The Patricia Bibby First Book Award 2010--deadline Oct 31

Tebot Bach announces

The Patricia Bibby First Book Award 2010

$1,000 and Book Publication

http://www.tebotbach.org/tebot_ad.html

Patricia Bibby was a beginning poet whose poems expressed her love of life while living with cancer. Her kindness, humor, and optimism inspired the love of many new friends in the poetry community. She died in 2004, at 43, without having been published. In naming the First Book Award after Patricia Bibby, Tebot Bach honors the aspirations and spirit of all beginning poets. Gail Wronsky serves as judge for this competition that looks for a fresh, new voice in poetry.

Competition Guidelines

Winner will receive $1,000 and book publication

Judge: Gail Wronsky

The competition is open to all poets writing in English who have not committed to publishing collections of poetry of 36 poems or more in editions of over 400 copies. 

Entries of 50–84 pages of original poetry in English must be postmarked by October 31, 2009. Entries postmarked after October 31, 2009 will not be read. Manuscripts will not be returned. Manuscripts must be bound with a binder clip. No staples, folders, or printer-bound copies. No photographs, images, or illustrations. Please do not include acknowledgements at this time. Please do not include any identifying information anywhere in the manuscript. Submit two title pages. The first, not fastened with the manuscript, should include the title of the manuscript, author’s name, address, telephone number, and email address in upper right corner. The second,20fastened with the manuscript, should include only the title in upper right corner. Entries should be fastened in this order:

1. Title page

2. Table of contents

3. Collection of poems

Items 1 and 2 are not included in the 50–84 page count.

Manuscripts should be letter-quality, typewritten, and single-spaced. Photocopies are acceptable. Please do not submit your only copy, as manuscripts will not be returned. 

Tebot Bach assumes no responsibility for damaged or lost manuscripts.

Manuscripts must be previously unpublished.

Translations and multi-authored collections are not eligible. 

Past and current students and employees of the Loyola Marymount University are not eligible. Past and current volunteers and employees of Tebot Bach are not eligible. Poets who have studied with Gail Wronsky in more than 2 workshop settings are not eligible.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but Tebot Bach must be notified immediately if a collection is accepted for publication via email: info@tebotbach.org

Please include a non-refundable reading fee of $25, check or money order, made out to Tebot Bach. Include a business-size SASE (self-addressed envelope) for notification. Include a SAPC (self-addressed postcard) for notification of receipt of manuscript. Postcard should include title of manuscript.

Mail manuscript, check or money order payable to Tebot Bach, SASE, SAPC in one envelope to:

Patricia Bibby Award

Tebot Bach

Post Office Box 7887

Huntington Beach CA 92615-7887

fiction chapbook contest: Flume Press--deadline Dec 1

Fiction Chapbook Competition — Guidelines

http://www.csuchico.edu/engl/flumepress/

Eligibility

You may submit stories that have been published previously as long as your manuscript has 

never been published. If your manuscript is currently under consideration elsewhere, you must 

be prepared to withdraw it from the other press immediately if accepted by Flume Press. Please include the appropriate acknowledgements for any published stories.

Rules

Manuscripts should be 10-12,000 words, not including title, contents, and acknowledgements pages. A single story or a collection of short shorts is acceptable. Please include a cover sheet 

with your name, address, phone, and e-mail address and total word count. Do not put your name on each manuscript page.

A self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) is necessary for results notification. The editors provide comments for all semifinalists and finalists.

The $20 (US) Reading Fee will be used to provide the cash prize to the winner and help to produce the winning chapbook. Flume is a nonprofit press.

Deadline for submission: December 1, 2009. All manuscripts must be postmarked by this date.  Manuscripts with SASE will be returned and the winner announced by June 2010.

Final Judges

The winner will be selected by final judges Rob Davidson, author of  Field Observations, and Paul Eggers, author of Saviors and How the Water Feels.

Prize

The winner will receive $500 and 25 copies of the chapbook. (Authors may purchase additional copies at a 50% discount.) Average print run is 500 copies.  Flume advertises the winning chapbook in national literary magazines following publication.

Biases

We are interested in serious literary fiction only, contemporary work that is well-crafted and emotionally engaging. No “genre” fiction (e.g., sentimental romance, sci-fi, horror) please.

Sample Copies

If you would like a sample copy, please mail $8 plus $2 shipping to

Flume Press at CSU, Chico, 400 W. First St., Chico, CA 95929-0830.

Poetry chapbooks: At Dusk on Naskeag Point, Tina Barr; Concentric Circles, Gayle Kaune; Follower of Dusk, Luis Omar Salinas; Shovel Point, Judy Lindberg; Staving Off Rapture, Ava Leavell Haymon; Cinnabar, Martha M. Vertreace; Whetstone, Joanne Allred; As Close As Possible, Mary Matthews; The Corner of Absence, Lynn Kuderko, Eating Nasturtiums, Mary Makofske; Stutter Monk, David Graham; The Way Water Moves by John Brehm; The One Blue Thread by Naomi F. Chase; Bad Girl at the Altar Rail by Sharon Charde; And Still the Music, Alison Townsend.

Fiction chapbooks: I Call This Flirting, Sherrie Flick; The Sheep Breeders Dance by Aine Greaney; Mad to Live by Randall Brown.

Thanks for your interest in our competition.

2009 Fiction Chapbook Contest – Deadline Dec. 1.

Minnesota Magazine 11th Annual Fiction Contest--deadline Feb 8

Minnesota Magazine Fiction Contest

http://www.alumni.umn.edu/fiction.html

Our 11th-annual fiction contest is now accepting submissions.Charles Baxter, professor of creative writing at the University of Minnesota and author of National Book Award-finalist The Feast of Love, will judge the finalists. 

Please read the directions below for submitting entries.

How to enter:

• All University of Minnesota alumni and students are eligible to enter.

• Submit a double-spaced, typed manuscript, 3,000 words or fewer. Submissions must not have been previously published. Past winners of this contest must wait five years before entering again. Poetry, children's stories, plays, and screenplays are not eligible.

• Include a cover sheet that bears your name, year of graduation (or years of attending the University), day and evening phone numbers, address, story title, and word count of the manuscript. To ensure anonymity, please do not put your name on the manuscript itself. Manuscripts will not be returned.

The winner will receive $2,000, and the winning story will be published in the summer 2010 issue of Minnesota magazine and on the magazine's Web site. The editors reserve the right not to name a winner. 

Submissions must be postmarked by February 8, 2010.

Send to:

Minnesota Magazine Fiction Contest

University of Minnesota Alumni Association

McNamara Alumni Center

200 Oak St. SE, Suite 200

Minneapolis, MN 55455-2040

Robert & Adele Schiff Prose and Poetry Prizes--deadline July 31

The First Annual Robert & Adele Schiff Prose and Poetry Prizes

http://www.cincinnatireview.com/

The Cincinnati Review will award a single poem and a prose piece (fiction or creative

nonfiction) with publication and a prize of $300 each.

Writers may submit up to 8 pages of poetry or 6,000 words of prose, per entry. Previously

published manuscripts, including works that have appeared online (in any form), will not be

considered. There are no restrictions as to form, style, or content; all entries will be

Entry fee is $15, which includes one copy of the Summer 2010 prize issue.

Checks should be made payable to The Cincinnati Review.

Submissions will be accepted by mail from June 1st to July 31st 2009 (postmarked). Entries

must include a cover letter with the writer’s name, mailing address, telephone number, email,

and the title(s) of the work(s) submitted. Please do not include the writer’s contact info on the

manuscript, as submissions will be judged blindly.

Schiff [Poetry or Prose] Prize

The Cincinnati Review

P.O. Box 210069

Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069

Winners will be notified October 1st, and an announcement will appear on our website and

in the Winter 2010 issue.

"Two Review" Poetry Contest--deadline July 31

2009 POETRY CONTEST

http://tworeview.googlepages.com/TwoReviewPoetryContest2009Color.pdf 

JUDGE: SHOLEH WOLPÉ 

1ST PRIZE: $100  2ND PRIZE: $50   3RD PRIZE: $25 

Prizes include publication in the 2010 issue of Two Review. All submissions considered for publication. 

Sholeh Wolpé is a poet, visual artist and playwright. She is the author of Sin – Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (University of Arkansas Press), The Scar Saloon (Red Hen Press), Rooftops of Tehran (Red Hen Press), Shame (a play in three acts), and has a Poetry CD featuring poems read by the author and set to traditional Persian music (Refuge Studios). She is the associate editor of The Norton Anthology of Modern Literature from the Muslim World (Norton, 2010), the editor of The Atlanta Review – Iran Issue (2010), and her poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in scores of literary journals, periodicals and anthologies worldwide, and have been translated into several languages. 

Wolpé was born in Iran but spent most of her teen years in the Caribbean and Europe, ending up in the U.S. where she pursued Masters degrees in Radio-TV-Film (Northwestern University) and Public Health (Johns Hopkins University). She lives in Los Angeles. Learn more about Wolpé by visiting www.sholehwolpe.com.   

 

Submission Guidelines: Send up to five (5) unpublished poems, bio-sketch, SASE, email address, and a $10.00 check 

made out to Cold Press Publishing to: Two Review Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 200639, Anchorage, Alaska 99520. 

 

Deadline: July 31, 2009.  

Two Review is a journal of international poetry and creative nonfiction published annually. Traditional and modern forms, lyrical and narrative approaches, and conventional or experimental styles are all welcome. All subject matter is considered as long as the attention to craft is high and the language is grammatically strong, syntactically unique, and illuminates in some way the human experience. Writing about the modern world, its inhabitants, and the events that shape them, from the personal day-to-day experiences of work and family life to worldwide events that affect us all, is preferred. During the course of 2008 the editors reviewed 7,000+ submissions from more than 1,000 poets and writers. The 2009 issue represents the work of poets and writers from 21 U.S. states and 6 countries.  

 

Two Review is featured at select independent booksellers across the U.S. Copies are also submitted to non-lending libraries at national poetry centers including The University of Arizona Poetry Center, Richard Hugo House in Seattle, The Poetry Center of Chicago, The Stadler Center for Poetry in Pennsylvania, and Poets House in New York City. 

"Elixir" Poetry Contest--deadline Oct 31

Tenth Annual Poetry Contest

http://www.elixirpress.com/guidelines.html#poetrycontest

Elixir Press is sponsoring a poetry contest open to all poets writing in English.  There will be a Judge’s Prize of $2,000 and an Editors’ Prize of $1,000.  Both winning manuscripts will be published by Elixir Press.  All entries will be considered for publication.  An outside judge, to be announced later, will make the final decision for the first prize.  The editors will make the final decision for the second prize.

Manuscripts should be typed on one side of the page and on standard paper. No dot matrix unless letter quality.

Send a business size SASE for reply only; manuscripts cannot be returned. An SAS postcard for receipt of manuscript is optional.

Please use a 12 to 14 point font.

Do not send the only copy of your manuscript.

Do not send biographical material, photographs, CDs, videos, or illustrations.

Enclose a cover sheet stating the name of the manuscript and the author's name,address, and telephone number and a cover sheet with the title alone.

Manuscripts must be paginated and include a table of contents and and acknowledgments page if appropriate.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome, so long as Elixir is notified immediately if a manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

Manuscripts must be at least 48 pages in length.

Please secure your manuscript with either a binder clip or file folder.  Do not otherwise bind your manuscript.

The entry fee is $25.

The postmark deadline for the contest is October 31, 2009.

Submit to:

Elixir Press

P. O. Box 27029

Denver, CO   80227                                               

Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize--deadline Nov 1

Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize

Sponsored by Fiction Collective Two (FC2) and American Book Review

http://americanbookreview.org/contest.asp

Announcing the Winner of the 2008 Prize:

Museum of the Weird

by Amelia Gray

The 2009 contest will be open from August 15 - November 1.

Eligibility

The Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest is open to any writer of English who is a citizen of the United States and who has not previously published with Fiction Collective Two. Submissions may include a collection of short stories, one or more novellas, or a novel. There is no length requirement. Works that have previously appeared in magazines or in anthologies may be included. Translations and previously self-published collections are not eligible. To avoid conflict of interest, former or current students or close friends of the final judge for 2009, to be announced, are ineligible to win the contest. Employees and Board members of FC2 are not eligible to enter.

Judges

Finalists for the Prize will be chosen by the following members of the FC2 Board of Directors: Kate Bernheimer, R.M. Berry, Brian Evenson, Noy Holland, Lance Olsen (Chair), Susan Steinberg, and Michael Martone.

The winning manuscript in 2009 was chosen from the finalists by Lidia Yuknavitch, a member of the FC2 Board of Directors.

Selection criteria will be consistent with FC2's stated mission to publish "fiction considered by America's largest publishers too challenging, innovative, or heterodox for

the commercial milieu," including works of "high quality and exceptional ambition whose style, subject matter, or form pushes the limits of American publishing and reshapes our literary culture."

For contest updates and full information on FC2's mission, history, aesthetic commitments, authors, events, and books, please visit the website at:http://fc2.org.

Deadlines

Contest entries will be accepted beginning 15 August 2009. All entries must be postmarked no later than 1 November 2009. The winner will be announced May 2010.

Prize

The Prize includes $1,000 and publication by FC2, an imprint of the University of Alabama Press. In the unlikely event that no suitable manuscript is found among entries in a given year, FC2 reserves the right not to award a prize.

Manuscript Format

Please submit either TWO hardcopies of the manuscript, or ONE hardcopy and one Word file of the manuscript on a labeled CD.

The manuscript must be:

— anonymous: the author's name or address must not appear anywhere on the manuscript (the title page should contain the title only); include a separate cover page with your name and contact information;

— typed on standard white paper, one side of the page only; paginated consecutively; bound with a spring clip or rubber bands; no paper clips or staples, please.

Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for notification that manuscript has been received, and a self-addressed, stamped, regular business-sized envelope for contest results.

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0you send your manuscript first class.

Please retain a copy of your manuscript; FC2 cannot return manuscripts. Submission of more than one manuscript is permissible if each manuscript is accompanied by a $25 reading fee. Once submitted, manuscripts cannot be altered; the winner will be given the opportunity to make changes before publication. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are permitted, but FC2 must be notified immediately if manuscript is accepted elsewhere. FC2 will consider all finalists for publication.

Submission Address

Full manuscripts, accompanied by a check made out to the American Book Review for the mandatory reading fee of $25, should be sent to:

Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize

American Book Review

School of Arts and Sciences

University of Houston-Victoria

3007 N. Ben Wilson

Victoria, TX 77901-5731

CLMP Contest Ethics Code

CLMP's community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to:

conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors;

provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and

make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public.

This code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically.

Writers Alliance of Gainesville 2010 Contest--deadline Oct 31

Contest Submission Guidelines

Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG)

Bacopa

Annual Literary Journal

2010 CONTEST Submission Guidelines

http://www.bacopaonline.com/

Contest Submission Period

July 1 through October 31, 2009

Prizes (Each Genre)

First Place–$350.00

Second Place–$75.00

Honorable Mention–Authors and Titles listed in Bacopa.

First and Second Place winners and selected Honorable Mention winners will be published.

All authors whose work is published in Bacopa will receive one free copy.

Notification

First, Second and Honorable Mention winners will be notified via email.

All Winners will be posted on the WAG website as soon as selection is complete.

Categories and Word Limits

Fiction—3,300 words

Non-Fiction—3,300 words

Poetry—50 lines per poem

Poetry—Submit up to three poems per contest submission

Submissions that exceed the word or line count will not be considered.

No limit to the number of submissions a person may submit in any category

Each separate entry requires an Entry Fee

Each entry requires a separate Entry Form (see below)

Eligibility

Manuscripts in English and Unpublished at the time of submission

(Please notify Bacopa via email if your submission is accepted elsewhere.)

WAG Membership is not required

Method of Transmission

Email Attachment(s) ONLY—NO mailed, paper manuscripts

Subject Line should read: CONTEST Fiction, or Non-Fiction, or Poetry

Name

the attached manuscript file with the GENRE/TITLE of the manuscript (e.g. Poetry/Love Note in the Snow)

Save the file in .rtf or .doc ONLY

Email the file as an attachment using our online Entry Form

Complete an Entry Form for each submission (See link below and follow instructions in the form.)

Manuscript Format—Fiction and Non-Fiction

Double-spaced

One inch Margins, all sides, .05 Paragraph Indent, Right justified

12-point type in Arial or Times New Roman ONLY

Cover Page:  The first page of our document should contain your Name, Address, Email, Phone, Title, Word Count

Page 1 and following:  Title/Page Numbers Upper Right

Page 1:  Word Count under Title/Page Number

Save the File in .rtf or .doc ONLY

(NOTE: Author’s name must not appear on the manuscript.)

Manuscript Format—Poetry

You can send up to three poems per submission. Up to 50 lines per poem.

Poems need not be double-spaced

12-point type in Arial or Times New Roman ONLY

Cover Page: The first page of your document should contain your Name, Address, Email, Phone, and the Title and Line Count for each poem.

Subsequent Pages: Put line count in upper right corner for each poem.

Save the file in .rtf or .doc ONLY. Name the file “Poetry Contest Submission.”

(NOTE:  Author’s name must not appear on the manuscript.)

Entry Form

available at

http://www.bacopaonline.com/

Fill out a separate Entry Form for each submissi

on. Follow instruction on the Entry Form.

Entry Fees

Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) Members in good standing, your first submission in any genre is FREE. You will also receive a Free copy of Bacopa.

WAG Members–Additional Submissions are $9 each

All Others–$11 each submission

To join WAG, 

visit

http://www.bacopaonline.com/

Payment

You can remit payment by two methods: PayPal or Personal Check.  After filling out the online entry form, you will have an opportunity to use PayPal to submit your payment.  This is our preferred method.

To pay by Personal Check. Make your check payable to: Writers Alliance of Gainesville.

Mail to:

WAG Contest

PO Box 358396

Gainesville, FL 32635

Submissions not following all the above guidelines will not be considered.

Payment must be received by the contest submission deadline, 10/31/09, in order for entries to be considered.

"Fourth River" Poetry & Non-Fiction contest--deadline Oct 15

Fourth River Award for Poetry 2009
Fourth River Award for Creative Nonfiction 2009

http://fourthriver.chatham.edu/submit.cfm

We are looking for poetry and creative nonfiction that capture the places—natural, built and imagined, urban, rural or wild—where humans and nature converge and collide.

First place winner in each category will be published in the Fourth River and will receive a $500 cash prize upon publication.

Contest judges to be announced.

Contest Guidelines

Submissions should be postmarked no later than October 15, 2009

Previously published works and works accepted for publication elsewhere are not eligible. Students, faculty and employees of Chatham University are not eligible.

Include a title page with your name, address, phone number and the title of your submission(s). Your name must not appear on the actual manuscript.

The reading fee is $5 for three poems or one essay (7,000 word maximum), and includes a copy of Issue 7. Please make checks payable to Chatham University. Multiple submissions are acceptable, but each submission must be accompanied by a reading fee. Manuscripts will not be returned.
(Please note: the reading fee does not apply to regular submissions.)

Send your submission, your reading fee and a self-addressed stamped envelope to:

The Fourth River
Chatham University
Woodland Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Attention: Fourth River Award for (please insert genre here--Poetry or Nonfiction).

SHELTERING PINES PRESS FIFTH ANNUAL CHAPBOOK COMPETITION, 2009--deadline Oct 15

SHELTERING PINES PRESS
FIFTH ANNUAL CHAPBOOK COMPETITION, 2009

http://www.shelteringpinespress.com/chapbookcontest5.html

Submissions are now open:

Official Rules

First Prize: $100 and fifty copies of your chapbook
Entry Fee is $15 per Chapbook
Deadline: Postmark October 15, 2009.

1. Submit between 10-24 pages of poetry.(One page = maximum 38 lines, including
spacing between lines). (Manuscripts either too short or too long
will be disqualified.)
2. All contestants receive copy of winning chapbook.
3. No names are to appear on poems.
4. Send two cover pages:
A. One cover page (and acknowledgement page if you wish to send one)
should contain title of manuscript, name, address, phone and e-mail.
B. Second cover page should list TITLE ONLY.
5. Manuscripts should be paginated and secured with a binder clip.
6. Poems may have been previously published in journals, which should be credited
on a separate, removable page.
7. Manuscript, as a whole, must be previously UNpublished.
8. #10 SASE for results only.
9. No manuscripts will be returned.
10. If your manuscript is being simultaneously submitted to other competitions, please notify us if accepted elsewhere. Your ms. can be pulled but unfortunately your entry fee cannot be refunded.

GUIDELINES: & GENERAL INFORMATION:
· Initial and final judging will be "blind."
· Identifying cover sheet and acknowledgement page
will be removed
before submission
to any of the judges. Previously published poems
should be credited.
· You may choose to list the TITLE ONLY of the chapbook on all pages of your submission.
· You may submit a Table of Contents. No name on this page.
· We request a binder clip for ease of separation.
No staples or plastic covers please.
· Be sure to keep your address current until after publication so you can be
notified or receive a copy of the winning chapbook.
· Winner notified by December 15, 2009.
· Results including winner and top five finalists listed on web site by December 15th.
· We will consult with winner before publication about details of publication.
· Chapbook will be 5 1/2 x 8", professionally printed and saddled-stitched.

Publication in Winter 2009
by Sheltering Pines Press

Mail entries, with entry fee of $15 (check or money order please) to: Sheltering Pines Press
4th Annual Chapbook Competition
P.O. Box 1344
Kennebunk, ME 04043

The Bellevue Literary Review Prizes: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry--deadline Aug 1

The Bellevue Literary Review Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

http://www.blreview.org/Contest/contest_guidelines.htm
$1000 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction
$1000 Carter V. Cooper Memorial Prize for Nonfiction
$1000 Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry

Please note that we are temporarily unable to accept credit cards payments online. See #12 to pay by check or credit card by phone. We apologize for the inconvenience.

BLR Prize Guidelines:

1. BLR Prize awards outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. First prize is $1000 (in each genre) and publication in the Spring 2010 issue of the BLR.

2. Prose limited to 5000 words. Up to 3 poems (maximum 5 pages). Submissions that exceed these limits will be disqualified.

3. Deadline August 1, 2009. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2009.

4. Entry fee is $15 per submission. For an additional $5, you will receive a 1 year subscription to the BLR. (Maximum: two submissions per person).

5. Manuscripts are submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document. (Save with a *.doc extension). Please combine all poems into one document and use first poem as title.

6. Do not put your name on the manuscript document. (This will be entered separately on our website.) No cover letter needed.

7. When entering the title in the website, please prefix with "Contest." (e.g. Contest : The Iliad.) This is extremely important and we appreciate your cooperation!

8. Work previously published* in print or electronically will not be considered. (Please see footnote below for specific definition of “published.”)

9. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. (This will avoid potentially awkward situations.) We regret that there can be no refunds or substitutions for withdrawn work.

10. Students/friends/colleagues/relations of any of the judges are not permitted to enter submissions to that judge's genre.

11. BLR acquires first-time North American rights. After publication, all rights revert to the author and may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made. All entries will also be considered for regular publication.

12. Due to administrative costs, if no entry fee is received, manuscript will be placed with general submissions.Because of a temporary glitch, we are unable to accept credit card purchases over the web (to be fixed soon!) Please send payment by check, or call during business hours to give credit card info.

By mail: send check and printout of confirmation email to:
Bellevue Literary Review
Dept of Medicine, Rm OBV-612
NYU School of Medicine
550 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016

By phone: 212-263-3973

We sincerely apologize for the incovenience and appreciate your forbearance.

13. Submit manuscript at
http://www.blreview.org/Contest/contest_guidelines.htm

scroll down (with Contest in title). Thank you!!





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*For the BLR , “published work” means published in print in North America, or published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We ask that authors be honest about web postings. (If a work is discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere--and not openly acknowledged by the author in advance--we willremove it from consideration.)

Questions? Please contact us: info@BLReview.org

Call for submissions: Survivors of Domestic Abuse--deadline Sept 30

Open call for submissions for the Survivors of Domestic Abuse anthology. To be published in Fall ‘09

http://reliefanthology.com/?page_id=30

The goal of this relief anthology is to raise dollars in support of women’s shelters, women’s advocacy groups.

The anthology will be published through a print-on-demand (POD) model using Lulu.com .

This is not a paying or a qualifying professional market (i.a.w. SFWA standards for Qualifying Professional Markets.

Authors retain all rights on material. Authors may remove their submission from the anthology at anytime by a written (emailed) request. By submitting to the anthology you are agreeing use of your work(s) for non-pecuniary (no one is making money off your work) purposes outside the donation to the various non-profit women’s shelters/advocacy groups.

Submissions should be sent to: . (replace (at) with @)

Electronic submissions only.
• Please place SUBMISSION-FALL 2009 in the subject line
• Send as an attachment .doc or .rtf, mac users may contact me directly for conversion resources
• Use standard US letter page size (8.5″ width, 11″ length)
• Cover/Title page with title and author’s name (or pen name)
• Double spaced
• 12 pitch Times New Roman or Courier family fonts (please)
• No other special formatting is required nor desired

Fiction should have strong female leading characters. All genres considered.
Specifically seeking one (1) essay/article on20surviving domestic abuse/abusive relationship(s) for the front/intro matter. This essay/article WILL be anonymous. A non-disclosure agreement will be signed between submitter and J.K.Richard (publisher) if accepted for publication.

REPRINTS ARE ACCEPTABLE!

Deadline for submissions is midnight (Pacific Standard Time) September 30th, 2009.

The anthology will be made publicly available mid-October.

All contributors will receive an electronic (.pdf) copy of the anthology.
There is room for approximately 7-9 short stories in each anthology (word count dependent).

Three Candles Press First Book Award--deadline Oct 15

three candles press is pleased to announce the third Three Candles Press First Book Award for a best first book of poems. The contest will be judged by Alexander Long, whose books include Light Here, Light There, Vigil and A Condition of the Spirit.

http://www.threecandlespress.com/FB2009.htm

Award: Winner receives $500.00 and 25 copies of the winning book. Deadline Oct. 15th (post-mark date). The winner will be notified at the end of December. Runners up and two alternates will be posted on the website by January 15th, 2010. The book will be available through Small Press Distribution, online retailers such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and at fine booksellers in America and Europe. The winner will receive a standard royalty contract.

Guidelines: Manuscripts of 60 - 95 pages should have one cover page containing the poet's name, address, phone number, email address and title of manuscript, and another with only the name of the manuscript. Please include only one acknowledgements page.

How the Contest Works: Publisher Steve Mueske will read all submitted manuscripts and forward the finalists to the judge (around 12 manuscripts). The final round of materials will be judged anonymously (without coversheet or acknowledgements page). To avoid conflicts of interest, the following manuscripts will be ineligible: those from former students of the judge or from family members or friends of the judge; those who have workshopped with Steve Mueske or received comments from any poems contained in the manuscript; and those wh
o have worked with the editor in a business capacity (an exchange of money for goods or services) prior to the opening of the competition.

Manuscripts should be printed on one side only and bound with a sturdy clip. Contest entry fee is $22.00. Make checks payable to "three candles press".

Send materials to:

three candles press
open book award
PO Box 1817
Burnsville MN 55337

Juked Fiction and Poetry Prizes--deadline Aug 31

2009 Juked Fiction and Poetry Prizes
http://www.juked.com/prize/

We are currently accepting entries for our 2009 JukedFiction and Poetry Prizes. Winners in each of the genres will receive $500 and publication in print issue #7. Our final judges this year are Dan Chaon (fiction) and Dora Malech (poetry). This year we will also accept electronic submissions to help everyone cut down on costs.

Submission Guidelines:

First prize for each genre: $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue, Juked #7.

Current and former students of the judges are not eligible to compete.

Fiction: send one story per entry. There is no length requirement.

Poetry: send up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry.

Entries must be previously unpublished.

Simultaneous submissions are fine, but notify us immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

Fee is $10 per entry. There is no limit on the number of entries you may submit.

Include a cover page with your name, address, e-mail, telephone number and the title(s) of your story or poems. Do not put your name anywhere else on the manuscript.

We will notify via e-mail;do not include an SASE.

Results will be announced in October 2009.

Submitting by Mail:

Include entry fee, cash or check or money order, payable to Juked.

Indicate "Fiction" or "Poetry" on the front of the envelope.

Manuscripts will not be returned; they will be placed gently in the recycling bin.

Postmark deadline is August 31st, 2009.

Mail to:
Juked
110 Westridge Dr.
Tallahassee, FL 32304

Submitting by E-Mail: go to

http://www.juked.com/prize/

for instructions on submitting via e-mail

"The Newport Review" Flash Fiction Contest--deadline Sept 1

2009 Contest: The Newport Review Flash Fiction Contest

http://newportreview.org/contests.htm

The 2009 Flash Fiction Contest will open for entries on June 1, 2009. Stories will be considered from June through the postmark deadline of September 1, 2009. This year's guest judge will be announced.

We are looking for works that are short in length but linger long in memory: small stories that pack a big emotional punch and make creative use of language.

Please note that this year, we are accepting slightly longer stories, up to a maximum of 1,000 words.

Complete Contest Guidelines:

Deadline: Postmarked by September 1, 2009

Word Count: Short-short stories up to 1,000 words

Entry fee: $7 per story, 3 for $20

Mail manuscripts w/check or money order (made out to Newport Review) to:

Newport Review Flash Fiction Contest

P.O. Box 65

Warren, RI 02885

Manuscripts should include writer's name and complete contact information, including email and phone. Include a business-size SASE if you wish notification of contest results. Manuscripts will not be returned unless requested; include SASE with sufficient return postage.

Unfortunately, we are not set up to accept PayPal or e-mail contest submissions at this time.

Writers may submit a total of six entries. The contest is open to all writers, published and unpublished, except writers personally affiliated with Newport Review, its editorial staff or board of directors. Past contest winners and those who have b
een published in the print edition of Newport Review are eligible to enter.

New prizes will be awarded:

First Prize: $150 and publication

Second Prize: $100 and publication

Third Prize: $50 and publication

Honorable Mention: Publication

Prize-winning stories and stories receiving honorable mention will be published in a future issue of Newport Review. Other stories may also be considered for publication.

"Alligator Juniper" 2010 National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry--deadline Oct 1

2010 National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry

http://www.prescott.edu/alligator_juniper/submit.html
$15 Entry Fee
$500 First-Place Prize
Postmark Deadline: October 1, 2009

Our annual contest awards $500 plus publication for the first-place winner in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Finalists will be noted as such in our journal, selected for publication, and paid in copies. $15 entry fee, checks or money orders payable to Alligator Juniper. Every entrant receives one copy of the 2010 issue, a $10 value. The issue will come out in summer 2010. There is no theme for the 2010 issue. Work is selected upon artistic merit. By entering our contest you agree to allow us to select your work for publication even if it does not place first. We encourage submissions from writers of all levels, especially emerging or early-career writers. We accept simultaneous submissions; please inform us in your cover letter and contact us immediately if your work is selected elsewhere.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions accepted May 1 through October 1, 2009 (postmark deadline).

Include a brief cover letter, including the statement below.

Include S.A.S.E for response only; manuscripts are recycled, not returned.

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

Additional entries require additional fee.

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

Manuscripts must be typed with n
umbered pages. Prose double-spaced.

Double-sided copies encouraged. No email submissions.

Send to: Alligator Juniper, Prescott College, 220 Grove Ave., Prescott, AZ 86301.

IMPORTANT: Unfortunately, due to past problems with misinformed entrants and withdrawals, we ask that you include the following statement in your signed cover letter: "I have read and understand the guidelines for Alligator Juniper’s na tional writing contest."

Back issues are available for all but 1995 (the premier issue) and 2001. Send $8 to above address and request a copy from any year, 1996 to 2007, or $10 for a copy from 2008 or 2009.

Selection Process

All entries are read and discussed by Prescott College students in the Alligator Juniper practicum class. This class is overseen each fall by two faculty members, each of whom is a working writer in the genres of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

All entrants receive a personal letter from one of our staff regarding the status of their submission. We usually inform in late January. The individual attention we devote to each manuscript takes time. We appreciate your patience.

Akron Poetry Prize--deadline Sept 30

http://www3.uakron.edu/uapress/poetryprize.html
The Akron Series in Poetry was founded to bring to the public writers who speak in original and compelling voices. Each year, The University of Akron Press offers the Akron Poetry Prize, a competition open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives $1,000 and publication of his or her book. The final selection will be made by a nationally prominent poet. The final judge for 2009 is Martín Espada. Other manuscripts may also be considered for publication in the series.

Guidelines for Submission
1. Manuscripts must be typed and consecutively numbered, for a total length of at least 48 pages. Clear photocopies are acceptable. Please, do not send manuscripts bound or enclosed in covers.

2. Manuscripts must include a cover page (with author's name, address, phone number, and manuscript title), a title page (with no biographical information), and an acknowledgements page listing poems previously published in periodicals. Please do not submit manuscripts that have the author's name on each page. Manuscripts go to the final judge blind.

3. Manuscripts must be postmarked between May 1 and June 15 of each year. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but The University of Akron Press must be notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

4. An entry fee of $25 is required for each manuscript submission. Make check or money order payable to The University of Akron Press. The cancelled check will serve as notification of receipt.
0A5. Contest results will be posted on our website www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetryprizewinner.html by September 30. No manuscripts can be returned.

6. Books accepted for the Akron Series in Poetry must exhibit three essential qualities: mastery of language, maturity of feeling, and complexity of thought. The University of Akron Press is committed to publishing poetry that, as Robert Frost said, "begins in delight and ends in wisdom." Intimate friends, relatives, current and former students of the final judge (students in an academic, degree-conferring program or its equivalent) are not eligible to enter the 2009 Akron Poetry Prize competition.

Send manuscripts to:
The Akron Poetry Prize
The University of Akron Press
Akron, OH 44325-1703

Further Information:

For further questions on the submission of manuscripts to the UAP poetry series, contact:

Series Editor Mary Biddinger
University of Akron Press
Akron, OH 44325-1703

2008 Winner
Rachel Dilworth
"The Wild Rose Asylum: Poems of the Magdalen Laundries of Ireland"
Forthcoming in November

Pearl Poetry Prize--deadline July 15

2009 PEARL POETRY PRIZE

http://www.pearlmag.com/contests.html
$1,000 & BOOK PUBLICATION
Judge: Debra Marquart

GUIDELINES

MANUSCRIPTS should include a title page with the author'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 return of manuscript. Manuscripts should be unbound, typed, pages numbered, and name should appear on title page only. Clear photocopies and computer print-outs are acceptable. We will consider simultaneous submissions, but ask that you notify us if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

PRIZE: In addition to publication and the $1,000 cash prize, the winner also receives 25 copies and a foreword by the finalist judge.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all poets, with or without previous book publication. Students and friends of the judge are not eligible for this year's competition.

$20 ENTRY FEE includes a copy of the winning book. All other proceeds go to the continuing publication of Pearl.

JUDGING: The selection of manuscripts for final judging will be made by the editors of Pearl. All entries are read anonymously.

SUBMISSION PERIOD: May 1 – July 15th postmark. The winner will be announced and manuscripts returned after the first of next year.

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: Pearl Poetry Prize, 3030 E. Second Street, Long Beach, CA 90803; checks made payable to Pearl

Miami University Novella Contest--deadline Oct 2

Miami University Novella Contest

http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/mupress/novella.html

The novella form has had a long and distinguished place in American literature, and has triumphed in the hands of Herman Melville, Henry James, Katherine Anne Porter, Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, William Gass, John Gardner, Andrea Barrett and Tobias Wolff, to name just a few.

As commercial publishers are driven more and more by marketplace concerns, novellas, by nature of their length, often fall between the cracks of short story collections and novels and wind up being published—if at all—not as individual volumes but as part of a collection of stories. Because the form is such a pleasure for readers and writers alike—short enough to be read at a single sustained sitting, but long enough to allow the writer greater freedom in character and plot development than does the short story—we are happy to present a rare venue for publishing individual novellas as stand-alone volumes.

Manuscripts submitted for the award will be read and evaluated by our creative writingfaculty, all of whom are active publishing writers. The manuscripts will be read “blind;” in other words, all identifiers will be stripped from the pages before the manuscripts are read, and the author’s history of previous publication will not be available to readers. Each year a different member of our faculty will serve as the final judge and will decide from among the list of
finalists submitted by the other readers.

Students, former students, faculty, former faculty, or anyone connected to Miami University will not be considered for the award. Though we believe strongly in the talent of those we have worked with and taught, we will do everything we can to assure that this prize is administered impartially, fairly, and without regard to association.

Miami University Press is a non-profit organization. Though we are requiring an entrance fee (currently $25), we wish to make it clear that this money will be used to pay for the administrative costs of the contest, to help with the costs of publishing a book of high quality, and to allow each entrant to receive a copy of the winning volume. We want that book to be a pleasure to hold in the hands and to read. The winning volume will be distributed nationwide.

Submission rules and guidelines:

Below are general guidelines for the contest.

Entries for the 2009 contest must be postmarked by October 2, 2009.

Submit manuscripts, 18,000–40,000 words, with two title pages: one with author’s name, address and phone number, one without. Author’s name must not appear elsewhere. Word count must be included on title page.

Reading fee U.S. $25, payable to Miami University Press (check or money order; no cash or credit cards).

Winning entry receives $1,000 and book publication.

All entrants receive copy of winning book.

Mail to:
MU Press Novella Prize
English Department
356 Bachelor Hall
Miami University,
Oxford, OH 45056

The Laureate Prize for Poetry--deadline Aug 30

http://home.comcast.net/~sagecj/laureateprize.html

Each year The Laureate Prize for Poetry will honor one new poem that TNPR believes has the greatest chance, of those entered, of standing the test of time and becoming part of the literary canon. To enter, submit up to three of your best unpublished, uncommitted (not promised for first publication elsewhere) poems (10 page total maximum per group of three), along with your email address for results (no SASEs,please), contact information, a brief bio, and a $15 fee for each set of up to three poems entered.

Fee: $15.00. * Postmark deadline: 8/31/09. Personal checks only, please; NO money orders.

IMPORTANT: MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE ONLY TO "C.J. SAGE"

C. J. Sage, TNPR, Post Office Box 2080, Aptos, California 95001-2080

The winner will receive $600 plus publication in The National Poetry Review.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but if the work is selected by TNPR for the prize or for publication, it must be withdrawn from elsewhere unless you have withdrawn it from us two weeks before our acceptance. Multiple submissions are acceptable with a reading fee for each group of three poems. Page limit per group: 10

Please note that close friends, relatives, and students of the judge or the editor are not eligible for the prize. The judge will be asked to send back to TNPR's editor any poem that s/he recognize