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		<title>Able Muse Book Award (for Poetry) &#8212; 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD  (Poetry) &#8211; $1000 prize, plus book publication Judge: Mary Jo Salter Entry fee: $25 for a manuscript of 50 to 120 pages. Deadline: March 31, 2012 Read the guidelines and ENTER now!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4773&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Able Muse Write Prize (for Poetry &amp; Flash Fiction) &#8212; 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE (Poetry &#38; Fiction) 2012  $500 prize for the best poem, and $500 prize for the best short story (flash fiction), plus publication in Able Muse (the print journal). Finalists in each category will also be considered for publication. Entry Fees: $15 for each entry which should contain a minimum of 1 poem, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4770&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EVENT Magazine’s Annual Non-Fiction Contest 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EVENT Magazine&#8217;s Annual Non-Fiction Contest now open for entries! EVENT, a literary journal showcasing fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, reviews and notes on writing by new and established writers from Canada and around the world, is currently in its fourth decade of publication. EVENT is one of Canada&#8217;s most prestigious literary journals, and a strong supporter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4766&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything A Miracle Poetry/Writing Contests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EVERYTHING A MIRACLE POETRY CONTEST is open to anyone who can tell about a true miracle in the form of a poem. A miracle is an extraordinary experience. You may also create from specific knowledge or a perspective which allows the “ordinary” to be seen as extraordinary. Multiple entries are accepted. Postmark Deadlines (semi-annual): June [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4763&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$660 first prize in Writers’ Village Story Contest Spring 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A first prize of $660 in cash can be won for short fiction in any genre in the spring 2012 round of the Writers’ Village ‘Best Writing’ award. The second prize is $160 and third prize is $80 plus five shortlisted entrants gain a free entry in the next round. All entrants, winners or not, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4760&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Quarterly Poetry and Writing Contests</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/the-new-quarterly-poetry-and-writing-contests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Quarterly is proud to announce The Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, sponsored by the St. Jerome&#8217;s University English Dept. Winning Story: $1,000 Deadline: May 28, 2012 Entry Fee: $40 per submission* For a work of short fiction by a Canadian writer in the early stages. We define a writer in the early stages as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4757&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We’re Fishin’ for Your Best Upper Mississippi River Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prairie Rivers Network and the 1Mississippi Campaign believe inspired and engaged individuals are essential to protect the Upper Mississippi River for today and for the future. We invite you to enter an essay contest: “Our Upper Mississippi River: Connection, Inspiration, Transformation.” Whether you have visited the Upper Mississippi River once, or lived next to it all your life, your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4754&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 &#8211; Third Annual  Across the Generations  New Jewish Play Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2012 &#8211; Third Annual Across the Generations New Jewish Play Festival Director J Marcus Newman will stage readings of selected plays in mid-August 2012 at Congregation Dor Hadash in San Diego, CA Submission Guidelines (revised this year) 1) direct submission by playwright with cover letter; no literary representative or agency submissions 2) completed full-length plays [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4746&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Novel Rocket’s Launch Pad Contest:  Boosting You Out of the Slush Pile 2012 Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Launch Pad Contest This is the third year for our contest for unpublished novelists. Our aim is twofold: to help budding writers gain experience and hone their craft; and to lift the Grand Prize winner’s novel out of the slush pile and onto the desk of the right publishing professional. The Grand Prize will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4742&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/wergle-flomp-humor-poetry-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guidelines for the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest Now in its eleventh year. We seek today&#8217;s best humor poems. Total cash prizes of $3,600 will be awarded, with a top prize of $1,500. This contest is free to enter. Click here to read winning entries from the past. Submission Period Entries accepted August 15, 2011-April [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4739&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winning Writers’ Sports Poetry &amp; Prose Contest</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/winning-writers-sports-poetry-prose-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winning Writers’ Sports Poetry &#38; Prose Contest http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/sports/sp_guidelines.php Guidelines for the Sports Poetry &#38; Prose Contest This new contest seeks today&#8217;s best poetry and prose on sports-related themes. We will award $5,000 in prizes. Submit online. Introduction Whether you&#8217;re a player or a fan, or the kid who counted the minutes till gym class was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4736&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WritersType Competitions</title>
		<link>http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/writerstype-competitions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WritersType Competitions First Chapter, Short Story, &#38; Flash Fiction http://www.writerstype.com/ WritersType.com sponsors three annual contests in the categories of First Chapter, Flash Fiction, and Short Story. In each category, the monthly winner receives $25 honorarium, comments from our readers, and publication on our site. Each month, the top two submissions in each category advance to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4730&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great News! ANA Alliance for Family Entertainment First Annual Writing Contest Winner Announcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Whom This May Concern at Writing Contests, I’m following up on behalf of the ANA Alliance for Family Entertainment (AFE) regarding their first annual writing contest, which you covered here last October. There were so many great submissions and so the final winner did not get announced until this week. Megan Angelo, a journalist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4726&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dying Matters: Final Chapters Writing Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking and reading about other people’s childhoods, sadness, happiness and aspirations can help us to cope with our own ups and downs, but shared experience is seldom there to support us when our life is nearing its end or when people close to us are dying. This is why the Dying Matters Coalition is running [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4719&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund Application – (round two) &#8211; £30,000 for citizens or 5 year residents of UK or Ireland</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sky Arts is offering five young artists £30,000 each to fund their work for a full year as part of the Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund – in association with IdeasTap. We’ve just announced the two winners of round one, and now we’re on the lookout for three more talented artists to fund. Sky Arts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4715&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIFF BAM POP! ANNOUNCES OPEN CALL FOR SHORT HORROR/THRILLER/SUSPENSE ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSIONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now accepting submissions for the inaugural BIFF BAM POP! Short Story Anthology. January 24, 2012, Toronto, ON – Writers of horror, thriller and suspense&#8230; take note! The publishing team at BIFF BAM POP! has announced an open call for submissions to be considered for their Short Story Anthology. With the success of last year’s Biff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4712&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wassaic Project 2012 Summer Residency Program: Invites Writers, Musicians and Artists to Apply</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wassaic Project invites all writers, musicians, and artists to apply! Applications for our 2012 Summer Residency Program are now online. APPLY HERE! &#160; Deadline February 14th, 2012 11:59pm &#160; Our Summer Residency runs from May 2nd-Oct 31st, 2012. We are open to one-six month proposals. &#160; Artists will receive an adaptable raw studio space [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4708&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home Improvement Article Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bring it Home! Rules The Bring it Home! Article Challenge Rules &#38; Regulations The competition will be open from January 17, 2012 12:00 AM EST until February 17, 2012 12:00 AM EST To submit your article for entry email your article to BringItHome@articlesbase.com Participants can submit an unlimited amount articles. Articles must abide by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4703&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE 4&#8217;33&#8221; 60 SECOND STORY CONTEST 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A competition for the best audio stories of one minute (or less). ***PRIZES!*** 1st: £60. A whopping pound a second. 2nd: £30. A respectable hourly rate of £3,600. 3rd: £15. A round of drinks for a minute&#8217;s effort. All entries will be considered for inclusion on the 4&#8217;33&#8221; site. So you may win, even if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4698&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Submission Call: Soulmate Love Letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are seeking letters about the serendipity, magic, and divine design of being in love with your true love and soulmate for our book to be released in September 2012 called: Miracles of True Love: Soulmate Love Letters Miracles of True Love: Soulmate Love Letters, is an inspiring gift book filled with expressions of love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4694&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Call! The Iowa Review Awards 2012 &#8211; Deadline: January 31, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iowa Review Awards Guidelines: http://iowareview.uiowa.edu/rules Annual contest in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry Grand prize of $1500 plus publication Runners-up receive $750 plus publication Submit by mail or online: (http://iowareview.submishmash.com/submit) $20 entry fee Deadline: January 31, 2012<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4687&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 States, 50 Proposals Writing Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a great proposal story from somewhere in the US? Whether you planned the best proposal of all time, received the proposal of your dreams, helped someone else plan a romantic proposal, or just heard the story- we want to hear from you! Enter our proposal story contest for a chance to win [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4685&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Poetry In Motion&#8217; Sonnet Writing Contest 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theme:  Holidays and Special Events . . .  Past and Present Geoffrey Owens, from The Cosby Show, and RisingStar31 Productions have teamed up to launch our first Poetry-in-Motion Writing Contest, an initiative to showcase the literary works of talented writers. The theme is, “Holidays and Special Events, Past and Present.” Geoffrey, a Shakespearean actor, instructor, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4683&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open to Interpretation: A Juried Book Competition of Photography, Poetry and Prose</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entries Due: March 29, 2012 Submission Fees: $10 per entry Theme: Intimate Landscape. Landscapes conjure images of vast, sweeping scenes, but the details captured by a photograph can turn a seemingly impersonal setting into an intimate story. It&#8217;s up to the artist to define what constitutes an intimate landscape, be it representational, non-representational, urban, suburban or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4675&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Short Story Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL  11:59 p.m., EST, FEBRUARY 15, 2012! We are now accepting submissions of short fiction or memoir (2000 words or fewer) for the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Short Story Award. The first place winner&#8217;s story will be considered for publication in the Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC&#8217;s upcoming anthology, Seasonal Pursuits: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales. Our previous publication, A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingcontests.wordpress.com&amp;blog=213212&amp;post=4658&amp;subd=writingcontests&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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