September Submissions (Part 2!)

American Literary Review

The American Literary Review's 2011 Literary Awards deadline is looming! Submit your best original fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction by October 1 to be considered. The contest guidelines are below, but please feel free to visit the American Literary Review<http://www.engl.unt.edu/alr/index.html> website and peruse the contest guidelines<http://www.engl.unt.edu/alr/contest.html> there as well.

CONTEST GUIDELINES

• Please note that we do not accept submissions via email.
• Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in the Spring 2012 issue of the American Literary Review will be given for a poem, a short story, and an essay.
• Submit up to three poems, a short story of up to 8,000 words, or an essay of up to 6,500 words with a $15 entry fee by October 1, 2011. Entries submitted after October 1 will be returned unread.

THE DETAILS
Include a cover page with author's name, title(s), address, and phone number. Do not include any identifying information on subsequent pages except for the title of the work.
Enclose a $15.00 reading fee (includes subscription) and a SASE for contest results. Multiple entries are acceptable; however each entry must be accompanied by a reading fee. (Note: only the initial entry fee includes a subscription. Subsequent entry fees go to contest costs only and will not extend the subscription.) Make checks payable to American Literary Review.

Short Fiction: One work of fiction per entry ($15), limit 8,000 words per work.
Creative Nonfiction: One work per entry fee, limit 6,500 words per work.
Poetry: Entry fee covers up to three poems (i.e. one to three poems would require an entry fee of $15; four to six poems would be $30, and so on).
Label entries according to contest genre and mail to ALR's regular submission address:
For example:
American Literary Review Short Fiction Contest
P.O. Box 311307
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-1307

Catch-Up

We at Catch Up have an exciting upcoming issue we think might be perfect for your students and recent alumin. The issue will feature work from writers of a college and graduate school age. Catch Up is a new journal of literature and comics, a print journal with an online aspect.

We’re open to submissions, in general, but we’re also accepting submissions for a special online issue for emerging writers. This issue invites submissions from people between the ages of 20 and 28, who have not previously published a chapbook or full-length book. These writers do not have to be students of creative writing to submit. We will consider unpublished and previously published work (assuming the rights have reverted back to the writer). There are more details at our website http://www.catch-up.us.

Missouri Review

The Missouri Review is now accepting submissions for the 21st Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize competition. In addition to the $15,000 awarded to the first place winners, three finalists in each category receive cash awards and are considered for publication. Past winners have been
reprinted in the Best American series.

Page Restrictions
Fiction and nonfiction entries should not exceed 25 typed, double-spaced pages. Poetry entries can include any number of poems up to 10 pages. Each story, essay, or group of poems constitutes one entry.

Entry Fee
$20 for each entry (checks made payable to The Missouri Review). Each fee includes a one-year subscription (digital or print!) to TMR. Please enclose a complete email and mailing address.

Entry Instructions
Include author’s name, address, email and telephone number on the first page of each submission. Entries must be previously unpublished and will not be returned. Mark
the outside of the envelope “Fiction,” “Essay,” or “Poetry.” Each entry in a separate category must be mailed in a separate envelope. Enclose a #10 SASE or email address for an announcement of winners.

Mailing Address
Missouri Review Editors’ Prize
357 McReynolds Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

We Also Accept Online Submissions!
For details, visit www.missourireview.com/tmrsubmissions/editors-prize-contest/

Toad (The Journal)

Hear ye! Hear ye!

Toad, a new-ish online journal of exciting art, is reading poetry, prose of the fictional and the non-fictional variety, ekphrastic work, and all kinds of writing that stretches, bends, and breaks genres. Toad is also in the market for exciting visual art.

To read our third issue, wade into our artistic response blog, or review submission guidelines, visit

www.toadthejournal.com

{Toad's habitat is protected by conservationist, Bob Hicok, and nourished by the Creative Writing graduate students of Virginia Tech.}

September Submission Listing and Important Events

CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY is pleased to announce a Flash Fiction Writing Conest as part of ONE BOOK, ONE CHICAGO.  As part of the 10th anniversary One Book, One Chicago selection, The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, the Chicago Public Library and DePaul University’s Department of English present a Flash Fiction Writing Contest. Writers are invited to submit their short version of the great American novel, their “I am an American, Chicago born” in 750 words or less. Stories must be set in Chicago, and, more importantly, inspired by Chicago, as was Bellow. The entries will be judged by Stuart Dybek, an expert in both flash fiction and Chicago, whose collection The Coast of Chicago was the One Book, One Chicago selection in spring 2004. Three finalists will read their work at an event at Stop Smiling, 1371 N. Milwaukee Ave., on Thursday, October 13; and the winner will have their work published in a future issue of the newly revitalized magazine The Chicagoan. There is no reading Fee. Send no more than three pieces per entry, 750-word maximum per piece. All entries must be prose fiction. All entries must be anonymously submitted. Simultaneous submissions are also okay. Postmark Deadline: Friday, September 23, 2011. All entries must be submitted via email to onebookonechicago.contests@gmail.com. Please visit onebookchicago.org for more details.

THE FALL 2011 POETRY READING SERIES, sponsored by the Department of English, Columbia College Chicago is proud to present Lisa Fishman & David Trinidad at Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan, Second Floor, Wednesday, September 14, 5:30p.m. LISA FISHMAN’s most recent books are F L O W E R  C A R T (Ahsahta Press, 2011) and Current (Parlor Press, 2011). She is also the author of The Happiness Experiment; Dear, Read (Ahsahta); The Deep Heart's Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues Press); and several chapbooks, most recently at the same time as scattering (Albion Books, 2009). She lives in Orfordville and Madison, Wisconsin and directs the Poetry Program at Columbia College Chicago. DAVID TRINIDAD’s most recent book, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems, has just been published by Turtle Point Press. His other books include The Late Show (2007), By Myself (with D.A. Powell, 2009), and Plasticville (2000), all published by Turtle Point.  He is also the editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (Nightboat Books, 2011). Trinidad teaches poetry at Columbia College Chicago, where he co-edits the journal Court Green. The event is free and open to the public.

-ALITY is a new electronic fiction journal requesting submissions for their first issue. They hope to receive work that explores any of the -ality words - equality, reality, sexuality, spirituality, and so on. Their reading period begins September 1st and ends December 15th.  They ask for submissions that are less than 8,500 words, or up to 3 flash fiction submissions (up to 1000 words each).  For specific updates and guidelines, visit www.dashality.com.

BELLESTRIST COTERIE is seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, interviews, photography, and web-friendly artwork, for their inaugural issue, which will be published both in print and online. Belletrist Coterie was formed in an attempt to revive and spotlight the spirit and ebullience of storytelling craft and style. They refuse to limit themselves in terms of genre or style. They are looking for essays, short stories, evocative poetry, beautiful artwork, fascinating interviews... anything that tells a story, is somewhat culturally relevant, beautifully written, and contains the power to move and inspire.They strive to publish pieces that don't necessarily conform to normal standards so much as they do reach new levels of excellence and creativity. View their website at: http://belletristcoterie.com/pages/home

HIGHLAND PARK POETRY is pleased to present its 3rd annual Poetry That Moves Contest. The judges will select 12 poems, one for each month, to be displayed in North Shore Suburban PACE buses operating between Evanston and Highland Park, including the Ravinia Music festival parking shuttles. The deadline is October 1st, 2011. Please view the submission guidelines and entry form at http://www.highlandparkpoetry.org/

March Submission Listings

AUGURY BOOKS is pleased to announce that they are now accepting manuscripts for their inaugural Editors’ Prize in Poetry. To enter, submit 40-75 pages of poetry and an acknowledgments page. Entry fee is $20. The winner will receive a $1,000 honorarium and publication with Augury Books as well as 10 complimentary copies of the book. The reading period will be from March 15-May 15, 2011. Please visithttp://augurybooks.com/submissions/ for further information.

(UN)REMARKABLE MAGAZINE is currently seeking unpublished creative writing for the Fall 2011 issue. They seek fiction and creative non-fiction up to 8,000 words, as well as poetry, up to 5 poems per submission. More specific submission guidelines can be found at: www.unremarkablemagazine.com.

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS is pleased to announce the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. This prize, presented annually to a writer who has not previously published a full-length collection of poems, awards the winner with $2,000 and publication of his or her first full-length book of poetry by the Kent State University Press. The judge will be Edward Hirsch. There is a $20 reading fee. Deadline is May 2nd. For more info check out: www.kent.edu/wick

THE TEXAS OBSERVER is pleased to announce its first annual short story contest, to be judged by Larry McMurty. Winner will receive $1,ooo prize and publication in the Summer Books Issue of the Texas Observer. There are no genre/theme restrictions, but entries with a Texas setting or themes are encouraged. Stories should not exceed 2,500 words. Entries must contain cover note with story title, name, address, phone number, and email address and a $25 reading fee. Name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. Deadline is May 1st. For more information, please see: https://www.texasobserver.org/2011-short-story-contest

YEMASSE is proud to announce the 2011 Pocataligo Poetry Contest. Submit 3 to 5 poems for your chance at cash prizes and publication. A $10 reading fee, and a cover letter should accompany your work. Your name must not appear on any page of the manuscript. No manuscripts will be returned. Deadline is March 31st. For more information please see: http://yemasseejournalonline.org/poetry_contest.html

BOMB Magazine is pleased to announce their annual Fiction Contest, judged this year by novelist Rivka Galchen. The contest winner will receive $500 and the story will be published in an upcoming issue of BOMB’s literary supplement, First Proof. The postmark deadline is April 16. All submissions will be read anonymously. Find out more at http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/4770

Students are encouraged to look up the BLACK FOREST WRITING SEMINARS SUMMER SESSION 2011, which meets August 8-20. The program is situated in the historic town of Freiburg, Germany; this year’s offerings (featuring authors Sandra Beasley, Kirk Nesset, Lee Durkee, Sieglinde Lemke and others) include courses in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and literature. Operated by the University of Freiburg, and by Germany’s top-ranking English department, the program attracts students of all kinds and all ages, European as well as American. If interested, apply early, as courses tend to fill quickly. Here is their website:http://www.blackforestwritingseminars.de/

January...and February (oops!) Listings

Send your Fiction to the WILLOW SPRINGS FICTION CONTEST. Deadline is March 1st. Every entrant receives a one year subscription to Willow Springs for their $15. For more information please see
www.willowsprings.ewu.edu

FOLIO, a nationally-recognized literary journal at American University, is announcing our 2011 Poetry Contest, to be judged by poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Past issues of Folio have included work by Billy Collins, William Stafford, and Bruce Weigl, and interviews with Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, and Walter Kirn.First prize: $500; 2 Honourable Mentions: $100. Winners will be featured in Folio's Spring 2011 double issue. Entries must be postmarked by February 14, 2011. Folio is also currently accepting prose submissions. For more information, and for full contest guidelines, please visit www.american.edu/cas/literature/folio.

Win up to $1,200 in the SALEM COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AWARDS. Submit a short story (up to 5000 words), a poem or two (up to 100 lines), or a piece of nonfiction (up to 5000 words) by February 10, 2011. visit www.salem.edu/go/cww for more submission guidelines and further information.

CUTBANK is pleased to announce the 2011 Montana Prize in Fiction, Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry. The goal of the Montana and Goedicke Prizes is to recognize work that showcases an authentic voice, a boldness of form, and a rejection of functional fixedness. Winners receive $500 and publication in CutBank 75, our summer 2011 issue. More information is available below, and at http://www.cutbankonline.org/page/contests. submission period ends Feb 28th.

YEMASSE is proud to announce the 2011 Pocataligo Poetry Contest. Submit 3 to 5 poems for your chance at cash prizes and publication. A $10 reading fee, and a cover letter should accompany your best work. Your name must not appear on any page of the manuscript. No manuscripts will be returned. For more information please see http://yemasseejournalonline.org/poetry_contest.html

BOMB Magazine is pleased to announce their annual Fiction Contest, judged this year by novelist Rivka Galchen. The contest winner will receive $500 and the story will be published in an upcoming issue of BOMB’s literary supplement, First Proof. The postmark deadline is April 16. All submissions will be read anonymously. Find out more at http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/4770

The Kenyon Review is currently accepting submissions for its 2011 Short Fiction Contest. The winner will be published in the Kenyon review and receive a scholarship for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop over the summer. Submissions accepted through Feb 28th. Check it out: [http://www.kenyonreview.org/newsletters/images/jan11/sfc.gif]

December Call for Submissions

This website comes to us from our MFA candidate RYAN NORRIS . http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/ thank you for alerting the RU community to this gold mine of contests. Submit!

BLUE EARTH REVIEW is the literary journal of the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. They are looking for the usual: poetry and fiction, and are looking for more creative nonfiction writing. BER is also accepting submissions for their Eighth Annual Flash Fiction Contest: “We want only your brightest, boldest flash fiction—work that breaks boundaries in genre and content. The only requirement is that each entry is 600 words or less.” Reading fee is $5 for up to three entries. For more information, visit http://www.english2.mnsu.edu/ber/index.html

NOBLE FOOL THEATRICALS, soon to be Fox Valley Repertory in 2011, is currently accepting new play submissions for the Fox Valley Area's inaugural Summer Arts Festival to take place annually at Pheasant Run Resort Mainstage and throughout the city of St. Charles on July 14 - 31, 2011 (4051 E. Main St., St. Charles, IL; admin telephone 630-443-0438).

Submissions for COLLIDER 2011: New Play Project and Big Bang 10 Minute Play Fest must be made online. Specific guidelines, requirements, submission forms, and more information can be found at this link. www.foxvalleyartsfestival.org. Questions can be sent to collider@noblefool.org. No phone calls or mailed submissions please.

2011 BRISTOL SHORT STORY PRIZE is open to all writers, UK and non-UK based, over 16 years of age.
Stories can be on any theme or subject and entry can be made online via the website or by post. Entries must be previously unpublished with a maximum length of 3,000 words ( no minimum). The entry fee is £7 (about $11) per story.Full details at www.bristolprize.co.uk

FOLIO, a nationally-recognized literary journal at American University, is announcing our 2011 Poetry Contest, to be judged by poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Past issues of Folio have included work by Billy Collins, William Stafford, and Bruce Weigl, and interviews with Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, and Walter Kirn.First prize: $500; 2 Honourable Mentions: $100. Winners will be featured in Folio's Spring 2011 double issue. Entries must be postmarked by February 14, 2011. Folio is also currently accepting prose submissions. For more information, and for full contest guidelines, please visit www.american.edu/cas/literature/foliohttp://www.american.edu/cas/literature/folio>.

Win up to $1,200 in the SALEM COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AWARDS. Submit a short story (up to 5000 words), a poem or two (up to 100 lines), or a piece of nonfiction (up to 5000 words) by February 10, 2011. visit www.salem.edu/go/cww for more submission guidelines and further information.

GLIMMER TRAIN has opened its December Fiction contest. There is an $18 reading fee, and the top three stories receive $2,000, $1,000 and $600 respectively. The contest is upon until January 2nd, but the fun doesnt stop there. They also hold March and June contests as well. Take a gander at http://www.glimmertrain.com/fictionopen.html for more information.

CUTBANK is pleased to announce the 2011 Montana Prize in Fiction, Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry. The goal of the Montana and Goedicke Prizes is to recognize work that showcases an authentic voice, a boldness of form, and a rejection of functional fixedness. Winners receive $500 and publication in CutBank 75, our summer 2011 issue. More information is available below, and at http://www.cutbankonline.org/page/contests.

BLUE MESA REVIEW is pleased to announce its 2011 poetry and fiction contests. Sponsored by the University of New Mexico, they are hoping to hear from you! Check out http://bluemesalit.wordpress.com/about/ for more information.

October 2010 Call

Creative Nonfiction is currently accepting submissions for their annual “MFA Program-Off” essay contest. This is an excellent opportunity for MFA students to gain exposure for themselves and their program. The winning nonfiction essay will be featured in Creative Nonfiction #42 (due out summer 2011), and its author, along with four finalists, will be invited to read during this year’s AWP conference in Washington, D.C. (February 2-5, 2011). Visit this site for a PDF with details of the contest. Postmark deadline for submissions is November 5. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact CNF at information@creativenonfiction.org.

Want to be published by the same folks as Tennessee Williams and Joyce Carol Oates? Send your short fiction, poems, non-fiction, and reviews to Prairie Schooner. They will be reading previously unpublished work from now until May 1st. This link will guide you to their submission guidelines.

For the under 30 crowd, the editor of Narrative are looking for short stories, essays, memoirs, excerpts and all forms of literary non-fiction for their annual “30 BELOW” CONTEST. First place will take home $1,500 and all essays will be considered for publication. deadline: October 29th at midnight. See the contest deadlines here.

The 2011 Paris Literary Prize is looking for your best Novella. Writers are invited to submit their initial 3,000 words and a synopsis via the website by 1st December 2010. Shortlisted entrants will be required to submit their full novella (20,000 - 30,000 words) by mid-March, 2011. The winner will be announced on 16th June 2011. Bonus treat: the winner will be award in euros (10,000 of them) and a weekend reading in Paris.

Submit up to 3 poems and 7,500 words of prose to the 2010 Atlantic Student Writing Competition. Monetary prizes to the top three entries in Fiction, Poetry, and Non-fiction. All entries must be post-marked by December 1st. Please see their website for more details.

The RU Writing Center is now accepting submissions for its 2cd Annual Halloween Flash Fiction Contest. In 750 words or less, write a story about FEAR. Winners will be published on the Writing Center website and blog, and also present at a reading. Only current Roosevelt students and RU Community members may submit their work. Submissions must be delivered in hard copy or sent to this email address by October 22cd. More information can be found at the Writing Center or on its blog (ruwriting.blogspot.com).

Apply for the Summer 2011 Baltic Writing Residency, a funded month-long annual residency in Riga, Latvia for poets, playwrights, and writers of fiction working in English. Neither the writer nor their project need be connected with Latvia. What? Crazy, I know, but you’ll have to read more here. Apply by December 15th.

September 2010 Call

The winner of the Philip Levine Contest, sponsored and administered by the MFA Program in Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno, receives a $2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press. The final Judge is Brian Turner; the postmark deadline is September 30. Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in book form, 48- 80 pages, no more than one poem per page. For more info, visit the official website or email Connie Hales at connieh@csufresno.edu.

Creative Nonfiction is currently accepting submissions for their annual “MFA Program-Off” essay contest. This is an excellent opportunity for MFA students to gain exposure for themselves and their program. The winning nonfiction essay will be featured in Creative Nonfiction #42 (due out summer 2011), and its author, along with four finalists, will be invited to read during this year’s AWP conference in Washington, D.C. (February 2-5, 2011). Visit their website for a PDF with details of the contest. Postmark deadline for submissions is November 5. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact CNF at information@creativenonfiction.org.

Mêlée Live is a print magazine of poetry, politics and art which will also have a substantial online presence. Mêlée Live is the descendant of Mêlée magazine, which quickly got the attention of the international poetry community in 2007. Mêlée Live will publish its inaugural issue in late December. The first issue will be devoted entirely to The MFA School of Poetry, with all of the poetry in the print edition coming from currently enrolled MFA poets. This issue will serve as an anthology of the best MFA poetry being written in MFA programs across the country and will contain commentary and articles from many familiar names in poetry on their experiences with and views on the MFA School. Please direct any questions or queries to The Editors at this email address. Submission guidelines can be viewed here and their statement, here.

Palooka is a print journal seeking works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Palooka is determined to find those writers and artists who are flying under the radar, producing great works that are going unnoticed by other publications. This is a journal for everyone, but they're really into publishing the up-and-comer, the underdog in the literary battle royale. Give us your best shot. We dare you.For complete submission guidelines, please visit www.palookajournal.com.