“Dear Lucky Agent” Contest for Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels

Deadline: February 21, 2010 Entry Fee: Free Guidelines: http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/Dear+Lucky+Agent+Contest+Middle+Grade+And+Young+Adult.aspx This contest is being offered by the Guide to Literary Agents. The blog post states that it will be a recurring contest, although in different genres each time. So take advantage of this month’s contest if you write MG or YA fiction. To enter, you need [...]

Realm-Magazine.com Travel Writing Competition

I received this comment today. I thought it was interesting, so here’s the post. Guidelines: http://www.realm-magazine.com Writing Competition Page Closing date: February 26, 2010 Entry fee: FREE Hi, Calling all anglophiles! Just thought I’d let you know that Realm magazine, a historic travel magazine about Britain, has launched a new travel writing competition, to give [...]

The First Line Spring 2009 Contest

Entry Fee: FREE Deadline: February 1, 2009 Guidelines: http://www.thefirstline.com “Herman Sligo was  a bit actor who played Uncle Emil in three episodes of the popular television series The Five Sisters.” Use this first line, verbatim, create a story between 300 and 3,000 words to enter in the First Line Writing Contest. This is a quarterly [...]

The Cats Protection Writing Competition

Entry Fee: FREE Deadline: February 27, 2009 Guidelines: http://www.cats.org.uk/thecat/latest/comp.asp “Forget dazzling doggerel, we want creative catterel!” So states the website for this contest about cats. Cat Magazine, based in the UK is sponsoring this contest for short stories or poetry. Short stories should be 1,000 words or less, and poems less than 500 words. The [...]