Sep 24, 2009
Writers Digest has opened their 5th Annual Popular Fiction Awards Writing Contest. Deadline for it is November 2 for the following categories:Romance Mystery/Crime Fiction Science Fiction/Fantasy Thriller/Suspense HorrorSee their website for entry requirements and all...
Sep 23, 2009
Dear Writer Friends,Our West Virginia Writers Group at http://www.writerscafe.org currently has two writer prompts for contests that will deadline on September 30. We need more participators, more poets entering their poems. Won't you help by going to each of the...
Aug 3, 2009
The Short Story Award for New Writers competition closes August 31. We're looking for original, unpublished stories by writers whose fiction has not been presented in a print publication with a circulation over 5,000. Word count range: 500 - 12,000. First-place wins...
Jul 11, 2009
(This news courtesy Fay Thompson, WV Writers Roundtable Forum moderator)Writer's Digest is now accepting entries for its 10th Annual Short Short Story Contest. Enter your story of no more than 1500 words, any fiction genre. First place wins $3000, Second place $1500,...
Jun 3, 2009
Leisure Books, the company “leading the way in publishing paperback horror,”* is partnering with Rue Morgue magazine in association with horror fiction web site ChiZine, to present “Fresh Blood,” a new writing contest specifically for unpublished horror authors. The...
Jun 2, 2009
Congrats go out to WV Writers member and previous conference presenter Marc Harshman for his 1st Place win in the Newport Review's Flash Fiction contest.You can read his entry, entitled "The Company of Heaven" at the Newport Review...
