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		<title>Northwind 2013 Story Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 03:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northwind Story Contest Prize: $1,000.00 Entry fee: $15.00 Deadline: 07-31-2013. The Story Contest is open to all fiction and narrative non-fiction writers. Entries must be previously unpublished, either in print or online, between 1,500 and 8,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner or runner-up in another contest. First Prize is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6301&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Strongest Start Novel Competition 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 03:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over $4,000 in Prizes, Feedback and Exposure! Submit the first three chapters of your novel. Grand prize award of: $1,806 self-publishing solution from CreateSpace. $300 cash. Feedback on every chapter you submit. The chance to meet other authors, get motivated, and get noticed.   Two runner-ups will receive: CreateSpace copyediting service valued at approximately $600. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6298&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Saturday Evening Post 2014 Great American Fiction Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 03:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Saturday Evening Post &#160; 2014 Great American Fiction Contest In its nearly three centuries of existence, The Saturday Evening Post has published short fiction by a who’s who of American authors including F. Scott Fitzgerald; William Faulkner; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; Ray Bradbury; Louis L’Amour; Sinclair Lewis; Jack London; and Edgar Allan Poe. Now you [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6295&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salamander 2013 Fiction Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 03:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Salamander 2013 Fiction Prize $1,500 Honorarium and Publication Final Judge: Edith Pearlman SUBMIT: Online or by mail from May 15 through June 15, 2013; on-​​line submission available at end of day on May 15th. Reading fee: $15.00 All entries will be considered for publication. All entries will be considered anonymously. Send no more than [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6292&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women Who Write 2013 International Poetry &amp; Short Prose Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 03:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEADLINE: June 30, 2013 Contest Rules Open to women 18 years or older. Women Who Write will retain one-time publication rights (print and electronic), after which all rights revert to the author. Entries to the contest must be previously unpublished. Prose pieces can be fiction or non-fiction and are limited to 3,000 words or less. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6287&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Call for Entries! &#8211; Contest Two: “Una Mujer” &#8211; Prose and Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 03:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contest Two: “Una Mujer” runs from May 2, 2013 to June 1, 2013, and winners will be announced July 1, 2013 to coincide with the launch of Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume II. Awards: Grand Prize We will award one Grand Prize for poetry, and one for prose. Each of the two Grand Prize winners will receive: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6284&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chronic Resilience Summer 2013 Essay Contest: Topic &#8211; &#8220;Who inspires your chronic resilience?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 02:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In anticipation for release of Chronic Resilience: 10 Sanity-Saving Strategies for Women Coping with the Stress of Illness (Cornari Press, August 2013)  Author Danea Horn is pleased to announce a Summer 2013 Essay Contest. The topic is “Who inspires your chronic resilience?”  She is inviting the nearly 45% of American’s coping with chronic illness to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6280&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE RENAL SUPPORT NETWORK INVITES PEOPLE WITH KIDNEY DISEASE TO ENTER THE 11TH ANNUAL RSN ESSAY CONTEST</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 05:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 2013 Theme: &#8220;Provide an example of how you became an active participant in your care&#8221;; 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 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6277&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deadline Extension For 2013 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition: May 16: Midnight In All Time Zones</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 05:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Writers, This notification will not be posted on our website. We are extending our late deadline by one day only, until May 16, midnight in all time zones, due to requests by a number of writers who need extra time to complete their manuscripts. If you are among those who need this deadline extension, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6274&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nationally Known Authors Headline Fall 2013 Hillerman Writers Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2013 TONY HILLERMAN WRITERS CONFERENCE: NATIONALLY KNOWN AUTHORS TO TEACH AT GATHERING SANTA FE, NM –A handpicked faculty of award-winning published authors, who are also accomplished teachers, will headline the 2013 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference. Established to honor author Tony Hillerman, the conference keeps Hillerman&#8217;s legacy alive and welcomes writers of all genres and abilities. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6270&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Classic Books All Teens Should Read</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Adult literature is enjoying an almost unprecedented explosion in popularity, moving more and more teens to lose themselves in the wonderful world of books. While the shelves of the local big-box retailer may be weighted down with plenty of offerings from bestselling authors, there are also a plethora of classics that no teenage bookworm [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6267&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HARD TIMES WRITING CONTEST</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/hard-times-writing-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deadline: Postmarked by June 30, 2013 Awards: 1ST PLACE:  Your choice of a 3 night stay at The Mountain Muse B&#38;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&#38;B; or 2 free workshops; or 50 pages line-edited 3rd PLACE:  One [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6264&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction contest: May/June; Salamander magazine</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/fiction-contest-mayjune-salamander-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 reading fee is included [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6261&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/national-writing-contest-in-fiction-creative-nonfiction-and-poetry-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; *** $1,000 First Place Prize *** &#160; &#160; Postmark Deadline: October 1, 2013  &#160; &#160; 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 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6258&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival &#8211; Poetry Contest</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/tennessee-williamsnew-orleans-literary-festival-poetry-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 03:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will judge the 4th Annual Poetry Contest. A prize of $1,000 and publication in Louisiana Cultural Vistas is given annually for a group of poems. The winner will also be invited to give a reading at the 2014 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Poets who have not yet published [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6255&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The AWW &#8220;Good Read&#8221; Fiction Book Competition</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/the-aww-good-read-fiction-book-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 03:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contact: www.awomanswrite.com Prize: $500 Entry fee $40 includes a thorough, thoughtful critique, and the option to resubmit during the same contest period. The Good Read competition is for novels written by women 18 or older in English. Send 75 pages, a query letter and a two-page synopsis. Contest begins January 1 annually, and closes November [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6252&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 2013 Autumn House Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Contests</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2013 Autumn House Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Contests Naomi Shihab Nye, Poetry Judge Kathleen George, Fiction Judge Phillip Lopate, Nonfiction Judge Scroll down for separate contest guidelines for each genre. Guidelines for the 2013 Autumn House Poetry Contest Since 2003, the annual Autumn House Poetry Contest has awarded publication of a full-length manuscript and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6245&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dream Quest One Poetry &amp; Writing Contest is now accepting entries!</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/dream-quest-one-poetry-writing-contest-is-now-accepting-entries-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normal 0 The Dream Quest One Poetry &#38; 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 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6242&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2013 Red Hen Press Short Story Award</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/2013-red-hen-press-short-story-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; For publication in the Los Angeles Review     $1000 Award Deadline: June 30, 2013 Final Judge: Ron Carlson The winner of the 2013 Red Hen Press Short Story Award will be announced in 2014 Established in 2001, in celebration of the new century and a new tradition of literature, this award is for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6239&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PEARL SHORT STORY PRIZE</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/pearl-short-story-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 04:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PEARL SHORT STORY PRIZE $250 &#38; PUBLICATION IN PEARL Postmark deadline: May 31, 2013 GUIDELINES MANUSCRIPTS should typed, double-spaced, with name and address on the first page. Clear photocopies and computer print-outs are acceptable. Please include an SASE for reply or return of manuscript. We will consider simultaneous submissions, but ask that you notify us [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6230&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2013 PEARL POETRY PRIZE</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/2013-pearl-poetry-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 03:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2013 PEARL POETRY PRIZE $1,000 &#38; BOOK PUBLICATION Judge: Fred Voss Postmark deadline: June 30, 2013 GUIDELINES  MANUSCRIPTS should include a title page with the author&#8217;s name, address, phone number, and e-mail address; an acknowledgment page listing previously published poems; a table of contents, 48–64 pages of original poetry; and an SASE for reply or [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6226&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Idaho Prize for Poetry</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/the-idaho-prize-for-poetry-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 03:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Idaho Prize is an annual, national competition offering $1,000 plus publication by Lost Horse Press for a book-length poetry manuscript. Manuscripts are accepted for review before May 15 of each year, and on 15 August, a winner is announced. In addition to announcements in national publications, the winning book and author will be featured [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6224&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>M Writer Residencies Open to Applications 2014-15</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 03:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[M Writer Residencies Open to Applications &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Applications for the 2014-5 M Writer&#8217;s Residencies are now open. The Programme funds three-month residencies in Bangalore, India and Shanghai, China for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry or dramatic prose. (The residency in India is at Sangam House, which can also be applied to separately at http://www.sangamhouse.org ) [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6218&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Beach Writers’ Conference to Connect Writers with Literary Agents, Editors, and Publishers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hampton Roads Writers, Inc. (HRW), a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating opportunities for writers to achieve publication success, will host its fifth annual conference in Virginia Beach, September 19-21, 2013, at the Westin Town Center hotel.  The multi-day conference will provide opportunities for attendees to hone their writing craft, pitch their book manuscripts to New [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6215&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$10,000 Walton Sustainability Solutions Best Creative Nonfiction Essay Award</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&#038;blog=213212&#038;post=6211&#038;subd=writingcontests&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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