ABC Writers Network

The first annual Whittaker Prize writing competition consists of nine rounds, each lasting two weeks. It opens on June 1, 2008 and submissions for the final round will be due on October 5, 2008.

A competition aimed at new and amateur writers of short stories or novelettes of science fiction or fantasy.

Welcome to firstwriter.com’s Seventh International Poetry Competition . This competition is open to poems in any style and on any subject under 30 lines long. Click on one of the following links to enter online in [...]

Summer time is generally poor for writing contests. I suppose we all want to get away from the computer and enjoy the summer days - well that’s the theory anyway: it’s been raining here almost non stop for the past ten days!
So let me know of your contests and I’ll be more than happy to [...]

Kamla Kapur is a sensitive poetic voice, who lives half the year in a remote Kullu Valley in the Himalayas and the other half in California.

Here is an unusual one. Gotham Gazette’s is inviting submissions for their first ever Writing Contest. It is all about:: How the 2008 Elections Affect You?

Sitting in class as a youth, Jennifer Adan didn’t want to pay attention to history or math, yet she wasn’t exactly doodling in her notebooks either.

Today I want to take a brief look at the history and development of “Haiku.”
“Haiku” is a form of Japanese poetry in which each verse consists of 17 syllables arranged in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables, respectively. Haiku is not meant to rhyme or to have rhythmic cadences.