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 They will be reading previously unpublished work from now until May 1st.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.