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Zoetrope: All-Story

Entry Fee: $15

Deadline: October 1, 2008

Guidelines: http://www.all-story.com/contests.cgi

Zoetrope, the highly competitive writers contest accepts fiction entries up to 5,000 words in all genres. Winners may be offered representation by prestigious literary agencies, such as William Morris Agency, Inkwell Management, the Elaine Markson Literary Agency, and others. Joyce Carol Oates was the judge in 2007, and the winning entry is linked to the guidelines page. Polish your best prose and send it to Zoetrope: All-Story.

Bards and Sages 5^th Annual Contest

Entry Fee: $10

Deadline: October 31, 2008

Guidlelines: http://www.bardsandsages.com/2008contest.html

Blood, fangs, and fire, oh my! Bards and Sages is hosting their 5^th anuual speculative fiction contest. This year’s theme is on dragons, vampires, and hybrids. All proceeds from the entry fees go to the Children’s Literacy Initiative, which increases child literacy by providing professional development to teachers. The winning entries will be published in next year’s anthology, and will receive U.S. Series EE Savings Bonds.

Funds for Writers 7^th Annual Contest

Entry Fee: FREE or $5 (You choose the level.)

Deadline: October 31, 2008

Guidelines: http://www.fundsforwriters.com/annualcontest.htm

C. Hope Clark, the founder and editor of funds for writers is a common sense person. She doesn’t believe you should ever give your writing away, and she has dedicated her business to helping writers earn money and find money through jobs, grants and other means available.

Her contest is also a common sense topic. You choose to write on one of two topics:

The Best Advice I Ever Had And Ignored, or

The Best Advice I Ever Had And Followed.

Your entry is a nonfiction essay of 750 words or less. Entrants will be added to her mailing list, and I can assure you, she gives good information in her FundsforWriters newsletter. Winners receive cash prizes, the amounts based on whether you enter for free or pay the $5 fee.