Poetry and Creative Writing Contests

Stony Brook $1,000 Short Fiction Prize

Submission guidelines and information:

Eligibility

Only undergraduate enrolled full time in United States and Canadian universities and colleges for the academic year 20010-11 are eligible. 

Guidelines

• Entrant’s identity and academic institution will not be revealed to judges.
• Submissions of no more than 7,500 words should be typed on 8.5-by-11-inch paper.
• Include one cover sheet with the title of the work only. On a second cover sheet, include your name, permanent address, telephone number and email address. Do not include your name on any pages of your story.
• All entries must be accompanied by proof of current undergraduate enrollment, such as a photocopy of a grade transcript, a class schedule or payment receipt showing your full-time status.
• The institution’s name and address must be clear. No fax or electronic submissions will be accepted.
• Manuscripts will not be returned. Submission assumes the right of Stony Brook to publish the winning story on its Web site.
• The winning short story will automatically be considered for publication in The Southampton Review, the literary journal published by the Stony Brook Southampton MFA program in Writing and Literature.

Deadline

March 1, 2011.  All applications postmarked after the deadline will be returned unopened.  The winner and runner-up will be notified in June 2011.

John Westermann
Director, The Stony Brook $1,000 Short Fiction Prize
Stony Brook Southampton
MFA program in Writing and Literature
239 Montauk Highway
Southampton, NY 11968

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2010 Webb-Smith Essay Competition

Call for Papers on: “Transnational Perspectives on the Soviet Bloc, 1944-1991”

A prize in the amount of $500 will be awarded to the author of the winning entry during the 46th Annual Webb Lecture Series on March 10, 2011 at UTA. The goal of this day-long conference will be to reflect critically on the need—and opportunities—for studying flows of people, objects and ideas across the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War.

46th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lecture Series

Submission guidelines and information: The Department of History at the University of Texas-Arlington is announcing its 46th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Essay Competition. The topic for 2010-2011 is “Transnational Perspectives on the Soviet Bloc.” We are looking for original, unpublished article-length essays (maximum 10,000 words plus endnotes) that explore the problem of movements of people, goods and ideas across the Bloc’s internal and external boundaries. Geographically, submissions dealing with any combination of links between the Soviet Union, the East European “people’s democracies” and the broader world are most welcome. Sample problems may include: scientific interactions, technology transfers, cultural influences, imaginary encounters, social or cultural consequences of transnational economic exchange, migration or displacement, travel as well as issues of theory and method.

In the spirit of the event, we encourage the Competition participants to engage with the growing body of scholarship that challenges the vision of the Soviet Bloc’s total isolation and internal atomization. The winning entry will appear in an edited monograph, to be published by Texas A&M University Press. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2011 (date of receipt). Essays should be submitted electronically to the coordinator of the 2011 Webb Lecture Series, Dr. Jennifer Lawrence at jlawrenc@exchange.uta.edu.

Deadline for submissions:   January 31, 2011

Send submissions either electronically ( jlawrenc@exchange.uta.edu) or by mail to Jennifer Lawrence, Chair, Webb Lectures Committee, Department of History, UT Arlington, Box 19529, Arlington, TX  76019-0529

Deadline: Entries must be in by January 31, 2011.

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Crab Orchard Review

Annual Literary Contests:
The 2011 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize ($1,500)
Jack Dyer Fiction Prize ($1,500)
John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize ($1,500)

One winner and two finalists will be chosen in each category.  The three category winners will be published and the finalists offered publication (with a minimum payment of $150) in the Winter/Spring issue of Crab Orchard Review.  The winners and finalists will also be announced in the March/April Poets & Writers and on the Crab Orchard Review website.

Contest Guidelines

Entries must be previously unpublished, original work written in English by a United States citizen or permanent resident (current students and employees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are not eligible).  Name, address, telephone number, email address, and work’s title (or title for poetry entries) should appear only on a cover sheet for the entry.  The aughor’s name should not appear on any sbsequent page.  All entries must be postmarked between October 1, 2011 and November 16, 2011.  Late entries will be returned unread.  Enclose a #10, self-addressed stamped envelope for notification of winners.  Do not inlcude an envelope or postage for a return of manuscript since entries will be recycled upon the decision of the final judges and notification of the winners.

Please address entries to:

Jon Tribble, Series Editor
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
(Open Competition Awards)
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
1000 Faner Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901

Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for notification of contest results. If you would like confirmation that the manuscript has been received, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard as well. Manuscripts may be under consideration elsewhere, but the series editor must be informed immediately if a collection is accepted for publication.

Entries must be previously unpublished, original work written in English by a United States citizen or permanent resident (current students and employees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are not eligible).  Name, address, telephone number, email address, and work’s title (or title for poetry entries) should appear only on a cover sheet for the entry.  The aughor’s name should not appear on any sbsequent page.  All entries must be postmarked between March 1, 2010 and April 30, 2010.  Late entries will be returned unread.  Enclose a #10, self-addressed stamped envelope for notification of winners.  Do not inlcude an envelope or postage for a return of manuscript since entries will be recycled upon the decision of the final judges and notification of the winners.

Page Restrictions
Poetry entries should consist of 3 poems; 100 line limit per poem.  Prose entry length:  up to 6,000 words for fiction and up to 6,500 words for literary nonfiction.  One poetry entry, story, or essay per $10 entry; a writer may send up to three entries in one genre or a total of three entries if entering all competitions.

Entry Fee
$10 for each entry.  Please make checks payable to Crab Orchard Review.  Each fee entitiles entrant ot one copy of the 2011 Winter/Spring issue of Crab Orchard Review, which will include the winners of these competitions.  If you send two entries with $20, we will send you the 2011 Summer/Fall issue as well; if you send three entries with $30, we will send you the 2011 Summer/Fall issue and the 2012 Winter/Spring issue as well.

Address
Mail entries to:  Crab Orchard Review Literary Contests, Dept. of English, Mail Code 4503, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1000 Faner Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901.  Please indicate on the outside of the envelope if an entry is “Poetry”, “Fiction”, or “Literary Non-fiction”.

We do not accept electronic submissions, but we hope in the future when we have our own server dedicated to submissions to offer this option.  We will let you know when this becomes possible, but it is at least a year or more away given funding issues.

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Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature (NUCL)

The University of Portland
The Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature seeks to provide an opportunity for undergraduate and advanced high school students in the Northwest to present their own scholarly or creative work to their peers. Participants are also invited to attend NUCL’s keynote speaker, this year Mark Edmundson, Professor at the University of Virginia. On behalf of the NUCL, The University of Portland awards prizes and a scholarship for the best papers and works submitted, including the “Brass NUCL Award” for the hardest-hitting paper.

About the Conference
The conference is open to college and university students as well as honors or advanced-placement high school students, and seeks to provide a forum for students to present their ideas about literature through analytical and research papers, followed by small group discussions of the papers.

Submissions
Original Scholarly, Analytical or interpretive papers no longer than 15-18 minutes when read aloud. Poems and creative essays that reflect reading experience in contemporary and creative non-fiction. Student poems need to submit 5-7 poems, and creative essays must be limited to 15 minutes when read aloud.

Address
Mail one hard copy of the submission (do not put your name in the body of the submission) with the submission form to:
NUCL—Submission
Department of English
University of Portland
5000 N. Williamette Blvd
Portland, Or 97203-5798

For more information and to download the Submission Form, please visit the NUCL website at http://college.up.edu/english/nucl