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Week 12 Flash Fiction Contest: Nowhere
Photo by K.S. Brooks The middle of nowhere. It’s 112° and your character has been on foot for hours already. Not one other vehicle has passed. No food. No water. No shade. What happened and what will...
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Weekly Flash Fiction Competition: Losing It All
Photo by K.S. Brooks She came to the casino to gamble. She gambled and lost. She lost everything. She ended her own life right there in the ladies room. No one cared. They are about to care. Your...
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Aesthetica 2012 Creative Writing Competition
Aesthetica Magazine is inviting all writers and poets to submit their work into the Creative Writing Competition. Each winner will receive £500. Winners and finalists will be published in the...
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The Bellevue Literary Review Prizes
The BLR Prizes award outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. First prize is $1000 (in each genre) and publication in the Spring 2013 issue of the BLR....
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Writing Contests Have Been Good To Me – and They Can Be Good To You, Too
Guest post by Sandra Gardner My love affair with writing contests began years ago when I was writing poetry seriously. I’d racked up a number of publication credits from small literary journals and...
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Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open
Glimmer Train is accepting submissions for their quarterly Fiction Open. Open to all writers and all themes; entries must not have been previously published in print. Maximum length is 20000 words....
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Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers
Glimmer Train is accepting submissions for their quarterly Short Story Award for New Writers. Open only to writers who have not been published in a print publication with a circulation over 5,000....
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Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition
Aesthetica magazine is accepting submissions of poetry and short fiction for their Creative Writing Competition. Open to all writers, regardless of theme and experience. Prizes: £500 for winner (one...
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Flash 500 Flash Fiction Competition
Now in its fourth year, this quarterly competition has an open theme, but you only get 500 words to tell a story. Prizes: £500 for first prize (plus publication in Words with JAM); £100 for second...
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Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction
Hippocampus magazine seeks creative nonfiction for its Remember In November Contest. No theme—just your best previously unpublished memoir excerpts and personal essays up to 3,500 words. Winning...
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Bartleby Snopes Writing Contest: Dialogue Only!
If you like a challenge and love great dialogue, this one might be for you. The FIfth Annual Bartleby Snopes Writing Contest wants stories told in dialogue only. No set directions, no fancy...
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Jeremy Mogford Prize for Food and Drink Writing
As part of the Oxford Literary Festival, the Jeremy Mogford Prize for Food and Drink Writing is being awarded for unpublished short stories with food and drink at the heart of the tale. Submit one...
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FemFlash 2013 – Feminist Writing Competition
Mookychick’s FEMFLASH 2013 competition seeks flash fiction about feminism in all of its aspects. Open to all citizens of earth. Prizes: First prize: £50 (or your country’s equivalent); Runner-Up: £25...
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MORE BLOOD: Destroyer Fan-Fic Anthology
Attention Destroyer fans! Warren Murphy is publishing a second anthology of fan-written short stories and artwork. Stories can be serious or funny, must be Destroyer-themed (although they don’t have to...
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Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers
Glimmer Train is accepting submissions for their last quarterly Short Story Award for New Writers of 2013. Open only to writers who have not been published in a print publication with a circulation...
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The Baltimore Review Winter Contest
The Baltimore Review seeks short fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry on the theme of the future. Word limit is 3000 for prose or up to three poems per entry. Prizes: First place, $500; Second...
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Glamour Magazine Essay Contest
Glamour magazine’s annual “My Real Life Essay Contest” seeks—you guessed it—true-life essays. Maximum word length is 3500 words and Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley will be on the judging panel....
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Kindness Essay Contest
BioStories is having its first essay contest, and the topic is kindness. Nonfiction only, please, and 3000-word maximum. From the website: “We encourage writers to interpret the theme broadly and...
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William Richey Short Fiction Contest
The deadline has been extended for entries for the William Richey Short Fiction Contest. The judges are seeking unpublished short fiction under 10,000 words. Prizes: First place, $500 plus publication...
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Jamais Vu Seeks Dark Fiction
Jamais Vu, a literary journal from Post Mortem Press, seeks submissions for its Spring 2014 issue. Oriented toward dark fiction and horror, the publication is looking for short fiction, book/movie...
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