Deadlines: June 10
Mill Street Books (ON) invites entries for a writing competition in celebration of Mississippi Mills Bicycle Month. Prizes: $200, $100 gift certificate, $50 gift certificate. Submit short stories, 1500 words max. A bicycle must be an important part of the story. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: June 30, 2010. More
For their inaugural issue, Burner seeks work that gets reader's blood pumping and heart racing. Interested in science, art, truth, conspiracies, naturalism, cyborgs, music, beauty, sex, and everything in between. Deadline: June 15, 2010. Submit poetry (3-5 poems attached in a single document with full formatting; include the word 'POETRY' in the subject line) and fiction/non-fiction (500-1000 words attached in a single document; include the words "FICTION" or "NON-FICTION" in the subject line) to burnermag@gmail.com
Quarterly online journal Message in a Bottle (UK) seeks submissions for their Summer issue. Prefers poems on the "unsung and overlooked" . Deadline: June 1, 2010. More details...
Crack Crack (US) is seeking works by writers and artists in their early 20s for an anthology where each contributor will have a section of 10 or so pages. Edgy is good. More details...
Red Claw Press seeks stories, poems, and artwork for an anthology on food and drink: Writerlicious Anthology about Food: Literal, Poetic, Imagined. Publication in Spring 2011. Deadline: June 1, 2010. Payment: one copy of book. More details...
Hamilton, Ontario's literary festival seeks three outstanding works of short fiction and three suites of poems for the gritLIT Challenge of Three. First prize: $200. Winning entries published in a chapbook. Length: 3000 words or 300 lines. Deadline: June 1, 2010. Entry fee: $20. More details...
The Broken City, a Web-based literature/arts magazine, is accepting submissions for its summer 2010 edition: Still Life, Fast Moving -- cities, nature, and the amalgamation of the two. Seeking poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics, art and photography. Deadline: June 30, 2010. More details...
Print and online journal Vallum: contemporary poetry (QC) invites poetry entries for their contest. First prize: $750 plus publication. Deadline: June 30, 2010. Entry fee: $20 (for up to 6 poems, includes subscription). More details...
The Broken City, a Web-based literature/arts magazine, is accepting submissions for its summer 2010 edition: Still Life, Fast Moving: cities, nature, and the amalgamation of the two. Send poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics, art and photography. Deadline: June 30, 2010. More details...
Descant seeks submissions of fiction, poetry, essays and artwork for a themed issue: Sicily. Writers are asked to explore what Sicily means to them: "Romantic idyll or land of feuding rivalries? The mafia? An island apart from mainstream Italian culture?" Deadline: June 1, 2010.. Payment: $100 honourarium. More details...
The Ontario Poetry Society is accepting entries for The Arborealis Prize for Poetry. First prize: $200 + 2 anthology copies. Winners and selected entries to be published in perfect bound anthology. Open theme. Length: 36 lines max. Entry fee: $15 (3 poems). Open to all Cdn. poets. Deadline: June 30, 2010. More details...
