Category: Contests/Competitions

The Binnacle Annual Ultra-Short Competition

The Binnacle will sponsor its Eighth International Ultra-Short Competition in the 2011-2012 academic year. They are looking for prose works of 150 words or fewer and poetry of sixteen lines or fewer and fewer than 150 words.  A minimum of $300 in cash prizes will be awarded, with a minimum prize of $50. At least one of the prizes will go to a UMM student.

There is no submission fee. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2012.

For more information, please visit their website.

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Writers’ Village Best Writing Award Spring 2012

The Writers’ Village is looking for writers to submit any form of short story up to 3000 words and in any genre for their Spring 2012 Writing Awards.

Entries must be received with payment by midnight (GMT) Saturday 31st March 2012.  The entry fee is £10 (approx $16).

The prizes are: First Prize £400 ($660); Second Prize £100 ($160); Third Prize £50 ($80). Five further shortlisted entrants will gain a free entry for their story in the next round.

For more information, please visit their website.

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EVENT 2012 Non-Fiction Contest

EVENT – the magazine of Douglas College – is now accepting entries for its 2012 Non-Fiction Contest. There will be $1500 in prizes available, plus publication! The $34.95 entry fee includes 1 year of EVENT.

The finalists will be judged by Zsuzsi Gartner.  The deadline is April 15, 2012. Judges reserve the right to award two or three prizes: three at $500 or two at $750, plus payment for publication in EVENT 41/3. Other manuscripts may be published. Preliminary judging will be done by the editors of EVENT.

For more information, please visit their website.

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The Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest

The New Quarterly is now their submissions for our 2012 contests, which will be published in their fall issue.

The Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest is open to Canadian authors only, and offers a $1,000 prize for the winning essay.

There is an entry fee of $40 per submission.  The deadline is March 28, 2012.

For more information, please visit their website.

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