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2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest will be accepting entries starting January 14, 2013.

Categories include: General Fiction, Romance, Mystery/Thriller, Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror and Young Adult Fiction.

Prizes:  Publishing contract with an advance of $50,000 for grand-prize winner. Five first-prize winners will receive publishing contract with an advance of $15,000.

Entry fee: none

Entries will be accepted starting January 14, 2013. For more details, please visit their website.

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Pen in Hand Call for Submissions

Pen in Hand, the Maryland Writers’ Association’s quarterly membership newsletter, is accepting submissions for their Winter 2013 issue. They are seeking features, stories, poetry, news, and announcements of interest to MWA members.

Prizes:  Publication

Entry fee: none

Deadline is Friday, December 21. For more information, please visit their website.

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Switchback Publication Seeks Submissions

Switchback, a publication of the MFA Program at the University of San Francisco, is accepting submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art for issue #17. The theme is “broken.”

Prizes:  $200.00 for winner, $75 and $50 for first two runners-up.

Entry fee: none

Deadline is February 28, 2013. For more information, please visit their website.

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From the Depths Seeks Submissions

Haunted Water Press wants submissions of fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry for publication in the Winter 2012 issue of From the Depths. The theme is “A Life Less Ordinary.”

They seek “…character driven works focusing on the human experience. Think love and loss, triumph over adversity, defining moments in an otherwise mundane life, desperate measures in desperate times, ordinary people and extraordinary circumstances.”

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

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