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Deadline: November 1, 2010
$1000 Prize in each of three categories
Submit work in any of our three marquee genres: poetry, short fiction, or creative non-fiction. Poetry: up to three poems per entry (max. 100 lines each); Short Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction: one piece (max 2500 words)
Fees:   $35 CAD for Canadians
            $40 USD for US entries
            $45 USD for entries from elsewhere
(entry fee includes a one-year subscription)
For more information:
http://www.malahatreview.ca/open_season/info.html
Enquiries: malahat@uvic.ca

I am writing on behalf of the Creative Writing Programme Director, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin  to invite students to submit their work to our once-off flash fiction contest sponsored by the Dublin Review of Books. Final decisions will be made by authors James Ryan, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and an editor from the drb.     With a fee of only 10 euro, the ease of electronic submissions will aid students submitting their flash fiction pieces by 1 June. In addition to a 1,000 euro grand prize, publication of the top three entries in the prestigious Dublin Review of Books will undoubtedly add to the budding portfolios of the winning writers. Not only will this prize help to advance the recognition of programmes of winning students, it will also bring international recognition to young writing.     An entry form, with the contest rules and guidelines can be found at http://www.drb.ie/competition.aspx Please contact me at James.Stafford.1@ucdconnect.ie if you have any concerns not covered by the guidelines
Thank you for your time and consideration- I look forward to hearing from you.
James Stafford    
http://www.ucd.ie
http://www.drb.ie

Foul-tempered dismissal, snub, last-minute confession…
Give short schrift to any topic. Maximum 500 words.
Fiction or non-fiction, your choice. Extra points for attitude!
$25 per entry
Pay via Paypal online at www.vancouverreview.com (under Subscribe) or by cheque
sent to Vancouver Review, 2828 West 13th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V6K 2T7
Email your entry to info@vancouverreview.com by midnight, June 30, 2010, along with a mailing address
Enter as often as you like
Each entry automatically includes a one-year subscription to VR
Entries will be judged by VR editors
No previously published work, please
And best of all…
The winner gets $250 plus publication in the Fall 2010 issue of VR

Phoebe is proud and excited to announce we are now accepting submissions of creative nonfiction.
 
At this time we are accepting regular submissions between 500 and 2,000 words in length for publication on our website. (For more, check out Phoebe online or write to PhoebeNonfiction@gmail.com.)
In addition, Phoebe is especially excited to announce Shauna Cross as the judge for our first-ever nonfiction contest. Cross is a screenwriter and author, popular with critics and readers alike. Her own experiences in the world of roller derby sport inspired the novel Derby Girl. She later turned the novel into a screenplay for the movie Whip It! (directed by Drew Barrymore and starring Ellen Page). Cross is currently working on several screenplays for upcoming films.
$250 Grand Prize and Publication
 
~ Runners Up Published Online ~
 
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Ricepaper CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Summer 2010, Issue 15.3)

Theme: The Flavours of Food

Fortunately for us, the many immigrants who came to our great nation brought with them
culinary practices from around the world. Nowadays, one doesn’t have to go to
“Chinatown” or “Little India” or “Japantown” to find dishes from these parts of the world.
Restaurants serving up Asian-inspired food can be easily found throughout small
Canadian towns, coast to coast, and on almost every metropolitan street corner.
Arguably, eating food is Canada’s all-time favourite pastime, after hockey, bien sur! And
like breathing fresh air, eating food sustains our bodies while enriching our sense of
shared humanity and connection to the earth. Furthermore, the aromas and tastes of
food are so powerful that they can bring back childhood memories and reinforce our
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 Room magazine invites you to participate in our 2010 Annual Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction Contest.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked no later than June 15, 2010.
Entry Fee: $27 per entry (includes a complimentary one-year subscription to Room). Non-Canadian entries: $39 Canadian dollars.
Prizes: 1st prize in each category - $500, 2nd prize - $250. Winners will be published in a 2011 issue of Room. Other manuscripts may be published.
Judges:
Fiction: June Hutton
Poetry: Jennica Harper
Creative Non-Fiction: Lynne Van Luven
Please visit http://www.roommagazine.com/contest/2010/2010contest.html for complete details. We look forward to your submissions!
To find out more about Room or to sign up for our newsletter, visit www.roommagazine.com.

The editors at Precipitate are now reviewing previously unpublished fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, critical essays, book reviews, interviews, and visual media from new and established writers. The submission deadline for our Spring issue is April 30th.

You can check out our recent issue as well as submission guidelines at http://www.precipitatejournal.com/.

Three winners will each receive $500 (plus publication payment). Publication in Event 39/3 (December 2010). Other manuscripts may be published. Preliminary judging by the editors of Event.
 
Final Judge: Lynn Coady is the author of the novels Strange Heaven (1998), Saints of Big Harbour (2003), and, most recently, Mean Boy (2006). She has also published a short story collection, Play the Monster Blind (2000). Her non-fiction has appeared in magazines and newspapers across Canada. She has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, as well as the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award, and is a recipient of the Dartmouth Book Award, The Canadian Authors Association Jubilee Award and the CAA Award for Authors under Thirty. In 2005 she received the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career, and in 2007 she received the Writers Guild of Alberta George Bugnet fiction prize for Mean Boy. She lives in Edmonton.
 
Myrna Kostash, Andreas Schroeder, Sharon Butala, Tom Wayman, Di Brandt, Terry Glavin, Karen Connelly, Charles Montgomery and Timothy Taylor are some of our past judges.

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FINAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 22 (Deadline is “Postmarked by” = Packages can be mailed until the day of the deadline)
 
ALL SHORT CATEGORIES:Narrative, Animation, Experimental, Documentary, Spec,Music Videos,and Stereoscopic 3D. All films must have been created after January 2008, and be no longer than 30 minutes.
 
FILM FESTIVAL DATES: April 27-May 1, 2010 in Manhattan NYC MISSION &
 
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FOR ITS OUTSTANDING CURATORIAL WORK provides a cultural and entertaining forum while ! recognizing and honoring independent emerging filmmakers through a panel of judges from the entertainment industry who reviews the films and gives the awards.
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The 2010 EVENT Non-Fiction Contest
Three winners will each receive $500 (plus publication payment).
Publication in EVENT 39/3 (December 2010). Other manuscripts may be
published. Preliminary judging by the editors of EVENT. Read the rest of this entry »