I’ve published a variety of writing contests over the past month, but today is the first screenwriting competition. It’s a good one, too! Each year, the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival includes a competition for filmmakers and a competition for screenwriters. Entries are now being accepted for the 2011 competition, which coincides with the April 2011 festival. The early bird deadline is October 2, 2010. Following are details from the L.A. Comedy Shorts website: “Comedy screenwriters from around the world compete for over $10,000 in cash and prizes, including travel, accommodations and two VIP passes to the festival in Los [Read more…]
L.A. Comedy Scripts Screenplay Competition Open for Submissions
Enter L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival Annual Competition
September 3, 2010. Leave a Comment
PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship Accepting Submissions
Enter to Win a $1,000 Fellowship and 8-Month Mentorship
August 30, 2010. Leave a Comment
Sorry for the late notice on this opportunity, but I just stumbled upon it this morning. If you have poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction ready to go, then you can still make the August 31, 2010 deadline to enter to win a $1,000 fellowship from PEN Center USA and an 8-month mentorship in Los Angeles, California. The entry fee is just $10. Here are the main entry details from the PEN Center USA website: “Emerging Voices is a literary fellowship program that aims to provide new writers, who lack access, with the tools they will need to launch a professional [Read more…]
Call for Submissions and Writing Contests from Creative Nonfiction Journal
Get Published or Win Money from Creative Nonfiction Journal
August 26, 2010. Leave a Comment
Do you write creative nonfiction? Then this post is for you! The Creative Nonfiction Foundation is a private, non-profit organization described on their website as follows: The Creative Nonfiction Foundation pursues educational and publishing initiatives in the genre of literary nonfiction. Its objectives are to provide a venue, the journal Creative Nonfiction, for high quality nonfiction prose (memoir, literary journalism, personal essay); to serve as the singular strongest voice of the genre, defining the ethics and parameters of the field; and to broaden the genre’s impact in the literary arena by providing an array of educational services and publishing activities. [Read more…]
BookRix Drabbles Contest is Open to Writers in All Genres
August 16, 2010. 4 Comments
BookRix is holding a Drabbles contest! Drabbles are short stories of exactly 100 words. Do you think you can do it? Can you fit all the components of a story into just 100 words? It would certainly be fun to try. The contest is open to all genres, and you can follow the link to get all the contest details and submission guidelines. The contest offers monetary prizes: First prize = $600 Second prize = $400 Third prize = $200 Winners are chosen through a two-step voting process, which has already started but it’s not too late to enter: Community [Read more…]
An Old Fashioned Writing Challenge
August 5, 2010. 10 Comments
I’ve got a challenge for you. An old fashioned writing challenge. Write with Pencil and Paper We spend so much time in the digital world, I’m waiting for that scary world portrayed in 1984 where we just think and the computers hear us. (No more carpal tunnel?) I think our brains can use a good refreshing with some non-digital time. I know the Sundays where I stay in bed and do nothing but read and write in my journal is remarkably energizing for my creative energy and productivity. Many of you will be familiar with Julia Cameron’s morning pages – [Read more…]
Poetry Contest with $500 Prize and Manuscript Publication
August 5, 2010. Leave a Comment
The Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize offers a $500 prize, publication of the winning poetry manuscript, ten copies of that published manuscript, and a reading at Lake Tahoe. The entry fee is $20 and the deadline to enter is August 31, 2010. Following are the guidelines from the Bona Fide Books website: Submit a previously unpublished, full-length poetry manuscript of between 48 and 100 pages. Include two cover pages: one with the title of the manuscript only, the other with title of manuscript, name, address, telephone number, and email address. Include a table of contents and, if applicable, an acknowledgments [Read more…]
Family Circle Magazine Short Story Fiction Writing Contest Deadline Approaching
July 30, 2010. 3 Comments
If you’re an aspiring short story writer or fiction writer of any kind, then you might be interested in the 2010 Family Circle Fiction Contest. The submission deadline is September 8, 2010, so you have just over a month to polish your 2,500 word or less original short story! There is no entry fee. The winner gets money and a prize packages from MediaBistro.com, including: $750.00 A gift certificate to 1 course of your choice from MediaBistro.com A 1-year MediaBistro.com AvantGuild membership A 1-one year MediaBistro.com On Demand Videos membership You can submit up to 2 stories, but to enter [Read more…]
