Monday Miscellany for March 1, 2010
March 1, 2010 by Mary Anne
Filed under Writing Contest News
Hello:
I have a number of writing contest listings to share with you again this week. To make this column more user friendly, I will group the contests by writing category from now on. When applicable, I’ll include a “Multiple Categories” section for those contests that seek entries in, well, multiple categories, so you may want to scan them as well.
Here’s to your writing success.
Mary Anne
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FICTION
Aeon Award for Short Fiction
International contest for short fiction in any speculative genre, i.e. fantasy, SF, horror or anything in between or unclassifiable
Prizes: €1,000 and publication in Albedo One. Second and third place prizes are 200 and 100 euro.
Deadline: Four rounds throughout the year–first round deadline is March 31st, the second round June 30th, the third round September 30th and the final round November 30th.
Entry fee: €7
http://www.albedo1.com/html/aeon_award.html
The Writer Short Story Contest
Original fiction on any theme that is brilliant, bold, and concise (no more than 2,000 words).
Prizes: First Place: $1,000, second Place: $300, third Place: $200 (plus additional prizes)
Deadline: May 31, 2010
Entry fee: $10
http://www.writingclasses.com/ContestPages/writer.php
Curvalicious Writing Contest
The Curvalicious line will be short novella length (15,000 and 35,000 words) stories featuring plus size heroines. Curvalicious heroines are beautiful, strong, intelligent women who get the guy without losing weight or changing their bodies. Sweet or spicy romance novels wanted.
Prizes: Publication by Accomplice Press
Deadline: May 14, 2010
Entry fee: None
Flash 500 Fiction Competition
Quarterly open-themed competition.
Prizes: First: £250 plus publication in Words with JAM. Second: £100.
Third: £50
Deadline: of March 31, 2010
Entry fee: £5 for one story, £8 for two stories
http://www.lorrainemace.com/index_files/flash500.html
Cowboy Up Contest
Western theme. 3,000 words maximum. Fiction only.
Prizes: $250 first place; $150 second spot; $75 for third.
Deadline: September 1, 2010
Entry fee: $15
http://www.moonlightmesaassociates.com/id10.html
Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest
No restrictions on content, style, genre or length. Flashes, novel excerpts, experimental–all types of short fiction are welcome.
Prizes: Grand prize: $1,000. Second prize: $100. Honorable mention (3).
Deadline: March 31, 2010
Entry fee: $4
http://www.gemini-magazine.com/contest.html
NON-FICTION/ESSAY/BLOG
Jobs of the Damned Writing Contest
Seeking true stories that provide insight into the tension between bosses and subordinates. In 200 to 1000 words, describe the boss who made you feel most upset, humiliated or uncomfortable. Describe your boss’s inappropriate behavior and tell us how you handled it.
Prize: $2,000.00
Deadline: May 2, 2010
Entry fee: $10
http://www.jobsofthedamned.com/main/CurrentWeek.aspx?go=4
Review-Blog Writing Contest
Write a 250 to 1000-word guest post for Review Blog. You can write almost any type of review, anything from blogs, to technology, to celebrities.
The contest will run from February26, 2010 to Here are the rules:
Prizes: First place will win $10, Second place $5, and up to 98 runner-ups will win $2. Deadline: March 31, 2010, or until we receive 100 entries, whichever comes first.
Entry fee: None
Great American Think-Off
America’s premier amateur philosophy contest, The Great American Think-Off, releases its 2010 essay and debate question: “Do the wealthy have an obligation to help the poor?” Submit an essay of 750 words or fewer.
Prizes: Four winners will receive $500 plus travel, food and lodging expenses
Deadline: April 1, 2010
Entry fee: None
POETRY
Red Shed Poetry Competition
Poems must be in English and unpublished, limited to 50 lines.
Prizes: First prize £100, second prize £50, Wakefield Postcode prize £25
Deadline: April 30, 2010
Entry fee: £3
http://www.currockpress.com/competition_entry_form
Passager Poetry Contest for writers over 50
Submit 3-5 poems, 50 lines max per poem.
Prizes: $300 top prize
Deadline: April 1, 2010
Entry fee: $20
The Linda Hodge Bromberg Literary Award
Submit your best unpublished prose poem. In honor of the award’s namesake, we are looking for works of extraordinary quiddity, works that remain with us long after we have encountered them.
Prizes: $500 and publication
Deadline: May 3, 2010
Entry fee: $12
http://www.sci.edu/quiddity/download/2010LindaBrombergLiteraryAward.pdf
The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest (Canada)
This contest is for poems written in response to an occasion, personal or public-poems of gratitude or grief, poems that celebrate or berate, poems that make of something an occasion or simply mark one.
Prizes: Grand prize of $1,000. Another $1,000 in prize money will be distributed.
Deadline: May 1, 2010
Entry fee: $40 for up to 2 unpublished poems, $5 each for additional poem.
Larry Kramer Memorial Chapbook Contest
Send 16-24 pages of poetry. Poems need not be themed but should work well together.
Prizes: $200 plus publication
Deadline: April 15, 2010
Entry fee: $18
http://www.heartsoundspressliterary.com/Pulse_Literary_Journal/Announcements.html
Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize
Must be in English. Must be at least 48 pages in length.
Prizes: $1,500 and publication
Deadline: March 31, 2010
Entry fee: $25
http://www.saturnaliabooks.com/html/poetry_contest.html
MULTIPLE CATEGORIES
Writer’s Digest Self-Published Awards
The competition is open to all English-language self-published books for which the authors have paid the full cost of publication, or the cost of printing has been paid for by a grant or as part of a prize. All books published or revised and reprinted between 2005 and 2010 are eligible.
Prizes: Grand prize $3,000; 10 first-place winners will receive $1,000
Deadline: May 3, 2010
Entry fee: $125
http://www.writersdigest.com/selfpublished
WriterAdvice Contest
Flash fiction, memoir & creative non-fiction contest.
Prizes: First Place $150; second Place $75; third Place $50; fourth Place $25; Honorable Mentions will also be published.
Deadline: April 15, 2010\
Entry fee: $10
Thanks for including my contest!