Browsing Archive: June, 2021
Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, June 30, 2021,
Cisco Writers Club 45th Annual Contest
DEADLINE: July 31, 2021.
WHO MAY ENTER: Anyone, anywhere! You do not have to be a Cisco Writers Club member. Judges may enter any category except the one they are judging. You must be 15 years or younger (born on or after August 1, 2005) to enter Adventures in Writing.
CASH AWARDS: $100, $50, $10, and $5 respectively will be made to judges' determinations of first, second, third and honorable mention at 7:00 p....
Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, June 29, 2021,
Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards
The Snapshot Press eChapbook Awards are international annual prizes for unpublished small collections of haiku, tanka, and other short poetry.
The closing date for entries is July 31, 2021. The winners will be announced on September 30, 2021. Entry fee: $20. Award winners will have their collections published online by Snapshot Press.
Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, June 29, 2021,
The Linda Chester Literary Agency
The Linda Chester Literary Agency represents a wide variety of adult literary and commercial fiction, as well as an array of nonfiction in the following categories: science, technology, medicine, health, memoir and biography, fine and performing arts, narrative nonfiction, current events, politics, history, popular culture, humor, gift books, psychology, spirituality, and business. We place dramatic rights for our projects and wo...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, June 27, 2021,
Fragmented Voices: Home
Our summer project this year will be a collection of short prose on the theme of ‘Home‘. We want to celebrate the brevity and sharp clarity of the short form: micro-fiction, flash fiction, and short stories.
What do we mean by “short prose”? Micro-fiction: 100 words max. Flash Fiction: 300 – 500 words max. Short Stories: 1000 words max.
Deadline: 31st July
Your submission may include up to 1000 words in any one genre. This ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, June 26, 2021,
League of Minnesota Poets Annual Contest
Deadline: July 31, 2021
Entry Fees: $2 Prizes: $10 - $125
20 categories to enter including: Self Poet Traits, Humor, Relationships, Apparel, Myths & Fairy Tales, Aging, Daily Routines, Narrative, Tilting Windmills, Ancestry/Heritage, Prairies, In Praise of the Ordinary, Ekphrastic, Off the Highway, Foreign Language, The Unusual, Travel, and more.
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, June 25, 2021,
Narrative Magazine Spring 2021 Story Contest
Our Spring contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction. Entries must be previously unpublished, no longer than 15,000 words, and must not have been previously chosen as a winner, finalist, o...
Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, June 24, 2021,
San Pedro River Review: 2021
San Pedro River Review is an international perfect-bound journal of poetry and art. It is named for the ancient river that flows north from the mountains of Sonora, Mexico, into Arizona. We have a strong interest in poetry of Place and the relationship between lives and landscapes. Most importantly, we seek a sense of concision, an economy of language with a keen focus on voice and image. Each fall, we make nominations for the Pushcart...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, June 23, 2021,
Haiku Society of America Haiku, Senryu, & Haibun Annual Contests
The Annual Harold G. Henderson Awards for Best Unpublished Haiku
Deadline: In hand by July 31, 2021.
Entry fee: You may enter 5 haiku for $7
Awards: First Prize, $200; Second Prize, $150; Third Prize, $100. Winning haiku will be published in Frogpond and on the HSA Web site.
The Annual Gerald Brady Memorial Awards for Best Unpublished Senryu
Deadline: In hand by July 31, 2021.
Entry fee: Yo...
Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, June 22, 2021,
Saturday Writers The “agons” Poetry, Unique Shapes Poetry, Solid Shapes Prose & Poetry Contests
Everyone is invited to enter our writing contests, listed below. Some contests are members only. Entry fees are $5 per entry for members and $7 per entry for nonmembers, no entry limit. (Please submit your entry online. Paper entries will have an additional fee.) Winners earn a place in our anthology and 1st, 2nd and 3rd win cash prizes....
Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, June 21, 2021,
Mysterion
We are looking for speculative stories--science fiction, fantasy, horror--with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology, and for artwork for this site. The story must engage with Christianity. We want stories with Christian characters whose faith affects their actions, with Christian themes such as grace and redemption, or with a Christian view of the supernatural. Note that we're not saying that you must be a Christian. W...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, June 20, 2021,
Zooscape
Opens on June 1, 2021 for submissions. Pays eight cents/word up to 1,000 words with a flat rate of $80 for longer stories. Pays $20 for reprints. Stories limited to 10,000 words. All stories must be furry. That means an anthropomorphic animal figure should be significantly featured in your story — it could be anthropomorphic in body or only intelligence. We’ll consider any type of furry fiction from secret life of animals to fox in Starbucks. W...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, June 19, 2021,
The War Cry: Deep Grace
The War Cry represents the Salvation Army’s mission through news, profiles, commentaries and stories. It looks to bring people to Christ, help believers grow in faith and character, and promotes redemptive cultural practices from the perspective of Salvation Army programs, ministries and doctrines. Readership consists of those in and involved with The Salvation Army as well as the general public. It is distributed in bu...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, June 18, 2021,
WOW! Women On Writing 2021 Quarterly Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest
Seeking creative nonfiction essays on any topic (200 - 1000 words) and in any style -- from personal essay and memoir to lyric essay and hybrid, and more! The mission of this contest is to reward bravery in real-life storytelling and create an understanding of our world through thoughtful, engaging narratives.
Electronic submissions via email only; reprints are okay; simulta...
Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, June 17, 2021,
Poetry Society of Colorado: July Contest
Submission Deadline: July 17, 2021
Sponsor: Marcel Duclos
Theme: Escape
Form: Organic Form (aka Free Verse)
Line Limit: 40
Entry fee: $5 per poem
Prize Structure: 1st $25; 2nd $15; 3rd $10
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Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, June 16, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Fourth of July
Topic: How do you celebrate the Fourth of July so your children feel a pride in their country and can enjoy the freedoms they’ve been given? We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical. ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do. This is not the place for you to refine your voice as an author. At this t...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, June 15, 2021,
Rattle Poetry Prize
The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $15,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $500 each and publication, and be eligible for the $5,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote.
Additional poems from the entries are frequently offered publication as well. In 2020 we published 24 poems that had been submitted to the contest from...
Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, June 14, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Too Much Drama
Topic: How do you handle excessive drama in your home? It may be a child over-reacting or making something big out of something small. We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical. ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do. This is not the place for you to refine your voice as an author. At this time, this ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, June 13, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Boy-Girl Relationships
Topic: How do you help your 8- to 12-year-old engage in healthy boy-girl friendships without feeling the need to be boyfriends or girlfriends? We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical. ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do. This is not the place for you to refine your voice as an author. At ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, June 12, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Wild Toddler Energy
Topic: When your toddler is tired but full of wild energry at least an hour before you start getting him/her ready for bed (book reading, bath, prayers, etc.), what do you do to calm him/her down and have fun. We do not want book reading, bathing, or other bedtime routine ideas for this tip. And we are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical. ...
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Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, June 11, 2021,
Focus on the Family Magazine: Balancing Video Games
Topic: How have you helped your 4- to 12-year-olds find a healthy balance with video, computer and phone games and other play? We are not looking for lectures or object lessons. Instead, we want hands-on, practical. ideas that you or someone you know have done and that other parents can try to do. This is not the place for you to refine your voice as an author. At this time, this c...
Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, June 10, 2021,
The Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction
Accepting submissions for the 2021 Petrichor Prize: April 15, 2021 – July 15, 2021
2021 Winner Receives: $1000 and book publication by Regal House Publishing
Submission fee: $25. Minimum of 100 pages, maximum of 350 pages.
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Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, June 9, 2021,
The Comstock Review Summer Contest
Muriel Craft Bailey 2020 Poetry Contest
Final Judge: Patricia Smith
First Prize: $1,000 (The Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award)
Second Prize: $250
Third Prize: $100
Honorable Mentions receive a one-year subscription.
Submission Period Opens April 1st annually.
Deadline: July 15th (postmark)
Entry fee is $5 per poem for postal mail submissions.
Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, June 8, 2021,
Florida State Poetry Association Annual Contest
26 categories to enter for $3 or $4 each on a variety of themes and forms.
Prizes range from $10 to $100.
Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, June 7, 2021,
The Tiny Journal Summer Flash Fiction Contest
This summer, the tiny journal will be hosting our first summer flash fiction contest, guest judged by award winning flash fiction writer Tom DeMarchi. Send us up to three of your best flash fiction works 1000 words or less. Excerpts are welcome as long as they can stand alone from the whole piece.
Deadline July 1, 2021. Entry fee - $3.00. First-place winner will receive a $100 prize and publicat...
Posted by Sally Clark on Monday, June 7, 2021,
National Writers Association Short Story Contest
PURPOSE OF THE CONTEST: The purpose of the National Writers Assn. Short Story Contest is to encourage the development of creative skills, recognize and reward outstanding ability in the area of short story writing.
CONTEST RULES: Any genre of short story manuscript may be entered. All entries must be postmarked by July 1. Only unpublished works may be submitted. All manus...
Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, June 6, 2021,
Alabaster Leaves
Chapbooks under 50 pages. Please submit no more than 38 pages of poetry. No reading fee. We require half of the poems in the manuscript to have been published in magazines and journals. (Your own blog or self-published book does not count as being published.)
from: C. Hope Clark
The Carolina Slade Mystery Series, Bell Bridge Books
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Posted by Sally Clark on Saturday, June 5, 2021,
Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest
$10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline July 1, 2021. The winning story will be published in the January/February 2022 edition of The Saturday Evening Post, and the author will receive $1000. Five runners-up will each receive $200 and will also have their stories featured online. Stories must be between 1,500 and 5,000 words long. All stories must be previously unpublished (excluding personal website and/o...
Posted by Sally Clark on Friday, June 4, 2021,
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Count Your Blessings
Gratitude is one of the keys to happiness. Even during the toughest times, if we can find our gratitude and count our blessings we feel better. Back in 2009, when we were going through a deep recession, we received thousands of stories from people who were still counting their blessings and finding their joy. Those stories became the bestselling book Chicken Soup for the Soul...
Posted by Sally Clark on Thursday, June 3, 2021,
Arizona Authors Association Literary Contest
The Arizona Literary Contest was instituted in 1980 and is open to all writers anywhere in the world, as long as their entry is written in English and the fee paid in US currency. We have categories for published and unpublished works.
Postmark deadline: July 1, 2021
Entry fees for nonmembers: $25- $40
Unpublished Categories: Short Stories, Poems, Novellas/Novels.
Published Categories: Fiction: No...
Posted by Sally Clark on Wednesday, June 2, 2021,
Massachusetts State Poetry Society Naomi Cherkofsky Memorial Contest
Subject & Form: Poets Choice
Entry fee; $3/poem
Line Limit: 40 lines.
Prizes: $50 $30 $20 (for the best)
Send 2 copies of each entry (1 with ID, one with none) and entry fee check payable to M.S.P.S., Inc. postmarked by June 30, 2021.
Good Luck!
Poems must NOT have won any prize NOR been published.
Provide Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope for Winners List.
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Posted by Sally Clark on Tuesday, June 1, 2021,
Nowhere Magazine Spring Travel Writing Prize
Award-winning literary travel magazine Nowhere is accepting submissions for our annual Fall Travel Writing Prize. We are looking for novice and veteran writers of any stripe to send us stories that possess a powerful sense of people, place and time.
One hundred percent of the content in Nowhere comes from submissions. Thirty percent of the stories we publish are ...
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