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4th ANNUAL LIAM RECTOR FIRST BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY
http://www.brierycreekpress.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=3
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$20 ENTRY FEE
Deadline March 30, 2010. Winner receives 50 books, a reading,
$1,000, and a letter-pressed broadside created by book-artist Kerri
Cushman. All entries receive a copy of the winning book. Send between 48
and 60 pages of poetry, no more than one poem per page, no smaller than
12 point font, Arial, Courier, or Times.
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ALPINE ESSAY CONTEST
http://www.watermanfund.org/categories/essay_contest/2010_contest.php
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NO ENTRY FEE
The Waterman Fund seeks the submission of essays about life in the
mountains of the northeastern U.S. The Waterman Fund is seeking personal
essays about stewardship of wild places, whether through a scientific
lens or an encounter with wildness.
The winning piece will be published in Appalachia Journal. The winning
essayist will be awarded $1,500. Honorable mention will
receive $500. All are encouraged to submit. Essays must be original
works ranging from 2,500 to 4,000 words. Writers who have not published
a book on such a topic or who have not been published in a national
magazine on such a topic are eligible for participation. Please note
that the deadline for this year's submissions has changed from May to
March. Essays are now due March 15, 2010. We will announce
winners by early June.
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E.M. KOEPPEL $1,100 SHORT FICTION AWARD
http://www.writecorner.com/printable.asp
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$15 ENTRY FEE
First Place Award: $1,100. Editors' Choices: $100 each. Maximum Length:
3,000 words. Stories must be unpublished. Deadline April 30, 2010.
The winning short story and editors' choices will be published on
www.writecorner.com . If the
winning story is by anyone attending college, university, or school when
the story is submitted, the winner will receive, in addition to the
$1,100 award, the $500 P.L. Titus Scholarship.
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PEN PARENTIS WRITING FELLOW COMPETITION
http://penparentis.org/contest.html
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$15 ENTRY FEE
Contest open to parents. Entrants must be the parent of at least one
child under 10 yrs old. While we accept submissions from anywhere,
contestants are advised that there is no travel budget. All contestants
must be responsible for their own transportation costs to the reading
location in Manhattan. Accepting entries from March 1 through April
17, 2010. Looking for fiction shorts not to exceed 1,200 words.
One winning author will be showcased for one year on our website as the
“Pen Parentis Writing Fellow,” a new emergent author worthy of notice.
The Fellow will receive a public showcase of the winning new work in a
stunning literary location in New York City, paired with an established
author who may function as inspiration and guide. Winner also receives
$1,000, presented at the Pen Parentis Literary Salon on September 14,
2010. Pen Parentis encourages, but does not require, attendance to
subsequent readings at the Libertine Library in order to 1) be
introduced to other authors and 2) network with prospective editors,
agents, and readers. Finally, Pen Parentis will feature the winner on
our website for one year, updating his/her accomplishments to the
community, and will link to their author website, if any, and will
promote the author when he/she attends regular Pen Parentis author salon
events.
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ALABAMA WRITERS' CONCLAVE 2010 WRITING COMPETITION
http://www.alabamawritersconclave.com/contests.html
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$3 to $12 ENTRY FEE DEPENDING ON CATEGORY
Deadline: April 20, 2010 (postmark). Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75;
3rd: $50; 4th: $25 and up to 4 Honorable Mentions in each
category.
Fiction - maximum 2,500 words.
Short Fiction - maximum 1,000 words.
Juvenile Fiction (stories for ages 4-12) - maximum 2,500 words. MUST
LIST GENRE AND TARGETED AGE GROUP (i.e. picture book, 3 & up).
Nonfiction - maximum 2,500 words (PLEASE SPECIFY IF WRITTEN FOR ADULT OR
CHILDREN).
Humor (fiction, nonfiction, or poetry) - maximum 2,000 words or 50 lines
(for poems).
Traditional Poem (any "form" poem, i.e. villanelle, sonnet, sestina) -
maximum 40 lines.
Free Verse Poem - maximum 60 lines.
First Chapter of Novel - up to 10 pages, first chapter ONLY.
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TIFERET POETRY CONTEST
http://tiferetjournal.com/2010/01/01/enter-the-2010-tiferet-poetry-contest-500-first-prize/
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$5 ENTRY FEE (limit 10)
TIFERET: A Journal of Spiritual Literature offers an award of $500 for a
poem that invokes the sacred. We publish writing from a variety of
spiritual and religious traditions. Our mission is to help reveal spirit
through the written word and to promote peace in the individual and the
world. Unpublished poems in English must be received through our online
Submissions Manager by April 1, 2010. First prize: $500 and
publication in TIFERET. Three Honorable Mention Prizes will receive
publication on website.
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LEAPFROG 2010 FICTION
CONTEST
http://www.www.leapfrogpress.com
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ENTRY FEE
$30 for adult literary fiction
$20 children’s fiction.
Opens January 15, 2010. Deadline May 1, 2010. Adult fiction:
literary novels, novellas, and short-story collections, minimum 22,000
words. Children's fiction: middle-grade and YA novels, minimum length
20,000 words. No picture books. First prize: Publication contract offer
with advance, plus finalist awards, for one book in each category.
Finalists: $150 plus manuscript critique by finalist judges. Judges are
Marge Piercy (adult fiction) and the Leapfrog editorial staff.
Children's fiction finalist judge TBA.
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BUXTON POETRY COMPETITION
http://www.derby.ac.uk/buxtonpoetrycompetition
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The cost to submit a poem is £5. Entries to the young people’s and
children’s categories are free. This year's theme is "A
Breath of Fresh Air". Poets of all ages are welcome to enter - there are
three categories:
Open Poetry for poets 19 and over, Young People's for budding poets
between 12 and 18, Children's Poetry for the 11 and unders.
Five finalists from each category will be selected by a panel of judges.
The first three winners from the Open Category will receive a cash prize
(£300, £200, £100). The first three winners from the Young People's and
Children's categories will receive
Waterstone's book tokens. The 15 finalists will have their work
exhibited in the Devonshire Dome during Buxton Festival 2010 as
well as being announced in the local media and listed on the University
and Festival's website. The three first-place poems will be published in
the 2010 Buxton Festival programme. The 15 finalists will be invited to
an Awards Event at the Devonshire Dome during Buxton Festival 2010. The
three first-place poets will have an opportunity to read their poems at
the Awards Event. Deadline April 1, 2010. Poems must not exceed
40 lines.
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FAILBETTER NOVELLA CONTEST
http://www.failbetter.com/Novella.php
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NO ENTRY FEE
Deadline May 15, 2010. Prize $500. One entry allowed per person.
Stories must be at least 8,000 words but less than a novel. Send only
the first 5,000 words. All entries will be considered for publication.
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