Atlantic Monthly, Student Writing Contest

The Atlantic Monthly invites submissions of poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays for its 2008 Student Writing Contest.

www.theatlantic.com/a/contest.mhtml

Categories
Poetry, fiction, and personal or journalistic essays.

Prizes
First $1,000 | Second: $500 | Third: $250
and one-year subscriptions to The Atlantic Monthly for seven runners-up in each category.

ENTRANTS must be full-time undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled in an accredited degree-granting U.S. institution. Submissions should be original, unpublished work (they may have appeared in student periodicals) demonstrating superior quality of expression and craftsmanship.

SUBMISSIONS should not exceed three poems or 7,500 words of prose. No entrant may send more than one submission per category, and entries must be postmarked by December 1, 2008.

MANUSCRIPTS should be typewritten (one side only, please) double-spaced, and accompanied by a cover sheet with the following information: title, category, word count, author’s name, address, phone number, e-mail address (if available), and academic institution. Of this information, only the title should appear on the manuscript itself.

PLEASE PROVIDE a stamped, self-addressed postcard for acknowledgement of receipt. We cannot provide information on the status of a manuscript until winners are announced, in the May 2009 issue. Winners will receive notification in March 2009.

POSTMARK SUBMISSIONS BY DECEMBER 1, 2008, AND SEND TO:
Student Writing Contest
The Atlantic Monthly
The Watergate
600 New Hampshire Ave,
N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
Submissions will not be accepted via e-mail or fax.

2009 Chautauqua Poetry Contest

writers.ciweb.org/literary-journal/

Prize: $1,000 and publication in Chautauqua, the literary journal of the Chautauqua Institution. Winner and finalists receive a copy of the journal.

Theme: Story and Storytelling
Entry fee: $20
Judge: Robin Becker
Deadline: November 15, 2008

Send 1 to 3 poems (6 pages maximum), cover sheet, and entry fee to:

Chautauqua Writers’ Center, Poetry Contest
Chautauqua Institution
PO Box 28
Chautauqua, NY 14722

Robin Becker has written seven collections of poetry, including Domain of Perfect Affection (2006), Venetian Blue(2002), The Horse Fair (2000) and All-American Girl (1996). Nominated for a Pushcart Prize four times, Becker has been honored with a Prairie Schooner’s Strousse Award and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. She received the Lamden Literary Award, and her poems and book reviews have appeared in The American Poetry Review, the Boston Globe, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares. She serves as poetry editor for The Women’s Review of Books and writes a column on poetry and the poetry scene called “Field Notes.” She teaches English and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

MUSE Literary Competition

Sponsored by The LIT

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: extended to October 15, 2008. Visit

www.the-lit.org/bestofOWguides.html

for more details and entry form.

In keeping with the annual tradition of The Best of Ohio Writer, MUSE announces its first annual literary competition. Winning entries will be published in the January 2009 issue of MUSE: A Quarterly Journal of The LIT.

We are asking for submissions in the following categories:
-Short Fiction: Submissions may not exceed 5,000 words
-Poetry: Maximum of three (3) poems per submission
-Creative Nonfiction*: Submissions may not exceed 3,000 words

Award: A first place only cash prize of $500 will be awarded in each category, along with publication in the January 2009 issue of MUSE and a complimentary one-year subscription.

Entry Fee: $25 per category; each additional entry within a category, add $5. Please do not submit more than three entries per category. For Poetry only, 3 poems = 1 entry.

Guidelines: Attach an Entry Form with each submission. Do not include author’s name on manuscripts. Submit entries on 8.5 x 11 paper only, include title of the piece on each page, and please number each page. Manuscripts will not be returned. Please include SASE for the list of winners.

Questions? Call 216.694.0000 or email info@the-lit.org.

*Factually accurate prose about real people and events, written in a compelling, vivid manner, and may include essay, memoir, or articles.

The Karen Fredericks and Frances Willitts Poetry Prize & The 2nd Annual Hotmetalpress Chapbook Contest

hotmetalpress.net

Our prize is $350 and 20 free copies. We want to send every entrant a copy of the winning collection. We also will consider unpublished poems within the manuscript for our magazine. Page Limit: 32 pages. Fee: $20.00. Deadline: end of November 2008. Please make ut a check for $20 to Hotmetalpress. Judged by Martin Willitts Jr (author of a full length book “The Secret Language of the Universe” and editor of a poetry anthology about cancer “Alternatives to Surrender”, and published many chapbooks). Send one hardcopy of the manuscript to: Martin Willitts Jr., P.O. Box 4322, Rome, NY 13244

The entry rules:
Single spaced poems in 12 pt Ariel or Times New Roman. Attach a separate page for the title page with your name, address, telephone, and email. Do not put your name anywhere else on the pages.32 page maximum limit including title, content page, acknowledgments, and pages. Anything with more pages will be eliminated. Include the check, the manuscript following the entry directions, and a SASE if you want the manuscript returned with a comment from Martin (he writes interesting comments) or the manuscript will be destroyed. Attach all items together with a swing clip only. No staples, paper clips, etc. The winner will be requested to submit a finished, edited version of the manuscript in a Word Document file upon winning. We are not responsible20for any errors. For complete rules: hotmetalpress.net.

Sandra Caron Young Adult Poetry Prize and Rita Williams Young Adult Prose Prize (High School Only)

Call for entries from young adult writers, grades 9-12 or equivalent age thereof.

Cash prizes. Winners read at Koret Auditorium, SF Main Library.

Complete rules available: www.soulmakingcontest.us

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30, 2008

An arts outreach program of the National League of American Pen Women, Nob Hill-San Francisco Branch.

For more information please email PenNobHill@aol.com

Scribophile October Writing Contest

Scribophile has just announced its October writing contest. First prize is a $50 Amazon.com gift card, second prize a $25 gift card. Entry is free. We’re accepting horror/Halloween themed short stories (up to 4000 words) through October 31.

www.scribophile.com/contests

PERUGIA PRESS PRIZE (Women Only)

www.perugiapress.com

– accepting submissions NOW!

for a First or Second Book of Poetry by a Woman

Prize: $1000 and publication

A prize of $1000 and publication by Perugia Press is given annually for a

first or second unpublished poetry collection by a woman. Submit 48 to 72

pages with a $22 entry fee between August 1 and November 15. Send an

e-mail, SASE, or visit the Web site for complete guidelines.

Perugia Press – Celebrating Poetry by Women since 1997
P.O. Box 60364
Florence, MA 01062

info@perugiapress.com

www.perugiapress.com

Bookhabit Poetry Competition

SECTIONS

· Written

· Audio and Video

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PRIZES

· 1st US$500, 2nd $200, 3rd $100 – each section

· Overall Winner $500

· All prizes in US Dollars.

Judged by the New Zealand Poetry Society

· People’s Performance Choice $500 (Audio and Video section only– awarded to the person delivering poem)

Judged by registered Bookhabit users

Round 1
Dates: 22 September – 2 November

· Entries may be submitted in any of the 6 weeks of Round 1

· Each week Monday GMT 00:00 – Sunday GMT 23:59 is a new week

· At the end of the week will judge the 50 poems from each section that will advance to Round 2

· The poems advancing to Round 2 will be announced as soon as the judging is completed for each week

· Registered users can let everyone know which poems they like by using the ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ mechanism available

· The aggregation of the ‘thumbs up and down’ determines only the sort order of the poems and has no bearing on which poems advance to Round 2.

Round 2
Dates: 10 November – 23 November

· No new entries will be received

· 50 poems through from each section, in each week from Round 1 (300 in total)

· The top 50 poems as determined by registered Bookhabit.com users will advance to Round 3

· Users will have an allocation of points that they can award to their favorite poems in each section.

· Detailed instructions will be posted at the start of Round 2.

Round 3
The People’s Performance Choice Award of $500 (in the Audio and Video section) will be awarded to the person delivering the poem (not necessarily the person who ‘penned’ the poem). The decision will be made by the registered users of Bookhabit. Voting will be open for 2 weeks until 7 December.

Poems will be judged by our panel to determine the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd poems in each section, and an overall winner.

Conditions of Entry

· Only one username per person may be created

· A maximum of five entries in each section, per week per entrant

· Each poem may only be entered once (and not in multiple weeks)

· A poem can be entered in more than one section e.g. video and written

· The poem must be the original work of the entrant

· A poem may be read or performed by someone other than the poet

· The poem must be original content and must not be previously published. The poem can appear in audio or video section if the author still has rights to the poem and the poem has been published previously as a written poem

· No props, costumes, or music are allowed in the audio or video formats

· Written entries are to be submitted in plain text with no formatting other than line breaks and paragraph breaks

· Entries must be in English

· Entry is open to all poets, regardless of age or residency

· Audio and video 10 minute maximum length

· Written 2,500 word maximum

· If entering the haiku or tanka categories then a single entry should consist of 5 haiku or 5 tanka

· Youtube.com must be used in the video section

· The poem is not allowed to be entered in any other competition during the life of the poem in the competition. A poem is considered live until the results of the week or round have been released on the Bookhabit website

· Bookhabit accepts no responsibility for the poems entered on Bookhabit

· Bookhabit accepts no responsibility for the poems uploaded to youtube.com

· Content must not be of a sexually explicit or offensive nature

· Bookhabit have the right to publish or broadcast the prize winning poems for 12 months after the announcement of the prize winners. The poet will be notified if a poem is being published or broadcast anywhere other than the Bookhabit or Youtube websites, however Bookhabit cannot control other parties linking to or using the poems

· By submitting an entry the author also agrees to receive emails from Bookhabit.com and New Zealand Poetry Society. These addresses will not be spammed, nor will any personal details be passed on without the permission of the user

· Bookhabit reserves the right to remove any poem, user or preferences from the competition at any time

· When an entrant submits a poem onto Bookhabit.com or enters it in the Bookhabit.com competition the entrant is agreeing to the Bookhabit.com terms and conditions as agreed to when joining as a registered bookhabit.com user

· The Judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.

· The organiser of this competition is Bookhabit Online Limited, PO Box 11198, Wellington 6142, New Zealand.

Gertrude Press Poetry and Fiction Chapbook Contests

Each year Gertrude Press publishes two chapbooks; one fiction and one poetry. These attractive collections will include a unique cover in a limited press run.

http://www.gertrudepress.org/guidelines/chapbook.html

Writer Compensation:
$50 cash award
50 complimentary copies of the chapbook

Chapbooks will be distributed to subscribers, libraries, and bookstores carrying Gertrude, the Press’ annual literary journal.

Poetry Chapbook Guidelines:

Submit 16-20 pages of poetry via surface mail only.

Indicate which poems have been previously published and by whom. Unpublished poems are welcome.

Poetry may be of any subject matter and writers from all backgrounds are encouraged to submit.

Include a cover letter and SASE for notification. For manuscript returns, please include exact postage.

Indicate how you learned of the contest in your cover letter.

Include a $15 submission fee payable to Gertrude Press.

Submission fee includes copy of the winning chapbook.

Submissions accepted beginning September 1, 2008 until February 15, 2009 (postmark deadline).

Fiction Chapbook Guidelines:

Submit 16-20 pages of short fiction or a self-contained novel excerpt via surface mail only.

Indicate which selections have been previously published and by whom. Unpublished pieces are welcome.

Fiction may be of any subject matter and writers from all backgrounds are encouraged to submit.

Include a cover letter and SASE for notification. For manuscript returns, please include exact postage.

Indicate how you learned of the contest
in your cover letter.

Include a $15 submission fee payable to Gertrude Press.

Submission fee includes a copy of the winning chapbook.

Submissions accepted beginning September 1, 2008 until February 15, 2009 (postmark deadline).

Please send all submissions to:
Gertrude Press
PO Box 83948
Portland OR 97283

Winners will be announced by May 1, 2009.

Woodrow Hall Award

Announcing the first Woodrow Hall Award, an offshoot of the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf program.

This award will be given to a Wisconsin poet who has actively contributed to Wisconsin’s literary landscape, and will include five-hundred ($500.00) dollars to implement an idea for a new poetry program or project. The winner must execute their idea in 2009. No entry fee. Multiple entries from same poet welcome. Download application from PoetryJumpsOfftheShelf.com and send with a SASE to:

Woodrow Hall Editions
PO Box 260026
Madison, WI 53726

Entry deadline: December 15th, 2008

Winner announced in January.

Questions? shoshaunashy@yahoo.com.

30 Below Story Contest

Narrative is calling on writers, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers, ages eighteen to thirty, to tell us a story. We are interested in narrative in the many forms it takes: the word and the image, the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary.
Awards: First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, and Third Prize is $300. The prize winners will be announced in Narrative. Additionally, ten finalists will be chosen and announced in the magazine. All entries will be considered for publication. (Limit of two entries per individual.)

We accept submissions in the following media:
Written: Works of fiction and nonfiction, including short stories, novel excerpts, essays, memoirs, and excerpts from book-length nonfiction. Submissions must not exceed 10,000 words, and should be double-spaced, with 12-point type, at least one-inch margins, and sequentially numbered pages. Please provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address at the top of the first page. Submit your document as a .doc, .pdf, or .rtf file.

Drawn: Graphic novel excerpts and comics of no more than thirty pages, in .pdf format. Please include your full name in the title of the filename.

Photographed: Photo essays of between five and twenty images, each photo with a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Captions or text must be included within the file that contains the images. Files must be .doc or .pdf. Please provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address on the first page of the essay.

Spoken: Original works of fiction and nonfiction in audio theater, including performance, radio journalism, and stories read aloud. Submissions may run up to ten minutes, in .mp3 format, with a bitrate of at least 128 kbit/s. Please include your full name in the file name.

Filmed: Short films and documentaries of up to fifteen minutes. Submissions must be in .mp4 format. Please include your full name in the file name.

Timing: Entries will be accepted between September 20 and October 27, 2008. (The contest will close to entries at midnight Pacific Standard Time on October 27.) There is no entry fee.

Judging: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by December 1, 2008. All writers who enter will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions.

Entries must be previously unpublished, though we do accept works that have appeared in college publications. Entries cannot have been the winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. We accept online entries only. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but if your entry is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible (and accept our congratulations!).

To Submit go to narrativemagazine.com/30-below-story-contest

CCW 2009 Spring Writing Contest

centralcoastwriters.org/2009-spring-contest-rules.htm

Poetry and Short Story winners will each receive $500

Their winning work will be published in the Spring 2009 Homestead Review produced by Hartnell College. Note: All contest entries will be considered for publication in Hartnell College’s Spring 2009 Homestead Review.

Contest Rules

Eligibility: Open to all work not previously published. Simultaneous submissions allowed, but you must notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Entry Fee: Short stories: $15 per story. Poetry: $5 per poem.

Multiple Entries: You may enter as many times as you wish.

Maximum Length: Short story: 4000 words. Poetry: no restriction.

Submission Period: August 15, 2008 through November 15, 2008 (by postmark)

Submit to: CCW Contest, c/o Michael Thomas, P.O. Box 51805, Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Make your check payable to Central Coast Writers. Please note: entries will not be returned.

Format: Typed, white 8½ x11 paper, unstapled, single-sided, numbered pages, with title only (not your name) on upper left corner of all pages. Short stories must be double-spaced. Poetry should be formatted as you want it to appear. Include a single cover sheet for short stories and a single cover sheet for poetry. The cover sheet(s) must include the title(s) of your entry, your name, address, email address, phone number, and word count for short stories.

Notification: Winners will be notified by March 31, 2009 and announced in Scribbles, the Central Coast Writers branch monthly newsletter.

Questions?: E-mail to ccw-contests@comcast.net

Finalist judges will be Homestead Review editors Maria Garcia Teutsch and Dr. Jessica Breheny, published authors in their respective genres of poetry and fiction.

Many Mountains Moving Poetry & Flash Fiction Contests

http://mmminc.org

Eligibility:
* Open to all poets and writers whose work is in English.
* Entries may not be previously or simultaneously published.
* Staff members and family of staff members are ineligible.

Prizes:
* $200 cash prize for the best poem & $200 cash prize for the best flash fiction.
* Publication in the 2009 MMM print annual.
* Finalists in each genre will also be considered for publication.

Guidelines:
Postmark deadline— Nov. 1, 2008.
* Winners announced by January 2009.
* Do not put your name on your work(s). All entries will be read anonymously.
* Include in your cover letter: (i) your name, (ii) e-mail address and phone number(s), (iii) mailing address, & (iv) the title(s) and genre of your submission.
* If you enter in both categories, please send them in separate envelopes.
* Mark “poetry contest” or “fiction contest” on the envelope.
* Mss. cannot be returned; do not send your only copies.
* Include an SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) to receive the announcement of the winners.

Entry Fees:
$15 for as many as 5 poems per entry (total submission cannot exceed 10 pages).
$15 for as many as 2 flash fictions (or short-short story under 1,000 words, typed double-
spaced).
Entrants get a free subscription!
Make checks payable to: Many Mountains Moving.
Final Flash Fiction Judge: Thaddeus Rutkowski
Final Poetry Judge: Anne-Marie Cusac

Send to:
Many Mountains Moving
(Poetry or Flash Fiction) Contest
1705 Lombard St.
Phila. PA 19146

Or via e-mail, send an attachment (RTF, Word, WordPerfect or PDF) to editors@mmminc.org without any identification in the ms. itself. Then send a paper cover letter along with a check for $15 exactly as you would with a regular paper submission. (See above). Ms. will be acknowledged as received as soon as the check arrives.

Pat Parnell Poetry Contest

www.chestercollege.edu/compassrose/Spring2008/parnell_prize.htm

The Department of Writing and Literature at Chester College of New England is pleased to offer the sixth Pat Parnell Poetry Prize. Named after the founder of COMPASS ROSE, Professor Patricia Parnell, the contest is designed to bring work of the finest quality to the pages of our magazine.

Each year, the winner of the contest receives $400 and publication in COMPASS ROSE. All other entries will be considered for publication. The contest fee is $5 per poem with a limit of 5 poems per entry. We can accept only U.S. currency.

COMPASS ROSE is pleased to announce poet Ilya Kaminsky will judge the 2008-2009 Pat Parnell Poetry Contest. Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Ilya is the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), which won the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. Dancing In Odessa was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord Magazine.

To learn more about Kaminsky, please visit his website at ilyakaminsky.com.

CONTEST GUIDELINES
Please submit no more than five (5) poems between August 1 and November 15, 2008. The contest fee is $5 for each poem ($10 for two poems, $15 for three poems and so on). Please do not put any personal information on the poems themselves; instead enclose a cover letter with your name, titles of your work, and contact information. All entries are read blind. Poems that include personal information will not be read and fees will not be refunded. No email submissions or previously published work will be accepted. Please send all submissions via postal mail to:

Pat Parnell Poetry Contest
c/o Prof. Jenn Monroe
Chester College of New England
40 Chester Street
Chester, NH 03036

We will not accept email submissions, but are happy to answer questions that way. Contact
us at compass.rose@chestercollege.edu.
Relatives, friends, and colleagues of the judge are not eligible.

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes for 2008

These prizes have been established by Marvin Rosenberg in memory of his late wife, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg. The intent is to encourage the work of new, young poets. Several prizes varying from $1,000 up to as much as $25,000 will be awarded for the finest lyric poems celebrating the spirit of life.

The competition is open to any writer under the age of 40 on November 6, 2008. All poets, published or unpublished, are welcome to enter, but only previously unpublished poems are eligible for the competition.

Each entrant may submit one to three separate poems. Submissions must be in English, the original work of the entrant, and previously unpublished. Poems should express the personal experience of the entrant, so please no translations! Brevity will be appreciated: if more than one poem is submitted, only one of the submitted poems may be more than thirty lines in length.

Entries must be received no later than October 18, the third Saturday in October, 2008. Entries should be submitted by mail to:

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes
PO Box 2306
Orinda, California 94563

Each poem must be printed on a separate sheet. Please submit two copies of each poem, with your name and address clearly marked on each page of one copy only. Please include an index card with your name and address, phone number, e-mail address and the title(s) of your poem(s). Poems submitted will not be returned. An entry fee of 10 dollars is required
for submissions mailed in the United States: Checks should please be made out to Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. Foreign entries are exempted from the entry fee because of the hassles of international payments.

This website ( www.DorothyPrizes.org ) has been prepared to share information about the Competition.Dorothy’s poems inspired the competition’s emphasis on lyric poems celebrating the spirit of life. Further information concerning the Prizes may be posted here as the deadline approaches. Results will be announced on the website February 5th, 2009, and winners will be contacted shortly before that time.

Visit the 2008 Entrants’ Checklist for a summary of contest details.

Prizewinners may reenter in subsequent years until their cumulative prizes have reached $25,000.

Entrants’ Checklist for 2008

Prizes ranging from $1,000 up to as much as $25,000 will be awarded for the finest lyric poems celebrating the human spirit.

Entrants must be under the age of 40 on November 6, 2008.

The contest is open to all writers, published or unpublished.

Winners may continue to enter until their prizes total in excess of $25,000.

Submissions must be in English: no translations, please.

Each entrant may submit one to three separate poems.

Only one of the poems may be more than thirty lines in length.

All poems must be original and previously unpublished.

Each poem must be printed on a separate sheet.

Submit two copies of each poem. Write your name, address, phone number and email address clearly marked on each page of one copy only.

Include an index card with your name, address, phone number, email address and the titles of your submitted poems.

Include a $10 entry fee payable to the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. (This fee is not required for entries mailed from abroad.)

In summary, send two sets of copies of your poems, with your name on one set only; plus an index card with your contact information; plus a $10.00 fee if you reside in the U.S.

Mail entries to:

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes
PO Box 2306
Orinda, CA 94563

Deadline: Entries must be postmarked on or before October 18, the third Saturday in October, 2008.

Poems will not be returned. Include a stamped addressed envelope if you wish us to acknowledge the receipt of your entry.

Notice of prize winners will be published on our website on February 5, 2009 together with a selection of the winning poems.

Winners will be contacted shortly before that time.

Visit our website www.DorothyPrizes.org for further information.

The Ledge 2008 Poetry Chapbook Competition

www.theledgemagazine.com/Poetry%20Chapbook%20Contest.htm

PRIZE: Winning poet will receive a $1,000 cash award and 25 copies of the published chapbook.

SUBMIT: 16-28 pages of original poetry with title page, biographical note and acknowledgements, if any. Please include your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number (optional). Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but we ask that you notify us if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Poets may enter more than one manuscript.

ENTRY FEE: $18. All entrants will receive a copy of the winning chapbook upon its publication in the fall of 2009.

NO RESTRICTIONS on form or content. The Ledge Press is open to all styles and forms of poetry. Excellence is the only criterion.

PLEASE include a SASE for the competition results or manuscript return. The winner will be announced in March 2009.

POSTMARK DEADLINE: October 31, 2008.

SEND ENTRIES TO:
The Ledge 2008 Poetry Chapbook Competition,
40 Maple Ave.,
Bellport, NY 11713

DANTE’S HEART POETRY CONTEST

www.dantesheart.com/PoetryContest.html

Entries Due: November 1, 2008
Winners Announced: December 2008

1st Prize – $125 + Publication
2nd Prize – $75 + Publication
3rd Prize – Honorable Mention + Publication

Contest Judge:
Ever Saskya, Author of “The Porch is a Journey Different From the House”

Entry Fee: $7 (USD)

What We’re Looking For:
This contest seeks work that speaks to the mission of Dante’s Heart: A Journal of Myth, Fairytale, Folklore, and Fantasy. Dante’s Heart (www.dantesheart.com) is an online venue looking for creative work that explores how myth and fairy tale define and are defined by the human experience(s). We want to celebrate the shock, wonder, bewilderment, suffering, and enchantment of myth, of the fantastic; we want to hear about rivers running with wine and ghosts jumping the Mississippi on motorcycles. We’re concerned with the neglect of myth, with the blindness of a culture determined by myths it hasn’t thought about; we demand (beg, entreat, scream) that myths be thought about, made and remade, handled with a delicate & angry/sad/ desperate/joyous exuberance.

Contest Rules:

Submit poems by e-mail to editors@dantesheart.com

Submit entry fees using the “Giving” page on our website (www.dantesheart.com), and e-mail us to specify that the funds are for the contest entry fee.

Entries & entry fees must be received by November 1 in order to be considered for the contest.

Submit one entry only. An entry may consist of any of these:
1 poem of up to 7 pages
A series of 2-3 inter-related poems up to 10 pages
A series of 4 or more inter-related poems up to 15 pages

Send your best work. Please peruse our journal prior to submitting.

Obama – McCain Political Haiku Contest

www.associatedcontent.com

As the political season continues to heat up, we are forced to take in more and more political advertising and media coverage. Here’s your chance for a creative release of pent up political tension.
We’re looking for the best series of four haikus about Barack Obama/Joe Biden , John McCain/Sara Palin or a reflection therof. Three winners will receive $10, with one winner for each category: *Pro Obama/Biden, *Pro McCain/Palin and *Independent or Third Party candidate. The winners will also be featured on the front page. Haikus must be written in the traditional format: three lines each, 17 syllables total in a 5-7-5 syllable format. Remember to include at least four haikus in your submission.

All haikus need to be 100% original work. This contest has a deadline of Friday, September 19th, 11 P.M. EST.

Willow Books Poetry Award

Willow Books, an imprint of Aquarius Press, announces its first annual Willow Books Poetry Award. The contest is open to all African American poets or poets of African descent. The contest is open to published and unpublished poets. Willow Books is open to a variety of aesthetics and seek to publish excellent manuscripts. Runner-ups will also be considered for publication.

Willow Books reserves the right not to pick a manuscript, in which case all monies will be returned.

Prize: The selected manuscript receives $500.00 and publication by Willow Books in the fall of 2009. The selected manuscript also receives 25 copies. The book will be available on the Willow Books website, through online retailers such as Amazon.com and through national and international book distributors. The winner will receive a standard royalty contract.

JUDGING: The selection of manuscripts for final judging will be made by the editors of Willow Books and designated readers. All entries are read anonymously.

Deadline: December 1st (postmark).
Entry fee: $25.00
Final Judge: Haki R. Madhubuti

Judge’s Bio: Haki R. Madhubuti is the author of more than twenty books including Don’t Cry, Scream, Groundwork Selected Poems of Haki R. Madhubuti/Don L. Lee, Directionscore: Selected and New Poems, and most recently Run Towards Fear. Among his honors and awards are an American Book Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is currently Distinguished University Professor of English and Director Emeritus of the Brooks Center.

Eligibility:

Open to all African American poets or poets of African descent whose work is in English.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed if the poet agrees to notify Willow Books of acceptance elsewhere.

Entries may not be previously published, but individual poems and chapbook-length sections may have been if the previous publisher gives permission to reprint. (More than half of the ms. may not have been published as a collection.)

Submission Checklist & submission guidelines:

A typed ms. of 50–80 pages of original poetry, single- or double-spaced.
(The author’s name must NOT appear anywhere on the ms.)

Manuscripts should be unbound, typed, pages numbered

A cover letter with the title of the collection, a brief bio, your name, address, phone number, and email address(es).

Acknowledgments may be included in the ms. but are not required.

A $25 check or money order payable to Willow Books.

An SASE for the selected manuscript announcement. Mss. will not be returned.

SUBMISSION PERIOD: September 1st – December 1st postmark. The selected manuscript will be announced on or before June 1st. Book will be published in the Fall of 2009.

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: Willow Books Poetry Prize, PO Box 23096, Detroit, MI 48223; checks made payable to Willow Books.

Please email Willow Books for further information: aquariuspress@sbcglobal.net

New Southerner Literary Contest

$200 prizes for poetry, fiction and nonfiction

Three prizes of $200 each and publication in New Southerner will be awarded for works of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.

* 5,000 word limit for prose

* 50 line limit for poetry

* Entry Fee: $10 per entry; checks should be made payable to Swallowtail Press

* Multiple entries accepted

* Postmark deadline: October 1, 2008

Final judges:

Nonfiction — Kathryn Eastburn (author of A Sacred Feast and Simon Says)
Poetry — Erin Keane (author of The Gravity Soundtrack and The One-Hit Wonders) and Cecilia Woloch (author of Tsigan andLate)
Fiction — Silas House (author of The Coal Tattoo and Clay’s Quilt)

All work must be typed on standard-sized paper. No manuscript will be returned; for acknowledgement of receipt, include self-addressed, stamped postcard with submission.

Send two copies—one with the author’s name, address, phone number and optional e-mail address in the upper right-hand corrner, the other with no author information. Include separate title page for each entry indicating title of work, category, author’s name, address and phone number.

Entries must be the author’s original, unpublished work and should be appropriate for publication in New Southerner, an independent journal dedicated to promoting self-sufficient living, environmental stewardship and support for local economies. For more information, see our submission guidelines online at newsoutherner.com/aboutus.htm.

Winners will be contacted by telephone and/or e-mail by the end of November. Winning entries will be published in the winter issue of New Southerner, scheduled for release Dec. 10. Judges may choose to award honorable mentions in each category.

Entries and entry fees made payable to SWALLOWTAIL PRESS should be mailed to:

New Southerner Literary Contest
375 Wood Valley Lane
Louisville, KY 40299

Questions regarding entries should be directed to bobbibuchanan@newsoutherner.com

The Whitebird Chapbook Series

www.wingspress.com/chap.cfm

This chapbook series is named in honor of Joanie Whitebird, a co-founder of Wings Press. As the Texas Observer described her, Joanie was “an old-fashioned fence hater, a wire-cutter, a woman in love with the open road, with open relationships, with open futures fraught with possibilities.” We honor her spirit by using this series to introduce new and innovative poetic voices.

Contest Rules

Between Sept. 1 and Oct. 31, submit 30 pages of poetry to:

“Whitebird Chapbook Series”
Wings Press
627 E. Guenther
San Antonio, TX 78210

Include a separate biographical note, a title page with name and address, SASE for notification (mss will not be returned), and $15 reading fee. Announcement of the winner is made in December, with publication to follow in April.

PRIZE: 100 copies.

Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry

www.snakenationpress.org/guidelines.html

50-75 page manuscript

$1,000 prize and publication

An entry fee of $25 must accompany the manuscript

Pay entry fee online only at

www.snakenationpress.org/interpay1.html

Previously published eligible

Deadline: November 30, 2008

Coal Hill Review Chapbook Competition

Coal Hill Review and Autumn House Press are pleased to announce the Coal Hill Review Chapbook Competition: your chance to have your work featured as a special electronic chapbook in a stand-alone issue of Coal Hill Review.

www.coalhillreview.com

Terrance Hayes will select the winner who will receive $250 and publication of his or her work as an online chapbook.

Review our guidelines below. We begin accepting submissions September 1st, and will continue to do so until the end of the year.

Lumina Poetry Contest

Our 2009 poetry contest will be judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Ilya is the author of Dancing in Odessa, which won the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship given annually by Poetry magazine. Dancing In Odessa was also named Best Poetry Book of the Year 2004 by ForeWord magazine.

First prize: $500, plus publication in LUMINA
Second prize: $100
Third prize: $50

(All contest entries will automatically be considered for publication.)

http://pages.slc.edu/~lumina/contest/

Deadline: November 15, 2008

Entry fee: $10. Make check or money order payable to LUMINA, and mail it to:

LUMINA
Sarah Lawrence College
Slonim House
One Mead Way
Bronxville, NY 10708-5999

You must also email your entry to (replace (at) with @). Write your email address on your check so that your entry can be matched to your payment. All other contest guidelines are identical to the guidelines for regular poetry submissions. For that information, see our submissions page at

pages.slc.edu/~lumina/submissions/

The Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry

The prize is awarded annually to the best poetry manuscript by an emerging Canadian writer (a writer who has published two books or less). Each year the winning manuscript will be selected by an established poet in co-operation with Snare Books. This year’s judge is Rachel Zolf. The winner receives a trade paperback contract with Snare Books which will include the publication of the manuscript and a $500 honorarium.

The next deadline is January 31, 2009.

Each entry must be accompanied with a business size SASE and an entry fee for $30.00 Canadian. Please make all cheques and money orders payable to “Livres Snare”. No cash please. Full award guidelines are available at snarebooks.wordpress.com.

Submissions can be sent to:
Snare Books
The Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry
c/o Matrix
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., LB 658
Montreal QC
H3G 1M8

Snare Books reserves the right to withhold the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. For more information about Snare Books and The Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry please go to snarebooks.wordpress.com.

For more information email: jon.fiorentino@gmail.com