Writing Contests
SPORTS FICTION & ESSAY CONTEST - LAST CALL! 2nd year. $1,000 top prize in each category. $3,000 in total prizes. Submit stories and essays on sports-related themes. Each work may have up to 6,000 words. All entries that win cash prizes will be published on WinningWriters.com (over one million page views per year) and announced in the Winning Writers Newsletter, with over 40,000 subscribers. Fee is $15 per entry. Submit online by May 31. Sponsored by Winning Writers, one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2005-2013). Final judge: Jendi Reiter. Guidelines and online submission at http://www.winningwriters.com/sports
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GLIMMER TRAIN Short Story Award for New Writers: Deadline May 31. Open to any writer whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation greater than 5000. 1st place has been increased to $1500 and includes publication in Glimmer Train. 2nd/3rd: $500/$300, consideration for publication. Results announced August 1. Word count generally ranges 1000-5000, though up to 12,000 words is fine. One of the most respected short-story journals in print, Glimmer Train is represented in the Pushcart Prize, O. Henry, New Stories from the South, New Stories from the Midwest, and Best American Short Stories anthologies. Submit online: www.glimmertrain.org.
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AND WE WERE HUNGRY, a New Literary Online Magazine, Announces Inaugural Short Story Prize, generously funded by "Ashes and Snow" artist Gregory Colbert. Four winners will share $5,000 and publication in inaugural Winter 2013 issue. Contest writing theme is “AndWeWereHungry.” Grand Prize Reserved for Story that Connects Theme with Nature. No entry fee, deadline November 30, 2012. AndWeWereHungry publishes creative writing in the form of fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry; as well as essays, art and photography. http://AndWeWereHungry.org.
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THE FIFTH ANNUAL NANO PRIZE awarding publication and $500 to a previously unpublished work of fiction 300 words or fewer, is open as of May 1st. All entrants will receive a one year subscription to NANO Fiction and winners will be announced in September. More information: http://nanofiction.org/submit.
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$10,000 PRIZE FOR BEST ESSAY ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY: For a special “Human Face of Sustainability” issue, Creative Nonfiction and ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability are looking for nonfiction that illuminate environmental, economic, ethical and/or social challenges related to the state of the planet and our future. Deadline May 31, 2013; $10,000 for Best Essay. Guidelines at www.creativenonfiction.org/submit.
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CROOK'S CORNER BOOK PRIZE: $1000 for best debut novel set in the American South (author may live anywhere). Books must be published between May 1, 2011 and May 1, 2013 and may be submitted by authors or publishers. Self-published books are eligible. $25.00 entry fee. Deadline June 30, 2013. This year's judge is novelist and short story writer Jill McCorkle. For more information and complete guidelines, please visit www.crookscornerbookprize.com.
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FIRST NOVEL CONTEST: Emerging Writers Getaway Contest of the Whidbey Writers MFA Alumni Association. Grand prize: $300 and 7-day retreat at a Smoky Mountain cabin ($2,000 value). Open for submissions (first 25 pages). Deadline May 24, 2013. Final judge Rikki Ducornet, NBCC award finalist. Top three entries reviewed for agent representation. Entry $25. http://www.whidbeymfaalumni.org/
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SALAMANDER MAGAZINE will award a cash prize of $1,500 plus publication for the best fiction story. All entries will be considered for publication. Send no more than one story per entry. Each story must not exceed 30 double-spaced pages in 12 point font. Multiple entries are acceptable, provided that a separate $15 reading fee is included with each entry. Contest reading fee includes a one-year subscription. Judge: Edith Pearlman. Submit Entries Online or by Mail to: 2013 Fiction Prize, Salamander/Suffolk University English Dept., 41 Temple Street, Boston, MA 02114.
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