Go to these websites for information on guidelines and awards:
Updated October
2009
Mighty River Short Story Contest
Entry Fee - $15
Deadline - October 1
Surprise Valley Poetry Prize
Entry Fee - $15
Open reading period
www.modocforum.org
Orange Fiction Awards
Prizes awarded for first novel, short story collection, or novella
Deadline - November 30, 2009
www.orangeprize.co.uk
Passager
Contest
for
writers over 50
Five Poems; 35 lines max each
$20 entry fee
Deadline - April 1, 2010
Opium Magazine
500 word Memoir Award
Deadline - July 30, 2010
www.opiummagazine.com
Prize in Short Fiction
Annual prize for short story collection
Deadline - January 31, 2010
www.ohiostatepress.org
Rosebud
$1000 X.J. Kennedy Award
Deadline - January 15, 2011
www.rsbd.net
(You
may recall that my essay, "Biagan," was published in this
magazine in 2005.)
Salem College Center for Women Writers
$1200 International Literary Awards
Deadline - February 1, 2010
www. salem.edu/go/cww
Zone 3 Press
First Book Award in Poetry
Deadline - May 1, 2010
www.apsu.edu/zone2