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]