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Denouncing contests from your writing repertoire is like discounting an entire genre or refusing to eat yellow vegetables. You're giving up something valuable. Competitions provide steps up for a writer - especially a struggling writer. A portfolio with a few contest wins or honorable mentions means more than many clips. Can't afford the entry fees? Consider entering one a quarter or something more amiable to your pocketbook. Contests provide prizes, prestige and usually publication with many offering book contracts.

Hi Hope, we met at the SCWW conference in Myrtle Beach last October, and I was so impressed with your lecture that I subscribed to FFW as soon as I got home. I wanted to drop you a line to let you know that because of FFW, I submitted AND WON The 2008 William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers! My novel will be finished this week, and next weekend I'm going to Malice Domestic to accept the award. Thanks you, and keep up the great work.

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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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