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Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest (open Feb 1st-28th)
FROM THE KENYON REVIEW website:
Submit Your Entry Now
General Guidelines
Submissions must be 1200 words or less. There is no entry fee. Ron Carlson, celebrated author of four novels and five short story collections, will be the final judge. The Kenyon Review will publish the winning short story in the Winter 2012 issue, and the author will be awarded a scholarship to attend the 2011 Writers Workshop, June 18th-25th, in Gambier, Ohio.
Submission Guidelines
- Writers must be 30 years of age or younger at the time of submission.
- Stories must be no more than 1200 words in length.
- One submission per entrant.
- Please do not simultaneously submit your contest entry to another magazine or contest.
- The submissions link will be active February 1st to February 28th. All work must be submitted through our electronic system. We cannot accept paper submissions.
- Winners will be announced in the late spring. You will receive an e-mail notifying you of any decisions regarding your work.
- For submissions, we accept the following file formats only:
- .PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
- .DOC (Microsoft Word)
- .RTF (Rich Text Format)
- .TXT (Microsoft Wordpad and Notepad, Apple TextEdit .
Contest for new book bloggers by Parajunkee
http://www.parajunkee.com/2010/02/big-sis-little-blog-program.html
From the page:
- New blogger, or a blogger that hasn’t taken off (under 50 followers). Its ok if you have 0 followers, but you must have a blog
- You blog must be devoted to books. It is ok if you do posts off topic once and awhile, but the main focus must be books
- You must also place a Big Sis button on the blog’s sidebar that you are listing (directions and buttons on her blog)
Writing Contest: Picture Postcard Press–let the art inspire you!
Submissions « Picture Postcard Press.
GO HERE FIRST FOR THE IMAGE: “Rules: Please send us your response to the following artwork.
Flash fiction and micro memoir submissions limited to 300 words or less. Poems 20 lines or less.
One submission per contest period.
Simultaneous submissions welcome, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Contest deadline April 15, 2010.
Please include your submission in the body of an email to
picturepostcardpress@gmail.com with the subject line “Contest Submission.”
Let the inspiration begin!
PCC’s First Contest « Pop Culture Curmudgeon
From Pop Culture Curmudgeon’s blog
You’ll be able to win a copy of Moira Rogers’ book Cry Sanctuary, the first in the Red Rock Pass series. The next installment is coming out on June 9, so this is a great chance to get into a new paranormal romance series.
Moira Rogers describes the Red Rock Pass series as “a dark world where wizards and werewolves fight for supremacy and only a few of the alphas in the United States hold true to the traditions of protecting their packs.” Read more about it here, then make sure you come back Friday to enter the contest.
The contest will run from 12:01 am Friday May 22 through 6:00 pm Sunday May 24 (all times Pacific). The winner will be announced here Monday. The prize will be one ebook, available in multiple formats. The prize is non-transferable and may not be substituted.