Leaf Books invites you to submit poems (max 35 lines) on any subject. All selected entries will be published in an anthology. Leaf Books always used to send every author of the selected entries a free copy of the book but due to general funding crises they will only be sending free copies to the [...]

This is a contest which is well worth entering both from the prize fund point of view and the publicity the winner will receive. The first-place entry, along with the finalist judge’s comments, will be published in The Writer magazine. All three winning entries will be posted on The Writer Web site.

Prizes: $1,000, first [...]

This international contest is open worldwide and is for short stories on any subject up to 3,000 words.
Prize: 1st – One week holiday in self catering Seaview Apartment in Greece OR One week place at the Creative Writing Conference held at Limnisa, a seaside location in Greece.
2nd – 50% discount on one week place [...]

Do you fancy yourself as a bit of an Agatha Christie, Salman Rushdie or Ogden Nash? Well, now’s your chance to put pen to paper and get those creative juices flowing once more as we launch the 2009 Cats Protection Writing Competition.

This year we have opened up the entry criteria to include both short [...]

This time of the year when we’ve all made New Year Resolutions I like to post some information about writing contests.

Hi guys bear with us for a little while. We were engaged in a scheduled upgrade when BINGO everythign went wrong! We’re working on it as quickly as we can – please remember we are writers not web designers so we’re on a learning curve. Everything should be fine within 48 hours.
Every other month, Writer’s [...]

The purpose of this annual writing contest, named in honor of Willamette Writer’s founder, Kay Snow, is to help writers reach professional goals in writing in a broad array of categories. The deadline for entries for the 2008 contest is April 23, 2008.