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Contest: Fish Short Story Prize
Eligibility: International, with works that haven't been published before
Closes on: November 30 2012
Prizes: #1  €3,000, of which €1,000 for travel to the launch at the West Cork Literary Festival, July 2013
#2 a week at Anam Cara Writers Retreat and €300  #3 €300
website: www.fishpublishing.com

Contest: Short Story Award for New Writers
Eligibility: Amateur writers of any nationality
Closes on: November 30 2012
Prizes: #1 $1500 and publication in Glimmer Train.#2 and #3: $500/$300, consideration for publication.
website: www.glimmertrain.org

today contest #competition - Here's your chance to win money and get published! In collaboration with Gotham Writers' Workshop, we're pleased to bring you The Writer 2012 Short-Story Contest, which offers great prizes to the top three finishers!

The Writer 2012 Short-Story Competition prizes:

• First prize: $1,000; a free 10-week creative writing workshop offered online by Gotham Writers' Workshop ($420 value); publication in The Writer and on WriterMag.com; and a one-year subscription to The Writer.

• Second prize: $300; free enrollment in a four-week How to Get Published seminar taught online by a literary agent and Gotham Writers' Workshop ($150 value); publication on WriterMag.com; and a one-year subscription to The Writer.

• Third prize: $200; free enrollment in a four-week How to Get Published seminar taught online by a literary agent and Gotham Writers' Workshop ($150 value); publication on WriterMag.com; and a one-year subscription to The Writer.

The Writer 2012 Short-Story Competition Overview:

We're looking for your original, unpublished short stories up to 2,000 words. Entries must be in English and submitted by the author, who must be at least 18 years old at the time of entry. No explicit sex, graphic language or graphic violence. Entries will be judged based on creativity, sense of story, characterization, and overall quality of writing, including grammar, punctuation and syntax. Writers may submit more than one story, but each story must be accompanied by a separate entry fee. Complete rules and FAQs are available at WriterMag.GothamWriters.com.

The Writer 2012 Short-Story Competition Entry fee: $10 per story submitted.

The Writer 2012 Short-Story Competition Deadline: All entries must be submitted online by midnight (EDT) on April 30, 2012.

The Writer 2012 Short-Story Competition website: http://www.writermag.com/storycontest

The winning author will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in Boston Review, the summer of 2012. Stories should not exceed 4,000 words and must be previously unpublished. Mailed manuscripts should be double-spaced and submitted with a cover note listing the author’s name, address, and phone number. No cover note is necessary for online submission. Names should not appear on the stories themselves. Any author writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current student, former student, relative, or close personal friend of the judge. Simultaneous submissions are not permitted, submissions will not be returned, and submissions may not be modified after entry. A non-refundable $20 entry fee, payable to Boston Review in the form of a check or money order or by credit card, must accompany each story entered. All submitters receive a complementary half-year subscription (3 issues) to Boston Review. Submissions must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2011. Manuscripts will not be returned. The winner will be announced no later than May/June 2012, on the Boston Review Web site.

Please enter online using our contest entry manager. This requires payment using a credit card.

Or mail submissions to:

Short Story Contest, Boston Review
PO Box 425786
Cambridge, MA 02142

source; http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/index.php#Estrada