Short story and nonfiction contest.
The First Place winner will receive a $200 cash award and consideration for publication in the Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC’s upcoming anthology, entitled, Once Around the Sun: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales for All Seasons.* Our previous anthology, A Christmas Sampler: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Holiday Tales (2009), won two Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Best Anthology and Best Short Fiction.
Cool contest with cash AND a glass of wine a day for a year as the prize!
Taking a page from the famous literary cafés of Paris, Crook’s Corner Café & Bar in Chapel Hill, North Carolina announces the first annual Crook’s Corner Book Prize, to be inaugurated with an award for best debut novel set in the American South.
Writing Tomorrow is a brand new magazine. We launched our first edition October 1, 2012. We are seeking all types of quality literature and welcome submissions of original, unpublished short stories, novel excerpts, and poems. Our next issue will be out in early February.
Writing workshop and retreat.
WOMEN, WRITING, AND SOUL-MAKING: A TWO-DAY FEARLESS WRITING RETREAT
This two-day, non-residential writing retreat for women in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, inspires women writers to explore creativity and give voice to their truth in a safe circle.
Writing workshop from Alice Osborn
Immerse yourself in a weekend of writing without interruption in the mountains of Western Carolina. This is your answer to, “I’ll write when I can find the time!” Empowered women are powerful writers—grab your power so you can dream and accomplish your dreams of writing your story! Together over the course of this weekend, we’ll delve into our stories of defining moments, healing and self discovery.
PAMLICO WRITERS CONFERENCE
When: Saturday, March 2
Where: Washington Civic Center, 116 N. Gladden St.
Information: Marni Graff, bluevirgin.graff@gmail.com
Writing in Our Time is the conference theme. The Saturday conference keynote speaker will be Bland Simpson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at UNC-Chapel Hill. An author and playwright/composer/lyricist, he is a longtime member of the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers and is a recipient of the North Carolina Award in Fine Arts (2005), the state’s highest civilian honor. The conference will start with a panel discussion on Publishing in our Time. Three morning and three afternoon writing workshops/lectures will follow, each with timely writing themes. Leading local and area writers will participate in the discussion and host the working sessions. A box lunch will be served before the keynote speech. A Pamlico Writers Competition awards ceremony and reception will be held at 6:30 pm following the conference.
More on the trending of literary magazines: growth and shrinkage.
From Hubpages:
Recently I found a master list of online literary magazines I had printed out in 2005, and I wondered how many of them were still in action.
The Blotter is one of the few literary magazines that still has a print run of 8,000 copies…and that’s every month! They’re reaching for 10,000 so they’re a great place to submit.
Their annual contest is still running. Submit any book-length fiction, including young adult, short story collections, literary novels, commercial novels (like sci-fi, horror, mystery, thrillers, romance, etc.), mainstream, and novellas.
Here’s good news on the magazine front from The Guardian newspaper.
The death of journalism has been grossly exaggerated, according to a band of ambitious young New York writers and editors who are shaking up the publishing world
Here’s an interesting blog/lit mag concept called Twenty-Four Hours that’s online. It’s more of a chat about literature and other performance art but many of the posts are interesting enough to check in on now and then.
Not your typical place to submit, I’ll admit, but this is a great place for those short prose bits. Here’s info from their newsletter:
Papirmasse is a subscription that delivers an art print to your mailbox every month. For each issue we choose a new artist to showcase and ask them to design a print for us. On the backside of Papirmasse we publish short stories, essays, graphic novel excerpts, and poems. We then mail these prints to subscribers for the ridiculously low price of $5.00 a month. What can we say? We’re waging a war against blank walls.
Great blog entry from Camille Dungy on one very important aspect of writing.
Another contest that offers prizes in several formats: short story, essay, poetry, and interview.
This contest specifies that you must submit a collection of short fiction. You can submit a novella for the award but it can’t stand alone; you must submit more than that one work.
Check out these 10 writing tips that are useful no matter what you’re writing. From author Janet Fitch.
Writer's Resource/Sunspot Lit 