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iamomWriter's Digest's annual short story competition
http://www.writersdigest.com/contests/short_story.asp
Submission Deadline: Wed-1-Dec-2004
Entry Fee: US$12
Length Considerations: 1,500 words or less
Notification Date: 7-Feb-2005
CBC Literary Awards
http://www.cbc.ca/literaryawards/english/
Submission Deadline: Mon-15-Nov-2004
Entry Fee: CA$20
Length Considerations: 2,000 to 2,500 words
Comments: Unclear if manuscripts are returned with editorial comments. Final judgement date also unclear.
The most widely-read monthly magazines of short crime fiction, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, have published their submission guidelines here:
http://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/guidelines/
Length Considerations: usually 2,500 to 8,000 words
Payment: 5 to 8 cents per word
Comments: No criticism provided on returned manuscripts. Response time up to 3 months.
An exhaustive listing of other writing contests is here:
http://www.writing-world.com/multidb/DECEMBER2.htm
Some of the reader reviews of this book were also interesting to read. One of them advises short story writers not to give up their day jobs, which makes sense in terms of the payment levels from EQMM. At 8 cents per word, a lengthy 8,000-word short story would only net you $640. Not exactly something to make a living off of, to be sure. But I'm not doing this for the bread. I'm just doing it to be read.
http://www.writersdigest.com/contests/short_story.asp
Submission Deadline: Wed-1-Dec-2004
Entry Fee: US$12
Length Considerations: 1,500 words or less
Notification Date: 7-Feb-2005
CBC Literary Awards
http://www.cbc.ca/literaryawards/english/
Submission Deadline: Mon-15-Nov-2004
Entry Fee: CA$20
Length Considerations: 2,000 to 2,500 words
Comments: Unclear if manuscripts are returned with editorial comments. Final judgement date also unclear.
The most widely-read monthly magazines of short crime fiction, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, have published their submission guidelines here:
http://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/guidelines/
Length Considerations: usually 2,500 to 8,000 words
Payment: 5 to 8 cents per word
Comments: No criticism provided on returned manuscripts. Response time up to 3 months.
An exhaustive listing of other writing contests is here:
http://www.writing-world.com/multidb/DECEMBER2.htm
Some of the reader reviews of this book were also interesting to read. One of them advises short story writers not to give up their day jobs, which makes sense in terms of the payment levels from EQMM. At 8 cents per word, a lengthy 8,000-word short story would only net you $640. Not exactly something to make a living off of, to be sure. But I'm not doing this for the bread. I'm just doing it to be read.
