Announcing the 2013 Pikes Peak Branch National League of American Pen Women
Flash Fiction Contest



A complete, but very short story of 100 words or fewer
   Deadline: Postmarked/received by email by May 1, 2013


   Entry Fee: $10 first manuscript, $8 each additional manuscript, $10 optional
critique fee
   Prizes: First-$100, Second-$50, Judge’s Merit-$25


   Theme: Hidden Amongst These Worlds (Can be any genre)


   Flash Fiction is a complete, but very short story of 100 words or fewer.  The
title is not included in the word count.  The story must pertain to the theme,
“Hidden Amongst These Worlds”  All genres are welcome, and multiple entries
may be submitted.  An entry fee is required for each entry, however each entry
after the first is discounted to $8 per.  You can also opt for a completely
optional critique of your piece by a published author for an additional $10 per
entry.  A self-addressed, stamped envelope must be included with mailed entries
if you would like it returned by mail.  Winners will be notified by May 31,
2013.  For complete rules and entry blank, please go to 



www.ppb-nlapw.org/contests.php or



www.ppb-nlapw.org and click on the Contests tab or email
thewarriormuseATgmailDOTcom





thewarriormuse@....
    
   Sincerely,
Shannon Lawrence
   Flash Fiction Contest Chair
   29 E. Moreno Ave.
   Colorado Springs, CO 80903-3915






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Subject: Call for Submissions: Glass A Journal of Poetry

    Glass: A Journal of Poetry (ISSN 1941-4137) seeks poems for its sixth year
of publication.  Full information about Glass, including submission
guidelines, can be found at our website: http://www.glass-poetry.com
 
Glass is an online poetry journal that appears two times a year  (June and
December).  We want to see poetry that enacts the artistic and creative purity
of glass. We seek to promote new and established poets by publishing their work.
We are not bound by any specific aesthetic; our only mission is to present high
quality writing. All styles, forms and schools of poetry are welcome, though
easy rhymes and “light” verse are less likely to inspire us. All will be
judged on the quality of the content of the poem. We like poems that show a
careful understanding of language, music, passion and creativity and poems that
surprise us. Previous contributors include Rane Arroyo, Jim Daniels, Lisa Fay
Coutley, Sandy Longhorn, Marcus Jackson, and Karen J. Weyant.  


This year we will also have two featured theme sections:Rebirth (Spring/Summer
2013) and Great Lakes Poets (Fall/Winter 2013-2014). Full submission guidelines
available on our website: http://www.glass-poetry.com

 
Submissions should be sent to our email address and should include up to four
poems pasted into the body of the email.  Simultaneous submissions are
accepted. We accept submissions between September 1 and May 31.  Full
submission guidelines can be found at http ://www.glass-poetry.com.   Please
read our submission guidelines carefully.








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BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MILT KESSLER POETRY BOOK AWARD GUIDELINES
http://www2.binghamton.edu/english/creative-writing/binghamton-center-for-writer\
s/index.html

Sponsored by the Binghamton Center for Writers-State University of New York
with support from the Office of the Dean of Binghamton University's Harpur
College of the Arts & Sciences

$1,000 Award for a book of poems, 48 pages or more in length, selected by our
judges as the strongest collection of poems published in 2012.

Contest Rules:

Minimum press run: 500 copies.
Each book submitted must be accompanied by an application form.
found at
http://www2.binghamton.edu/english/creative-writing/binghamton-center-for-writer\
s/binghamton-book-awards/Kessler-app.html

Publisher may submit more than one book for prize consideration.
Three copies of each book should be sent to:
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Director
Creative Writing Program
Binghamton University
Department of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric
Library North Room 1149
Vestal Parkway East
P.O.Box 6000
Binghamton, NY13902-6000
Books entered in the competition will be donated to the contemporary literature
collection at the Binghamton University Library and to the Broome County
Library.
Books must be received in the English Department by March 1, 2013 to be
considered for the prize.
Books cannot be returned.
For a list of winners, include a stamped, self-addressed envelope labeled:
"Binghamton University Poetry Book Award."
Winners will be announced in Poets & Writers.

Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award Guidelines
http://www2.binghamton.edu/english/creative-writing/binghamton-center-for-writer\
s/index.html

Sponsored by the Binghamton Center for Writers-State University of New York
with support from the Office of the Dean of Binghamton University's Harpur
College of the Arts & Sciences

$1,000 Award for the book of fiction selected by our judges as the strongest
novel or collection of fiction published in 2012.

Contest Rules:

Minimum press run: 500 copies.
Each book submitted must be accompanied by an application form
found at
http://www2.binghamton.edu/english/creative-writing/binghamton-center-for-writer\
s/binghamton-book-awards/Gardner-App.html

Publisher may submit more than one book for prize consideration.
Three copies of each book should be sent to:
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Director
Creative Writing Program
Binghamton University
Department of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric
Library North Room 1149
Vestal Parkway East
P.O.Box 6000
Binghamton, NY13902-6000

Books entered in the competition will be donated to the contemporary literature
collection at the Binghamton University Library and to the Broome County
Library.
Books must be received in the English Department by March 1, 2013 to be
considered for the prize.
Books cannot be returned.
For a list of winners, include a stamped, self-addressed envelope labeled:
"Binghamton University Fiction Book Award."
Winners will be announced in Poets & Writers.

Guidelines
http://www.stonybrook.edu/southampton/fiction/guidelines.shtml
Eligibility

Only undergraduates enrolled full time in United States and Canadian
universities and colleges for the academic year 2012-13 are eligible. This Prize
has traditionally encouraged submissions from students with an Asian background,
but we urge all students to enter.

Guidelines

Entrant's identity and academic institution will not be revealed to judges.
Submissions of no more than 7,500 words should be typed on 8.5-by-11-inch paper.
Include one cover sheet with the title of the work only. On a second cover
sheet, include your name, permanent address, telephone number and email address.
Do not include your name on any pages of your story.
All entries must be accompanied by proof of current undergraduate enrollment,
such as a photocopy of a grade transcript, a class schedule or payment receipt
showing your full-time status.
The institution's name and address must be clear. No fax or electronic
submissions will be accepted.
Manuscripts will not be returned. Submission assumes the right of Stony Brook to
publish the winning story on its Web site.
The winning short story will automatically be considered for publication in The
Southampton Review, the literary journal published by the Stony Brook
Southampton MFA program in Writing and Literature.
Deadline

March 1, 2013. All applications postmarked after the deadline will be returned
unopened. The winner and runners-up will be notified in June 2013.

Mail submissions to:

John Westermann
Director, Stony Brook $1,000 Short Fiction Prize
Stony Brook Southampton
MFA in Writing and Literature
239 Montauk Highway
Southampton, New York 11968

Writing Contest: Selected Shorts
http://www.selectedshorts.org/extras/writing-contest-2/

entry link:
http://www.writingclasses.com/ContestPages/Kupferberg.php

Submissions are now open for the 2013 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story
Prize
The winning submission, selected by Jim Shepard, will be read as part of the
Selected Shorts performance at Symphony Space on June 12, 2013. The story will
be recorded for possible later broadcast as part of the public radio series. The
winner will also receive $1000 and a 10-week class from Gotham Writers'
Workshop.

Story requirements

Submit a single short story that fits the theme "Complicated Families."
Your story must have a title.
Your story must be no more than 750 words (Times New Roman, 12pt font).
Your story must be unpublished.
The Prize
The winner will receive: $1000; two tickets to the June 12, 2013 Selected Shorts
at Symphony Space, when the prize winning story will be read and recorded for
possible broadcast; 10-week creative writing class with Gotham Writers' Workshop
offered in NYC or online. (Prize does not include transportation to or from NYC
or the event.)

Entry Fee
Every submission must include a $25 entry fee (payable by credit card, check or
money order). To enter, click on "Enter the Contest" below. Instructions for
submitting your entry via postal service are provided in the OFFICIAL RULES.

Deadline
All submissions must be received by 5pm, March 15, 2013, Eastern Standard Time.
To be specific, online submissions must be submitted by 5pm Eastern Standard
Time. Mailed submissions must arrive with the day's mail. (Entries postmarked on
March 15 will NOT be accepted.)

About this year's guest judge
Jim Shepard is the author of six novels and four story collections. His stories
are published regularly in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic,
McSweeney's, Tin House, Zoetrope: All-Story, Playboy, and Vice. His most recent
story collection is the multiple award-winning You Think That's Bad.

Note
Contestants who submit online or provide their email address will be added to
Gotham Writers' Workshop's and Selected Shorts' email lists � please let us know
if you do not wish to receive email about upcoming programs.

What to Enter: Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest
http://www.leapfrogpress.com/contest.htm

The contest is for Adult Fiction and Children's Fiction (middle grade and YA
only*). Any novella- or novel-length work of fiction, including short-story
collections, not previously published** is eligible. The minimum length is
22,000*** words; there is no maximum length.

All unpublished stories submitted in short-story collections will automatically
be considered for publication in Crossborder.

* Middle grade fiction is loosely defined here as novels for 4th-8th graders,
usually featuring a progagonist in that age group. YA or young adult novels can
be for age 13 and up, approximately. If you are unsure whether your novel is YA
or adult, it is fine to indicate "YA/adult." We are not picky about labels. We
do not accept picture books for young children or any books with color
illustrations.

** Previously self-published books that have no more than 200 copies in
circulation will be considered "unpublished" and may be submitted. Short stories
that have been published in literary journals may be included in collections.

*** "Why can't my manuscript be less than 22,000 words?" We have set this as a
rough minimum because a certain length is needed to create a book. Even 22,000
words makes for a tiny book indeed, in height, width, and thickness. Anything
less, and there would be no spine possible. A long short-story might run 20,000
words, and would not make a stand-alone book. If your manuscript is just under
that minimum, but you feel it is strong and large in concept, though short on
words, we will not automatically disqualify it from the contest. Be sure that if
it is for children it is for at least an advanced 8-year-old. To get a sense of
our children's books, take a look at the novels of BB Wurge or Mick Carlon (you
can use the "search inside" feature on Amazon).

How to Enter

1. Email fictioncontestATleapfrogpressDOTcom

The subject line should read "Contest entry: manuscript title" (please use
actual manuscript title). Please use the full title, or as much as possible. In
the body of the message, include your full name, address, email address, and the
book's title. Please do not include any biographical information.
Attach your entire manuscript as a single text, Word, or PDF document. Use the
title of the manuscript as the file name. Please do not call your file
"mybook.doc" or "leapfrog.doc" or "manuscript1.doc" etc., as it will be
indistinguishable from the tens of other submissions so titled. Please do not
use your title's initials, as this causes lots of confusion around here.

Please DO NOT include illustrations in your attached file. If your file size is
much more than 1 MB, you are including special symbols or illustrations that
should be deleted before your manuscript is attached.

Manuscript format: we are not picky. Just make it readable. It is important that
no personal information be included in the attached file: Please do not put your
name or address in the page headers or on a title page. Use only the book's
title as identification.

We have lifted the restriction on the number of manuscripts from any one author,
since a number of authors wanted to submit multiple manuscripts in the past.
Multiple submissions will be judged separately; the judges will not know they
are from the same author. Note that we do not encourage more than two
manuscripts from one author. Much as we'd love the opportunity to read your
additional manuscripts, we encourage authors to submit to multiple contests, and
not put all their resources (i.e., contest fees) into a single contest.

2. Entry fee: the entry fee is $30. This can be paid through PayPal, or by check
to:

Leapfrog 2013 Fiction Contest, PO Box 505, Fredonia, NY 14063.

If mailing a check, please be sure your name, address, and manuscript title are
on the check or legible on the envelope, or else written on a piece of paper
enclosed. This allows us to match checks with entries.

To pay with PayPal, visit:
http://www.leapfrogpress.com/contest.htm (scroll down)


You will receive an email acknowledgment when your manuscript is received.
Please allow two or three days for the acknowledgment. If you have not heard
from us within three days, please let us know. Questions may also be sent to
leapfrogATleapfrogpressDOTcom.
Judging

Judges include Leapfrog Press editors and author Lev Raphael.

All judging is done "blind": the judges have no information except the
manuscript itself and its title. Judging is done in several rounds. Manuscripts
that are placed in the "awards" category will be divided into Honorable Mention,
Semifinalist, and Finalist categories. These will be announced in May or early
June. The first-prize winner will then be chosen from among the finalist
manuscripts.

Lev Raphael is the author of 20 books, including novels, memoirs, and story
collections. He has published reviews in papers such as The Washington Post and
The Detroit Free Press, and articles and essays in numerous publications. Prizes
include the Harvey Swados Fiction Prize, the Reed Smith Fiction Prize and
International Quarterly's Prize for Innovative Prose. Read more about Lev
Raphael here.

Awards

First Prize: publication contract offer from Leapfrog Press, with an advance
payment, plus the finalist awards (see below).

Finalists: $150 and two critiques of the manuscript from contest judges;
permanent listing on the Leapfrog Press contest page as a contest finalist,
along with short author bio and description of the book.

Semi-Finalist: Choice of a free Leapfrog book; permanent listing on the website

Honorable Mention: listing on the Leapfrog Press website.

We encourage winners of all contests to inform us of any
publicity/contracts/reviews of their entries. We will be happy to post that
information on our website and in our newsletter.

2013 String Poet Prize

http://www.stringpoet.com/2012/12/2013-string-poet-prize-guidelines/

Deadline February 25, 2013 - postmark for postal entries, or by midnight
for online submissions.

Sponsored by String Poet, the online journal of poetry and music:
http://www.stringpoet.com

Final Judge: George Held.

First prize, along with a $200 honorarium, is the commission of an
original musical composition by Composer Eleanor Cory inspired by the
winning poem, to be performed at the Award Ceremony in May 2012. Eleanor
Cory's work has been recognized by awards from the National Endowment
for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation
for the Arts, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and Fromm Foundation
of Harvard University, among others. She has received an American
Composers Alliance Recording Award, the Miriam Gideon Award from the
International Association of Women in Music, as well as prizes from the
Hollybush, Kucyna, and Music of Changes International Competitions, and
the Davenport, and New Jersey Guild of Composers Competitions.

Brief Guidelines:

Up to 40 lines, all forms & free verse accepted.  No previously
published poems, or poems that have won previous prizes.
Winner and Runners-up published in Spring 2013 issue of String Poet, and
invited to read at the Awards Ceremony; all contest submissions are
considered for publication in the journal.

The full guidelines, more information about the contest, our esteemed
final judge and composer, and the online entry form can be found on the
String Poet web site.

http://www.stringpoet.com/2012/12/2013-string-poet-prize-guidelines/






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The 2013 Wabash Prize for Fiction is now open! The Sycamore Review is accepting
previously unpublished stories of 7,500 words or less for consideration in the
annual fiction contest. This year's prizewinning piece will be selected by
Charles Baxter, and will win a $1,000 prize and be featured in Sycamore Review.


Submissions are due March 22 and are accepted via the online submission manager
only. Entry fee is $15 and $5 for each additional story. Entrants receive a
one-year subscription to Sycamore Review.

All entries are considered for publication.


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Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, 2013
http://www.backbonepress.org/contests.html
Now Accepting Submissions!

The Lucille Clifton annual poetry contest, held each spring, honors the prolific
work of poet great Lucille Clifton. Widely celebrated for her unpretentious and
unapologetic poems, Clifton’s unique free verse was free of punctuation, taut,
and always recognizably her. When submitting think: humanness, struggle,
adversity, resilience.

“Lucille Clifton's life and work bears testament and witness to her fierce and
courageous innate ability to distill life's most wondrous and terrible moments
into words that sear and resonate. She saw, heard, tasted, felt, and intuited;
then spoke the truth, however unfathomable. She chose form and definition
carefully; her writing has been described as "spare", "simple" "powerful" and
"empowering"; but it was also strategic and provocative even in it's simplicity.
Her lack of capital letters, minimal punctuation and free verse challenge the
reader to dismiss their preconceived literary imprisonment and listen on her
human terms. She was a truth-teller above all, and she was celebrated as much
because of the power of her work as she was because it was impossible not to
love and feel loved by her. Her life, her way of seeing and walking in the world
were the backbone of her work. I am her daughter. Her backbone is mine. And
yours.” -Sidney Clifton

Guidelines

Please submit no more than three unpublished poems, no more than five pages in
length. No personal information should appear on the poems. The cover sheet
should include: poem titles with line counts, author’s contact information and
a brief bio. Entries must include a $10.00 reading fee and must be postmarked by
May 1st, 2013. Postal entries will not be returned. The selected winner will
receive $100.00 and publication on our website along with honorable mentions.

Postal Submissions: Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, Backbone Press, PO Box 51483,
Durham, NC 27717-1483.

Electronic Submissions: Please send your submission as an attachment (formatted-
.doc, .docx, .rtf) to backbonepoetryATgmailDOTcom. Please pay reading fee via
paypal link at

http://www.backbonepress.org/contests.html


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we've extended the deadline for our full-length manuscript contest to February
28, 2013.


Guidelines are at this link:
http://bluelightpress.com/contestsFull.php




Chapbooks... We'll be accepting chapbook submissions from Feb. 1 through June
15.


Guidelines for our chapbook competition (The Blue Light Poetry Prize):  
http://bluelightpress.com/contests.php









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For residents of Washington State only:  The Floating Bridge Chapbook
Competition for Poetry.

Our submission deadline has been pushed back to March 1, 2013.   Entry of $12
includes a copy of the winning chapbook.



In addition, all individual poems will be considered for inclusion in Floating
Bridge Review #6.



Click here for electronic submission guidelines:


http://www.floatingbridgepress.org/?9920a0c8


  Submission guidelines for hardcopy entries are listed below and on the Floating
Bridge Press website:  http://www.floatingbridgepress.org/.  You will also find
our winning chapbooks, including The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me
of You by Laura Read (2010 winner and then winner of the Donald Hall Prize for
Poetry) and most recent winner, Another Exile on the 45th Parallel by Jodie
Marion.





Chapbook Award submission guidelines

We are now accepting submissions for our 2013 chapbook competition. Submissions
are accepted through February 15, 2013. Click here for electronic submission
guidelines

·         Washington State (USA) residents only.

·         Simultaneous submission OK. Individual poems may be previously
published.

·         Maximum 24 pages of poetry (does not include title page or table of
contents).

·         Title page and paginated table of contents. Please include page
number and title of manuscript on every page. Standard three-hole punch on left
side if not submitting electronically.

·         Author’s name must not appear on the manuscript. Include a separate
page containing title, author’s name, address, telephone, email, and
acknowledgements of previous publication, if any.

·         Manuscripts are judged anonymously and will not be returned. Winner
receives $500, 15 copies, and a reading in the Seattle area.

·         For notification of manuscript receipt, include a SAS postcard
(optional).

·         For results notification, include a #10 SASE.

·         All entrants will receive a copy of the winning chapbook, and
individual poems will be considered for inclusion in Floating Bridge Review.
Winner to be announced in spring 2013. Reading in September 2013.

·         Reading fee: $12.00 check or money order, payable to Floating Bridge
Press.

·         Deadline: Postmark between November 1, 2012 – February 15, 2013 
March 1, 2013.

·         Mail your manuscript to: Floating Bridge Press, 909 NE 43rd Street
#205, Seattle, WA 98105.

·         Questions? Send email to floatingbridgepressATyahooDOTcom


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http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/7011




entry link:
https://bombmagazine.submittable.com/submit/18453















	 BOMB















	 FICTION CONTEST
	 ~
	 JUDGED BY
	 BEN MARCUS
	 ~
	 WIN $500 +
	 PUBLICATION IN BOMB
	 Deadline April 30th. The winner of our 2013 contest will receive a $500 prize
and publication in BOMB Magazine’s literary supplement First Proof. All
submissions will be read anonymously.


	 Submission Guidelines

	 • Winner receives $500 and publication in BOMB Magazine
	 • Final Judge: Ben Marcus (author of The Flame Alphabet)
	 • Deadline: April 30th, 2013
	 • Reading Fee: $20* — includes a free one-year subscription to BOMB.
	 We are now only accepting online submissions. Go to
https://bombmagazine.submittable.com/submit/18453 to upload your story.
	 • Manuscripts must be less than 20 pages and consist of a single story.
	 • Include cover letter with name, address, email, phone number and title of
story; do not write a name on the actual manuscript, as all entries will be
considered anonymously.
	 • Simultaneous submissions OK, but reading fee is not transferable.
	 • Story must be previously unpublished.
	 • Email
firstproofATbombsiteDOTcom
firstproof@... with any questions.

	 Ben Marcus is the author The Flame Alphabet, a novel, recently published by
Knopf. His other books are Notable American Women, The Father Costume, and The
Age of Wire and String. Marcus has published stories, essays, and reviews in
numerous publications, including Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review,
The Believer, The New York Times, Salon, McSweeney’s, Time, Conjunctions,
Grand Street, and Tin House. He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American
Short Stories, and for several years he was the fiction editor of Fence. Since
2000 he has been on the faculty at Columbia University’s School of the Arts,
where he is an associate professor. Read his BOMB interview with Courtney
Eldridge here.

	 *For Canadian addresses add $6, for addresses outside US and Canada, add $12.





























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First Novel Contest: Emerging Writers Getaway Contest of the Whidbey Writers MFA
Alumni Association. Grand prize: a seven-day retreat at a cabin in the North
Carolina Smokies (valued at $2,000), plus a cash award of $300. Second and third
place receive cash prizes. Submissions (synopsis, first 25 pages) February 15
through May 24, 2013. Final judge is Rikki Ducornet, author of eight novels and
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Top three entries reviewed for
possible agent representation. Winners announced August 5, 2013. Proceeds
benefit the student creative writing scholarship fund of the Whidbey MFA Alumni
Association. Details and entry at http://www.whidbeymfaalumni.org/



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Jabberwock Review invites submissions to
THE NANCYD. HARGROVE EDITORS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION AND POETRY

DEADLINE: March 15, 2013


Each winner     (one for fiction and one for poetry) receives $500 and
publication in Jabberwock Review, the literary     journal published by
Mississippi State University since 1972.

All     finalists are considered for publication.

All     entrants receive a one-year (two-issue) subscription beginning with the
prize-winning issue.

Each fiction     entry should consist of one short story of any length. Novel
excerpts may     be submitted if they are self-contained.

Each     poetry entry should consist of 1-3 poems. The winning entry may be for
a     single poem or group of poems.

Entry     Fee: $15, which includes a one-year (two-issue) subscription to
Jabberwock Review. (If you enter     more than once, you may either extend your
subscription or give the     additional subscriptions as gifts.)


HOW TO ENTER
Online: go to www.jabberwock.org.msstate.edu
The site will walk you through uploading your manuscript.

Entries will be read anonymously (blindly). For that reason,do not include any
identifying information on the manuscript.

The website will prompt you to pay the entry fee through asecure online
credit-card payment.

All manuscripts uploaded by 11:59 p.m. on March 15 will be considered.

By Mail:
Mail in each paper manuscript along with a $15 check foreach entry made payable
to “Jabberwock Review.” Check must draw from a US bank.

Each entry should include a cover page with the entrant’sname, address, email,
and telephone number. The Editors’ prize will be readblindly. For that reason,
do not include any identifying information on themanuscript itself.

Mail manuscript and entry fee payment together to

Editors’ Prize
Jabberwock Review/Editors’ Prize
Department of English
Drawer E
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762

Manuscript and entry fee must be postmarked by March. 15.

No SASE required. Winner and finalists will be posted
atwww.jabberwock.org.msstate.edu on or before June 1.

PLEASE NOTE:
• All manuscripts must be original and previouslyunpublished.
• Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If your work isaccepted elsewhere,
please notify us right away at jabberwockreviewATenglishDOTmsstateDOTedu


jabberwockreview@....
• Current students or staff of Mississippi State University are ineligiblefor
the Editors’ Prize.

Questions? Please drop us a line at
jabberwockreviewATenglishDOTmsstateDOTedu
jabberwockreview@....




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Lunch Ticket is honored to serve as the host for the Diana Woods Memorial Award
in Creative Nonfiction.
Creative nonfiction authors are invited to submit an essay of up to 5,000 words
on the subject of their choice. Winners will receive $250 and their work will be
featured in the next issue of Lunch Ticket. Each award recipient must submit a
100-word biography, current photo, and send a brief note of thanks to the
Woods’ family.
The reading period for the award will be February 1 through March 30 for the
issue that publishes in June, and August 1 through September 30 for the issue
that publishes in December. Please note that previously published work will not
be accepted.
All submissions for the award will be considered for publication in Lunch
Ticket. To submit, please visit: http://lunchticket.org/





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http://naugatuckriverreviewsubmissions.com/


  Only two weeks left to submit your narrative poetry during Naugatuck River
Review's open submissions period. Deadline is March 1st.
Please go to http://naugatuckriverreview.com/submissions for guidelines and to
connect to our online Submission Manager.




We accept ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS ONLY through our online submission manager.
Emailed submissions and mailed submissions will not be considered.


During the submission period ONLY please submit no more than 3 unpublished
NARRATIVE poems of no more than 50 lines each through the online submission
manager. Please remove your name from your file, as the poetry is read blind by
our editorial staff.


Questions ONLY: Feel free to email us at naugatuckriverATaolDOTcom




Accepted contributors will be rewarded with a copy of the journal. We are not in
a position to pay you otherwise, but hope the journal is worth much more than
the cost of its paper.
Multiple submissions are discouraged, but simultaneous submissions are fine, as
long as you inform us right away if your poem is accepted elsewhere. We claim
first North American publication rights, so rights revert to the author after
the initial publication period, just please give us credit.  We prefer work that
has not been previously published.


WHAT IS NARRATIVE POETRY?
We get this question quite often. What NRR is looking for are poems that tell a
story, or have a strong sense of story. They can be stories of a moment or an
experience, and can be personal or historical. A good narrative poem that would
work for our journal has a compressed narrative, and we prefer poems that take
up two pages or less of the journal (50 lines max). We are looking above all for
poems that are well-crafted, have an excellent lyric quality and contain a
strong emotional core. Any style of poem is considered, including prose poems.
Poems with very long lines don’t fit well in the format. Hope this helps









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https://unmannedpress.submittable.com/submit

UNMANNED PRESS SEEKS STORYTELLING: SHORT OF THE MONTH

Each month Unmanned Press publishes an original short work of literary fiction
by an emerging and/or underserved writer that exhibits literary skill,
sharpness, and originality. Selected writers are awarded $250, electronic
publication, and an author interview. At the end of the series, an anthology
will be published. If you think your storytelling is up to snuff, please follow
our guidelines with care.

Submission Guidelines:

•    All submissions must go through Submittable
•    Cover letter (please include your full name, address, telephone number,
and email)
•    All submissions must be previously unpublished
•    Please only query us with one submission at a time
•    We suggest a $3 reading nod (100% optional)


We encourage you to visit our website to get to know us better prior to
submitting: www.unmannedpress.com




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Subject: Call for Submissions: AWP Heat Flash Contest


Guidelines
· The AWP HEAT Flash Contest is run in conjunction with AWP HEAT, a reading on
Friday, March 8, at
Dillon's Restaurant & Bar, Boston, 955 Boylston Street, one block Hynes
Convention Center. Free. 2:30 – 6:30 p.m.
· Winners of contest announced at 4:00 p.m. at AWP HEAT.

· Respond to this prompt: “Fire”

· Anyone may enter the contest, whether attending AWP or not.

· One entry per person, previously unpublished.

· Entries must be 1,000 words or less.

· Email entries to


awpheatflashcontestATgmailDOTcom


awpheatflashcontest@... as a doc, docx, or rtf file.

· Stories may be submitted anytime between now and midnight March 1st EST.

· Up to three winning stories will be published by JMWW, Prime Number, and
Corium.

· The contest will be judged by Shaindel Beers (The Children’s War and Other
Poems), Cliff Garstang
(What the Zhang Boys Know), and Bonnie ZoBell (The Whack-Job Girls). Winners
will receive copies of these books.







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> Spry Literary Journal features undiscovered and established writers'
> concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just-plain-vulnerable
> writing. It's a journal for people who excel at taking risks, who thrive
> under pressure--for people whose words and rhythms are spry. We are
> currently open for submissions for the second issue, which will be published
> in May.
>
> We accept all short forms of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We also
> challenge you to write sparsely (under 750 words) and submit to our Flash
> category. Submissions are requested in all genres, and simultaneous
> submissions are welcome. We have a strict blind submissions policy, and only
> accept writing through our submissions manager. Our first issue is live at
> http://www.sprylit.com. Please head over to see what we've published in our
> inaugural issue, and to start conversations with our authors, poets, and
> staff members. Renowned writer Porochista Khakpour is interviewed in the
> issue as well.
>
> Please visit our submissions manager
  http://sprylit.submittable.com/submit
> to submit your work to us.
>
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>
> Spry Literary Journal
>
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> Find us:
> sprylit.com
> sprylit.submittable.com/submit
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> Friend us:
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Omnidawn's
POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST


Open to all writers:

no expectations or limitations regarding
the amount of poetry a writer
has published.

Winner receives $1,000, publication,
and 100 copies.


Accepting electronic & postal submissions
February 1 - April 22, 2013.

Gillian Conoley will judge.


Gillian Conoley was born in 1955 in Austin, Texas, where, on its rural
outskirts, her father and mother owned and operated a radio station. She is the
author of seven collections of poetry, including The Plot Genie, Profane Halo,
Lovers in the Used World, and Tall Stranger, a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award. Her newest book, PEACE, will be published by Omnidawn in
Spring 2014. Her work has received many prizes, including the Jerome J. Shestack
Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, a National Endowment for the Arts
grant, and a Fund for Poetry Award. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with
her husband, novelist Domenic Stansberry, and their daughter, Gillis.
Poet-in-Residence at Sonoma State University, she edits VOLT.


       Entry fee: $18.00

All entrants with a U.S. mailing address who pay an extra $2 to cover shipping
costs will be mailed a copy of any Omnidawn chapbook of their choice,
or a copy of the winning chapbook when it is published.
A complete list of all current Omnidawn chapbook titles is available
athttp://www.omnidawn.com/chapbook-catalog.


For full details about
all three of Omnidawn's Poetry Contests
(current & future)
visit
www.omnidawn.com/contest
or enter this web address in your browser.


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The Whistling Fire (www.whistlingfire.com) is an online journal now in its
fourth year of publication, that aims to showcase a diverse array of styles and
voices. We accept poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, and excerpts from longer
works.  We also welcome experimental pieces. We only ask that your writing is
limited in length to 3000 words.Submissions are open year around, new work is
published on the site every week.



Please include your name and the type of piece you are submitting in the subject
line, authors submitting more than one piece should include them in the same
submission. Attachments are permitted (MS WORD preferred). Submit no more than
two pieces per month. Pieces that you wish to share should be sent to
whistlingfireATgmailDOTcom


whistlingfire@....



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Viva Editions will be publishing TOASTS: The Essential Collection of More Than
500 Toasts, Graces, and Blessings.
The main purpose of TOASTS is to offer inspiration and confidence to those who
will be giving toasts. Readers should be able to find toasts that will be
appropriate and enjoyable for every occasion. While the book will include
several tried and true toasts, the desire is to find new and creative toasts
that will appeal to a broad range of readers, including those in their 20s and
30s. TOASTS will be the primary book consulted when a toast is expected at an
event.
Viva Editions publishes "Books for Vivacious Living!" and was founded four years
ago by Brenda Knight at a pivotal point in time, as the stock market plummeted,
the economy softened, and businesses tightened and cut back. Viva focuses on
expansion, courage, and joy in life. In short, Viva is about the very best in
the human spirit. Please visit them at www.VivaEditions.com
I am co-authoring TOASTS with one of my long-time contributors, Nancy Tupper
Ling. While we are seeking submissions for all categories, we are particularly
eager to receive submissions for those categories listed in bold. Since this is
a book of TOASTS, submissions should be anywhere from 4-6 lines and easy to say
out loud. Submit only those selections that can be spoken easily in a group
setting. Graces and Blessings should also be short--no more than 10 lines. All
Graces and Blessings should be interfaith. We encourage the submission of
humorous toasts, too!
The categories will include the following: Adventures, Anniversaries, Art, Award
Presentations, Babies, Best Wishes, Birthdays, Bon Voyage Parties, Business
Events, Celebrations (general), Charity, Children, Christenings, Class Reunions,
Creativity and Imagination, Family, Family Reunions, Fortune & Prosperity,
Friends, General Blessings, General Toasts, Good Luck,Graces, Graduations,
Gratitude/Joy, Guests, Happiness, Health,Homecoming, Host & Hostess,
Housewarming, Inspiration, Love & Romance, Memorial/Funeral Gatherings,
Military, New Job, Patriotic Toasts, Retirement, Roasts, Weddings, Wisdom. Plus
holiday toasts, including: New Year's, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, April
Fools' Day, Passover, Easter, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day, Fourth
of July, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa.
Submissions must be emailed or postmarked no later than April 30, 2013. For
those submitting via email:
Please email no more than three submissions, each as a separate Word document
and all inside one email message. If your submissions are exactly what we are
seeking, you will be invited to submit more.

All submissions must be double-spaced in Times New Roman 12 with all of your
contact info single-spaced on the upper left corner.

Use TOASTS as your subject line followed by your last name.

You will only receive a response (along with a permission form) if your
submission is given final acceptance for the book.

Email submissions to
submitATfinelinepoetsDOTcom
submit@....
For those submitting via USPS, you will receive a response if you enclose an
SASE along with your submissions. Please mail submissions to Fine Line Poets,
Executive Center #247, 1600 Boston Providence Highway, Walpole, MA 02081.
Payment is one copy of the book for each published selection for non-exclusive
rights.
Feel free to forward this Call for Submissions to writers' groups, friends, and
colleagues.






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St. Louis Poetry Center announces the 2013 Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry
Contest
http://www.stlouispoetrycenter.org/contests/

2013 Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest
for High School Students

$50 First Prize, $35 Second Prize, $20 Third Prize
First, second, third prize and honorable mention winners
will be invited to read their poems at
The Annual Poetry Concert, May 19, 2013
Winning poems will be published in a chapbook available at the concert.

Judge: Steven Schreiner
STEVEN SCHREINER is associate professor of English at the University of
Missouri-St. Louis, where he teaches in the MFA program. He is the author of Too
Soon to Leave (Ridgeway: 1998), and Out of Egypt (forthcoming, Cervena Barva
Press), and a chapbook, Imposing Presence. His poems have appeared in numerous
journals, including Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Image, Colorado Review, Denver
Quarterly, Poet & Critic, Gulf Coast, Margie, and River Styx. He has been
awarded fellowships from The National Writers Voice of the YMCA and the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts. He is the founding editor of Natural Bridge, a
journal of contemporary literature.


Guidelines:
1.      Eligible poets must be high school students living within 100 miles of
St. Louis.
2.      Submit up to 3 unpublished poems, any form and length. Poems must be
typed.
3.      Poems judged anonymously. Do not include author name or pen name on
poems.
4.      Enclose an 8 � x 11 typed cover sheet containing the following
information:
Author's name, address, parents' phone number, email address, high school,
teacher's name and email address, and the titles of poems submitted.

Mail entries to:
St. Louis Poetry Center, High School Contest,
567 North & South Road, #8,
St. Louis, MO  63130-3938

ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED by March 1, 2013
  There is no entry fee.  For more information, go to
www.stlouispoetrycenter.org/con

PrimeNumber Magazine seekssmart, well-written book reviews that explore the
author’s craft and examinewhere the work fits within current literary trends.
We are not seeking reviews thataccentuate the negative. PrimeNumber
Magazine’son-line quarterly seeks four 400-800 word reviews and one author
interview of800-1,200 words per issue. Our print annual seeks one to two review
essays,between 2,000 and 3,000 words, which critically examine two or more
authors.Our review essays are peer-reviewed, so please send us only your best
criticalworks. Our print annual may also include a longer author interview with
anotable writer. Though our print interviews are often conducted by our Prime
Number Magazine staff, if reviewers have aninterview idea, please pitch us the
idea.

ThoughPrime NumberMagazine frequentlyhas books for assignment, we encourage our
reviewers to query us if they have asuggested book for review. (Note, unless
provided by one of our participatingpresses and assigned by our staff, all
reviewed books are the responsibility ofthe review author to obtain.) Please
direct queries or questions concerningbook reviews or author interviews to the
PrimeNumber Magazine bookreviews editor at
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(Subject: Small press seeks FICTION COLLECTION for electronicchapbook)

Call for Fiction Submissions: Wordrunner e-Chapbooks

This small press publishes four online collections annually of fiction,poetry or
memoir, each featuring one author.  Submit your manuscriptfor the spring 2013
FICTION e-chapbook by February 28. No fee tosubmit. Payment: $65.
Seewww.echapbook.com/submissions.htm for detailed guidelines and 2013submission
and publication schedule.

Submit a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 15 stories. Stories may be flashor
longer, from 750 up to 3,500 words each, totalling a minimum ofapproximately
8,000 and a maximum of 18,000 words for the collection.These stories should
belong together for some reason, be it theme,location or people, though they
need not be linked. We will also considernovel excerpts. No genre fiction,
please, unless a story is good enoughto transcend genre. At least one-fourth of
any collection should bepreviously unpublished.



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Subject: New England Poetry Club Contests 2013
New England Poetry Club Contests 2013

All contests are open to members in good standing (except Board members).
Non-members may enter by paying $10 for up to 3 poems and $3 for each
additional poem. Checks should be made out to the New England Poetry
Club (NEPC). No charge for students and members.
For Student Contests, see below.

Members-Only Contests
Rosalie Boyle/Norma Farber Award
For a poem in traditional form, including sonnet, villanelle, and
sestina. Prize $100.

Gretchen Warren Award
For the best published poem of the previous year. (Members of the
governing board may not enter any competition except this one.) Send 2
copies of up to 4 poems, with dates and names of publications,
author’s name on one copy. No cash award.

Contests Open to Members and Non-Members
Daniel Varoujan Award
For an unpublished poem (not a translation) worthy of Daniel Varoujan,
a poet killed by the Turks in the genocide that destroyed
three-fourths of the Armenian population. Previous winners may not
enter. Prize $1000. Funded by Diana Der-Hovanessian's translation
royalties.

Der-Hovanessian Prize
For a translation from any language. Send a copy of the original poem
with the translation. Prize $200. Funded by John Mahtesian.

Erika Mumford Prize
For a poem in any form about foreign culture or travel. Prize $250.
Funded by her family and friends.

Firman Houghton Award
For a lyric poem in honor of the former president of the NEPC. Prize $250.

Barbara Bradley Award
For a lyric poem under 21 lines, written by a woman. Prize $200.

Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize
For a chapbook of poems published in the past two years. Send 2 copies
of the book. Non-members should include a check for the $5 handling
fee. Prize $100.
Send to 2 Farrar Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Sheila Margaret Motton Prize
For a book of poems published in the past two years. Send 2 copies of
the book. Non-members should include a check for the $5 handling fee.
Prize $500.

Only one poem may be submitted per contest.
*       Entries must be original unpublished (cannot be in print or online)
poems in English.
*       No poem may be entered in more than one contest, nor should it have
won a previous contest.
*       Poems should be typed and submitted in duplicate, with the author's
name and address on one copy. Include an e-mail address, if available.
*       Label each poem with the name of the contest.
*       No entry will be returned, and the NEPC does not engage in
correspondence regarding poems submitted or contest decisions.
*       Judges are well-known poets, and sometimes are winners of previous
NEPC contests.
*       No entry should be sent by special delivery or express mail. Regular
mail only.
*       Mark the name or names of the contest(s) entered on the envelope.
All entries (unless otherwise noted) should be sent to: NEPC Contest
Coordinator, 654 Green St., No. 2, Cambridge MA 02139.
Annual contest deadline: May 31. Entries must be postmarked in April
and May only.


Student Contests
Contest deadline: March 18
No fee for full-time students.

The John Holmes Award
For a poem by a student enrolled in a New England college. Prize $100.

Ruth Berrien Fox Award
Given for a poem by a Massachusetts High School student. Prize $100.

Longfellow Prize
For poems by Massachusetts students in elementary and middle schools.
Prize $100.
Funded by Friends of Longfellow House Frank Buda Memorial Fund.

Submit poem in duplicate, with school name, grade, address, and
student’s name and e-mail address. Label the entry with the name of
the contest.
Send to: Children's Contests, Longfellow National Historic Site, 105
Brattle St., Cambridge MA 02138.

Again, contest deadline: March 18




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"Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose" seeks poetry and fiction submissions.



Submissions in General:
Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose seeks submissions from everyone of every
gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.


Please include a brief bio & your snail mail address. We only accept submissions
through email. We accept simultaneous submissions, but we do not accept
previously published work. We prefer Word attachments. We try to read
submissions throughout the whole year, & we generally respond in about two
months (a bit longer in the summer). All rights to published work(s) revert back
to the author. (Please mention first publication in Redactions: Poetry, Poetics,
& Prose if the work is reprinted.)


Poetry Submissions:
To submit poems to Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose, please email us at


redactionsPOETRYATyahooDOTcom


and attach a submission of 3-5 poems into one Word, Wordpad, PDF, or Notepad
document (or something we can open) or place the submission in the body of the
email.


Prose Submissions:
To submit fiction, flash fiction, or creative non-fiction to Redactions: Poetry,
Poetics, & Prose, please email us at


redactionsPROSEATyahooDOTcom


and attach one prose piece that is 2500 words or fewer as a Word, Wordpad, PDF,
or Notepad document (or something we can open) or paste the submission in the
body of the email. You may submit up to three flash fictions at once, but please
include them in one document or paste them into the body of the email.



For complete submission guidelines, see:


http://redactions.com/submission-and-ordering.asp











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Switched-On Gutenberg, a poetry magazine online since 1995,        is now
accepting submissions for our 2013 issue. We are looking        for poems on the
themes:

        NO CUTE PETS
             and
        VELVET ELVIS: BAD ART
Full Submission guidelines at:
http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org/guidelines.htm.

         Submissions for the next issue will be taken until March 31, 2013.











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Dear Subscribers to CRWROPPS-B:


Thanks in advance for your patience while the Creative Writers Opportunities
List goes on hiatus.


The list will be on hiatus from February 19 until February 24, 2013. During this
hiatus, no messages will be posted, nor will subscription issues be resolved.


For archived messages, please visit the CRWROPPS-B home page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRWROPPS-B/


Messages will resume on Monday, February 25, 2013.


Thanks again for your consideration. CRWROPPS-B is a one-woman volunteer
operation, so your patience and consideration are especially appreciated.


All best,
Allison Joseph, Moderator
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