Writing Contest News for February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012 by Mary Anne
Filed under Writing Contest News
Hello!
Whether you already have your own freelance writing business or dream of starting one, I would like to share a free resource with you that I’ve found to be informative, inspirational and fun.
It’s a program called Solo Pro Radio, which my friend and colleague Barbara Saunders launched a few months ago on the Women for Women internet radio network. Along with co-hosts Tshombe (pronounced shom-bay) Brown, Bonnie Marie Kuhn and Jackie Peterson, Barbara interviews guest experts on topics ranging from pricing one’s services to selling with confidence and everything in between. The program airs each weekday at 1 PM Eastern, with Fridays reserved for their “Friday Free for All” segments, where the co-hosts get together and discuss a wide variety of topics of interest to freelancers and solo professionals.
Barbara, who is also the director of the International Association of Self-Employed Communication Professionals and founder of Solo Pro Academy, just launched her program “How to Charge What You’re Worth.” That course just started yesterday, so if you’re interested, I believe it’s not too late to get on board.
OK, enough about Barbara (for now at least!). On to this week’s list of writing contests. Here’s to your writing success.
Mary Anne
Writing Contests with Multiple Categories
2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award
Any currently-available self-published fiction or nonfiction book or e-book is eligible.
Prizes: $500
Deadline: October 15, 2012
Fees: $20
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/anderselfpubbookaward2012.html
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Enizagam 2012 Literary Awards in Poetry and Fiction
Submit 3-5 poems totaling no more than 10 pages, or a short story up to 6,000 words.
Prizes: $1,000, publication, and blurb by Lemony Snicket, AKA Daniel Handler, or Nikki Giovanni.
Deadline: March 15, 2012
Fees: $20
http://enizagam.org/?page_id=90
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Fiction Writing Contests
JLE Legal Fiction Contest
Submissions must be in prose form, under 5,000 words, and have a legal setting.
Prizes: Publication
Deadline: March 15, 2012
Fees: None
http://www.swlaw.edu/jleweb/legalfictioncontest/
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Hidden River Arts Award
Submit any previously unpublished short story or novel except of 25 pages or less.
Prizes: $1,000 and publication.
Deadline: June 30, 2012
Fees: $17
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The Eludia Award
The prize is open to women writers age 40 and older who do not yet have a book-length publication.
Prizes: $1,000, publication, and 10 copies.
Deadline: March 15, 2012
Fees: $25
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Global Short Story Competition
Entries are invited of no more than 2,000 words. There is no theme.
Prizes: £100.
Deadline: Monthly
Fees: £5
http://www.globalshortstories.net/rules.html
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The Norton Girault Literary Prize
Entries must not exceed 25 pages in length.
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Deadline: February 29, 2012
Fees: $25
http://barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com/the-norton-girault-literary-prize/
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Nonfiction/Essay Writing Contests
National Intelligence Writing Contest
Submissions can be no longer than 2,000 words.
Prizes: 1st: $3,000; 2nd: $1,500; 3rd: $750. Possible publication.
Deadline: June 30, 2012
Fees: None
http://vetjobs.com/media/2012/02/17/national-intelligence-writing-contest/
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2012 Alpine Essay Contest
Authors are asked to submit essays about life in the mountains of the northeastern U.S. Essays must be original works at least 2000 words long.
Prizes: 1st: $1,500 and publication; 2nd: $500.
Deadline: April 15, 2012
Fees: None
http://www.watermanfund.org/EnterEssayContest.shtml
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Poetry Contests
The Patricia Dobler Poetry Award
Each poem must be unpublished, up to 75 lines/poem. Authors must be female and over the age of 40.
Prizes: Round-trip travel and lodging as a participating guest of Carlow’s MFA residency in Pittsburgh, Pa, plus publication and reading.
Deadline: April 2, 2012
Fees: $20
http://www.gradstudies.carlow.edu/creative/dobler-award.html
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Spoon River Poetry Review
Submit two copies of three unpublished poems, maximum of ten pages total.
Prizes: 1st: $1,000; 2nd: $100; 3rd: $100.
Deadline: April 15, 2012
Fees: $20
http://www.litline.org/Spoon/contest.html
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Booth Poetry Contest
Up to 3 poems may be submitted.
Prizes: 1st: $500 and publication; 2nd: $250 and publication.
Deadline: March 5, 2012
Fees: $10
http://booth.butler.edu/contests/
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The Washington Prize
Submit a manuscript consisting of 48 to 64 pages of poetry.
Prizes: $1,500 and publication.
Deadline: March 15, 2012
Fees: $25
http://www.wordworksbooks.org/washington_prize.html
Writing Contest News for February 14, 2012
February 13, 2012 by Mary Anne
Filed under Writing Contest News
Hello:
I can’t get Whitney Houston’s rendition of “I Will Always Love You” out of my head. But I don’t want to write about her.
I’d rather write about the fact that I recently became a great-aunt again. ❤ Or how John and I will soon be taking a real vacation for the first time in a few years. Or about my crazy love for Syracuse University basketball.
Or…maybe I do need to explore the vague sense of sadness I’ve felt since I learned of Whitney’s death. I find it strange, this sadness, because I hadn’t thought of her in years prior to the news. I don’t even own any of her CDs. But I did admire that remarkable voice…and I find the demons and struggles that haunted her so very tragic. Maybe writing about Whitney Houston is exactly what I need to do.
In the meantime…Syracuse University pulled off a close one tonight.
On to this week’s list of writing contests. Here’s to your writing success.
Mary Anne
Writing Contests with Multiple Categories
SLO NightWriters 23rd Annual Writing Contest
Short stories are limited to 750 words. Poems are limited to 40 lines.
Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75; 3rd: $25.
Deadline: March 31, 2012
Fees: None
http://www.slonightwriters.org/Default.aspx?pageId=962273
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Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival 2012 Poetry & Short Story Contest
Short stories must be 4,000 words or less. There is no limit to length of poems.
Prizes: Westmoreland Award: $200; 1st: $125; 2nd: $100; 3rd: $75. Prizes per category.
Deadline: March 16, 2012
Fees: $10 for 2 poems or 1 short story.
http://www.artsandheritage.com/Downloads/PSS%20Application%202012.pdf
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Collision Literary Magazine Writing Contest
Authors may submit up to 5 poems or 3000 words of creative non-fiction prose.
Prizes: 1st: $250; 2nd: $175; 3rd: $100.
Deadline: Unknown
Fees: None
http://collision.honorscollege.pitt.edu/guidelines.html
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Alabama Writers’ Conclave Writing Contest
Authors may submit fiction, nonfiction, or poetry.
Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75; 3rd: $50; 4th: $25; Up to 4 Honorable Mentions.
Deadline: April 20, 2012
Fees: First Chapter Novel: $10; Poems: $3; All other categories: $5.
http://www.alabamawritersconclave.com/pdf/guidelines_2012.pdf
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Tarcher/Penguin Writing Competition
Submissions should be no more than 10 pages (roughly 4-5,000 words maximum). Fiction and nonfiction will be accepted.
Prizes: 1st: $5,000
Deadline: March 2, 2012
Fees: None
http://www.tarchertopartist.com/writing-competition-details/
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Fiction Writing Contests
Somewhere Sometime Short Story Writing Contest
Inviting writers and dreamers to pen down their real life anecdotes, experiences, and imaginations, fictional ideas into a short story of maximum 3000 words in English or Hindi with a twist in the story. Do not forget to incorporate the “Twist in the Tale” which is mandatory.
Prizes: 1st: Kindle 3G; 2nd: Apple iPod; 3rd: $50 cash or Amazon card
Deadline: February 29, 2012
No Entry Fdee
E.M. Koeppel Short Fiction Award
Maximum Length of submissions is 3,000 words.
Prizes: 1st: $1,100; Editors’ Choices: $100 each.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
Fees: $15
http://www.writecorner.com/award_guidelines.asp
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Maisonneuve’s Genre Fiction Contest: Science Fiction
Send your finest original stories of the future, near-future, utopias, aliens and the unknown limits of the universe! There is a 1,200 word limit.
Prizes: 1st: $300 and publication. 2nd & 3rd: $100.
Deadline: March 19, 2012
Fees: $25
http://maisonneuve.org/contest/maisonneuves-genre-fiction-contest-science-fiction/
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Flatt Prize for Literature
Submit a short story of no more than 3,000 words. The theme for the short story is to be inspired by the title ‘INTERRUPTED’.
Prizes: $1,000 and publication.
Deadline: February 29, 2012
Fees: None
http://flattprize.com/submission.htm
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Pecan Grove Press National Short Story Competition
Short story manuscripts should be between 125 and 150 pages.
Prizes: $1,000 and 25 copies.
Deadline: May 30, 2012
Fees: $15
http://library.stmarytx.edu/pgpress/short_story/index.html
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National League of American Pen Women Inc.
Stories may not exceed 100 words. The theme is Are You Devious at Heart.
Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $50; Judge’s Merit Award: $25.
Deadline: May 1, 2012
Fees: $10
http://www.ppb-nlapw.org/contests.php
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Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest
Short stories, essays or other works of prose, up to 5,000 words each will be accepted.
Prizes: 1st: $3,000; 2nd: $1,000; 3rd: $400; 4th: $250; 6 Highly Commended Awards: $150 each. Winners receive publication.
Deadline: March 31, 2012
Fees: $15
http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/tomstory/ts_guidelines.php
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CWC-Sacramento 2012 Short Short Story Contest
No story may exceed 750 words.
Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $50; 3rd: $25.
Deadline: March 31, 2012
Fees: $10
http://www.cwcsacramentowriters.org/2012/02/08/2012-short-short-story-contest-now-open/
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Poetry Contests
Campbell Corner 2012 Poetry Contest
Maximum length for submissions is 20 pages total.
Prizes: $3,000
Deadline: March 15, 2012
Fees: $25
http://blogs.slc.edu/campbellcorner/guidelines/
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Dancing Poetry Contest
Poems are limited to 40 lines maximum.
Prizes: Grand Prize (x3): $100 and the poems will be danced and videotaped. 1st (x6): $50; 2nd (x12): $25; 3rd (x30): $10.
Deadline: May 15, 2012
Fees: One poem for $5 or 3 poems for $10
http://www.dancingpoetry.com/dpfpoetrycontestrules.html
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CFCP Poetry Contest
The theme for the contest is Rivers.
Prizes: 1st: $25; 2nd: $15; 3rd: $10.
Deadline: March 31, 2012
Fees: $2
http://www.chaparralpoets.org/monthly.html
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2012 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
This competition is open to African American poets only. The poems in the manuscript should total approximately 60-90 pages.
Prizes: $500
Deadline: March 1, 2012
http://www.lotuspress.org/
Writing Contest News for January 24, 2012
January 23, 2012 by Mary Anne
Filed under Writing Contest News
Hello:
I can’t help it–I just love, love, love the internet. 
I love the global connections with other writers that I’ve made over the years. I love being able to look up pretty much anything I want to within seconds. I love the opportunities that writers can find or create online–I mean, who knew, even a few years ago, that you could make decent money as a ghostblogger? I didn’t, but I do now.
But one of the things I love the most about the internet has been the emergence and proliferation of life, success and mindset coaches. There’s a coach or coaching program for any and every roadblock, real or imagined, mental or spiritual, that one could ever experience. Feeling stuck? There’s a program for that. Not sure how to grow your writing business? here’s a program for that, too.
Take Fabienne Frederickson, a woman whom I discovered only a couple of months ago, although she’s had a coaching business for years. The initial focus of her business centered solely on client attraction, a skill she taught to solo professionals of all kinds; her mission has evolved into one that urges these very same solo pros to play a bigger game, aim higher, and tap into the universal laws of success that we all can access, once we understand them. I get totally inspired listening to her–and no one in my non-internet world comes close to talking about the topics she covers.
If what she teaches sounds at all interesting to you, I urge you to get her free CD. Let me know what you think.
On to this week’s writing contests. Here’s to your writing success.
Mary Anne
Writing Contests with Multiple Categories
Wag’s Revue Winter Writers Contest
Poems, essays, and short stories will be accepted.
Prizes: 1st: $1,000; 2nd: $500; 3rd: $100. Prizes per genre.
Deadline: February 29, 2012
http://wagsrevue.submishmash.com/submit/9845/account
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WritersType Writing Competition
Authors may submit flash fiction, short stories, or first chapters.
Prizes: $25 and entry into yearly competition.
Deadline: January 31, 2012
Fees: $10
http://writerstype.com/rules.asp
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7th Annual ACCENTI Writing Contest
Entries can be fiction, non-fiction or creative non-fiction and no more than 2,000 words. Prizes are CDN.
Prizes: 1st: $1,000; 2nd: $250; 3rd: $100. Winners receive publication.
Deadline: February 7, 2012
Fees: $20
http://www.accenti.ca/writing-contest
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Colonnade Writing Contest
Fiction and non-fiction authors from any genre are asked to submit their best previously unpublished work.
Prizes: $125 and publication.
Deadline: March 31, 2012
Fees: $12
http://www.cjmbooks.com/writing_contest.asp
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Fiction Writing Contests
2012 Toronto Star Short Story Contest
Stories may be no longer than 2,500 words.
Prizes: 1st: $5,000, plus the tuition fee for The Humber School for Writers 2012 Correspondence Program in Creative Writing. Approximate retail value: $3,000; 2nd: $2,000; 3rd: $1,000.
Deadline: February 26, 2012
Fees: None
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The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction
Submissions may include short stories, novellas, or a combination of both (but a single novella is not an eligible submission). Manuscripts must be between 150 and 300 typed pages.
Prizes: Publication under a standard book contract and $1,500 as an advance against royalties.
Deadline: January 31, 2012
Fees: $20
http://www.ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?/books/series pages/osushortfiction.htm
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Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant
Entries submitted must consist of 10-60 pages. Applicant must have been born in Ohio or have lived in Ohio for a minimum of five years.
Prizes: $1,000
Deadline: January 31, 2012
Fees: None
http://www.ohioana.org/awards/marvin.asp
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Global Short Story Competition
Entries are invited of no more than 2,000 words. There is no theme.
Prizes: £100.
Deadline: Monthly
Fees: £5
http://www.globalshortstories.net/rules.html
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Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest
The contest is for Adult Fiction and Children’s Fiction. Minimum length allowed is 22,000 words.
Prizes: 1st: Publication contract, advance payment, and $150; Finalists: $150.
Deadline: May 1, 2012
Fees: $30
http://www.leapfrogpress.com/contest.htm
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Nonfiction/Essay Writing Contest
Tiny Light’s Annual Essay Contest
Entries submitted to the Standard contest may not exceed 2,000 words. Entries for the Flashpoint contest may not exceed 1,000 words.
Prizes: Standard – 1st: $350; 2nd: $250; 3rd: $150; Two Honorable Mentions: $100. Flashpoint – Three prizes of $100 each.
Deadline: February 17, 2012
Fees: $15
http://www.tiny-lights.com/contest.php
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Ruminate Nonfiction Prize
You may submit one nonfiction piece per entry and it must be 7000 words or less.
Prizes: 1st: $1,000 and publication; 2nd: Publication.
Deadline: February 1, 2012
Fees: $15
http://www.ruminatemagazine.com/submit/contests/nonfiction/
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Poetry Contests
2012 Poetry of the Sacred
Poems should be limited to no more than 100 lines.
Prizes: 1st: $500; Three Honorable Mentions: $100 each. Winners receive publication.
Deadline: January 31, 2012
Fees: $15
