CAA National Capital Region Weekly Literary Notices for July 9th

NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION BRANCH (NCR)

Weekly Notices for the week of July 9, 2012

 

 –11 Items: 3 NEW EVENTS & 1 NEW CONTEST

(3 EXTENDED DEADLINES ON CONTESTS: ROOM, BLUE HERON AND EDEN MILLS)

 

####Please send all submission and event notices to Carol Stephen at cstephen0@gmail.com  and ****Remember to check out writing-related services offered by our members at our CAA-NCR website   http://www.canauthors-ottawa.org/hire-a-member.shtml

 

BRANCH NEWS

 

ITEM 1: CAA-NCR SUMMER SOCIAL – A DAY IN THE COUNTRY

 DATE: Sunday, August 19, 2012  3:00 P.M. until the bonfire dies

LOCATION: Sharyn’s country home

TYPE:pot luck 

 Summer sun and cooling breezes – our Summer Social in Sharyn’s garden. Mark the above date on your calendar before it fills up with other summer events.  Come meet your fellow writers in a casual, congenial and celebratory atmosphere. We invite you to:

• Read from your work, published or otherwise;
• Bring your books and give folks an opportunity to purchase a copy;
• Network, meet old friends and discover new ones;
• Enjoy the diverse culinary creations contributed by your fellow writers.

All are invited – CAA Members, CAA Student Members, and Non-members! Bring your spouse; bring your partner; bring your friends; bring your writing offspring 18 years or older.  Drop Sharyn a note at sharyn_40@yahoo.com, or give her a call at (613) 821-2485 and let her know you’re coming, and what exciting contribution of an edible nature you will be bringing with you.  Remember to bring a garden chair in the lucky event that it doesn’t rain.

 

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS

 

ITEM 2: WORKSHOPS: WINTERGREEN STUDIOS, WESTPORT, ON

http://www.wintergreenstudios.com/

 

English: View of Westport from Foley Mountain, Ontario, Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• Helen Humphreys (July 9–13)
• Patrick Lane (August 23–26)
• Lawrence Hill (Sept. 14­–17)

Enjoy writing, eating and swimming at our off-grid educational retreat facility.

For the third year running, Helen Humphreys, acclaimed author and teacher, will spend a week exploring both prose and poetry with workshop participants. For more information and to register: http://www.wintergreenstudios.com/writers-workshop-with-helen-humphreys/

Patrick Lane, Governor General’s Award winner, will conduct a four-day poetry retreat for attendees to create new work. Fresh approaches to the poem will be explored. Patrick considers holding writing retreats an important aspect of his life’s work.  For more information and to register: http://www.wintergreenstudios.com/poetry-with-patrick-lane//

You are invited to spend a long weekend with Lawrence Hill (author of The Book of Negroes) taking part in a creative writing workshop for the novel, short story or non-fiction writing. For more information and to register: http://www.wintergreenstudios.com/put-personality-in-your-writing/All Polls

 

ITEM 3: SCREENWRITING CAMP 2012 – TAKE YOUR STORY IDEAS TO THE BIG SCREEN

DATES: August 13 to August 17, 2012

LOCATION: Algonquin College, Woodroffe Campus  Cost:  $595 

English: Taken by SimonP (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This five-day hands-on workshop from August 13th to 17th 2012 at Algonquin College will help writers bring their ideas into the reality of a feature film screen story.  Participants will also learn the career potential of screenwriters in television and new media – one of the fastest growing business sectors in Canada.  The Director is Tom Shoebridge, founder of the Canadian Screen Training Centre and the Summer Institute of Film and Television, which for 30 years brought world-class filmmakers such as Atom Egoyan, Sarah Polley, Norman Jewison, Paul Haggis, Denys Arcand, Anthony Minghella and others here to share their expertise with aspiring film and television creators.

 

In workshops led by seasoned industry professionals, participants will learn the fundamentals of story structure, scenes, sequences, acts, dialogue, and character and story arcs – the necessary elements of professional screen storytelling.  Films will be analyzed, scripts dissected, and the writing of treatments and scripts encouraged.  This will not be theory; this will offer practical professional insights into writing for the screen and pitching your story effectively.

For more information, please contact Lynn Tarzwell at tarzwel@algonquincollege.com.

Lynn Tarzwell, Coordinator, Scriptwriting Program, Office:  N208b, (613)727-4723 ext. 7888

 

SUBMISSION CALLS AND OPPORTUNITIES

 

ITEM 4: SUBMISSION CALL TUPELO PRESS JULY OPEN READING PERIOD FOR BOOK-LENGTH AND CHAPBOOK POETRY COLLECTIONS

 

Postmark between July 1 and July 31

Throughout July, Tupelo Press will hold open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages) and chapbook-length poetry collections (30-47 pages). Submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language (whether in the United States or abroad). Include a cover page with the title of your manuscript, your name, address, phone number and email address. There is a reading fee of $28 for each manuscript submitted. Multiple submissions are accepted, so long as each submission is accompanied by a separate $28 reading fee. Manuscripts that have been submitted during this open reading period (July 2012) may not be revised and submitted again unless they are accompanied by an additional $28 reading fee. Manuscripts will not be returned. Our online submission manager will be accepting poetry manuscripts between July 1 and July 31, 2012.

We also accept manuscripts via postal mail. You may also include a SASE stamped postcard for acknowledgment of receipt of your manuscript and for results notification.  An acknowledgments page listing previously published poems may be included.

Your manuscript must be postmarked between July 1 and July 31, 2012 and sent to: Open Submissions, Tupelo Press, P.O. Box 1767, North Adams, MA 01247.

Read the complete guidelines before submitting your manuscript: http://www.tupelopress.org/july_guidelines.php

 

ITEM 5: BYWORDS.CA SUBMISSION CALL

 

DEADLINE:  July 15 for the August issue

Bywords.ca considers previously unpublished poetry from emerging and established poets for our online monthly magazine. We consider work by current and former residents, students and workers of Ottawa. We also publish poems by contributors to our predecessor, the Bywords Monthly Magazine.  FOR SUBMISSION INFORMATION VISIT www.bywords.ca and click on Guidelines.  Amanda Earl, Managing Editor

ITEM 6: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BRUSQUE

 

DEADLINE JULY 31 FOR THE FIRST ISSUE

Founded in May 2012, Brusque is a new online poetry magazine that will be published bi-monthly. Each issue will be relatively brief, featuring poems from 3-5 poets. Brusque aims to shake up the literary magazine submissions process by promising honest and at times belligerent responses to poetry submissions. Poetry acceptances need more flattery and rejections need more snark. Expect responses ranging from “This poem is so beautiful it makes me weep” to”Meh” to “Reading this poem makes me want a cartoon anvil to pulverize my skull.”

Submit by July 31st to have your work considered for Brusque’s inaugural issue, scheduled to come out in September 2012. Publication will be highly selective. Submission instructions are at:

http://www.brusquemagazine.com/submissions.html

 

IN THE INTEREST OF WRITERS HELPING WRITERS

 

ITEM 7: TREE READING SERIES                        NEW!

 

DATE:           July 10, 2012

LOCATION: Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave. Ottawa

The Ottawa Arts Court. Formerly the Carleton County Courthouse, the building now serves as Ottawa’s municipal arts centre. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

6:45 p.m. Free Workshop with Lesley Strutt on The Mysterious Pleasures of Translating Poetry

In her workshop Lesley Strutt will invite participants to look at the way translation of poetry can create something completely new – the challenge is to find the essence of the poem and transmit it in the words of another culture and community. Participants will be invited to try their hand at translation.

 

8:00 p.m. Readings Featured Reader: Susan Gillis

Susan Gillis is a poet, teacher, and member of the poetry collective Yoko’s Dogs. She

has published 3 collections. Volta (Signature, 2002) won the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Her most recent books are The Rapids (forthcoming from Brick) and Twenty Views of the Lachine Rapids (Gaspereau, 2012). Whisk, a collection of poems in collaboration with Yoko’s Dogs, will be published by Pedlar Press in 2013. Susan divides her time between Montreal and a hamlet near Perth, Ontario. Schrodinger’s Poet and an open-mic kick off the reading.

 

ITEM 8:       MOTHER TONGUE BOOKS PRESENTS

MARY BORSKY FICTION WORKSHOP READING

 DATE:    Wednesday, July 11  7:00 P.M.

 Participants in ongoing fiction workshop led by Mary Borsky read. Readers include Frances Boyle, Kathryn Mulvihill, Sonia Tilson, Deborah Ann Tunney and Jean van Loon.

 Both events at Mother Tongue Books, 1067 Bank Street at Sunnyside.  All proceeds support the bookstore.  Celebrate Mother Tongue Books celebratemothertongue.ca/

Additional events every Friday til July 20 as they wind down the store.

 

 

ITEM 9: LAUNCH OF THE BYWORDS QUARTERLY JOURNAL  NEW!

 DATE: Sunday, July 15 2:00 p.m.

 LOCATION: Collected Works, 1242 Wellington Street, Ottawa

Readers from the latest issue and music

 

 

ITEM 10:   THE DUSTY OWL FEATURING:

ROB MCLENNAN AND CHRISTINE MCNAIR             NEW!

 DATE:          Sunday, July 15  3:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Elmdale House Tavern, 1084 Wellington Street West

Featured readers followed by open set

ITEM 11: WRITING CONTESTS COMING UP

 

Malahat Monostiches SUMMER-LONG CONTEST, AWARDS EVERY TWO WEEKS!

Tweet your pithiest 1-line, 140 character (or less) poems to @malahatreview

The battle of the monostiches begins on June 18 and closes on September 10. Four new books donated by Canadian publishers will be awarded to a semi-finalist every two weeks. On October 1, a special grand prize will be given to the best of the six bi-weekly winners.

Semi-finalists and the grand-prize winner will be tweeted, posted on our website, and announced on Facebook. Enter as many times as you like! Read full contest guidelines on our website. http://www.malahatreview.ca/announcements/twittermonostich.html

           

MONTHLY TWITTER WRITING CONTEST!  DEADLINE:  LAST DAY OF THE MONTH AT 11 AM 

Scribendi.com is hosting a weekly writing contest that I think would be of interest to your audience. How it Works: The first day of every month at 11 AM, we will announce the topic. Entrants must write a 140-character-or-less tweet, mention @Scribendi_Inc, and summarize the topic. The contest closes the last day of the month at 11 AM.

Summarize This! promotes concise and precise writing skills in a fresh, fun way (http://www.scribendi.com/summarize_this). Prizes range from free editing to Scribendi.com swag.

 

 

JULY DEADLINES:

 

• WRITERS WEEKLY SHORT STORY CONTEST Start time July 14, 2012. http://www.writersweekly.com/misc/contest.php  $5 ENTRY FEE You must be entered in the contest before the topic is posted in order to submit your story. You cannot write your story first, then enter the contest. Start time is  July 14, 2012. Limited to 500 entries. We can’t tell you until contest start time how long the entries must be. Past contests have ranged from 500 max. to 2,000 max. You’ll just have to wait and see. 1st Place

 

• Vallum: contemporary poetry (QC) invites poetry entries for their contest. First prize: $500 plus publication. Deadline: July 15, 2012. Entry fee: $20 (includes subscription). http://www.vallummag.com/contestrules.html
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• NEW DEADLINE Room Magazine’s Annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Calling all women writers: Room magazine is accepting submissions for its 2012 annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Deadline: July 15, 2012. First prize in each category is $500, 2nd prize $250, plus publication in the summer 2013 issue of Room. Judges: Cathleen With (fiction), Miranda Pearson (poetry), and Kathy Page (creative non-fiction). $30 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Canada’s oldest literary journal by and about women. Please visit http://www.roommagazine.com/contestfor complete details. 

   

• Clem Battye Legacy Award Deadline: July 30, 2012   Fiction: Send a cover page listing author’s name, address, phone and email, along with a short story 5 pages (industry standards). Poetry: Poets enter 5 poems (one per page). You may enter as often as you like with appropriate fee. Penticton Writers And Publishers, 4011 Finnerty Road, Penticton BC V2A 8W2. Prize: $100 X 2   Entry Fee: $10 Details:  http://www.penwriters.com/clem.html; 250-492-0629

 

• The Arborealls Prize for Poetry Deadline: July 31, 2012  Theme – The People’s Poetry Tradition. Milton Acorn’s poetry defines the People’s Poetry Tradition. There is no limit to the number of submissions per poet. Poems must be unpublished and not sent elsewhere. Poems not to exceed 36 lines and the stanza breaks count as lines. The Ontario Poetry Society, Attention: I.B. Iskov, #710 – 654 Spring Garden Avenue, Toronto ON M2N 6H9  Prize: $200; $150; $100; 3 x $50 HM + publication Entry Fee: $15/3 Details:   http://www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca/  

 

• THE DREAM QUEST ONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST Postmark deadline: July 31, 2012. Write a poem or short story for a chance to win cash prizes. All works must be original. Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com for details and enter!  All contest winners will be announced on August 31, 2012. Prizes: Writing Contest First Prize is $500. Second Prize: $250. Third Prize: $100. Poetry Contest First Prize is $250. Second Prize: $125. Third Prize: $50. Entry fees: $10 per short story. $5 per poem.
• SEÁN Ó FAOLÁIN INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION (IRE) Deadline 31 July.  The Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition is run by the Munster Literature Centre in Cork. It is a not-for-profit institution, (Irish Registered Charity No.12374), and all proceeds go to benefit writers and writing. Sponsor: Munster Literature Centre Contest Type: Prize for a single short story. Details: http://www.munsterlit.ie/SOF%20Page.html . The Munster Literature Centre, Frank O’Connor House, 84 Douglas Street, Cork City, +21 431 2955

 

• Inktears Flash Fiction Competition Deadline: July 31, 2012 Entry Fee: 1 entry £3.00, 2 entries £5.00, 3 entries £6.50, 4 entries £7.50 Prizes: £300, £50, 4 x £25 Guidelines: 500 words or less, any theme. Stories may have been previously published, providing the author still owns the copyright and there is no exclusivity with the prior publication, or unpublished. Details: http://www.inktears.com/Inktears/WritersNewWriters2012.html

 

• SHELDON CURRIE FICTION PRIZE DEADLINE JULY 31, 2012 Guidelines: Previously published works, works accepted for publication or simultaneous submissions are ineligible. No electronic submissions, please. Stories on any subject. Total entry not to exceed 20 pages. Entry Fee: Canada $25.00; the United States $30.00 (US funds); All others $40.00 (US funds) You may enter as often as you like; only your first entry in each category will be eligible for a subscription which will begin with the winter issue, 2013. Make cheques or money orders payable to The Antigonish Review. Mail submissions to: The Antigonish Review Contest, Box 5000, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, B2G 2W5. Entries will not be returned. Only winners will be notified by November 1, 2012. Full details here: http://www.antigonishreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=62http://www.antigonishreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=62
• NEW DEADLINE: EDEN MILLS WRITERS FESTIVAL LITERARY CONTEST DEADLINE JULY 31, 2012. Contest is open to new, aspiring, and modestly published writers age 16 or over. Writers may submit either a short story (max. 2500 words), poetry (max. 5 poems/5 pages) or one-act play. There is also a submission protocol to be asked to read at the Eden Mills Festival-see website for details. As the coordinators and addresses sometimes change between our press time, and their deadline please recheck the website closer to the due date. Eden Mills Writers Festival Literary Contest,  c/o Susan Ratcliffe, 57-295 Water Street, Guelph ON NIG2X5. Deadline: June 30, 2012 Prizes: $100 + HM Entry Fee: $15 Details: http://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/EMWF/contests  519-822-8236

 

 

 

 

 

AUGUST DEADLINES:

 

• ALICE MUNRO WRITERS & READERS FESTIVAL SHORT STORY CONTEST. Theme: Renewal. Length: 5000 words max. First prize: $500 (Adult) and $300 (Teen). Entry fee: $20 (Adult only). Deadline: August 1, 2012. Finalists will be notified by September 1, 2012.   Winners names will be published on the website after the announcement at the Gala on September 29, 2012. http://alicemunrofestival.ca/?page_id=14

 

• THE SECOND ANNUAL GEIST ERASURE POETRY CONTEST  DEADLINE AUG. 1, 2012. Get your erasers ready! Geist is pleased to announce the opening of the Second Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest. Writers are asked to create their own poetic masterpiece from an excerpt of How Should a Person Be?, a creative non-fiction novel by celebrated author Sheila Heti. There’s $1000 in prizes, plus publication! $20 entry fee includes an entire year of Geist. Visit www.geist.com/erasure for more information. Good luck and happy writing!

 

• THE 2012 RATTLE POETRY PRIZE POSTMARK DEADLINE: AUGUST 1  The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $5,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $100 each and publication, and be eligible for the $1,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote. Additional poems from the entries are frequently offered publication as well. Entries are accepted by email or hard copy. For full guidelines, or to read the winning poems from previous years, visit www.rattle.com.
• Quebec Writers’ Federation Awards Deadline: August 1, 2012  QWF holds an annual juried competition for published books by Quebec authors in five categories:  A. M. Klein Prize (Established 1992) (Poetry) $2,000  McAuslan First Book Award (Established 1999) $2,000  Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize (Fiction) (Established 1987) $2,000  Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction (Established 1987) $2.000  QWF Prix de traduction / Translation Prize (Established 2002) $2,000  Quebec Writers’ Federation, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Suite 3, Montreal QC H3Z 1X4. Prize: $2,000 Entry Fee: $20 Details:  http://www.qwf.org ; 514-933-0878.
• The Malahat Review Constance Cooke Creative Nonfiction Prize Deadline: August 1, 2012.  The entry must be between 2,000 and 3,000 words. No restrictions as to subject matter or approach apply. For example, the entry may be personal essay, memoir, cultural criticism, nature writing, or literary journalism. The winner and finalists will be announced on the Malahat web site, with the publication of the winning entry in The Malahat Review’s Winter issue, and in Malahat lite, the magazine’s quarterly e-newsletter, in December. The Malahat Review Constance Cooke Creative Nonfiction Prize University of Victoria, Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria BC V8W 2Y2. Prize: $1,000 Entry Fee: $35 Details:  http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/creative_non-fiction_prize/info.html  250-721-8524.
•  WRITERS’ TRUST OF CANADA AWARDS : ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE * WRITERS’ TRUST HILARY WESTON NON-FICTION PRIZE  Deadline:  08/01/12 depending on publication date. See guidelines at the link below. Sponsored by Writers’ Trust of Canada (The) Authors must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. Books must have been published in Canada during the year in which the deadline falls. See guidelines for each award here: http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards.aspx

 

• THE MALAHAT REVIEW’S UVIC 50TH ANNIVERSARY WRITING CONTEST  Deadline: August 15, 2012 Prizes (in each category): 1st: $300 2nd: $150 3rd: $100 Entry fee: $15 per entry (entry does not include a subscription to the magazine) Categories: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and dramatic monologue Eligible entrants: UVic students, UVic alumni, and residents of the Victoria CRD. Full contest guidelines HERE: http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/uvic_anniversary/anniversary_contest.html
• MEMOIRS, INK Personal essay contest with $1000 prize Deadline: August 15, 2012. http://memoirsink.com/writingcontestguidelines/ Memoirs Ink is looking for original, well-written personal essays, memoirs, or stories that are based on autobiographical experiences. First prize: US$1000; additional prizes available. Entry fee: US$15.

 

• Tickled by Thunder Writing Contest-Poetry Deadline: August 15, 2012   Theme, length and style of poetry entries is completely open. First and second place winners published. Subscribers of Tickled by Thunder enter three poems for free, but must pay $2 for each additional poem entered. Entries may be deemed by judges to merit publication within the Year’s Best Poetry, an annual collection published as a chapbook. Submit your manuscript using our Online Form. Tickled by Thunder, 14076 86A Avenue, Surrey BC V3W 0V9. Prize: $75 +publication Entry Fee: $5  Details:   http://tickledbythunder.com/  604-591-6095

 

• The Scotiabank Giller Prize Deadline: August 15, 2012   The Scotiabank Giller Prize, att: Elana Rabinovitch, 576 Davenport Road, Toronto ON M5R lK9. Prize: $50,000; $5,000 x 4  Entry Fee: None   Details: http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca ; 416-934-0755.

 

•  Tennessee Williams Poetry Contest Deadline: August 15, 2012 Entry Fee: $20 Prizes: $1000, a VIP All Access Pass ($500 value) for the 2013 New Orleans Literary Festival, and publication in Louisiana Cultural Vistasmagazine. Guidelines: Submit 2-4 original poems of any style or theme up to 400 lines. Open to writers who have not yet published a book of poetry. Details: http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/contests/poetry-contest

 

•  SPEAKER’S BOOK AWARD Deadline: August 31, 2012 This award aims to bring awareness to books written by Ontarians covering historical, regional, cultural or parliamentary aspects of the province. Special consideration will be given to works focusing on parliamentary heritage and on provincial discourse. Fiction and non-fiction submissions are accepted, in either French or English. For more information, please contact Irene Chalmers at irene_chalmers@ontla.ola.org. Speaker’s Book Award Parliamentary Protocol and Public Relations Branch, Room 191, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON M7A 1A2. Prize:  $1000; Speaker’s special guest at 2013 Awards Reception; book featured at the Legislative Gift Shop and in the Legislative Library  Entry Fee: None  Details: www.ontla.on.ca; (416) 325-0270

 

• NEW DEADLINE: GREAT BLUE HERON POETRY CONTEST DEADLINE AUG. 31, 2012 Poems on any subject. Total entry not to exceed 4 pages. Maximum 150 lines. Entries might be one longer poem, or several shorter poems. This includes a one-year subscription to TAR which will begin with the fall issue. Make cheques or money orders payable to The Antigonish Review Contest, St. Francis Xavier University,  Box 5000, Antigonish NS B2G 2W5. Deadline: June 30, 2012  Prizes:  $600, $400, $200 & Publication Entry Fee: $25 Details:  http://www.antigonishreview.com/index.php  902-867-3962

 

• The Ted Plantos Memorial Award Deadline: August 31, 2012 There is no age barrier. Anyone can apply, as long as they don’t have a full collection of their poems previously published, even self-published. This award is offered to poets who live and/or work in Ontario only. In exchange for financial support, the recipient will acknowledge the financial assistance of The Ontario Poetry Society. The Ontario Poetry Society, Attention: L.B. Iskov, 710 – 65 Spring Garden Avenue, Toronto ON M41N 6119.  Prize: $100 + certificate  Entry Fee: None  Details:  http://www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca/Tedplantosawardapplication.html

 

• Quebec Writing Competition Deadline: August 31, 2012 The competition is open to all residents of Quebec with the following exceptions: employees or long-term contractors with any of the sponsoring bodies: and winners of previous Quebec Writing Competition. Short fiction or creative nonfiction, maximum length is 1,200 words. The three winning stories will be broadcast on CBC Radio One’s Cinq a Six (heard Saturdays at 5 p.m.). Quebec Writers’ Federation, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Suite 3, Montreal QC H3Z 1X4.  Prize: $1,500; $1,000; $500 + broadcast  Entry Fee: $10   Details: http://www.qwf.org ; 514-933-0878.

 

• AESTHETICA CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION  DEADLINE: AUGUST 31, 2012. The Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition is now open for entries! The competition celebrates and champions creative writing, nurturing talent and bringing work to international attention. There are two categories for entry, Poetry and Short Fiction, and a selection of fantastic prizes including:  £500 prize money – Poetry winner. £500 prize money – Short Fiction winner. Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual                                                                    Complimentary copy of the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual. A selection of books from our competition partners. For more information and to enter please visit: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm  Submissions previously published elsewhere are accepted. Entry is £10 and allows for the entry of two works into any one category. Deadline: 31 August 2012

 

• Gemini Magazine Fourth Annual Flash Fiction Contest Deadline: August 31, 2012 Entry Fee: $4 Prizes: $1000, $100, $50 Guidelines: Must be previously unpublished. No restrictions on content, style, or genre. Simply send your best, most powerful work under 1000 words. Details: http://www.gemini-magazine.com/contest.html

 

• Red Hen Press (US) is accepting submissions of unpublished poetry manuscripts for the 2012 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Prize: US$3000 plus publication of the selected collection. Length: 48-96 pages. Entry fee: US$25. Deadline: August 31, 2012. http://redhen.org/awards-2/bsa/
• Registration is now open for the Canadian-born 35th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest. First prize: publication; additional prizes available. Fee: $50/$55. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION AUG. 15, FINAL Registration deadline: August 31, 2012. Can you produce a masterwork of fiction in a mere 72 hours? The annual International 3-Day Novel Contest is your chance to find out. The contest runs every Labour Day long weekend, as it has since 1977, and it now attracts writers from all over the world. It’s a thrill, a grind, and an awesome creative experience. How many crazed plotlines, coffee-stained pages, pangs of doubt and moments of genius will the next contest bring forth? And what might you think up under pressure? The 35th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest will take place September 1-3, 2012. Registration is now open.  http://www.3daynovel.com/
•  Snake Nation Press: Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry Postmark Deadline: August 31 Now in its twenty-second year, Snake Nation Press announces the 2012 Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry: • $1,000 prize and publication • $25 entry fee must accompany the manuscript  • 50-75 page manuscript; previously published poems eligible. Please mail your entry and fee to: Snake Nation Press, Attn: Poetry Contest, 2920 North Oak Street, Valdosta, GA 31602
• Also at Snake Nation Press: Serena McDonald Kennedy Award Postmark Deadline: August 31. Submit a novella of up to 50,000 words or a manuscript of short stories up to 200 pages long. Fiction and nonfiction accepted. Any well-written manuscript on any topic will be considered. Previously published works may be entered. An entry fee of $25 must accompany the submission. Winner receives $1,000 award and publication. Please mail your entry and fee to: Snake Nation Press, Attn: Serena McDonald Kennedy Award, 2920 North Oak Street, Valdosta, GA 31602

 

• NEW! TIGER’S EYE PRESS Chapbook Competition.  Deadline: August 31, 2012.  Guidelines: Winner receives $100 and 25 copies.  Send 20-25 pages of poetry, a title page, table of contents, and an acknowledgements page, all with no identifying information. Send a second title page with your name and contact information. Please include a short bio, SASE or email address, and a $15 reading fee per contest manuscript. Tiger’s Eye Press, P.O. Box 9723, Denver, CO, 80209

 

AND FOR LATER DATES:

 

• Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition Deadline: September 14, 2012. Whatever your genre, we’ve got the category for you. Choose your favorite genre and enter your best in 4,000 words or less. Each of the 6 categories offers the a place for everybody’s story. Compete and Win in All 6 Categories!  Wondering what’s in it for you?     A chance to win the Grand Prize including $2,500 and a trip to the 2013 Writer’s Digest Conference in New York City.    A chance to win one of the six $500 Category First Prizes .  Get your fiction story Featured in Writer’s Digest and on WritersDigest.com.   Win $100 off a purchase at www.writersdigestshop.com . Receive a copy of the 2013 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. Complete info at: http://www.writersdigest.com/popularfictionawards?et_mid=542024&rid=233037386

 

• THE SUMMER DREAMS POETRY CONTEST Deadline: September 15, 2012. Pandora’s Collective poetry contests are open to writers world wide and of all age categories. Please read our guidelines before submitting. Poems can be of any theme or form as long as they do not exceed the forty line max. We do not accept previously published poems. All rights return to the poet after publication. Pandora’s Collective (Poetry Contest Submission), 5505 Main Street, Vancouver BC V5W 2S3. For more info please email  info@pandorascollective.com. Prize: $100, $50, + publication (three levels)  Entry Fee:$5  Details: http://www.pandorascollective.com/what-we-do/contests

 

• BLOODROOT POETRY CONTEST Reading period runs April 1 through September 15.  http://www.bloodrootlm.com/contest.html $15 FOR THREE POEMS. Three prizes of $200, $100, $50, three honorable mentions and publication in 2012 Bloodroot Literary Magazine edition. All entries are considered for publication. Submit original, unpublished, free verse, ten lines to two pages. The competition is open to any poet who writes in English.

 

• Dark Tales Short Story Contest Deadline: September 30, 2012  Entry Fee: £3 for non-subscribers, free to subscribers Prizes: £500, £250, £100, publication in Dark Tales Guidelines: Horror and speculative fiction stories of under 5000 words. Details: http://darktales.co.uk/contest.php

• Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest Postmark Deadline: September 30, 2012. Now in its tenth year, this contest seeks poems in any style, theme or genre. You may submit work that has been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights. Prizes of $3,000, $1,000, $400 and $250 will be awarded, plus six Most Highly  Commended Awards of $150 each. New this year, there will also be a special $250 bonus prize for humorous verse. The entry fee is $8 for every 25 lines you submit. Submit online or by mail. Early submission encouraged. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners. http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/tomstory/ts_guidelines.php

• PHILIP LEVINE POETRY BOOK PRIZE 2012 Postmark Deadline: 9/30/2012. $2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press Final Judge: CORNELIUS EADY . Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in book form, 48-100 pages, no more than one poem per page. Include two manuscript title pages: one with name and contact information and one with the name of the manuscript ONLY. The entry fee is $25.  FULL DETAILS AT: http://www.fresnostate.edu/english/mfa/levine/guidelines.shtml
• PURITAN MAGAZINE The Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence invites submissions of fiction and poetry. Winners receive $650 (fiction) or $350 (poetry), books from a variety of well-known Canadian presses, and publication in best-of anthology. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: September 30, 2012. http://www.puritan-magazine.com/
• Red Hen Press (US) is currently accepting submissions of original, unpublished poetry for the 2012 Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award. Entry fee: US$20 for up to three poems, 120 lines max. Award: US$1000 and publication of the selected poem in The Los Angeles Review. Deadline: September 30, 2012. http://redhen.org/awards-2/rpa/
• CANADIAN SHORT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION Deadline: September 30, 2012. Extensive guidelines on the website. The entered screenplay must not have been previously optioned, sold or produced. The submitted Material must be original works, and the sole property of the Applicant(s). Screenplays of any genre will he considered and must be the original work of the author submitting it. Each Competition Entrant will receive an email notifying them of the competition results. Canadian Short Screenplay Competition c/o Year of the Skunk Productions, 1108-33 Mill Street, Toronto ON M5A 3R3. For more info please email cssc@yearoftheskunk.com. Prize: $1,500; $350; and $250 + option  Entry Fee:  $75 Details: http://yearoftheskunk.com/
• NEIL POSTMAN AWARD FOR METAPHOR (no fee) Rolling Deadline. Although primarily known as an educationist and a media critic, Neil Postman was, at his core, a “noticer”—and he particularly noticed what we do with metaphor and how metaphor shapes and creates our cognitive world. Postman maintained that words (and words, in truth, are metaphors) are as much the driver of reality as they are the vehicle. Consequently, metaphor was not a subject to be relegated and limited to high school poetry units wherein a teacher drones on about the difference between “like” and “as” and considers the job finished. For Postman, the study of metaphor was unending and metaphors were as crucial as they were omnipresent; they served to give form to and dictate experience. In honor and remembrance of Neil Postman, who died on October 5, 2003, we have established the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor. The motivation for the award is simple and two-fold: To reward a given writer for his or her use of metaphor, and to celebrate (and hopefully propagate) Postman’s work and the typographical mind. Each spring the editors will choose one poem from all of the submissions received by Rattle during the previous year. The author of the chosen poem will receive $500. There are no entry fees or special submission guidelines. Send up to 5 unpublished poems plus a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) to: Rattle, 12411 Ventura Boulevard, Studio City, CA 91604. To browse previous winners, and for information on how to submit electronically, visit our website: www.rattle.com

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