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The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves arranging words into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a story that is worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream... Write a poem, 30 lines or fewer on any subject or write a short story, 5 pages maximum on any theme for a chance to win up to $500.00 in cash prizes. All works must be original. Poetry Prizes: $250, $125, $50. Writing Prizes: $500, $250, $100. Entry fees: $5 per poem, $10 per story. The contest deadlines are semi-annual: July 31st and December 31st each year! More info: http://www.dreamquestone.com Prizes awarded to reporters for excellence in science writing in each of the following 6 categories: large newspaper (over 100,000 daily circulation), small newspaper (under 100,000 circulation), magazine, radio, television, and online. Online entries can come from a variety of digital sources: newspaper, radio, television, and online-only sites. Online entry form must accompany all submissions. PRIZE: $3,000 in each of 6 categories. Deadline: August 1, (every year) The Amy Foundation Writing Awards program is designed to recognize creative, skillful writing that presents in a sensitive, thought-provoking manner the biblical position on issues affecting the world today. To be eligible, submitted articles must be published in a secular, non-religious publication and must be reinforced with at least one passage of scripture. Cash/Opportunities for Writers Poets Graduating HS. Awards for young artists. Features a critique for every entrant and a cash prize for the best submission. A political and literary forum. The want the worst, purple prose beginning of a story. The Raymond Carver Short Story Award at Carve Magazine is one of the world's premier fiction awards for original, unpublished short stories. Maximum length: 10,000 words. Prize money totals $2,000. All submissions are considered for publication. International entries welcome. Entry fees: $15 (one), $25 (two), $30 (three). Only three entries per author are permitted. The deadline for receipt of entries is October 15, (every year). First prize: $500. Second and third prizes: $100 each. Two honorable mentions. This contest is open to any writer in English producing an original short piece of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetic prose, or poetry on a theme of nature, deep ecology, spiritual ecology, or any work that has some element of nature woven into it. Submissions can be published or unpublished material, length to range between 500 and 2500 words per entry. One title per entry, you can enter as many times as you like, new entry fee to accompany each entry. Entry fee: $12 (U.S.) The top three essays will be published in the Naval Institute's flagship journal, "Proceedings," and the winning authors will receive cash prizes of $1,500, $1,000, and $500. All enlisted active-duty, reserve, or retired personnel of all service branches and countries are encouraged to submit essays of 2,500 words or less on any subject relevant to military service. Various contests with varying deadlines The contest is open to all writers. You do not have to be a member of Florida Freelance Writers Association (FFWA) or a resident of Florida. Nonfiction, fiction, children's literature, poetry divisions. The Munster Literature Centre is pleased to announce it will be offering a prize of 50,000 Euros for the best original collection of Short Stories published in English, anywhere in the world. Glimmer Train Press offers a number of awards for literary short fiction each year. The prize money for short stories less than 2,000 words, for example, totals $2,000. A reading fee of $10 is required. The Press is also open for submissions with no reading fees. Open to all ages, this short story contest is designed to promote intergenerational understanding. Maximum length: 750 words. Cash prizes total $700. No entry fees. Original, unpublished short stories, less than 5,000 words, on any theme, are sought. Deadline: November 30, each year. Entry fees: $16 for one, $11 each additional. First Prize: $2,500. The best eighteen short-listed stories will be published in an anthology, read by leading literary agents. |
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