Discontinuing this blog …

After more than 5 years, I’ve decided to discontinue this blog. Thank you to everyone who stopped by! I’ve enjoyed getting to know so many fellow writers. I do have some other contest-related sites worthy of your time:

http://www.writersdigest.com/competitions/writing-competitions

http://www.pw.org/grants

http://www.freelancewriting.com/writing-contests.php

http://writingcontests.wordpress.com/

http://www.newpages.com/classifieds/writingcontests/

MARKETS AND JOBS:

http://www.writersweekly.com/markets_and_jobs/008313_12182013.html

Coal Hill Review’s poetry chapbook contest

deadline Nov. 1, 2013; winner gets $1,000 and 200 copies; details HERE:

http://www.coalhillreview.com/?page_id=20973

Alligator Juniper contest with $1,000 prize

Open to fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction; each category wins $1,000; entry fee is $15; deadline is Oct. 1, 2013; details HERE:

http://www.prescott.edu/alligatorjuniper/national-contest/index.html

Contest for fiction and poetry

Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence; prizes are $600 for poetry and $900 for fiction; there is a $10 entry fee; deadline is Sept. 30, 2013; details HERE:

http://www.puritan-magazine.com/

FREE poetry contest for h.s. students ($500 prize)

Easterday Poetry Award; no entry fee; deadline May 31, 2013; Details HERE:

http://www.highschoolpoetrycontest.com/to_enter

Stone Voices seeks essays, articles & short stories

Snail mail only; looking for columns; details here:

www.stonevoices.co

Northwind Story Contest

deadline 10/15/2012; $1,000 prize; $10 entry; fiction and narrative nonfiction 1,500-1,800 words; details HERE:

http://www.northwindmagazine.com/contests/fall_2012_story_contest.html

World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest

500 words max; $500 prize; $16 entry fee; deadline is March 15, 2012; details HERE:

http://southeastreview.org/contests.html

FREE flash fiction chapbook contest

Big Wonderful Press FREE flash fiction chapbook contest; deadline is Jan. 15, 2012; Submit 20-40 pages of flash fiction (each piece should be fewer than 520 words); details here: http://www.bigwonderfulpress.com/submissions/

Contest for short stories in legal setting

5,000 words; march 15, 2012 deadline; details here:

http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202536122902&This_prize_goes_to_the_best_lawrelated_short_story&slreturn=1