Thursday, December 9, 2010

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 Entries must be previously unpublished with a maximum length of 3,000 words ( no minimum).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.

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