September Deadlines:
updated 2010
The 2nd Annual Complete Your Draft Challenge!
“Contest is open to any writer at any stage (first-timer, agented-but-not-yet-published, or published authors; also hobbyists, etc.) to encourage the completion of a draft or writing project.”
submission period Sept. 1 – 30, 2010
details @ http://annemariewrites.livejournal.com/45428.html
Riddle Fence: A Journal of Arts and Culture
“is currently considering submissions of previously unpublished fiction, creative non-fiction, and artwork…”
for its Seventh Issue (no poetry for this issue, please)
deadline September 1, 2010
details @ http://riddlefence.com/submissions/
Island Writer Magazine
seeks “poems, fiction, creative non-fiction, and articles on the craft of writing or life as a writer”
for Victoria Writers’ Society’s Island Writer Volume 8 Issue 2
deadline September 1, 2010
details @ http://victoriawriters.ca/?page_id=22
Mapping Me
seeks poetry, short stories, art, essays and interviews
“currently seeking expressions of interest from all women” for anthology
deadline September 1, 2010
details @ http://www.mapping-me.blogspot.com/
(check under right column heading: Who Are We?)
Lazy Gramophone
seeks writers and illustrators for next booklet
theme: Guilt
deadline September 1, 2010
details @ http://www.lazygramophone.com/journal/competition-illustrators-and-writers
«Refuse the Silence»: Women of Color Students Speak Out
seeking “vivid and honest personal stories and essays about the experiences of women of color…” accepted submission accepted “in the form of a letter, journal entry, video, personal reflection, and/or essay”
deadline September 1, 2010
details @ http://www.refusethesilence.com/
(click on top menu: Call for Submissions)
PANK Magazine
October special online issue theme: Queer
seeking fiction, poetry, art, and unidentified or hybrid literary text objects
deadline September 1, 2010
details @ http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/?page_id=3910
Holiday Velvet Competition
choose one of four titles then write your short travel story
deadline September 1, 2010
details @ http://www.holiday-velvet.com/competition/index.html
AdmitTwo
new guidelines, still accepting collaborative works…
accepting subs until 9/1/10
details @ http://www.admit2.net/submit.htm
5 X 5 Lit Mag
Accepting Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction,
Comics, & Visual Art (all mediums)
Theme: Nourishment
deadline 9/1/10
Promise of Light Haiku Contest
accepting both modern and traditional haiku
deadline September 1, 2010
details @ http://www.promiseoflight.com/haikucontest.htm
2010 Family Circle Fiction Contest
seeking short story fiction
deadline 9/8/10
details @
http://www.familycircle.com/family-fun/crafts/2010-family-circle-fiction-contest-rules/
Priory Publications Poetry Competition 2010
seeking submissions of happiness, reflective, love, lament and humorous poems
deadline September 9, 2010
details @ http://www.poetry.mx/index.php
Strange Weird and Wonderful October 2010 issue
accepting horror, fantasy, and science fiction
submissions with Horror/Halloween theme
deadline September 10, 2010
details @ http://www.strangeweirdandwonderful.com/
(click ‘submissions’ on left margin)
A GREAT DAY FOR FISHING! Contest
sponsored by World Fishing Network
submit story 250 words or less or video up to 2 minutes
deadline September 10, 2010
details @ http://www.wfn.tv/greatday/enter.php
Rio Grande Review
accepting fiction, poetry, non-fiction, translations, flash fiction,
screenplays, memoir, interviews, ART (all mediums),
photography, experimental texts, & visual poetry,
in English and/or Spanish
deadline September 10, 2010
details @ http://www.utep.edu/rgr/submissions.html
New Media Writing Prize
“This award is breaking genuinely new ground in looking at how digital technology is transforming written communication…”
submit entries that “create an engaging and interactive narrative, through the use of digital technologies.”
deadline midday on September 15th 2010.
details @ http://www.poolelitfest.com/new-media-prize.php
Hometown Tales Writing Competition
seeking story submissions theme: Home Town
deadline September 15, 2010
details @ http://www.shortbreadstories.co.uk/competitions/view/hometown_tales/
First Annual Rogue Bud Writing Competition
submit an “essay on why I should select your novel to be considered for publication. Include a one page synopsis of your novel with the entry essay…”
deadline September 15, 2010
details @ http://joyfulnoizministries2.blogspot.com/2010/06/first-annual-rogue-bud-writing.html
Rick Magazine
seeks” stories of accommodations we’ve known or made or imagined, and how they shape us”
theme: Accommodations
deadline September 15, 2010
details @ http://rickmagazine.net/upcoming/
French Toast: “Show Us The Real ‘U’ in Uniform” Contest
sponsored by L T Apparel Group
seeks 300 word or less essay submissions along w/ photo
entries from students age 13 and up
deadline September 15, 2010
details @ http://www.uinuniform.com/
The COLEMAN CAMPSITE MAKE OVER “Contest”
open to “legal residents of Canada; who have reached the age of majority according to their province/territory of residence…”
submit a 200 word essay on Camping in Ontario (read guidelines carefully)
deadline September 15, 2010
details @ http://www.colemancanada.ca/promotions/makeover/prizes/index.en.aspx
(click on rules and regulations at bottom menu)
Damsel Fly Press
seeking fiction, poetry, and nonfiction Issue 13
deadline September 15th, 2010
details @ http://damselflypress.net/2010/07/12/publication-of-twelfth-issue-and-call-for-submissions/
Angel Animals Network 2010 True Story Contest
seeks Inspiring Stories of Animals Who Comfort and Heal Children
deadline September 15, 2010
details @ http://www.angelanimals.net/contestrules.html
GuideGecko Writing Contest 2010
International writing contest for travel, lifestyle and entertainment guidebooks
calling “bloggers, writers, and established authors…travel, lifestyle or entertainment guides”
deadline September 15, 2010
details @ http://www.guidegecko.com/writing-contest
Drunken Boat: online journal of art & literature
seeks submissions for issue theme: /Slant/Sex/
deadline September 15, 2010
details @ http://www.drunkenboat.com/?p=842
Glamour’s Seventh Essay Writing Contest
submit essay of 2500-3500 words describing “an inspiring story about a life changing event, an obstacle overcome, a relationship or passion that’s defined you”
deadline 9/15/10
details @ https://secure.glamour.com/contact/essay-2010
Awana’s Honeymoon Contest
organized by the Awana Porto Malai Langkawi resort
submit essay of less than 150 words along with photo
deadline September 16, 2010
details @ http://mmail.com.my/content/48262-awanas-contest-newlyweds
Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest
fro 12th graders & College/University Students
deadline 9/17/10
details @ http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_contests_atlas
Church’s Spicier Spicy Chicken Song Video Contest
deadline September 19, 2010
details @ http://www.spicierspicychickensong.com/
(click on submission rules: top left margin)
Trans-Scripts
new online journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences based at the University of California, Irvine
seeks graduate students to submit work
Theme: “Race: Theories, Identities, Intersections, Histories, and the ‘Post-Racial’ Society.”
deadline September 19, 2010
details @ http://www.humanities.uci.edu/collective/hctr/trans-scripts/
Fiction Writing Contest
sponsored by Cavewriters.com
accepting fictional short-stories: must star you as the protagonist
deadline September 24, 2010
details @ http://www.cavewriters.com/Articles/Articleview.aspx?id=33
Third Annual Life Lessons Essay Contest
sponsored by Real Simple Magazine
Finish this sentence: “I never thought I’d. . .”
deadline Sept. 24, 2010
I Love Fair Trade Contest
“creatively express how you feel about fair trade commerce…through a submission of words, video, images, music, or other media.”
sample entries available
deadline September 26, 2010
details @ http://news.yourolivebranch.org/ilovefairtrade/
Be Our Texas Lone Star Contest
Submit an essay 300 words or less along with a photo
Deadline Sept 28 2010
Details @ http://beourtexaslonestar.com/
2010 RES Essay Prize
Sponsored by Oxford Journal: The Review of English Studies
Accepting submissions from grad students
Deadline Sept. 30, 2010
Details @ http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/revesj/essay_awards.html
“Henkel Helps Get Kids Fit” Contest
Winning entry will benefit school “…public, private or charter, grades Kindergarten through 12”
Deadline September 30, 2010
Details @ http://www.henkelhelps.com/25KSchoolEntryForm.aspx
Travel CUTS: Get Away video contest
“write a story explaining your reasons for free trips home for the 2010/2011 academic year and submit the video…”
deadline September 30, 2010
details @ http://www2.travelcuts.com/youtube-contest.aspx
Great Hurricane Blowout “Dine in the Dark Recipe Contest”
accepting recipes prepared using disaster preparedness plans…
deadline September 30, 2010
details @ http://www.greathurricaneblowout.org/dine.php
(to submit use right margin)
Search for the Worst Workspace Contest
accepting essays 25 – 250 words
theme: Why your workspace needs a makeover…
deadline September 30, 2010
details @ http://www.csnoffice.com/worstworkspace/worstworkspace.asp
Great Organizing Solutions Contest
accepting photo and essays
theme: What’s the most organized spot in your home?
deadline September 30, 2010
The Colonel’s 120th Birthday Contest
accepting sketch to become visual art
theme: Colonel Sanders
deadline Sep 30, 2010
details @ http://www.kfc.com/portrait/
Winter Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis
seeking fiction, poetry, folklore, life stories, essays, modern midrashim and art
for a sequel “to the anthologies First Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis, 1991-1997 and New Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis, 1998-2005 edited by Howard Schwartz and Barbara Raznick”
deadline September 30, 2010
details @ http://brodskylibrary.org/documents/WinterHarvestsubmissionguidelines_000.doc
Nefarious Ballerina
accepting poetry and art images
must be over 18 to enter site
current reading period open until Sept 30, 2010
details @
http://www.shoemusicpress.com/nefariousballerina/nbsubmissions.html
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