12th Annual Short Fiction Contest Deadline: Oct. 30, 2009

Manhattanville College & Inkwell Journal
12th Annual Short Fiction Contest

Submission Period: 08/01/09 - 10/30/09

Eligible Entry: up to 3 unpublished stories, 5,000 word limit

Open to: No Restrictions.

Entry Fee: $15 per story

Prize: $1,500 and publication in Inkwell

Short Story Contest- Deadline March 01, 2009

The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
Bellingham Review
Western Washington University

Eligible Entry: unpublished short story or novel excerpt up to 8,000 words postmarked December 1, 2008- March 1, 2009

Open to: Current students and employees of Western Washington University are not eligible.

Entry Fee: $18 for first entry; $10 each additional entry

Prize: $1,000 and publication i the Bellingham Review
2nd & 3rd place winners may be considered for publication

Short Story Contest- Deadline Dec. 1, 2008

Winter Fiction Contest
Phoebe

Eligible Entry: unpublished short story, 7,500 words or less

Open to: No restrictions indicated.

Entry Fee: $15

Prize: $1,000 and publication in Phoebe

Short Fiction Contest - Deadline January 2009

The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction
The Ohio State University Press

Eligible Entry: unpublished collection of short stories or novellas, 150-300 typed pages; each story must be 125 pages or less

Open to: Students and employees of Ohio State University are ineligible.

Entry Fee: $20

Prize: publication and $1,500 advance against royalties

Short Story Contest- Deadline Dec. 31, 2008

H. E. Francis Contest
The Ruth Hindman Foundation and the UAH English Department

Eligible Entry: unpublished short story under 5000 words

Open to: No restrictions indicated

Entry Fee: $15

Prize: $1,000

Short Story Collection- Deadline Jan. 15, 2009

The G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction
BkMk Press

Eligible Entry: unpublished short fiction collection 150-300 pages, double spaced

Open to: No restrictions indicated

Entry Fee: $25

Prize: $1,000 plus publication

Short Story Collection- Deadline Dec. 31

Tartt Fiction Contest
Livingston Press


Eligible Entry: 150-275 manuscript of a first short story collection

Entry Fee: $15

Prizes: publication & $1,000