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2011 Contest Announcements - Some Ending Swiftly!
These are a couple of exceptional contest to enter in 2011:
$ one,500 honorarium and book publication: Submit guide-length collection of poems to the Colorado Prize for Poetry by January 14, 2011. Ultimate judge is Cole Swensen. $ 25 entry fee consists of subscription to Colorado Assessment. Total suggestions at http://coloradoprize.colostate.edu or Colorado Prize for Poetry, Center for Literary Publishing, 9105 Campus Delivery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105.
2011 STELLA Kupferberg Memorial Brief Story Prize. Winning story picked by Jennifer Egan, $ one,000 prize, and examine by way of as portion of the Picked Shorts functionality at Symphony Room in NYC on June eight, 2011. Theme: Set in Dining establishments and Bars, no a lot far more than two pages, 750 phrases. Charge: $ 25. Deadline: March one, 2011. Specifics: www.selectedshorts.org.
CONVERSE School Imaginative Creating technique announces the Julia Peterkin Award in Fiction. Prize of $ a single,000 plus expenditures for a finding out in Fall 2011. To enter send best sixteen pages of fiction (published or unpublished), cover letter, and $ 15 managing charge payable to "Converse University English Division." Deadline: February 15, 2011. Send: Julia Peterkin Award, Inventive Writing Program, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC 29302. Suggestions: www.converse.edu/academics/schools-departments/english/present day-and-prof.... The Converse University imaginative producing system congratulates Jude Nutter of Minnesota, winner of the 2010 Julia Peterkin Award.
THE COUNCIL for Wisconsin Writers invites submissions of comprehensive published in 2010 by Wisconsin residents in lessons including quick and guide-length fiction and nonfiction, poems, manual-length poetry, children's literature, outside creating. Winners each get $ 500 and a week's residency at Edenfred. Entry charge: $ 15. Deadline: January 31, 2011. See: www.wisconsinwriters.org.
CUTBANK LITERARY Magazine is calling for submissions to the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry, the Montana Prize in Fiction and the Montana Prize in Imaginative Nonfiction. Submissions are accepted December one, 2010 by signifies of February 28, 2011. There is a $ 15 entry charge and winners get $ 500 and publication in CutBank 75. Planet wide net site: www.cutbankonline.org.
DYLAN THOMAS American Poet Prize: $ a single certain,000, publication in Rosebud, awarded to an American poet beneath forty. Deadline: December 31 postmark. Title and tackle on cover letter only. Lifetime-appointed judge: John Smelcer. three poems max, $ ten entry charge (payable to "Rosebud") to: John Smelcer, Dept. of English, Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000.
Quite very first Yearly Irish-American Crossroads Generating Contest. Really initial prize: $ 300. Submit memoir about the that signifies of an Irish-American heritage (a range of or hybrid ancestries incorporated). 1 submission per particular person. Deadline: December 31. Entry Charge: $ 15. Send previously unpublished functions (max three,000 wc) to: information@irishamericancrossroads.org. For thorough specifics and submission recommendations: www.irishamericancrossroads.org.
FOURTH GENRE: Explorations in Nonfiction. 7th Yearly Michael Steinberg Essay Prize. $ a single,000 prize awarded annually for winning essay or memoir winning and runner-up entries published in Fourth Genre Spring 2012. All entries regarded for publication in Fourth Genre. Ryan Van Meter is 2011 contest judge. 6,000 word limit nonrefundable $ 15 entry charge. Contest tips unchanged--obtainable at www.msupress.msu.edu/journals/fg. Submit January 15-February 28, 2011 only to: Fourth Genre Contest, Dept. of English, Michigan State University, 201 Morrill Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1036. E-mail: genre4@msu.edu.
GEMINI MAGAZINE Poetry Open. Grand prize: $ 1,000. No restrictions on material, length or variety of poetry. 2nd/third area: $ one hundred/$ 50. three honorable mentions. All finalists published on-line in February 2011. Entry fee: $ 5 (up to three poems) payable to "Gemini Magazine," P.O. Box 1485, Onset, MA 02558. Deadline: December 31. www.gemini-magazine.com
HEART POETRY Award $ 500. Winner, Honorable Mentions published 2011. $ ten covers three unpublished poems, reserves circumstance. On each and every single webpage consist of establish, tackle, mobile mobile mobile phone, e-mail. SASE or World wide web net world wide web site announces winners, poems discarded. Deadline: postmark December 31. Sample $ 5. Nostalgia Press, 2003 Broughton St., Orangeburg, SC 29115. World wide internet net web site: www.nostalgiapress.com. E-mail: heart@sc.rr.com.
INDIANA University South Bend's Lester M. Wolfson Poetry Award will be awarded to an emerging or established poet for a guide length manuscript of at least 48 pages. Winner receives $ one particular,000, 50 copies, and will be invited to give a learning in South Bend. Deadline is March one particular, 2011. David Dodd Lee, Series Editor, will judge. Entry charge: $ 25. For complete ideas go to www.42miles.wordpress.com.
JUDITH KITCHEN Imaginative Nonfiction Prize presented by Water~Stone Evaluation. Winner receives $ 1,000 plus publication. $ 15 entry charge consists of copy of Fall 2011 difficulty. Deadline: December a single. Particular, unpublished operate greatest length, eight,000 phrases. Consist of determine, tackle, mobile phone amount, and e-mail on cover sheet (only). Manuscripts will not be returned (recycled). Send SASE and three copies of submission to Inventive Nonfiction Prize, Water~Stone Assessment, Graduate University of Liberal Scientific studies, MS-A1730, Hamline University, 1536 Hewitt Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104-1284.
Many MOUNTAINS Moving Poetry & Flash Fiction Contests. $ 500 prizes plus publication. All entrants get cost-free of charge of charge subscriptions. Deadline: December thirty. Anonymous judging. Include only in cover letter: understand, deal with, e-mail, title(s) and genre. Entry charges: $ 15 for 5 poems or ten pages, or $ 15 for two flash fictions (beneath a single,500 phrases) payable to: "A great deal of Mountains Moving." Mail duplicate copies to Editors, MMM, (genre) Contest, 1705 Lombard St., Philadelphia, PA 19146. Or to editors@mmminc.org with out possessing acquiring identification in linked MS. Send cover letter and verify by way of U.S. Mail. Complete concepts at http://mmminc.org.
MERIDIAN, the semi-yearly from the University of Virginia, is accepting on-line entries for its Editors' Prize Contests in fiction and poetry. Deadline: midnight, December 17. Winners get a $ one,000 prize and publication all U.S. entries get a a single-yr subscription. Entry charge: $ 16. For total information, go to www.readmeridian.org.
A NEW Search awaits at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com. Go to our up to date Net site for awards contest information and to enter on the internet. $ 4,000 plus publication in New Millennium Writings and on-line. $ 1,000 each and every for Biggest Poem, Nonfiction, Fiction or Rapid-Short Fiction. New Millennium Making Awards. Deadline is November 17. twenty Poetry Honorable Mentions published and picked Prose Finalists. You acquire 2012 problem featuring winners. Guidelines: No restrictions on fashion or articles materials. Enter amongst now and midnight of November 17 (postmark okay) with a $ 17 verify out payable to NMW for each single single set of 3 poems (5 pages max) or every story or nonfiction (six,000 phrases max, except in the Short-Quick fiction group--1,000 phrases max.). Numerous and simultaneous submissions welcome. Enter as typically as you like. Consist of title, cellphone, tackle, e-mail and group entered on cover webpage only. To: NMW, Room A, P.O. Box 2463, Knoxville, TN 37901. Offer e-mail or SASE for outcomes. Or enter on the world broad world wide web at www.writingawards.com.
NEW OHIO Evaluation prize in fiction and poetry. Poetry winners, chosen by Stephen Dunn, had been Michael Derrick Hudson of Fort Wayne, Indiana, very first prize of $ one,500 Beth Marzoni, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2nd prize of $ 500. Fiction winners, picked by Ann Beattie, had been Angie Pelekidis of Binghamton, New York, 1st prize of $ 1 distinct,500 and Matthew Duffus of Knoxville, Tennessee, second prize of $ 500. The winning poems and stories seem in the Fall 2010 circumstance of New Ohio Evaluation. Deadline for subsequent yr is Could properly one, 2011. World broad world wide web world wide web site: www.ohiou.edu/nor.
NEW POETRY CONTEST. $ 250 and assured publishing to the winner. 1 distinct poem, any subject/any length. Deadline: November one particular. $ ten entry charge-confirm to "Trajectory-Helvey Enterprises." Submit to: Trajectory, P.O. Box 655, Frankfort, KY 40602.
OMNIDAWN delivers $ a single,000 prize for our yearly chapbook poetry contest. Ben Lerner will judge. Accepting electronic and postal submissions January a single-February 28, 2011. Winner receives prize, publication, and 1 specific hundred copies. Entry charge: $ 15. Entrants who send SASE price tag obtain copy of winning chapbook. For ideas, seewww.omnidawn.com.
OUTRIDER Press/TallGrass Writers Guild anthology theme: "Bird in the Hand's Effectively nicely well worth Two in the Bush: Risk/Flight." Broadly interpreted--birds, flight, gambling, chance aversion, danger sports activities. $ 500-poetry $ 500-fiction/essays (to 2,500 phrases). Deadline: February 27, 2011. Copy to published contributors. Entry: $ twelve/$ sixteen TallGrass members/non-members. Total suggestions: outriderpress@sbcglobal.net.
PASSAGER CONTEST for writers over 50. five poems, 35 lines max every and each and every fee $ twenty entails 1 12 months subscription. Send bio. SASE for positive aspects only. Deadline: February 15, 2011. Really first prize: $ 500. Honorable mentions published. Passager, University of Baltimore, 1420 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Checks payable to UB. Net web website: http://passagerpress.com.
POETRY SOCIETY of Virginia (PSV) grownup and student lessons. In excess of $ 3,000 in prizes awarded yearly. Deadline: January 19, 2011. $ 4/poem for non-member grownups. No charge for present members. All could potentially enter/join. For suggestions, send SASE to PSV, 3723 Gardners Road, Mineral, VA 23117 or at www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org.
PRISM REVIEW'S yearly $ 250 fiction and poetry prizes. Our outstanding judges are Lucy Corin (The Complete Predicament) and Craig Santos Perez (from Unincorporated Territory). Your $ 9 entry will get you a swell $ 9 concern. Deadline is midnight, November thirty. Data and submissions at prismreview.submishmash.com/Submit or verify out us at www.laverne.edu/prism-evaluation.
RIVER STYX Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest. A prize of $ one,500, a single certain circumstance of Schlafly Beer, and publication in River Styx is provided yearly for the actually greatest micro-fiction story. The editors of River Styx will judge. 500 phrases highest per story, up to 3 stories per entry. $ twenty entry charge, postmarked by December 31. All entrants get a a single-12 months subscription to River Styx. River Styx, 3547 Olive St., Ste. 107, St. Louis, MO 63103. Richard Newman, Editor: bigriver@riverstyx.org, or (314) 533-4541.
Orignal From: 2010 Best Poetry Website & Upcoming Poetry and Writing Contests For 2011
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