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3rd Annual Editors' Prize

 

Fourth Genre is currently seeking the best creative nonfiction essay/memoir for its third annual Editor's Prize.

 Authors of previously unpublished manuscripts in English are encouraged to enter. The award amount is $750 for First Prize and $250 for Runner-up. Both winners will be featured in an upcoming issue of Fourth Genre.
Submission Guidelines

All submissions will be considered individually for publication. Entry must be previously unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but author must give notice if work is accepted elsewhere.
Entry fee is $15 for each submission. Checks should be made payable to  Michigan State University Press. Included in the fee is a sample copy of Fourth Genre.  Manuscript should be 6,000 words maximum, double-spaced, and bound with a clip. Please include SASE and cover letter with name, address, phone number, e-mail address, the piece's title, and an approximate word count. Manuscripts will not be returned; all are recycled. Please do not send corrections. Winners will be allowed to make changes after notification. Send completed manuscript to:


 

Fourth Genre Editor's Prize
Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Michigan State University
                                                             229 Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI 48824-1033

About the Judge: Maureen Stanton's essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, RiverTeeth, Fourth Genre, The Sun, American Literary Review, and other journals and anthologies.  She is the recipient of the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, the Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, the Goldfarb Family Fellowship, and the Penelope Niven Award from Salem College, as well as grants from the Maine Arts Commission, the Vogelstein Fund, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction in the graduate program of the University of Missouri in Columbia.

The reading period is from December 20, 2005 to January 20, 2006. Please do not send manuscripts outside of the reading period.
 

Tom Howard Short Story and Prose Contest  Also Entries for Contest 14 are now being accepted.  $3,000 total prize pool!

All you have to do is enter a story or prose piece no longer than 5,000 words in the 14^th Annual John H. Reid/Tom Howard Short Story & Prose Contest by March 31, 2006. You can enter a story that’s already been published or even won prizes in other contests (so long as you hold the anthology and online publication rights). Unpublished stories are certainly most welcome too!

All seven winning stories/essays will be published on our web sites. Each year's top story is also guaranteed print publication in a triennial Anthology. At his discretion, the publisher will also offer selected winning works print publication in this Anthology.

Entry forms are not necessary, but by entering this contest you agree to abide by all its conditions. The chief judge’s decision is final. If your story or essay wins a cash prize (other than First Prize), you agree to give John Reid a non-exclusive license to publish and/or assign your story, free of further charge, for a period of two years, with an option of an additional two years. If John Reid wishes to exercise this option for years three and four, you will receive an additional cash payment of $200.  [A different provision applies to the year's top story, which must be licensed to John Reid without further charge for a period of four years]. Otherwise, you retain all rights.

ENTRY FEE: $12 per story/essay.

Maximum length: 5,000 words.

No minimum length requirements. No restrictions on the type or theme of the stories or prose pieces you may submit. Send as many entries as you like!

Entries must be postmarked on or before March 31, 2006, or lodged online before midnight, March 31, 2006, Pacific Time.

Online submission is available at Winning Writers. Please use this link: http://www.winningwriters.com/tomstory.htm

Postal submissions may be sent to Winning Writers, Attention Tom Howard Short Story Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060-3961, USA.

Deadline March 31, 2006.

The Healing Project seeks  first person essays for new "Voices of" anthologies.

Details: www.thehealingproject.com

First books on lung cancer, Alzheimer's disease, alcoholism. Personal experience, or experience with friend, relative, patient. Well-crafted, realistic accounts, regardless of outcome. Key is reader takeaway value--educational, inspirational, emotional. Poignancy fine, no chicken soup. Philanthropic. Profits go to related charities. Pay minimum $200, if selected, plus copies. 8,000 word max.  Query first, or submit to editor@thehealingproject.com

Deadline: Jananuary 31.

Byline Magazine

Details: www.bylinemag.com

Silver Anniversary Poetry Chapbook Competition sponsored by ByLine magazine celebrating 25 years of continuous publication.  Byline also sponsors other contests on a regular basis; for deadlines and more information, visit .

Chapbook Deadline: March 1, 2006

The 2005 One Page Story Prize

HORROR ANTHOLOGY and CONTEST

Room 636 – A New Take on Urban Legends

STORIES THAT DO NOT FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED.

The anthology will be published independently in both e-book (pdf) and paperback format and distributed nationwide. 80% of all proceeds will go to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. 

Published and unpublished writers invited to submit for consideration.

We're looking for new twists to the classic urban legends: the vanishing hitchhiker, Bloody Mary, the killer in the back seat, and all the lesser known tales. We don't want the same old stories retold. Instead, make the story yours –Add characters, change the setting, give us a reason why the killer does what he does. Our only requirements? Make sure the story is scary, original, and well-written . ABSOLUTELY NO ANIMALS INVOLVED.

WE NEED:

Short Stories: up to 4,500 words; shorter pieces and flash fiction are welcome

Novellas: 9,000-12,000 words

Cover art: go wild and surprise us.

Payment: $5 for novellas, $25 to the best story (plus a certificate of merit). All contributors will receive a pdf copy of the anthology plus 10% royalties divided equally amongst contributors (paid twice annually on July 1^st and January 1^st).

Please include word count and a brief bio with your submission. Please indicate which urban legend you're retelling.

We buy one-time non-exclusive rights to publish your work in both print and electronic format as part of this anthology ; after publication, rights revert back to author. If your story has been published somewhere else before, make sure you own the rights and let us know when and where it appeared. Multiple submissions ok. 

Please send the story as a word attachment to editor.anthology@gmail.com. In the subject line, write Room 636 Anthology.

Deadline: December 9 ^th, 2005

HappyNews.com

Details: www.Happynews.com/essay

Happynews.com sponsors a $1000 essay contest with the topic, "Why I am optimistic about the future." Essay must be between 200-2000 words.

Deadline is January 31, 2006.

Colloquial Theater Presents

Ten Plays in Ten Minutes
[Version 2.0]

Colloquial Theater (located in Buffalo, NY) will be presenting their second annual festival of one-minute plays. Script submissions are
currently being accepted. The ten winning scripts will be performed in early February.
 

Colloquial Theater
P.O. Box 685
Williamsville, NY 14231
Rules:
- The script can only be ONE MINUTE LONG (approximately one page in
length)
- Submit your script by January 3rd
 

Nimrod International Journal of Poetry & Prose

Details: www.utulsa.edu/nimrod

University of Tulsa, call for manuscripts for Spring 2006: "Doing the Hundreds" is the theme and is deliberately open to interpretation.

Deadline: December 15, 2005.