Friday, July 13, 2007

Writing Contests: Poetry and Short Stories

At The Somersite, there is plenty going on.  You’ll find poetry and short story contests there with an August deadline.


Prizes are £500, £150, and £100. 

In addition, you can find out about a great writers’ getaway spot.

This is in conjunction with the Wells Festival of Literature Competitions.
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Nottingham Poetry Society poetry contest

The Nottingham Poetry Society poetry contest is open for entries.  There are three prizes available in the amounts of £300, £150, and £75.  


The winners of last year’s contest are listed at the link above.  So, if you’d like to give it a go, you can look at the sort of thing that the Nottingham Poetry Society tends to like.


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Chicago Poetry Summer Contest

Check out the Chicago Poetry.com Summer Contest.


There are $200 worth of prizes in the contest.  You can enter from this link.

There are two categories — poetry about Chicago, and poetry about poetry.  I think it looks like a fun place to enter a good contest.  Stop in and have a look for yourself.
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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Love to Know - contests

Love to Know has regular contests going on at their site. You can choose the sort of writing you like to do, and the topic on which you like to write, and submit it to the site. It will be entered into a contest, and visitors in the site get a say in how well it does.

If you would like to join the contests there, just click the link above and take a look.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Poetry Contest

The Georgetown Review has their guidlines up for their 2008 poetry contests. Submission deadline is Nov. 15. That’s still a good while away, and should give writers a chance to get their submissions in order. Here’s the prize:

$1,000 and publication to the winning short story, poem, or essay on the subject of redemption.

See the link above for details.

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