given to an author under 30 years of age who has not had a book published.
CRITERIA
• Applicant must have been born in Ohio or have lived in Ohio for a mi nimum of five years.
• Applicant must be no older than 30 years of age on January 31 of the year the award is given.
• Applicant must not have had a book published.
ENTRIES
• Entries submitted may consist of up to six pieces of prose.
• No submission may total more than (60) sixt y pages nor less than (10) ten pages, double spaced with at least a 12 point font.
• Entries will not be returned.
• Entries must be accompanied by this completed form, or a letter from the applicant containing: his/her date and place of birth; dates and place of residence in Ohio, and a statement that the applican t has not published a book.
• Entries must be postmarked no later than January 31 of the year in which the award is given.
JUDGING
A panel of three qualified judges will review and rank each entry on a scale of 0 to 100. Judges shall select the work of the person whose writing they consider best in overall quality. Judges reserve the right not to award the grant, if in their opinion no submission merits a grant.
http://www.ohioana.org/
http://www.ohioana.org/awards/marvin.asp
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The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction
The Ohio State University Press
The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction
Sponsored by The Ohio State University Press and the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The Ohio State University
Formerly known as the Sandstone Prize
Rules
This annual award is given to the manuscript collection of short fiction selected by an independent judge to be the best submitted. The winning author will receive publication under a standard book contract that includes a cash prize of $1,500 as an advance against royalties. The winner and finalists will be announced before June 30.
Eligibility Requirements
Submissions may include short stories, novellas, or a combination of both (but a single novella is not an eligible submission).
The competition is open to all writers in English.
Previously published stories or novellas may be included in the manuscript.
Current students and employees of The Ohio State University are ineligible.
Manuscripts must be between 150 and 300 typed pages (approx. 40,000 to 80,000 words).
Individual stories or novellas in the collection may not exceed 125 pages (approx. 35,000 words).
No translations unless done entirely by the author.
Submission Format
Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced, on quality white 8 1/2" x 11" paper, 250–300 words per page, one side only, pages numbered consecutively.
Crisp photocopies are acceptable.
Your identity is not revealed to the judges, so your name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. Instead, please include the following with your submission:
a cover sheet with name, street and email address, and phone numbers
an acknowledgement page with publication history for any previously published work
a title page listing title and approx. word count
a table of contents page listing only the stories and/or novellas and page numbers
Include a self-addressed stamped envelope so we can notify you of the contest results.
Include a self-addressed stamped postcard if you wish to receive confirmation of receipt of your manuscript.
OSU Press assumes no responsibility for lost or damaged manuscripts.
Do not send your only copy. Manuscripts will not be returned.
Deadline information
Manuscripts must be postmarked in the month of January and be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee of $20 (U.S. dollars). Send check or money order (no cash) made payable to The Ohio State University.
Mail to
Fiction Editor
The Ohio State University Press
180 Pressey Hall
1070 Carmack Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1002
http://www.ohiostatepress.org/
http://www.ohiostatepress.org/Books/S ... Pages/OSUShortFiction.htm
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Healing Poems
HEALING POEMS
POETRY COMPETITION
A call for poems that tell a story about healing of Mind, Body or Spirit or offer ways of healing to the reader.
Entry form details and rules:-
PRIZES:- 1st £100 2nd £50 3rd £25
JUDGED by the Thynks Team
Rules;-
For postal entries:-
1.Entries will be disqualified if not in accordance with the rules.
2.Poems MUST be your own work with your copyright, not more than 40 lines.
3.Each poem must have a title.
4.Deadline is January 31st 2012.
5.Winners to be announced on April 30th 2012 and prize monies distributed. The prizewinners will have their poems published in the Bards for Blidworth and Beyond Anthology 2012.
6.Copyright remains with the poets.
7.Poems sent by post to be typed or clearly printed on A4 white paper with a title but not poet's name. The poet's name, address, phone number, email if applicable, should be written on the entry form below, or a copy of it,
along with the title(s) of the poem(s). Poems sent online see below***
8.The entry fee of £3 per poem needs to be enclosed. UK Cheques or postal orders are acceptable (no cash) and should be made out to 'Thynks Publications Limited.' Poets paying in foreign currencies will need to enter online.***Click here to make an online entry.
9.Correspondence cannot be entered into with regard to the poem(s) but general queries can be answered. The Judges decisions are final.
10.Entries cannot be returned, so poets should keep copies of their work.
11.Competitors who would like acknowledgement of receipt or notification of winning entries should enclose stamped addressed envelope(s) marked 'Receipt' or 'Results' . (You will be informed by email if you have given your email address so SAE's won't be necessary.)
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If sending by post please cut and paste the entry form below into a Word document and print off to send with your entry.
http://www.thynkspublications.co.uk/home
http://christinemichael.org/healingpoems.html
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WritersType Competitions
CURRENTCOMPETITIONS
First Chapter
Deadline: January 31
Short Story
Deadline: January 31
Flash Fiction
Deadline: January 31
Judging is based on quality of writing and originality of idea. We suggest you take the time to read our advice on editing before submission.
In order to pay for this site and for our readers' time, we charge a small entry fee per submission. Doing so helps to ensure a certain level of sincerity and quality of submitted entries.
Entry fees, payable via PayPal, are as follows:
$10 per flash fiction entry;
$10 per short story entry;
$10 per first chapter entry.
The author of the winning entry in each category will be eligible to receive a $25 Amazon.com gift card. Both the winner and first runner-up each month will be automatically entered into our annual contest, the winner of which will be eligible to receive a further $225 Amazon.com gift card (a total of $250).
Entries are accepted by electronic means only. You may submit Word documents (.doc or .docx), Text Documents (.txt), or Rich Text Format Documents (.rtf). PDF documents (.pdf) are permitted, but are not preferred.
Entries must be in English. A small number of words or short phrases in other languages is permitted.
Your name, valid email address, and entry fee must accompany each entry. Please remember to include your name, name of your work, and your email address in the text of your uploaded work to ensure that your submission is linked to your payment.
There are no refunds of entry fees for submitted works, no disputes are considered regarding awards granted, and all decisions of our reviewers are final.
AWARDS
In addition to listing the winners' names on our site, winning entries will be awarded the following:
Monthly Winners (Round 1) receive a $25 honorarium, generally in the form of an electronic gift card.
Yearly Winners (Round 2) receive a further $225 award, generally in the form of an electronic gift card.
All winning entries are hosted on our site for up to a year at the author's discretion (copyright always remains with the author).
Monthly winners and runners-up in each category (Round 1) are automatically entered into that category's yearly competition (Round 2).
Entries of monthly winners and runners-up receive reader comments upon request. Winning entries may be updated by authors in light of our readers' comments before we publish the entries on our site.
WritersType will forward inquiries from publishing professionals to winning authors (with author permission).
http://www.writerstype.com/
http://www.writerstype.com/rules.asp
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