The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival is open to submissions for their annual fiction contest.

The cliff notes are as follows:

Deadline:  Nov. 15, 2012

Grand Prize:  $1500, VIP Pass to festival, airfare, accomodations AND PUBLICATION.

Guidelines:  You cannot have a published novel, your submission has to be under a mere 7000 words, and you have to have $25 to your name.

Get crackin'.  Hopefully it's THE BIG EASY for you.

(Click the picture to enter...)

Entry Deadline: Oct, 31 2012

If you write fiction and need a break from the ol' manuscript -- consider writing a short story to enter into the Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Awards.  Categories include science fiction, thriller, YA, romance, crime, and horror.

Entry deadline has recently been extended to Oct. 31, 2012.  Plenty of time for you to compose a story (4,000 words or less), bring it in for a read and critique, and send it off.

Click here for more details on the Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Contest

Good luck!

The dead­line to enter the Hook ‘EM Wri­ting Con­test is 11:59 p.m. on Friday, January 15, 2010.

New at the 2010 DFW Wri­ters’ Con­fe­rence the con­test focu­ses on those all-important first five pages. The best entrant in each cate­gory, as deter­mi­ned by a panel of jud­ges inde­pen­dent of the DFW Wri­ters’ Con­fe­rence and the DFW Wri­ters’ Workshop, will win a 10-minute appoint­ment with an agent. The cate­go­ries are:

• Lite­rary


• Mys­tery / Sus­pense / Thriller


• Non-Fiction


• Romance


• Science Fic­tion / Fan­tasy / Horror


• Young Adult / Middle Grade

Con­tes­tants may enter in seve­ral cate­go­ries, or have seve­ral entries in one or more cate­go­ries. The con­test is open to ever­yone, age 16 and older, regard­less of regis­tra­tion to attend the 2010 DFW Wri­ters’ Con­fe­rence. There is a $35 fee per entry per cate­gory.  A por­tion of the regis­tra­tion fee will be dona­ted to the children’s cha­rity, First Book.  

Enter today to avoid the last-minute rush.