THE RENAL SUPPORT NETWORK INVITES PEOPLE WITH KIDNEY DISEASE TO ENTER THE 11TH ANNUAL RSN ESSAY CONTEST

 

2013 Theme: “Provide an example of how you became an active participant

in your care”; cash prizes to be awarded

 

Renal Support Network (RSN), a nonprofit, patient-focused, patient-run organization that provides nonmedical services to those affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), encourages people with kidney disease to let their voices be heard by entering the 11^th Annual RSN Essay Contest. This year’s theme is, “Provide an example of how you became an active participant in your care.” All submissions must be written by someone who has been diagnosed with CKD, and cash prizes will be awarded.

 

 

RSN Essay Contest winners will receive cash prizes: First Place, $500; Second Place, $300; and Third Place, $100. Winners’ names will be announced after September 10, 2013, and the winning essays will be featured in RSN’s publication, Live & Give, and posted on RSNHope.org.

 

HOW TO ENTER

• Essays must not exceed 750 words and must focus on this year’s theme: “provide an example of how you became an active participant in your care.” Limit one entry per person. Additional contact information (the author’s complete name, address, phone number, and email address, if applicable) must be included on a separate page. All submissions become the property of RSN and will not be returned.

 

• Entries can be faxed to  (818) 244-9540 , emailed to essay@RSNhope.org or mailed to RSN Essay Contest, Renal Support Network, 1311 N. Maryland Ave., Glendale, CA 91207. All entries must be postmarked or received by 12:00 p.m. EDT on August 1, 2013.

 

HOW ENTRIES WILL BE JUDGED

• All entries will be judged by an expert panel of writers and people with kidney disease on the basis of the following factors: appropriateness to the Contest Theme, Originality and Creativity, and Technical Correctness (spelling, grammar, and an accurate explanation of the disease and/or treatment). In the event of a tie, the entry with the highest Originality and Creativity score will be selected as the winner.

 

OFFICIAL RSN ESSAY CONTEST RULES

• The contest is open only to people who have been diagnosed with CKD and live in the United States and is void where prohibited by law. Employees of RSN or of agencies advertising and promoting the contest, their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household are not eligible to enter. The winner is not permitted to substitute or transfer the prize. All federal, state and local laws apply, and the winner is responsible for paying any applicable taxes.

 

• Essays must be typed. Handwritten essays will NOT be accepted.

 

• The winners will receive an Affidavit of Eligibility/Release of Liability and Publicity and have 15 days to execute it, certifying that the entry is their own original work. If the winner is a minor, a parent or guardian must sign the affidavit on behalf of the minor. Noncompliance can result in disqualification and the selection of another winner.

 

• All entries must consist of original works that have never been published before and must not infringe on any third-party rights. By entering the contest, the entrant gives RSN the right to use, edit or publish the entry without further compensation. The winners assign all copyrights to RSN.

 

• Unless such use or permission is prohibited by law, those who enter the contest and/or accept a prize grant permission to sponsors and their agencies to use the winners’ names and/or likenesses for purposes of advertising/trade without further compensation. Prizes are nontransferable. By accepting a prize, the winner agrees to hold RSN and its directors, officers, employees and assignees harmless against any and all claims of liability arising from the use of the prize. The winner assumes all liability for any injury or damage caused by, or claimed to be caused by, participation in this promotion or by the use/redemption of any prize.

 

• Entrants agree to be bound by the Official Rules as stated and the decisions of the judges. RSN is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, the administration of the contest or the announcement of the prizes. In addition, RSN is not responsible for lost, late, mutilated or illegible entries.

 

For further information about the contest and its rules, entrants can visit RSNHope.org.

 

About RSN

Renal Support Network (RSN) is a nonprofit, patient-focused, patient-run organization that provides nonmedical services to those affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD). RSN strives to motivate and assist people with CKD and to help them develop their personal coping skills, special talents and employability by educating and empowering them (and their family members) to take control of the course and management of their disease. RSN values people with kidney disease and helps them become self-sufficient through education, advocacy and the hope for a better tomorrow through its many educational and support programs, including the RSN HOPEline, KidneyTalk, and the Live & Give newsletter. Visit RSNHope.org for more information.

HARD TIMES WRITING CONTEST

Deadline: Postmarked by June 30, 2013

Awards:

1^ST PLACE:  Your choice of a 3 night stay at The Mountain Muse B&B in Asheville; or 3 free online workshops; or 100 pages line-edited and revised by our editorial staff

2nd PLACE: 2 night stay at the B&B; or 2 free workshops; or 50 pages line-edited

3rd PLACE:  One free workshop, or 25 pages line-edited

10 Honorable Mentions

Guidelines:

Write about a difficult experience in your life, how you overcame this obstacle, and how you were changed by it. Winning stories will be chosen for originality and creative writing style. Stories should be previously unpublished, and should not exceed 4,000 words (double-spaced, 12 point font). Multiple entries are accepted.

Your name, address, email, phone and title of work should also appear on a cover sheet. Enclose a self-addressed, self-sealing stamped envelope for critique and list of winners, and the reading fee of $25 (or $20 for Workshop members) per entry. Please make check or money order payable to Writers’ Workshop, and send to: Hard Times Contest, 387 Beaucatcher Road, Asheville, N.C.  28805.

Emailed submissions may be sent to writersw@gmail.com, with “Hard Times Contest” in the subject. Entry fee is payable online at www.twwoa.org.

Visit the website: http://www.twwoa.org

National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry

 

 

*** $1,000 First Place Prize ***

 

 

Postmark Deadline: October 1, 2013 

 

 

Our annual contest awards $1000 plus publication for the first place winners in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Finalists in each genre will be recognized as such, published, and paid in copies. Cost of entry: $15, checks or money orders payable to Alligator Juniper. Every entrant receives one copy of the 2014 issue, a $10 value. The issue will come out in late spring 2014. There is no theme for this issue; work is selected upon artistic merit. By entering our contest, you agree to allow us to select your work for publication, as a finalist. We encourage submissions from writers of all levels, including emerging or early-career writers. We accept simultaneous submissions; inform us in your cover letter and contact us immediately, should your work be selected elsewhere.

 

Submission Guidelines:

 

Submissions accepted August 15 through October 1, 2013 (postmark deadline).

 

Include a brief cover letter; please let us know if yours is a simultaneous submission.

 

Include SASE for response only; manuscripts are recycled, not returned.

 

Include a $15 entry fee payable to Alligator Juniper for each story or essay (30-page limit), or up to five poems. Additional categories require additional fee.

 

Indicate category with a large F, NF, or P on cover letter and mailing envelope.

 

Manuscripts must be typed with numbered pages. Prose double-spaced.

 

Double-sided submissions are encouraged. No email submissions.

 

Send to: Alligator Juniper, Prescott College, 220 Grove Avenue, Prescott, AZ 86301
Note: We usually inform in January.

 

We are now accepting submissions online through our blog alligatorjuniper.wordpress.com

 

For full submission guidelines visit http://www.prescott.edu/alligatorjuniper/national-contest/index.html

 

or visit our blog at:

 

http://alligatorjuniper.wordpress.com

 

 

For questions, email:  alligatorjuniper@prescott.edu

Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is now accepting entries!

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The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a story that is worth telling everyone! And welcome to all having the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. http://www.dreamquestone.com

Guidelines:

Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, style, or form, typed or neatly hand printed.

And/or write a short story, five pages maximum length, on any subject or theme, creative writing fiction or non-fiction (including essay compositions, diary, journal entries and screenwriting). Also, must be typed or neatly hand printed.

Multiple and simultaneous poetry and short story entries are accepted.

Postmark deadline: July 31, 2013

All contest winners will be announced on September 9, 2013

Prizes:

Writing First Prize is $500. Second Prize: $250. Third Prize: $100.

Poetry First Prize is $250. Second Prize: $125. Third Prize: $50.

Entry fees:

$10 per short story, $5 per poem.

To send entries: Include title(s) with your story (ies) or poem(s), along with your name, address, phone#, email, brief biographical info. (Tell us a little about yourself), on the coversheet. Add a self-addressed stamped envelope for entry confirmation. Fees payable to: “DREAMQUESTONE.COM”

Mail to:

Dream Quest One

Poetry & Writing Contest

P.O. Box 3141

Chicago, IL 60654

Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com for details on how to enter!

 

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. “And remember, in whatever you do, it’s okay to dream, for dreams do come true.” –Dream Quest One

$10,000 Walton Sustainability Solutions Best Creative Nonfiction Essay Award

Deadline: May 31, 2013

Creative Nonfiction and Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability are looking for remarkable true stories that illuminate and present the human side of environmental, economic, ethical, and/or social challenges related to the state of the planet and our future.

$10,000 Walton Sustainability Solutions Best Creative Nonfiction Essay Award

We welcome personal essays or stories about extraordinary individuals or communities, and stories about innovative solutions to sustainability. We seek essays on topics that range from global to local, from “big” (e.g., Resilience after natural disasters; New technology solutions vs. common sense; Energy harvesting) to “small” (e.g., Personal decisions about consumption; Reuse, recycle, up-cycle, bicycle?; Green, clean—what does it mean?; What can we learn from past generations?). Whatever the subject, we want to hear about it in an essay that blends facts and research with narrative—employing scenes, descriptions, etc.

Your essay can channel Henry David Thoreau or Henry Ford, Rachel Carson or (a literary) Rush Limbaugh; but all essays must tell true stories and be factual and scientifically accurate.*

All essays submitted will be considered for publication in a special “Human Face of Sustainability” issue of Creative Nonfiction magazine. One writer will be awarded the $10,000 Walton Sustainability Solutions Best Creative Nonfiction Essay Award.

The prize recipient will be invited to a special launch event hosted by Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability.

Guidelines: Essays must be previously unpublished and no longer than 4,000 words. There is a $20 reading fee (or send a reading fee of $25 to include a 4-issue subscription to Creative Nonfiction—U.S. submitters only); multiple entries are welcome ($20/essay) as are entries from outside the United States (though due to shipping costs we cannot offer the subscription deal).

You may submit essays online or by regular mail:

By regular mail Postmark deadline May 31, 2013
Please send manuscript, accompanied by a cover letter with complete contact information including the title of the essay and word count; SASE or email for response; and payment to:

Creative Nonfiction
Attn: Sustainability
5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202
Pittsburgh, PA 15232

Online Deadline to upload files: 11:59 pm EST May 31, 2013
To submit, please click the appropriate link:

Reading fee only ($20)
Reading fee + 4-issue subscription ($25; U.S. submitters only)

Visit the website: https://www.creativenonfiction.org/submissions/human-face-sustainability

*A note about fact-checking: Essays accepted for publication in Creative Nonfiction undergo a rigorous fact-checking process. To the extent your essay draws on research and/or reportage (and it should, at least to some degree), CNF editors will ask you to send documentation of your sources and to help with the fact-checking process. We do not require that citations be submitted with essays, but you may find it helpful to keep a file of your essay that includes footnotes and/or a bibliography.

Summer Literary Seminars: call for submissions for an upcoming anthology

A collection of your favorite and soon-to-be-favorite writers and photographers, courtesy of Summer Literary Seminars.

Hi, we’re Summer Literary Seminars -  www.sumlitsem.org  And we want to make a book. We want to make a book because, after years of hosting some of the world’s finest writers and so many phenomenally talented students, we’re restless and want to feel nostalgic. Because there is too much talent here not to make a book — our past faculty/students includes George Saunders, Adam Levin, Stephen Elliott, Dawn Raffel, Dave Eggers, Denis Johnson, Mary Gaitskill, William T. Vollman, Padgett Powell, Robert Coover, Eileen Myles, Sam Lipsyte, Chuck Klosterman, and others. We’re going to get ‘em all to contribute (well, we’re going to try). They owe us. We bought them beer and plane tickets.

What is the book about? It’s about Lithuania, where SLS has been running its world-class writing workshops and seminars. It’s even about not-Lithuania. It’s about diaspora, about longing, about belonging; it’s about what the book ends up being about.  We know that’s not very precise. Apologies. But what we can promise you is loosely-themed but outstanding prose & poetry — a very, very special anthology — and exceptional photographs from Gregory Talas, who, with your help, we can finally bring to Lithuania to work his magic and teach our students.

We’ve reached out to many, many writers about contributing, and the response so far has been phenomenal. SLS has run some of the most popular writing contests in the country, and we are very excited about finally collecting those winners in one place. We’re going to update the table of contents as we go along, and even post excerpts of stories/poems/essay. (Donors will get previews of entire stories.)

Your money will help pay for design, printing, and marketing. (The editors and writers are contributing their time and material for free.) 

If you are interested in submitting to LITVAK: for a $15 donation (or more) we will read your work and consider it for publication.

Submission Guidelines: 

• multiple submissions by an author accepted 
• no minimum length 
• please submit in Word (.doc, .rtf, or .docx) or PDF format
• $15 donation fee (minimum)
• maximum 20 pages per entry 
• online submissions only, please send work to litvaksubmit@gmail.com

Visit the website:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/76650736/litvak

NERDWALLET’S ROTH IRA WRITING CONTEST

NERDWALLET’S ROTH IRA WRITING CONTEST

NO ENTRY FEE

Deadline May 12, 2013.

Do you have an opinion on saving for retirement
using a Roth IRA? We’re looking for short pieces showcasing views on
Roth IRAs. The pros, the cons, and everything in between.

First Place: $500
Second Place: $300
Third Place: $200

NOTE: NerdWallet Investing will publish all submissions that we
deem relevant to our readers; not all submissions will be selected
for publication or payment. Open to all states except Rhode Island.

http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/investing/2013/roth-ira-writing-contest-competition-2013-win-prize/

ROOM’S ANNUAL CONTEST

Room Magazine’s Annual Contest

DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2013

Calling all women writers: Sharpen your pencils or fire up your laptop and send us your fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction contest entries.

Deadline: Entries must be postmarked or submitted online no later than July 15, 2013.

Entry Fee: $30 per entry. Non-Canadian entries: $42 Canadian dollars.

Each submission includes a complimentary one-year subscription to Room. Writers who submit more than one entry will get a multiple year subscription.

Prizes: 1st prize in each category – $500, 2nd prize – $250. Winners will be published in a 2014 issue of Room. Honourable mentions will be featured on Room’s website.

For more details: visit: www.roommagazine.com/contest

 

Judges

Fiction: Yasuko Thanh
Poetry: Jane Munro
Creative Non-Fiction: Betsy Warland

Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest – Last Call!

21st year. $5,550 in cash prizes, including a top prize of $3,000. Seeks short stories, essays and other works of prose, up to 5,000 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. Both published and unpublished work accepted.

Fee per entry is $16. Enter online or by mail.

Postmark deadline: April 30, 2013

Judges: John H. Reid, Dee C. Konrad.

Winning Writers is one of the “101 Best Writing Websites” (Writer’s Digest, 2005-2012).

See guidelines, past winners, and enter now at:

www.winningwriters.com/tomstory

Last Call For Writers Deadline April 30, 2013 – International Writing Competition

LAST CALL!

Three prizes of $50, publication in ArtAscent Magazine including your name a link to your website, as well as exposure in ArtAscent website and social media. Non-winning entries will not be published. You retain rights to your work.

The competition theme is Emergence. Emergence can mean the gradual beginning or coming forth; the event consisting of the start of something; a growth in strength or number or importance; the becoming visible. How you interpret it – literally or symbolically – is up to you.

This call for entries may include original fiction, non-fiction, poetry, short stories and other written explorations (up to 500 words).
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2013
Entry $7
See www.artascent.com for submission details and to enter.

Last Call! for Personal Stories of Survival, Inspired by Gloria Gaynor’s Song “I Will Survive”

Deadline: April 30, 2013

Have you survived an illness, personal tragedy, abusive relationship, financial ruin, or other life experience that brought you to your knees? Did the song “I Will Survive,” by Grammy Award-winning songstress Gloria Gaynor, inspire you to rise, survive, and move forward? If so, we’d love to share your story in a new book of personal narrative essays that tell the story of how you survived the experience and how the song influenced your life (essential). We’re looking for real-life stories that read like fiction—similar to the stories in the Cup of Comfort book series, compiled and edited by Colleen Sell. The book will include 50 stories of 1,000-1,500 words each. For each essay selected for publication in the book, the author will receive $75, a complimentary copy of the book signed by Gloria Gaynor, and a signed photo of Ms. Gaynor.

Submit by April 30, 2013, toglolo2004@me.com or susancarswell@aol.com

ON THE SAME PAGE FESTIVAL 2013 WRITER’S COMPETITION

West Jefferson, NC – Ashe County’s On the Same Page Literary Festival, now in its sixth year, is opening the Festival’s annual writing competition. In association with the 2013 Festival, which will take place September 17-21 in Ashe County, NC, the Page Crafter’s Prize recognizes writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with cash awards. Winning writers will have the opportunity to read their work during the On the Same Page Literary Festival.

The Page Crafter’s competition is designed to encourage and acknowledge emerging writers and to reinforce the annual theme of the On the Same Page Literary Festival, which for 2013 is “Secrets.”

Page Crafter’s Prizes will be awarded for first and second place in fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Prize money totaling $900 will be presented: $200 for first place, $100 for second place, in each category.

Deadline for submissions is July 15, 2013,

(postmarked snail mail or email submissions) and winners will be notified by August 19, 2013.  Entries should be centered on the 2013 festival theme “Secrets.” Prose entries are limited to 1,000-words; no more than 50 lines of poetry will be accepted. A non-refundable entry fee of $10 (U.S.) per submission is required. There is no limit to the number of entries per person. 

The Festival’s website, www.onthesamepagefestival.org , provides further details, including format requirements for the blind-copy submission process. Only previously unpublished entries qualify. Authors retain all rights to submitted works. Winners need not be present to win, but are encouraged to attend the Festival and read their work at the Saturday, September 21, 2013, 2:30 p.m. Page Crafter’s award presentations.

Visit the website for details on how to enter:

www.onthesamepagefestival.org

Last Call for Entries – The Cupboard’s Third-Ever Contest -

- The Cupboard’s Third-Ever Contest -

Deadline:  Tues., May 7th, 2013

Prize: $500 & publication

Judge: Kevin Wilson!

There’s still time to submit to The Cupboard’s Third-Ever Contest. The winning author receives $500, and the manuscript will be published as an upcoming volume. We’re looking for prose submissions between 4k and 10k words. In the past, we’ve published short stories, essays, collections of flash fiction and prose poems, and combinations thereof. Send us your best work. Reading fee is $10. Submissions are received and read anonymously, and all submissions are eligible for regular publication. Kevin Wilson will serve as final judge.

To submit, go to: http://www.thecupboardpamphlet.org/contest/

Please email cupboard@thecupboardpamphlet.org with any questions.

Kevin Wilson is the author of Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), and The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011). His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, One Story, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere, and has appeared in four volumes of the New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best anthology as well as The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the KHN Center for the Arts. He’s an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of the South.

The Cupboard is published four times a year. Each volume features a body of work by a single author. Previous authors include Jesse Ball, Mathias Svalina, Courtney Maum, Joshua Cohen, and Anne Marie Rooney.

More information can be found at www.thecupboardpamphlet.org

G.R.I.T.S. ANTHOLOGY CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS/

SHORT CALL FOR SUBMISSION:

 

This call for submissions is particularly for queer womyn and their allies who live in the Southern region of the United States or have a strong affinity for this locale. Submit your writing as a single document in the body of the email or as a Word attachment. Also include a short biography and a photo of your choice that reps your work.

G.R.I.T.S : Girls Raised In The South- An Anthology on Southern Queer Womyns’ Voices and Their Allies, edited by Amber N. Williams & Poet On Watch. Please submit unpublished works only. Authors retain copyrights to their work published and have the option to resubmit selected works to other publications. Compensation includes the following: one copy of the published anthology, set dates for readings and shared revenue from the book.  Please send your naughty but nice poetry, love notes, images and visual art jpegs to be considered for the G.R.I.T.S anthology. We think nerds are pretty damn hot! Submission is good..especially if you do it here: southgrits@gmail.com for detail guidelines click on our FB page. https://www.facebook.com/grits.anthology

 

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2013
Selection Notification: June 5, 2013
Book Release Brunch: Sept. 2013

For more information on the non-profit work that M.A.L.I. does, check out the website at www.malisite.org. make sure to join our Freeverse Publishing FB page for updates and details.  https://www.facebook.com/grits.anthology

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LONG CALL FOR SUBMISION INFO:

Freeverse Publishing, a division of the Media Arts & Literacy Institute, is now accepting submissions for G.R.I.T.S : Girls Raised In The South- An Anthology on Southern Queer Womyns’ Voices and Their Allies, edited by Amber N. Williams & Poet On Watch. Please submit unpublished works only. Authors retain copyrights to their work published and have the option to resubmit selected works to other publications. Compensation includes the following: one copy of the published anthology, set dates for readings and shared revenue from the book. Please send your submissions here: southgrits@gmail.com/ For more information on the non-profit work that M.A.L.I. does, check out the website at www.malisite.org to join our FB page and get into community with us please click here. https://www.facebook.com/grits.anthologySubmission Deadline: June 1, 2013
Selection Notification: June 5, 2013
Book Release Brunch: Sept. 2013Submission types:Your best G.R.I.T.S. recipes (max 2)
Poetry (70 lines and under per poem, 3 poems MAX)
Prose/Essay (500 words MAX)
Short Stories (1,400 words MAX)
Send images as jpegs, no larger than 1000 pixels in any dimension
and include medium, title and/or a short caption. Digital images of your original paintings, drawings and photographs
also accepted (3 images MAX) at 300 DPI

Send your submissions here: southgrits@gmail.com

Join our FB community: https://www.facebook.com/grits.anthologyIn the subject line, include: Last name, First name and the genre of your submission. For example: Smith,Nancy, Poetry Submission For G.R.I.T.S. 3 PoemsG.R.I.T.S. is an innovative, pioneering, trailblazing, radical and cutting-edge anthology surrounding our theme: erotica while enjoying food, what food do you gather around for substance and comfort, your connection to the south, your connection to your lover, your sister and sisterhood, your personal growth, (spiritual or otherwise) your best G.R.I.T.S recipes.

$10,000 Walton Sustainability Solutions Best Creative Nonfiction Essay Award

Postmark Deadline: May 31, 2013

Creative Nonfiction and Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability are looking for remarkable true stories that illuminate and present the human side of environmental, economic, ethical, and/or social challenges related to the state of the planet and our future.

We welcome personal essays or stories about extraordinary individuals or communities, and stories about innovative solutions to sustainability. We seek essays on topics that range from global to local, from “big” (e.g., Resilience after natural disasters; New technology solutions vs. common sense; Energy harvesting) to “small” (e.g., Personal decisions about consumption; Reuse, recycle, up-cycle, bicycle?; Green, clean—what does it mean?; What can we learn from past generations?). Whatever the subject, we want to hear about it in an essay that blends facts and research with narrative—employing scenes, descriptions, etc.

Your essay can channel Henry David Thoreau or Henry Ford, Rachel Carson or (a literary) Rush Limbaugh; but all essays must tell true stories and be factual and scientifically accurate (we will fact-check, so please keep your documentation).

All essays submitted will be considered for publication in a special “Human Face of Sustainability” issue of Creative Nonfiction magazine. One writer will be awarded the $10,000 Walton Sustainability Solutions Best Creative Nonfiction Essay Award.

The prize recipient will be invited to a special launch event hosted by Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability.

Guidelines: Essays must be previously unpublished and no longer than 4,000 words. There is a $20 reading fee (or send a reading fee of $25 to include a 4-issue subscription to Creative Nonfiction—U.S. submitters only); multiple entries are welcome ($20/essay) as are entries from outside the United States (though due to shipping costs we cannot offer the subscription deal).

You may submit essays online or by regular mail. To submit by mail, please send manuscript and a cover letter with complete contact information including the title of the essay and word count, a SASE or email address for response, and payment to:

Creative Nonfiction
Attn: Sustainability
5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202
Pittsburgh, PA 15232

Love + Lust – Open Call for Writing – Juried Book Competition

Open to Interpretation brings together photographers and writers in an exciting and innovative book project that has never been done before. Each book begins with a themed call for photos. The chosen photos become the literary inspiration for the writers’ submissions. A book is created that matches each winning photo with two stories or poems that offer different interpretations of the image. 

 

Announcing Love + Lust

 

The photographers sent us their images and interpretations of Love + Lust. Now it’s the writers turn to use the images to inspire your words. Poems and stories may include a literal description of the work, personal memories, metaphorical associations, or your mood inspired by the image. 

 

Poetry, flash fiction, narrative, ekphrastic poetry, short story, memoir, non-fiction, song lyrics, myth, tall tale or fairy tale – all genres are acceptable.

 

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Book Title: Open to interpretation

Theme: Love + Lust

Judge: Dorianne Laux

Submission Fee: $15 for first submission, $10 additional

 

Deadline for submission: August 6, 2013

 

Awards:  $500 Judge’s Selection Award

 

For full details go to Open to Interpretation’s site.

WRITER ADVICE ANNOUNCES ITS 8TH FLASH PROSE CONTEST

WriterAdvice seeks flash fiction, memoir, and creative non-fiction running 750 words or less. Enlighten, dazzle, and delight us. Finalists receive responses from all judges.

DEADLINE: Submit to the 8th WriterAdvice Flash Prose Contest by April 18, 2013.

JUDGES: Former prizewinners, Marcelle Soviero,  JLSchneider, and Madeline Stevens are this year’s judges. Read their pieces and biographies by clicking on the Archived Contest Entries button at www.writeradvice.com .

PRIZES: First Place earns $200; Second Place earns $100; Third Place earns $50; Honorable Mentions will also be published.

FOR BEST RESULTS:

1. Include your name, contact information, and title in the cover    letter, but only include your title in the submission so it remains anonymous.
2. Tell us if the submission is fiction or memoir in the cover letter.
3. Since we judge these anonymously, please don’t tell us your background or where you’ve been published. If you are a finalist, we’ll ask for a bio.
4. Please double-space your submission.

SUBMISSIONS: All entries should be submitted through Submittable, Submit to Writer Advice

You may enter UP TO THREE stories, but each is a separate submission with a separate fee of $13.

Names of all winners will be announced in the summer issue of WriterAdvice, http://www.writeradvice.com.

E-mail questions, but not submissions to editor B. Lynn Goodwin at  Lgood67334@comcast.net.

Visit the website: www.writeradvice.com

Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2013 is now open for entries!

The 2013 Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open!

We welcome entries from all writers anywhere in the world!

Categories: Poetry, Fiction or Life Writing.

Prizes: £300 for each category plus winners will be published in Wasafiri

Entry fees: UK Sterling £6.00 if entering one category, £10.00 for two and £15.00 for three categories

Simply fill in the entry form and post it with your fee to:

‘Wasafiri New Writing Prize’

Wasafiri
The Open University in London
1-11 Hawley Crescent
London NW1 8NP
UK

Or send your entry via email to wasafiri@open.ac.uk.

The closing date is 5pm GMT on Friday 26 July 2013

Visit the website for details on how to enter:

http://www.wasafiri.org/wasafiri-new-writing-prize.asp

 

 

Recording Artist Gloria Gaynor Seeks Personal Stories of Survival for New Book: Paid Market

Have you survived an illness, personal tragedy, devastating loss, abusive relationship, financial ruin, or other life experience that brought you to your knees? Did the song “I Will Survive,” by Grammy Award-winning songstress Gloria Gaynor, inspire you to rise, survive, and move forward? If so, we’d love to share your story in a new book of personal narrative essays that tell the story of how you survived the experience and how the song influenced your life (essential). We’re looking for real-life stories that read like fiction — similar to those in the Cup of Comfort book series, compiled and edited by Colleen Sell. The book, to be published by Gray Harbor Press, will include 50 stories of 1,000-1,500 words each. For each essay selected for publication in the book, the author will receive $75, a complimentary copy of the book signed by Gloria Gaynor, and a signed photo of Ms. Gaynor.

Submit by April 30, 2013

to glolo2004@me.com or susancarswell@aol.com

How to submit, visit the website:

http://www.gloriagaynor.com/

Wags Revue Call for Submissions & Writing Contests

SUBMIT

Poets: read about the Heteronymicon challenge here. It closes April 30. The best will run in Issue 15, which will come out in the summer.

Submissions are currently open. Open reading periods are held from the beginning of March through May and from the beginning of September through end of November. There is no reading fee during open reading periods.

We hold two contests annually, the Winter Writers Contest Summer 2013, from June 1, 2013 to August 31, 2013. The contests are open to all three genres and are judged by the editors. For each, first prize is $1000 and guaranteed publication in the magazine, second prize is $500 and third $100. All pieces are considered for publication. There is a $20 reading fee per contest submission. Winners of the most recent Winter contest announced ahead of Issue 15.

We only accept submissions via our Submittable page. Please click there to find all guidelines and to upload your submission. While we allow for simultaneous submissions, if your work is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw the piece on Submittable, rather than emailing us about it. If you are at all concerned about the status of your submission, feel free to write us, though we appreciate your patience if it takes us several months to respond to you about your piece—we are a small, mostly unpaid staff.

Wag’s Revue compensates its writers $100 per piece (interview, poem or group of poems, essay, or short story).

If you’re interested in interviewing a writer, comedian or some other some such waggish luminary for an upcoming an issue, send an email introducing yourself, the figure in question, why you want to interview him or her, and whether you have access to said person already, to sandra@wagsrevue.com.

If you’re a visual artist interested in being considered for the Featured Artist title, visit the Submittable link and enter your work in the Visual  Artist category.

Visit the website: http://www.wagsrevue.com/submit

Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival: Call for Submissions {Women in Art}

One could travel down a million different paths when considering women in art, and I’m inviting you to pick one of these paths and write your heart out! I am excited to be joining up with Ashley from Small  Strokes as the editor of this month’s Feminist Odyssey Blog Carnival and I am calling on you to further shake the trees where women are missing, problematic, celebrated, or empowered making art. This means I will post a list of all of your blog posts with titles and blurbs on March 27, 2013.

The full guidelines for writers can be found here.

Most important bit of information is that your original posts are due on March 15, 2013. 

Submitting is easy, and can be done here. (The link will take you to BlogCarnival.com and prompt you to submit)

If you don’t have a blog and still want to write, contact me and I will happily find you a feminist friendly blog to host your post. Contact me at sallydeskins@yahoo.com

I have plans to share some poetry or thoughts inspired by the Femme Qui Bercent exhibit (featuring work on the figure by 10 artists who are women opening March 1) at Noyes Art Gallery in Lincoln – what about you?

-  Some topics to consider - 

Feminist Art. Lost Art. Contemporary Men Painting, Photographing or Drawing Women. Women Painting, Photographing or Drawing Women. Women making Collaborative Art. Women doing Erotica. Fan Art. Feminist Art Communities. The Female Body. Voice. Images of Women in Children’s Literature.

Visit the website for details:

http://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/post/44149892170/feminist-odyssey-blog-carnival-call-for-submissions

Writer Advice’s 8th Flash Prose Contest

Writer Advice seeks flash fiction, memoir,

and creative non-fiction running 750 words or less.

Enlighten, dazzle, and delight us with your prose.

Finalists receive responses from all judges.

Submit your work to the 8^th WriterAdvice Flash Prose Contest 

Deadline: April 18, 2013

Complete details and Submittable link at www.writeradvice.com

Words with JAM First Page Competition 2013

Our popular first page competition is back. We’re looking for the most captivating first page (up to 400 words) of a story. Entries can be from a novel previously unpublished, a part written novel, or simply a first page written purely for the competition. Entries will be judged anonymously. 

 

Prizes

1st Prize – £500

2nd Prize – £100

3rd Prize – £50

 

Closing Date:

31st May 2013

You can submit more than one entry. 

First entry submitted is £6, and £4 per entry thereafter, regardless of category.

Results

All three winning entries will be published in the August 2013 issue of Words with JAM.

Judge: Sue Grafton

Sue Grafton is published in 28 countries and 26 languages—including Estonian, Bulgarian, and Indonesian. She’s an international bestseller with a readership in the millions. She’s a writer who believes in the form that she has chosen to mine: “The mystery novel offers a world in which justice is served. Maybe not in a court of law,” she has said, “but people do get their just desserts.” And like Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, Robert Parker and the John D. MacDonald—the best of her breed—she has earned new respect for that form. Her readers appreciate her buoyant style, her eye for detail, her deft hand with character, her acute social observances, and her abundant storytelling talents. www.suegrafton.com/sue-grafton.php

ENTRY DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://wordswithjam.co.uk/#/first-page-competition-2013/4573741026

Valentine’s Day Ideas Romantic Story Writing Content

Valentine’s Day Ideas Romantic Story Writing Content, an international contest on love and friendship. The competition is open to authors worldwide.

http://valentinsdayideas.com is specially designed for all those people who are in love or are searching for their soul mate.  Since Valentine’s Day is here so we are starting a writing competition where people can share their special moments in form of a story. Love is a special feeling which brings in lots of emotion and all of us at one time or the other has experienced it. So this writing competition will give an opportunity to all the love birds to pen down their story and share with the others.  Those who fall short of words while expressing themselves, sending pictures and drawings of their special moments will also work great.

 The complete details of the competition are given below:

Name of the Competition		Romantic Story Writing Competition
Starting Date		14th February, 2013
End Date		14th February, 2014
Entry Fees		Free
Website Name		http://valentinsdayideas.com
Competition Link		http://valentinsdayideas.com/contest/
Competition Email		contest@valentinsdayideas.com
Details		Pen down your love story which is special and interesting. The story should be original and of 3000 words. If words are not your friends then you can also send in your romantic drawings or photographs to enter the contest. Complete details regarding the rules, eligibility and others are present on the site.
Prizes		The judges will select 10 best stories. First prize $1000. Nine authors will get one of nine $100 Amazon Gift Cards. Moreover the best stories will be published on the site and will be given a space in an e-Book.

The 2013 Open City Magazine No-Fee RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest @ Anderbo

2013 RRofihe Trophy

For an unpublished short story
(Minimum word count: 3,500; maximum to 5,000 words)

Winner Receives:

$500 cash
Trophy
Announcement & Publication on anderbo.com

Judged by Rick Rofihe

2013 Contest Assistant: Carolyn Wilsey
Carolyn Wilsey has read fiction for Esquire and Swink,
and is the Managing Editor of Anderbo. She teaches
writing privately and at colleges in New York City.

2013 Contest Reader: Jean Hartig
Jean Hartig is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She is
former associate editor of Poets & Writers Magazine and
has served on the editorial staff of A Public Space and Lumina,
published by Sarah Lawrence College, where she earned her MFA.

Guidelines:
–Stories should be typed, double-spaced, with the author’s
  name, the story’s title, and contact information on the
  first page
– DEADLINE: Submissions must be received by January 7th, 2014
–Limit one submission per author
–Author must not have been previously published in
  Open City Magazine or on Anderbo
–E-mail submissions to editors@anderbo.com with
  RROFIHE TROPHY in the subject line
–YOU MUST SUBMIT YOUR STORY-MANUSCRIPT
  ENTRY WITHIN THE BODY OF THE E-MAIL—NO
  ATTACHMENTS!
–THERE IS NO READING FEE and all literary rights will
  remain with the author

 Visit the website:   http://www.anderbo.com/

Contest Judge Rick Rofihe is the author of FATHER MUST, a collection of short stories published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Grand Street, Open City, Swink, Unsaid, and on epiphanyzine, slushpilemag, and fictionaut. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, SPY, and The East Hampton Star, and on mrbellersneighborhood. A recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, he has taught MFA writing at Columbia University. He currently teaches privately in New York City, and was an advisor to the Vilcek Foundation for their 2011 prizes in the field of literature. Rick is the Editor of Anderbo.

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