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New Millennium writing awards

$4,000 in Prizes, plus publication in NMW and on the Web at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com

$1,000 for best Fiction; $1,000 for best Poem; $1,000 best Nonfiction; $1,000 best Short-short Story

(Nonfiction includes humor, memoir, creative nonfiction, travel, opinion, essay, interview, features, investigative reporting, etc.)

To Enter, follow these Guidelines, or enter on-line at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com and click on awards and contests or click here www.writingawards.com (shortcut). When entering online, include title page or cover letter in the file with your submission. It's easy.

1. No restrictions as to style, content or number of submissions. Enter as often as you like.
2. Winners and selected finalists---including all poetry finalists---will be published in our 2009-10 issue and/or on-line at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com.
3. Send between now and midnight of June 17, 2010. This deadline may be extended once-only.
4. Simultaneous & multiple submissions welcome.
5. Each fiction or nonfiction piece is counted as a separate entry, and should total no more than 6,000 words except Short-short Fiction (no more than 1,000 words). Winners plus selected finalists will be published.
6. Each poetry entry may include up to three poems, not to exceed five pages total per entry. Famed poet and essayist Nikki Giovanni will serve as top poetry judge, and all 20 poetry finalists will be published.
7. Include name, phone, address, email & category on cover page only and upload along with each submission in a single file.
8. Manuscripts not returned. Include email address or SASE for list of winners.
9. Include $17 check payable to NMW with each submission.
10. Enter online at www.writingawards.com or send by U.S. Mail or other carrier to: "NMW" Room EM, PO Box 2463, Knoxville, TN, 37901.

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ARS MEDICA

A Journal of Medicine, the Arts and Humanities is a new literary magazine looking for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and artwork dealing with illness, the body, healing, and the culture of medicine. For submission/subscription info, see www.ars-medica.ca.

Writers Wanted: The Paris Review

Details: http://www.theparisreview.org/page.php/prmID/32

The esteemed literary magazine says they are looking for new writers. If you've got great poems and short stories. All submissions must be in English and previously unpublished. Translations are acceptable and should be accompanied by a copy of the original text. Simultaneous submissions are also acceptable as long as we are notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere. A cover letter is not necessary, but be sure to include phone and (if possible) email contact information. Please submit only one story manuscript at a time. We suggest to all who submit that they read several issues of The Paris Review to acquaint themselves with material the magazine has published.

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Submissions of poetry may include multiple poems but should not exceed 10 pages. Fiction and essay submissions should not exceed 10,000 words. All submissions should be previously unpublished. Wag’s Revue asks for first serial rights to all published work; all other rights revert to the author upon publication.

The Hollywood Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program celebrating books
that deserve greater recognition from the film, television, game and multimedia communities.

Based in the capital of show business, the Hollywood Book Festival aims to (1) spotlight literature worth of further consideration by the talent-hungry pipeline of the entertainment industry; and (2) facilitate getting those works into the proper hands for consideration.

The 2Hollywood Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, 'zines, comics, e-books, fan fiction, wild card (anything goes!), unpublished stories and genre-based works. There is no publication date deadline – books from any year are eligible.

$4,500 total prizes for writers
Next postmark deadline: May 18, 2011.

The $1,500 New Letters Prize for Poetry
for the best group of three to six poems

The $1,500 Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize for the Essay
for the best essay

The $1,500 Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction
for the best short story

GUIDELINES

Submit by regular post or electronically. Simultaneous submissions of unpublished entries are accepted with proper notification upon acceptance elsewhere. For electronic entries, go to our website at
http://www.newletters.org/awards.asp

Enclose with each entry:
*$15 for first entry; $10 for every entry after. Entry fee includes a one-year subscription, renewal, or gift subscription to New Letters. Make checks payable to New Letters.

*Two cover sheets: the first with complete name, address, e-mail address, phone number, category, and title(s); and the second with category and title only. Your personal information should not appear anywhere else on the entry.A stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification of receipt and entry
number.

*A stamped, self-addressed envelope for a list of winners. This is optional. Please send only one envelope if submitting more than one entry.

RULES AND NOTES
All entries will be considered for publication in New Letters. Entries are not to exceed 8,000 words. Poetry entries may contain up to six poems. They need not be related. Multiple entries are welcome with appropriate fees. Manuscripts will not be returned. No substitutions after submissions. No refunds will be offered for withdrawn material. Current students and employees of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and current volunteer members of the New Letters and BkMk Press staffs, are not eligible.

MAIL ENTRIES TO:
New Letters Awards for Writers
UMKC, University House, Room 105
5101 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

Postmark deadline by May 18, 2011.