Topic: What is one unique way you taught your children to make their beds? Make sure your idea is different from those we already have at "Teach Your Children How to Make Their Own Beds." And if it is, please send it to us for consideration. "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead concentrate on a hands-on-pr...

We each have a story to tell. Turn your own memoir into an engaging account that will leave readers feeling moved, entertained, informed, empathetic, outraged, laughing, crying, or astonished.

The WrEN Award for Poetry 
http://www.writers-editors.com/Writers/Contests/Contest_Guidelines/contest_guidelines.htm

$200 and one-year membership*** in Writers-Editors Network will be awarded to the poet whose work is "Best in Show." The top poet in each category will receive $25 and one-on-one feedback from the poetry judge.

Categories: Traditional Forms, Free Verse, and Poetry for Children. Entry fee is $15 for each batch of 3- to 5-single-spaced pages of unpublished poems submitted under one ...

Topic: What is one way that you taught your kids to think critically, not about TV or magazines or books, but about things they found in the world around them or what their friends or teachers told them? "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead concentrate on a hands-on-practical parenting t...

Every year we run an experiment that – with the exception of the occasional heavyweight anthology – is generally left untouched by publishers. Among traditional journals, it’s strictly taboo. An editor’s no-no. An unspoken gentlemen’s agreement sealed with a handshake in the backrooms of literary Geneva Conventions everywhere.

Ladies and gentlemen, we’re going to republish some unsolicited liter...

SouthWest Writers is proud to announce a Call for Submissions to the 2019 Short Prose & Poetry Contest.

First-, second-, and third-place winners will be awarded in sixteen categories of the Short Prose & Poetry Contest. The entries must be original, unpublished, and in English. You do not have to be a member of SWW or MWSA to enter.

The couple featured on the web site will have names, occupations, and blurbs about each that will act solely as a springboard for your creative minds to get the romance cooking.

Topic: What is one way that you helped your child deal with peer pressure, peer influence or another peer problem? "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead concentrate on a hands-on-practical parenting tip that others can apply once they've read it. The point is the tip.

Topic: What is one unique way that your child brought his/her Bible to school? And what was the outcome? What should others do when trying this? "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead concentrate on a hands-on-practical parenting tip that others can apply once they've read it. The point is the tip.

Stories Through The Ages - Generations Plus 2019 is open to adults born 1965 and later. There is no prompt for the contest. Authors may write about any topic. The entry fee is $25 ($20 if submitting more than one story). The word count for this contest is 900 - 4000 words. Cash prizes of $500, $200 and $100 will be awarded. There will be a minimum of 15 finalists whose story will appear in the book. Deadline is April...

Entrants may submit up to six single-spaced pages of poetry or 20 double-spaced pages of prose. If you are submitting through our online system, we prefer Microsoft Word documents (...

The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor is proud to sponsor Windhover, a journal dedicated to promoting poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction that considers the Christian perspective and engages spiritual themes. Each spring the journal hosts a writers’ festival, inviting their published authors and interested readers to come to campus for a weekend of workshops and presentations on the connection between faith and ...

The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor is proud to sponsor Windhover, a journal dedicated to promoting poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction that considers the Christian perspective and engages spiritual themes. Each spring the journal hosts a writers’ festival, inviting their published authors and interested readers to come to campus for a weekend of workshops and presentations on the connection between faith and ...

Topic: In addition to praying for your child, reading or listening to a book, and watching TV or movies, what have you found to do while feeding an infant to keep from falling asleep? "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead concentrate on a hands-on-practical parenting tip that others can apply once they've...

Welcome to Passager! We publish two issues a year, an Open Issue (fall/winter), and a Poetry Contest issue (spring/summer). We urge you to become familiar with Passager before submitting work. Browse some previously published work, or order sample copies.

2019 Poetry Contest

Submit poems for the contest issue between February 15 and April 15, 2019. Please send a hard copy or use Submittable. Send:

The purpose of the National Writers Assn. Novel Contest is to encourage the development of creative skills, recognize and reward outstanding ability in the area of novel writing. Any genre or category of novel manuscript may be entered. All entries must be postmarked by April 1. Only unpublished works may be submitted. All manuscripts must be typed, doub...

Now in its 18th year, this contest seeks today's best humor poems. No fee to enter. Submit published or unpublished work. $2,250 in prizes. See more past winners and remarks from our judges in our contest archives.

Deadline - April 1, 2019.

Readers Write column asks readers to address subjects on which they're the only authorities. Topics are intentionally broad in order to give room for expression. Writing style isn't as important as thoughtfulness and sincerity.

We publish only nonfiction in Readers Write. Feel free to submit your work under "Name Withheld" if it allows you to be more honest, but be sur...

Poems are being accepted for the 2019 Foley Poetry Award.

Each entrant is asked to submit only one unpublished poem on any topic. The poem should be 30 lines or fewer and not under consideration elsewhere. Poems will not be returned. Poems should be sent in via Submittable or postal mail.

Include contact information on the same page as the poem. Poems must be postmarked or sent in via Submittable between Jan. 1 and March 31...

Topic: What is one unique way you taught your children to make their beds? Make sure your idea is different from those we already have at "Teach Your Children How to Make Their Own Beds." And if it is, please send it to us for consideration. "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead concentrate on a hands-on-pr...

We each have a story to tell. Turn your own memoir into an engaging account that will leave readers feeling moved, entertained, informed, empathetic, outraged, laughing, crying, or astonished.

The WrEN Award for Poetry 
http://www.writers-editors.com/Writers/Contests/Contest_Guidelines/contest_guidelines.htm

$200 and one-year membership*** in Writers-Editors Network will be awarded to the poet whose work is "Best in Show." The top poet in each category will receive $25 and one-on-one feedback from the poetry judge.

Categories: Traditional Forms, Free Verse, and Poetry for Children. Entry fee is $15 for each batch of 3- to 5-single-spaced pages of unpublished poems submitted under one ...

Topic: What is one way that you taught your kids to think critically, not about TV or magazines or books, but about things they found in the world around them or what their friends or teachers told them? "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead concentrate on a hands-on-practical parenting t...

Every year we run an experiment that – with the exception of the occasional heavyweight anthology – is generally left untouched by publishers. Among traditional journals, it’s strictly taboo. An editor’s no-no. An unspoken gentlemen’s agreement sealed with a handshake in the backrooms of literary Geneva Conventions everywhere.

Ladies and gentlemen, we’re going to republish some unsolicited liter...

SouthWest Writers is proud to announce a Call for Submissions to the 2019 Short Prose & Poetry Contest.

First-, second-, and third-place winners will be awarded in sixteen categories of the Short Prose & Poetry Contest. The entries must be original, unpublished, and in English. You do not have to be a member of SWW or MWSA to enter.

The couple featured on the web site will have names, occupations, and blurbs about each that will act solely as a springboard for your creative minds to get the romance cooking.

Topic: What is one way that you helped your child deal with peer pressure, peer influence or another peer problem? "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead concentrate on a hands-on-practical parenting tip that others can apply once they've read it. The point is the tip.

Topic: What is one unique way that your child brought his/her Bible to school? And what was the outcome? What should others do when trying this? "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead concentrate on a hands-on-practical parenting tip that others can apply once they've read it. The point is the tip.

Stories Through The Ages - Generations Plus 2019 is open to adults born 1965 and later. There is no prompt for the contest. Authors may write about any topic. The entry fee is $25 ($20 if submitting more than one story). The word count for this contest is 900 - 4000 words. Cash prizes of $500, $200 and $100 will be awarded. There will be a minimum of 15 finalists whose story will appear in the book. Deadline is April...

Entrants may submit up to six single-spaced pages of poetry or 20 double-spaced pages of prose. If you are submitting through our online system, we prefer Microsoft Word documents (...

The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor is proud to sponsor Windhover, a journal dedicated to promoting poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction that considers the Christian perspective and engages spiritual themes. Each spring the journal hosts a writers’ festival, inviting their published authors and interested readers to come to campus for a weekend of workshops and presentations on the connection between faith and ...

The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor is proud to sponsor Windhover, a journal dedicated to promoting poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction that considers the Christian perspective and engages spiritual themes. Each spring the journal hosts a writers’ festival, inviting their published authors and interested readers to come to campus for a weekend of workshops and presentations on the connection between faith and ...

Topic: In addition to praying for your child, reading or listening to a book, and watching TV or movies, what have you found to do while feeding an infant to keep from falling asleep? "Hacks & Facts" articles are not the place to showcase your voice as a writer. Also, lectures aren't encouraged. Instead concentrate on a hands-on-practical parenting tip that others can apply once they've...

Welcome to Passager! We publish two issues a year, an Open Issue (fall/winter), and a Poetry Contest issue (spring/summer). We urge you to become familiar with Passager before submitting work. Browse some previously published work, or order sample copies.

2019 Poetry Contest

Submit poems for the contest issue between February 15 and April 15, 2019. Please send a hard copy or use Submittable. Send:

The purpose of the National Writers Assn. Novel Contest is to encourage the development of creative skills, recognize and reward outstanding ability in the area of novel writing. Any genre or category of novel manuscript may be entered. All entries must be postmarked by April 1. Only unpublished works may be submitted. All manuscripts must be typed, doub...

Now in its 18th year, this contest seeks today's best humor poems. No fee to enter. Submit published or unpublished work. $2,250 in prizes. See more past winners and remarks from our judges in our contest archives.

Deadline - April 1, 2019.

Readers Write column asks readers to address subjects on which they're the only authorities. Topics are intentionally broad in order to give room for expression. Writing style isn't as important as thoughtfulness and sincerity.

We publish only nonfiction in Readers Write. Feel free to submit your work under "Name Withheld" if it allows you to be more honest, but be sur...

Poems are being accepted for the 2019 Foley Poetry Award.

Each entrant is asked to submit only one unpublished poem on any topic. The poem should be 30 lines or fewer and not under consideration elsewhere. Poems will not be returned. Poems should be sent in via Submittable or postal mail.

Include contact information on the same page as the poem. Poems must be postmarked or sent in via Submittable between Jan. 1 and March 31...