Deadlines: April 08
Eleventh Transmission (AB) and Magpie Haiku Poets invite entries for their Haiku Contest. First prize: $50 and publication; additional prizes avail. Entry is free. Submit 2 haiku max. Deadline: April 30, 2008. More details...
Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine invites entries for Byron's Quill Award for Poetry. First prize: $1000. Open to Canadian residents only. Length: 60 lines/300 words max. Submit 4 copies of each poem. Entry fee: $20 (includes copy of annual magazine) for up to 3 poems; $5 per additional poem. Deadline: April 30, 2008. More details...
The Ontario Poetry Society invites entries of uplifting poems (36 lines max). First prize: $50. Entry fee: $5 for up to 3 poems; $1 per additional poem. Deadline: April 30, 2008. More details...
The Writers' Union of Canada invites entries for their Writing for Children Competition. Submit any writing for children, 1500 words max. First prize: $1500. Entry fee: $15. Deadline: April 24, 2008. More details...
To celebrate National Poetry Month, EYE WEEKLY invites entries for their first annual poetry contest. Prize: $200 plus a literary prize pack. Submit up to three unpublished poems (limit one submission per person). Deadline: April 30, 2008. More details...
The Feathertale Review (ON) is now accepting short fiction, poetry and cartoon submissions to its third annual Review. Payment: yes, but amount not indicated. Deadline: April 15, 2008. More details...
The Miss G_ Project for Equity in Education (Ottawa, ON) seeks poetry, essays, short stories, rants, monologues, and spoken word pieces for an activist anthology ("actology") that take on and challenge the media. Working title: "The Media is Not Fooling Me: an Actology." Publication date: May 25, 2008. Seeks pieces that are critical of the media from a self-aware perspective that takes into account power and sex/gender/sexuality/race/class/ability. Open to high-school aged writers. Payment: free copy. Deadline: April 25, 2008. More details...
Skive Magazine (Australia) invites entries for the 4th annual Skive Short Story Prize. First prize: US$200. Submit stories 500-2000 words. Entries also considered for the June 2008 issue. Deadline: April 15, 2008. More details...
Toward the Light: Journal of reflective Word and Image invites entries for their 6th Annual Poetry contest. Submit rhyming or free verse poetry "that sees in the dark: personal poetry that integrates the power of light and dark in life." First prize: $175 plus publication in premiere summer edition, online publication, and two copies. Entry fee: $25 (includes subscription and 3 contest entries) or $12 for up to 3 poems. Also accepting poetry, photography, fiction, and essay submissions. Deadline: April 1, 2008. More details...
Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly Cha seeks submissions for its third issue (publication in May 2008). Theme: Asia. Accepts poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and reviews. Deadline: April 15, 2008. More details...
The Writers' Union of Canada invites entries for its Writing for Children Competition. Open to unpublished Canadian writers. Length:1500 words max. First prize: $1500; winner's and finalists' entires will be submitted to three publishers of children's books. Deadline: April 24, 2008. More details...
Niteblade Magazine is currently accepting poems, stories (any length) and nonfiction. All submission must contain elements of fantasy or horror. No run-of-the-mill vampire stories. April 30, 2008. More details...
Matrix magazine is now accepting submissions for its Gallows Humour dossier. Wants your darkest, most absurd and sardonic, witty, acerbic, ironic and sarcastic unpublished writing. Electronic submissions only. Poetry: 3-5 poems. Fiction: 3500 words max.. Deadline: April 11, 2008. More details...
Shameless Magazine is seeking submissions for an anthology for teen girls to be published by Tightrope Books in Spring 2009. Women and trans-identified adults are invited to submit creative non-fiction essays 500-2000 words about how their teen experiences (positive and negative) shaped their lives as as writers. Appreciates a mix of smart, sassy, honest and inclusive writing. Deadline: April 18, 2008. More details...
The Alaska Writers' Guild welcomes entries for the Ralph Williams Prize for Speculative Fiction. First prize: US$5,000; additional prize available. All non-winning entries receive 2 critiques. Categories: Science fiction, Fantasy, Humor/Horror, and Young Adult. Length: 25 pages max. Entry fee: US$50. Deadline: April 15, 2008. Awards presented awarded at Alaska Speculative Fiction Conference October 1-5, 2008. More details...
