Category: Contests/Competitions

Glimmer Train: Family Matters

Glimmer Train Press, publishers of Glimmer Train magazine, wants story submissions on the theme of family (whatever that means to you) for their twice-yearly Family Matters issue. Maximum length: 12,000 words.

Prizes: First prize, $1500 and publication; second prize, $500 ($700 if accepted for publication) ; third prize, $300 ($700 if accepted for publication).

Reading fee: $15 per story. You may submit up to three stories.

Deadline is April 30, 2013. For more information, please visit their website.

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WriterAdvice Announces Flash Prose Contest

WriterAdvice, an online magazine, wants your flash fiction, memoir, and creative non-fiction running 750 words or less for their eighth annual flash prose contest. Finalists receive responses from all judges.

Prizes: First prize, $200; second prize, $100; third prize, $50. Honorable mentions will also be published.

Reading fee: $13 per individual story. You may submit up to three stories.

Deadline is April 18, 2013. For more information, please visit their website.

Indies Unlimited is pleased to provide this contest information for the convenience of our readers. We do not, however, endorse this or any contest/competition. Entrants should always research a competition prior to entering.

The Fiction Desk Ghost Story Competition

The Fiction Desk usually publishes stories that are more or less realistic, but now they want your ghost stories. All types welcome.

The competition is open to all English-speaking writers 16 and over.

Prizes: First prize, £500; second prize, £100. Both winners will be published in an upcoming Fiction Desk anthology.

Reading fee: £6 per story and £9 for two stories submitted together.

Deadline is May 31, 2013. For more information, please visit their website.

Indies Unlimited is pleased to provide this contest information for the convenience of our readers. We do not, however, endorse this or any contest/competition. Entrants should always research a competition prior to entering.

Call for Entries: The 35th Nimrod Literary Awards

The Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry seeks previously unpublished fiction and poetry entries for the 35th Nimrod Literary Awards, which include The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.

Prizes: First prize, $2000 and publication; second prize, $1000 and publication.

Reading fee: $20.00 per story.

Deadline is April 30, 2013. For more information, please visit their website.

Indies Unlimited is pleased to provide this contest information for the convenience of our readers. We do not, however, endorse this or any contest/competition. Entrants should always research a competition prior to entering.