Grand Finale: Grandmother Earth/Life Press National Contest and Christian Writers Conference

http://www.grandmotherearth.org/index.html

Deadline: July 7, 2013 postmark

National Awards: Open to anyone who pays the entry fees of 1-3 entries: $10; $2 for each additional entry. No limit on the number of entries in each category as long as fees are paid. Critique: $10 for 1-4; $15 for up to 10 entries (limit 4 in each category to be critiqued) but no limit on the number of entr...

Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing

http://www.hungermtn.org/katherine-paterson-prize-for-young-adult-and-childrens-writing

An annual prize for Young Adult and Children’s Literature. A chance for your YA and Children’s Lit to be read by Hunger Mountain editors and guest judges!

One overall first place winner receives $1,000 and publication!

Three category winners receive $100 each and publication. The categories are:
Young Adult (YA)
Middle ...

Thriving Family Magazine

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/extra/call-for-submissions

Theme: Helping juniors/seniors in high school battle the stress associated with preparing for graduation and college prep/application. Could also include a sidebar including a practical checklist of what parents can help their teens accomplish during those last one/two years—everything from taking a college entrance exam (ACT/SAT) to sending out graduation invitations.
Word Count: 700 words + 200...

Wisconsin Writers Association

http://www.wiwrite.org/contests/ContestRules.pdf

First Chapters Contest

First Chapters: first chapter of a completed draft of a book-length manuscript, minimum

55,000 words total. Entry must be minimum 1,000 words, maximum 3,000 words. Entries must be original and unpublished.

Entry fee: $15    Prizes: $100, $70, $40.     Deadline: June 15, 2013

Thriving Family Magazine 0 to 3 yrs. olds

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/extra/call-for-submissions

(For Early Years 0- to 3-year-olds)

Disappointment Drama: When things don't go the way toddlers have in mind (or are accustomed to), they often don't know how to cope. Simple changes to the routine or unmet expectations can send toddlers into hysterics. Do you have a creative way to help toddlers become more flexible and cope with disappointment (with less drama)?

Introducin...

Thriving Family: Devotions On the Go—December Devotions

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/extra/call-for-submissions

Theme: Faith and Works
Each devotion must include a Play, Talk and Pray element, along with an additional and somewhat related prayer that is based in a specific Scripture.
Word Count: 150 words per devotion
Rights: All rights
Payment: $50 on acceptance
Due date: May 31, 2013
Audience: Parents with young children. The concepts should be easy for 5- to 8-year-olds to und...

First Annual Colony Collapse Novella Prize

https://colonycollapse.submittable.com/submit

$10 ENTRY FEE

Colony Collapse Press will award a prize of $300, publication, and 20 complimentary copies for the best novella, as judged by our editorial board. Deadline July 31, 2013. Length: 15,000 words minimum and 50,000 words maximum per each individual submission. These pages must comprise a single work of fiction or novella-length narrative nonfiction.

from: www.fundsforwriter...

Alive Now is a devotional magazine that supports the spiritual lives of small groups as well as individuals. The magazine invites readers to enter an ever-deepening relationship with God, helps them reflect on contemporary issues from a faith perspective, and supports them in acting on these issues.

General Guidelines

Each issue of this bimonthly, 48-page magazine focuses on a contemporary topic that impacts the faith life. Divided into sections that move readers through exp...

NASA English-language Haiku Contest

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/culture/AJ201305050012

NASA is accepting entries for an English-language haiku contest that will put the three best poems aboard a space probe that will orbit Mars. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration opened the contest on May 1. The deadline for entries is July 1.

The three winning haiku will be selected through online voting. They will be recorded on a DVD that will be loaded o...

Write for Light

http://writeforlight.com/?page_id=58

Write for Light is a creative writing programme that is open to everyone. There is only one thing that we want you to do, and that is to write a short autobiographical story based on the following prompt:

Tell us about a time in your life when you found light in the darkness.

Your true story could be about a time when you:
Overcame an obstacle.
Achieved something against all odds.
Felt hopeless but you found hope.
Were n...

SouthWest Writers 2013 Third Bimonthly Writing Contest

Flash Fiction or Short is Good

http://southwestwriters.com/contestBiMonthlyCurrent.php

Write a short story that contains the classic story elements of a protagonist, conflict and resolution. Double-spaced, 750 words maximum. Any genre. Please note if you grant publication permission.

Tweak our interest and win $150/$50/$25 or an honorable mention. Your entry may also be published in the Sage newsletter, if your permiss...

Proud To Be, Volume 2

http://warriorsartsalliance.com/contest-call-for-submissions

NO ENTRY FEE

Open to all military personnel, veterans and their families.

Deadline July 1, 2013.

Five categories of poetry, fiction, essays, photography, interviews with warriors.

Theme: Created by the Missouri Humanities Council, the Warrior Arts Alliance, and Southeast Missouri State University Press, this series of anthologies preserves and shares the perspectives of our military and ve...

ParentLife

http://blog.lifeway.com/parentlife/about-parent-life/

A Christian parenting magazine designed to take parents from pregnancy through the preteen years. ParentLife brings a Christian worldview to today’s top parenting and cultural issues, covering topics related to health, development, education, discipline, and spiritual growth. Each issue of ParentLife gives practical ideas and insights to help parents meet the responsibilities and celebrate the joys of parenting. Par...

Thriving Family Magazine

Call for Submissions

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/extra/call-for-submissions

Theme: Redeeming relationships with extended family (can be somewhat Thanksgiving related but doesn't have to be); this needs to be a parenting article, so you would need to show how to parent your children through your family's difficult relationship with one or more extended family members in a way that helps children better understand the role of redemption in the Christia...

June Cotner announces that Andrews McMeel will be publishing
SOAR! Words of Inspiration for Graduates in Spring 2014.

http://junecotner.com/jccallsub.html

The purpose of SOAR! is to provide inspirational wisdom, motivational quotes, and positive reminders for students who are graduating from any school such as high school, college, graduate school, or any specialized school such as nursing school.

In addition, about one-third of the selections will have a spiritual emphasi...

Women Who Write
2013 International Poetry & Short Prose Contest

http://www.womenwhowrite.com/Submit.html

DEADLINE: June 30, 2013

Contest Rules:
1.Open to women 18 years or older.
2.Women Who Write will retain one-time publication rights (print and electronic), after which all rights revert to the author.
3.Entries to the contest must be previously unpublished.
4.Prose pieces can be fiction or non-fiction and are limited to 3,000 words or less.
5.$12 entry fee for each prose piece ...

Thriving Family Magazine

Advent Articles Needed!

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/extra/call-for-submissions

Advent Calendar

Help families prepare their hearts for Christmas through activities they can do together. These family activities should be under 200 words total.

Word Count: 100-175 words, not counting the suggestion

Article type: Activity and devotional explanation with fun extra suggestion

Rights: All rights

Payment: $25, on acceptance, for each activity/expl...

Pelican Publishing

http://www.pelicanpub.com/viewer.php?region=92

As a general trade publisher, Pelican produces travel guides, art and architecture books, Christmas books, local and international cookbooks, motivational and inspirational works, and children’s books, as well as a growing number of social commentary, history, and fiction titles.

from: www.fundsforwriters.com

Saturday Writers Short Story Contest - Color Prompt: Brown/Purple

http://www.saturdaywriters.org/sw-contests.html

Deadline: May 25, 2013
Short Story - Any Genre
Color Prompt: Purple and/or Brown
2,013 word limit

Here are some ideas to work color into your story:

The story can take place near the muddy Mississippi River, in middle-ages England or the old west where roads are dirt and mud. Your story could happen at sunset, beneath a purple sky. Sci-Fi stories can make anything pu...

Grand Finale: Grandmother Earth/Life Press National Contest and Christian Writers Conference

http://www.grandmotherearth.org/index.html

Deadline: July 7, 2013 postmark

National Awards: Open to anyone who pays the entry fees of 1-3 entries: $10; $2 for each additional entry. No limit on the number of entries in each category as long as fees are paid. Critique: $10 for 1-4; $15 for up to 10 entries (limit 4 in each category to be critiqued) but no limit on the number of entr...

Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing

http://www.hungermtn.org/katherine-paterson-prize-for-young-adult-and-childrens-writing

An annual prize for Young Adult and Children’s Literature. A chance for your YA and Children’s Lit to be read by Hunger Mountain editors and guest judges!

One overall first place winner receives $1,000 and publication!

Three category winners receive $100 each and publication. The categories are:
Young Adult (YA)
Middle ...

Thriving Family Magazine

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/extra/call-for-submissions

Theme: Helping juniors/seniors in high school battle the stress associated with preparing for graduation and college prep/application. Could also include a sidebar including a practical checklist of what parents can help their teens accomplish during those last one/two years—everything from taking a college entrance exam (ACT/SAT) to sending out graduation invitations.
Word Count: 700 words + 200...

Wisconsin Writers Association

http://www.wiwrite.org/contests/ContestRules.pdf

First Chapters Contest

First Chapters: first chapter of a completed draft of a book-length manuscript, minimum

55,000 words total. Entry must be minimum 1,000 words, maximum 3,000 words. Entries must be original and unpublished.

Entry fee: $15    Prizes: $100, $70, $40.     Deadline: June 15, 2013

Thriving Family Magazine 0 to 3 yrs. olds

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/extra/call-for-submissions

(For Early Years 0- to 3-year-olds)

Disappointment Drama: When things don't go the way toddlers have in mind (or are accustomed to), they often don't know how to cope. Simple changes to the routine or unmet expectations can send toddlers into hysterics. Do you have a creative way to help toddlers become more flexible and cope with disappointment (with less drama)?

Introducin...

Thriving Family: Devotions On the Go—December Devotions

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/extra/call-for-submissions

Theme: Faith and Works
Each devotion must include a Play, Talk and Pray element, along with an additional and somewhat related prayer that is based in a specific Scripture.
Word Count: 150 words per devotion
Rights: All rights
Payment: $50 on acceptance
Due date: May 31, 2013
Audience: Parents with young children. The concepts should be easy for 5- to 8-year-olds to und...

First Annual Colony Collapse Novella Prize

https://colonycollapse.submittable.com/submit

$10 ENTRY FEE

Colony Collapse Press will award a prize of $300, publication, and 20 complimentary copies for the best novella, as judged by our editorial board. Deadline July 31, 2013. Length: 15,000 words minimum and 50,000 words maximum per each individual submission. These pages must comprise a single work of fiction or novella-length narrative nonfiction.

from: www.fundsforwriter...

Alive Now is a devotional magazine that supports the spiritual lives of small groups as well as individuals. The magazine invites readers to enter an ever-deepening relationship with God, helps them reflect on contemporary issues from a faith perspective, and supports them in acting on these issues.

General Guidelines

Each issue of this bimonthly, 48-page magazine focuses on a contemporary topic that impacts the faith life. Divided into sections that move readers through exp...

NASA English-language Haiku Contest

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/culture/AJ201305050012

NASA is accepting entries for an English-language haiku contest that will put the three best poems aboard a space probe that will orbit Mars. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration opened the contest on May 1. The deadline for entries is July 1.

The three winning haiku will be selected through online voting. They will be recorded on a DVD that will be loaded o...

Write for Light

http://writeforlight.com/?page_id=58

Write for Light is a creative writing programme that is open to everyone. There is only one thing that we want you to do, and that is to write a short autobiographical story based on the following prompt:

Tell us about a time in your life when you found light in the darkness.

Your true story could be about a time when you:
Overcame an obstacle.
Achieved something against all odds.
Felt hopeless but you found hope.
Were n...

SouthWest Writers 2013 Third Bimonthly Writing Contest

Flash Fiction or Short is Good

http://southwestwriters.com/contestBiMonthlyCurrent.php

Write a short story that contains the classic story elements of a protagonist, conflict and resolution. Double-spaced, 750 words maximum. Any genre. Please note if you grant publication permission.

Tweak our interest and win $150/$50/$25 or an honorable mention. Your entry may also be published in the Sage newsletter, if your permiss...

Proud To Be, Volume 2

http://warriorsartsalliance.com/contest-call-for-submissions

NO ENTRY FEE

Open to all military personnel, veterans and their families.

Deadline July 1, 2013.

Five categories of poetry, fiction, essays, photography, interviews with warriors.

Theme: Created by the Missouri Humanities Council, the Warrior Arts Alliance, and Southeast Missouri State University Press, this series of anthologies preserves and shares the perspectives of our military and ve...

ParentLife

http://blog.lifeway.com/parentlife/about-parent-life/

A Christian parenting magazine designed to take parents from pregnancy through the preteen years. ParentLife brings a Christian worldview to today’s top parenting and cultural issues, covering topics related to health, development, education, discipline, and spiritual growth. Each issue of ParentLife gives practical ideas and insights to help parents meet the responsibilities and celebrate the joys of parenting. Par...

Thriving Family Magazine

Call for Submissions

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/extra/call-for-submissions

Theme: Redeeming relationships with extended family (can be somewhat Thanksgiving related but doesn't have to be); this needs to be a parenting article, so you would need to show how to parent your children through your family's difficult relationship with one or more extended family members in a way that helps children better understand the role of redemption in the Christia...

June Cotner announces that Andrews McMeel will be publishing
SOAR! Words of Inspiration for Graduates in Spring 2014.

http://junecotner.com/jccallsub.html

The purpose of SOAR! is to provide inspirational wisdom, motivational quotes, and positive reminders for students who are graduating from any school such as high school, college, graduate school, or any specialized school such as nursing school.

In addition, about one-third of the selections will have a spiritual emphasi...

Women Who Write
2013 International Poetry & Short Prose Contest

http://www.womenwhowrite.com/Submit.html

DEADLINE: June 30, 2013

Contest Rules:
1.Open to women 18 years or older.
2.Women Who Write will retain one-time publication rights (print and electronic), after which all rights revert to the author.
3.Entries to the contest must be previously unpublished.
4.Prose pieces can be fiction or non-fiction and are limited to 3,000 words or less.
5.$12 entry fee for each prose piece ...

Thriving Family Magazine

Advent Articles Needed!

http://www.thrivingfamily.com/extra/call-for-submissions

Advent Calendar

Help families prepare their hearts for Christmas through activities they can do together. These family activities should be under 200 words total.

Word Count: 100-175 words, not counting the suggestion

Article type: Activity and devotional explanation with fun extra suggestion

Rights: All rights

Payment: $25, on acceptance, for each activity/expl...

Pelican Publishing

http://www.pelicanpub.com/viewer.php?region=92

As a general trade publisher, Pelican produces travel guides, art and architecture books, Christmas books, local and international cookbooks, motivational and inspirational works, and children’s books, as well as a growing number of social commentary, history, and fiction titles.

from: www.fundsforwriters.com

Saturday Writers Short Story Contest - Color Prompt: Brown/Purple

http://www.saturdaywriters.org/sw-contests.html

Deadline: May 25, 2013
Short Story - Any Genre
Color Prompt: Purple and/or Brown
2,013 word limit

Here are some ideas to work color into your story:

The story can take place near the muddy Mississippi River, in middle-ages England or the old west where roads are dirt and mud. Your story could happen at sunset, beneath a purple sky. Sci-Fi stories can make anything pu...