Writing Contest News for March 26, 2012
March 22, 2012 by Mary Anne
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Hello!
My apologies if you are receiving this a second time–for some reason, the contest list didn’t post to the website, so I am republishing it today.
I have decided that my calling is showing people how to take their greatest skills and talents and turn them into a thriving online business. In this age of economic uncertainty and in the wake of melt downs and bail outs of huge corporations and entire industries, I am coming to deeply believe that our only true “security” lies within ourselves. More than that, I think many people would find greater success, abundance and fulfillment by sharing their gifts with the world at large, rather than to a company that may or may not value those gifts.
That said, between writing and editing jobs, I hav
Writing Contest News for February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012 by Mary Anne
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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
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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/
