The Lascaux Review Poetry Contest

The Lascaux Prize in Poetry

Deadline: September 30 Entry Fee: $10 (up to 5 poems, any length) Prizes: Winner receives $1000, a bronze medallion, and publication in The Lascaux Review.             The winner and all finalists will be published in the 2018 Lascaux Prize Anthology. For more information, and to submit your entry, visit: http://lascauxreview.com/contests/ More open contests at The Lascaux Review include: Short fiction---closes 30 November  Novels---closes 31 December  Collected Poetry---closes 31 January

Detroit Working Writers Annual Conference

One Community, Many Voices

To be held at Michigan State University Management Education Center

811 W. Square Lake Troy, Michigan

Saturday, September 16 | 8AM to 4:30PM

Keynote Speaker: Weam Namou, award winning author of 12 books.

Speakers and panelists include: David James, Liz King, Linda K. Sienkiewicz, Kelly Fordon, Deneen Troupe-Buitrago, and Weam Namou.

For more information and to register, click here.

Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers

This contest is open ONLY to writers who haven't had any fiction appear, nor scheduled to appear, in a publication with a circulation over 5000. Entries may have previously appeared in an online publication, but not in print. Most entries are 1000 to 5000 words, but any length up to 12,000 words is okay.

Deadline: October 31
                 Glimmer Train contests have a one week grace period.

Reading Fee: $18

Prizes:
         1st Place: $2500, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, 10 copies
         2nd Place: $500 (or, if accepted for publication, $700 and 10 copies)
         3rd Place: $300 (or, if accepted for publication, $700 and 10 copies)

Glimmer Train New Writer Award

Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize

Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Prizes: $5,000 prize for the winner in each genre
            (every entry is considered for publication)
Deadline: October 2, 2017
Open for entries: Now

Contest Entry Information

Entry fee: $25. + $3. online service charge
($25 online entry fee includes a one-year subscription to the Missouri Review in digital format regularly priced at $24 and a paperback copy of the first title of their new imprint, Missouri Review Books, The Trail of the Demon by Jane Gillette.)

The Missouri Review also accepts regular submissions throughout the year with a payment rate of $40. per page. missourireview.com/submissions Do your homework. Read previous editions so you know what is accepted for publication.

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Miller Audio Prize

Genres: audio recordings of prose, poetry, documentary, and humor
Prizes: one $1,000 prize for the winner in each category
Deadline: mid-March
Open for entries: starting mid-October

Tenth Annual Rochester Writers Conference

“Made in Michigan”

In the Oakland Center on the campus of Oakland University

Saturday, October 21, 2017 | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Presentations for Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the Business of Writing

Morning Keynote Speaker: Made in Michigan by Tom Daldin
Afternoon Featured Presentation: Lamb's Song Assignments by John Lamb

Speakers include: Stan Williams, Weam Namou, and Carrie Howland, and more.

More Information at RochesterWriters.com