Poetry contest: Bloodroot (SEPT 15 DEADLINE)

(Information courtesy of R.S. White)

http://www.bloodrootlm.com/contest.html

Three prizes of $200, $100, $50, three honorable mentions and publication in 2011 Bloodroot Literary Magazine edition.
CONTEST GUIDELINES:

* The competition is open to any poet who writes in English.
* Manuscripts should be typewritten or computer-printed on white 8-1/2" X 11" paper.
* We can only accept hard copies.
* Electronic submissions will not be accepted.
* Submit original, unpublished, free verse, 10 lines to 2 pages.
* Entry fee: $15.00 for three poems, $5.00 each additional poem.
* Final judge: Claudia McIsaac
* Your name must not appear on the manuscript.
* Please provide name, address, email address, titles of poems in a cover letter.
* You may include SASE for results and SAS postcard for confirmation (Optional).
* Entries must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2010.
* Manuscripts cannot be returned.
* Please no simultaneous submission to other publications.

Mail manuscript and entry fee to:
The Editors
Bloodroot Literary Magazine
PO Box 322
Thetford Center, VT 05075

Christian Novella Writing Contest Information

(Information courtesy of R.S. White)

Higher Faith Publications is hosting a Novella Writing Contest at their website. www.higherfaithpublications.com.

There are 10 Cash prizes available.

They are looking at manuscripts between 15000 and 30000 words.

Themes are Historical or Contemporary romance, suspense, time travel and holiday.

The contest is open until October 30 2010, but the sooner you send
your manuscript the sooner you may be selected to have your manuscript
carried on our website as well.

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They are also looking at Novellette length items for our website. These
are between 5000 and 15000 words, same themes as above. They sell for
$1 each.

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They are also looking at short stories etc for our FREE online magazine.

See the sample issue at www.higherfaithpublications.com to see what we can use. We
pay a small fee for these items.

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Send your items to
higherfaithbooks@yahoo.com with a writers bio (new authors
welcome) and a very clean and well edited manuscript as an attachment.

Please make sure your name, email address, phone number etc are all
on the manuscript as well as the email.

We are also open to childrens books that can be put into pdf format
we do not provide illustrations, to sell at our sister site
www.hshighlights.com

2010 Passager Poetry Contest for Writers Over 50

2010 Passager Poetry Contest for Writers Over 50

Submit work: September 1, 2009 - April 1, 2010
Results announced for 2010 contest (projected date): July, 2010

Winner receives $300 and publication. Honorable mentions will also be published.

Reading fee: $20, check or money order payable to Passager
Reading fee includes a one-year, two-issue subscription to Passager.
Submit 3-5 poems, 50 lines max. per poem
Introduce yourself with a cover letter and brief bio.
Include name and address on every page.
Include a Self-Addressed, Stamped Envelope (SASE) for notification of winners.
Poems will not be returned.
No previously published work.

Simultaneous submissions to other journals are okay, but please notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere. No email submissions, please!

If you need more information, send us an email: (replace (at) with @), or call: 410.837.6047.

Send all submissions to:

Passager
1420 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-5779

Naked Man's Rock

Introducing an exciting new collection of stories by WV Writers own Richard A. Lewis!

In the featured story -- “Rebecca's Revenge” -- Rebecca, a beautiful secretary to an offbeat minister, turns up missing. Suspicions fall on the minister and his wife. The Sheriff can't locate the missing woman. Jack Nickels, a former mob enforcer hiding in the Witness Protection Program, lives next door to Penny. She is a sister to the minister's wife. Jack walks the Greenbrier River Trail every morning, just at the break of dawn. Rebecca materializes in ghostly form before him on Naked Man's Rock in the middle of the Greenbrier River. She is a manipulative ghost and draws Jack into her scheme for revenge. Can a ghost be mistaken? Will she finally reveal who killed her? There are 14 short stories in this book. The majority are regional stories with an Appalachian setting. One story takes place in Alaska and another off the coast of Florida. You will find stories of betrayal, deception, ghosts, love -- both sad and humorous -- murder and suicide. The stories encompass a wide range of human foibles. If you are a B & B traveler, you will love these stories that fit the B & B experience. Read one before you go to bed. The next day, you will have another short story to look forward to reading. These stories are perfect for reading when you are by yourself in an old house. Be sure to lock all the doors, though.

Available in Hardback, Paperback, and Electronically downloadable to your Kindle from Amazon.com

Naked Man's Rock

Poetry contest: Conceit Magazine

(Information courtesy of R.S. White)

JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON POETRY AWARD
(Sponsored as a fundraiser for CONCEIT MAGAZINE)

Juanita Torrence-Thompson is an award-winning POET, and author of 6 books including her latest, BREATH-LIFE. Her expertise has been sought out to judge multiple contests throughout the state of New York and on the national level.

First Prize - $50.00
Second Prize - $30.00
Third Prize – 20.00
Fourth Prize - 1 yr subscription to CONCEIT MAGAZINE
Fifth Prize - 6 mth subscription to CONCEIT MAGAZINE
Sixth Prize - 3 month subscription to CONCEIT MAG.

$7.00 entry fee up to 2 poems

ALL writers welcomed

Previously published poems accepted

POEMS MUST BE ORIGINAL AND IN FREE VERSE – NO CENTOS -- 45 Line Limit
Please send name, address, phone and email addresses for notification of winners.
All poems entered will be considered for publication in Conceit Magazine.
SUBJECT: HURRICANE KATRINA and/or HAITI
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Email entries and queries to: <Conceitmagazine2007(at)yahoo.com> (replace (at) with @)

PayPal users pay to <conceitmagazine(at)yahoo.com> (replace (at) with @)

Check website: http://www.myspace.com/conceitmagazine
or
Snail mail entries and reading fees to:
Perry Terrell, Editor
Juanita Torrence-Thompson Poetry Award
P. O. 761495, San Antonio, TX 78245
or
Perry Terrell, Editor
Juanita Torrence-Thompson Poetry Award
P. O. Box 884223, San Francisco, CA 94188-4223
(Make payable to: PERRY TERRELL)

Call for submissions: The Sharp-Tongued Woman Review

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Call for Submissions, Including Reprints: The Sharp-Tongued Woman Review

http://sharp-tonguedwomanrev.blogspot.com/

http://sharp-tonguedwomanrev.submishmash.com/Submit

The Sharp-Tongued Woman Review is a new literary journal striving to
publish the best in fiction, creative nonfiction, scholarly works,
book reviews, and interviews. We accept and encourage work from around
the globe.

Though works are to be topically related to women and stories are to
have female protagonists, both male and female authors are encouraged
to submit.

For creative prose, the editor is looking for strong, distinctive
voices and unique approaches. For analytical pieces, the editor seeks
depth, a maturity of vision, and well-reasoned arguments. Please see
the submission guidelines on the homepage.

Stories submitted for consideration should be on the longer side and
are expected to be fully developed. Short shorts and flash pieces will
be considered if several are submitted together.

The first reading period ends September.1.

The editor will consider previously published work as long as you have
the legal right to republish the material. However, work that is
available on-line cannot be published. Please mention in your cover if
your work has been previously published.

Upon acceptance of your work, you grant The Sharp-Tongued Woman Review
one-time publication rights and archival rights. The copyright to your
work remains your own.

Poetry Reading in Princeton WV

(Information courtesy of R.S. White)

As part of the festivities celebrating the opening of the New Princeton Library on Saturday, August 28, local poets Rob Merritt, Raymond Neely, Salvatore Buttaci, and Kayla Ward will present a poetry reading from 2 to 3 PM. The library's new location is the previous Princeton Post office, 920 Mercer Street.

Call for submissions: One Forty Fiction

(Information courtesy of R.S. White)

One Forty Fiction is a website dedicated to stories that stick to a limit of 140 characters (spaces included). Stories told with beginnings, middles, and ends, and characters who want things.

But how to tell such stories in such limited space? How to create love, and want, and derision in 140 characters? How to deliver your heart?

We have no answer for you. We just know that you have 140 characters to make us see, feel, live, & yearn for the world beyond your 140.

Give us all you got. But give it to us wrapped tight, a Big Bang of a universe, a history of life itself, communicated wisely, and with love.

And if you're feeling saucy, don't be afraid to bring the jazz & funk.

Submit as many and as often as you like: http://www.onefortyfiction.com/submit-your-own

Poetry contest: Naugatuck River Review (SEPT 1 deadline)

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Announcing: Naugatuck River Review's 2nd Annual NARRATIVE POETRY CONTEST

Contest Submission Period: July 1st through September 1st

First prize is $1000 and publication in NRR
Second prize $250 and publication in NRR
Third prize of $100 and publication in NRR

All entrants will receive one issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All poems will be considered for publication. Contest deadline is
September 1st, 2010 at midnight.

Electronic submissions ONLY will be accepted through our Submission Manager.
$20 contest fee per group of 3 poems, payable through PAYPAL or credit card.

GO TO OUR CONTEST PAGE (AFTER JULY FIRST) TO SUBMIT
athttp://naugatuckriverreview.com/contest

Judge for 2nd Annual Contest: Patricia Smith
A National Book Award Finalist, Patricia Smith's fifth book of poetry,
Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press) chronicles the human, physical and
emotional toll exacted by Hurricane Katrina, a catastrophic natural
event with lasting spiritual and political impact. This
much-anticipated volume is also the focal point of a new dance/theater
collaboration between Patricia and Urban Bush Women dancer Paloma
McGregor.
Patricia is also the author of Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffee House
Press), a National Poetry Series winner, the Best Poetry Book of 2006
on About.com, and a 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Paterson
Poetry Prize winner; Close to Death (Zoland Books), Big Towns, Big
Talk (Zoland) and Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha). Her poems
have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, poemmemoirstory, Harvard
Divinity Bulletin, the Chautauqua Literary Journal, TriQuarterly, and
other journals, and in many groundbreaking anthologies. Her poem "The
Way Pilots Walk" received a Pushcart Prize, and is featured in
Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses. Recognized as one of
the world's most formidable performers, Patricia has read her work at
venues round the world

All poems will be considered for publication. Contest deadline is
September 1st, 2010.
Electronic submissions ONLY will be accepted through our Submission Manager.
$20 contest fee per group of 3 poems, payable through PAYPAL or credit card.

GO TO OUR CONTEST PAGE (AFTER JULY FIRST) TO SUBMIT
athttp://naugatuckriverreview.com/contest

Naugatuck River Review is dedicated to publishing great narrative
poetry. We are open to many styles of poetry, looking for narrative
that sings, which means the poem has a strong emotional core and the
narrative is compressed. We publish twice a year, Winter and Summer.
The Winter issue is the contest edition.

Call for Writings

Editions Bibliotekos is accepting submissions for war-related stories for their anticpated (third) anthology, Battle Runes: Writings on War. At this point they are interested in good fiction. Details can be found at their blog, www.ebibliotekos.blogspot.com - by clicking on the Guidelines button. Deadline is September 1.

Editions Bibliotekos
www.ebibliotekos.blogspot.com