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Words with JAM BIGGER Short Story Competition 2012

Words with JAM’s Annual Short Story Competition just got BIGGER. Submit your 2500-word short story on any theme, 1000-word “shorter story,” and/or 250-word “shortest story.”

Prizes:
1st prize in each category – £300
2nd prize in each category – £100
3rd prize in each category – £50

Reading fee is £6.00 for first entry and £4.00 for each additional entry.

Deadline is October 31, 2012. For more information, please visit their website.

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Glimmer Train Fiction Open Contest

Glimmer Train’s quarterly “Fiction Open” is open to all subjects, all themes, and all writers. Most entries run from 2,000 to 8,000 words, although stories from 2,000 to 20,000 words are welcome.

Prizes:

$2,500 for first place (plus publication in Glimmer Train Stories),  $1,000 for second place, $600 for third place.

Reading fee is $19 per story. Please no more than three submissions per contest.

Deadline is September 30, 2012. For more information, please visit their website.

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National Writing Contest in Fiction

Prescott College encourages submissions from writers of all levels, including emerging or early-career writers. The annual contest awards $1000 plus publication for the first place winners in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Finalists in each genre will be recognized as such, published, and paid in copies. Cost of entry: $15. Every entrant receives one copy of the 2013 issue, a $10 value. The issue will come out in late spring 2013. There is no theme for this issue; work is selected upon artistic merit. Submissions are accepted August 15 through October 1, 2012.

For more information, please visit their website.

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Cinnamon Press Novel/Novella Writing Award

Cinnamon PressThe Cinnamon Press Novel/Novella Writing Award competition is now accepting submissions from new and published authors. The aim of this award is to encourage new authors, enabling debut novelists/novella writers to achieve a first publication in this genre. The winning author has his/her first novel published by Cinnamon Press and receives a prize of £400. The four runners up also receive a full appraisal of their novel.

Entry fee is £16 per entry.

The deadline for submissions is 30th June 2012.

For more information, please visit their website.

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