The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winners receive $2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse.
The deadline to enter this year's prizes: January 15, 2011.
Enter by uploading a file of your manuscript online or by mailing in a paper manuscript. Each manuscript entered should consist of up to twenty-five pages of fiction or up to three poems (up to 10 pages total of poetry). For each manuscript entered, include a reading fee of $16 per manuscript, which includes a one-year/two-issue subscription to Crazyhorse. More than one manuscript may be entered. For each additional fiction or poetry manuscript entered and entry fee paid, your subscription to Crazyhorse will extend by one year/two issues. Subscriptions begin with Crazyhorse Number 79, Spring 2011; the winning manuscripts will be published in Crazyhorse Number 80, Fall 2011.
More details:
http://www.crazyhorsejournal.org/page.php?id=108James Knudsen Editor's Prize
The submission must be an original, previously unpublished work of FICTION and no longer than 7500 words. Contest submissions must be postmarked no earlier than October 1 and no later than December 31. The reading fee is $15 and includes a one-year subscription to Bayou Magazine.
More details:
http://www.cola.uno.edu/cww/bayou/bonanza.cfmDo you know NaNoWriMo?
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is National Novel Writing Month is a kind of game for writers. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. More details on:
www.nanowrimo.org