By Maeve Maddox
Creative Nonfiction (CNF) and the Oxford Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference & Workshop are looking for essays that capture the South in all its steamy sinfulness. For example: skipping church to watch football, coveting your neighbor’s Real Housewife of Atlanta, or just drinking an unholy amount of sweet tea.
Contest sponsors invite writers to confess their own [...]
By Maeve Maddox
Contest Writing Prompt
The entry fee is $12, the window for submission is May 1-14, and the first prize is $500.
The Fiction500 contest is sponsored by the not-for-profit Fiction500 Foundation (status pending) in San Diego, California. According to its website, the contest was inspired by the Three-Minute Fiction Writing Contest that National Public Radio began in [...]
By Maeve Maddox
I just got a lengthy email asking me to announce a short story contest. Naturally I wanted to pass the information on to Arkansas writers, but when I started reading the announcement, I found myself wandering in a morass of irrelevant material, looking for information that should have been presented in the first 300 [...]
By Maeve Maddox
Vicki Law of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers sends this announcement:
The entry deadline for the Sandy Writing Contest sponsored by Crested Butte Writers is
February 12, 2012.
The 2012 Sandy Final Judges are:
Romance – Sue Grimshaw, Editor at Large & Category Specialist for Ballantine & Bantam Dell
Mainstream Adult Fiction – Kevan Lyon, Agent at Marsal [...]
By Maeve Maddox
Thanks to Laura for bringing a broken link to my attention.
The link to the Gemini Magazine short story contest is now working.
By Maeve Maddox
Registration for the Missouri Writers’ Guild’s 2012 Write Time! Write Place! Write Now! Conference in Chesterfield, Missouri is open. Conference dates: April 20—22, 2012. If you’re planning to go, you can save money by registering before the end of December.
Early Bird registration ends on December 31. After that, rates will go up $25.
Early Bird Rates
Missouri [...]
By Maeve Maddox
Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc. (OWFI)
The 2012 OWFI conference (May 3-5) is almost half a year away, but the deadline for contest entries is February 1, 2012. Check the website for rules and detailed category information.
Gemini Magazine
The deadline for the Third Annual Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest is March 31, 2012. Take a shot at the [...]
By Maeve Maddox
In its 55th year, the Grand Prairie Art Festival will feature the work of artists September 23-25, [...]
By Maeve Maddox
OWL members urged to submit contest entries no later than September 1, 2011, but earlier if [...]
By Maeve Maddox
The Susie Pryor Award offers a $1,000 prize to the most outstanding research on the topic of Arkansas women. [...]