SAKURA REVIEW has begun reading poetry, fiction, and nonfiction submissions for its next issue.
About Sakura Review:
Situated in the District of Columbia and run by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland,Sakura Review publishes poetry and prose; we are particularly interested in – though not limited to – work that in some way satisfies or reflects our own preoccupation with a city embodied in location temporary; the new surrounded by collections and artifacts; what is documented alongside what is ultimately forgotten.
The submission deadline for our Spring 2009 issue is April 15th.
Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are fine, if noted (please notify us immediately if the work is accepted somewhere else).
For prose, please submit only one manuscript at a time. The preferred maximum length is 2,500 words. For poetry, please submit no more than five poems at one time.
Please submit your work as a Word attachment to <sakurareview(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)
Your genre – poetry or prose – should appear in the subject field.
Contributors receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.

http://sakurareview.blogspot.com/

Willow Springs invites submissions for The Willow Springs Fiction Prize, $1,000 plus publication in Willow Springs.

Submission deadline: April 1, 2009

http://willowsprings.ewu.edu/contests.html

Include a $15.00 entry fee. Submissions without an entry fee will not be judged.

Send only one story per submission.

The Honey Land Review
ww.thehoneylandreview.com
(http://www.thehoneylandreview.com/Submissions.html)
an online literary journal of poetry and photography, is
extending its call for poetry submissions through the end of April for the
upcoming spring issue.
Please submit today to <AnneHasenstab(at)thehoneylandreview.com>
(replace(at) with @)

2nd Annual Non-fiction Chapbook Contest
All Nations Press
http://allnationspress.homestead.com/submissions.html
First Prize: $1000 plus publication
$15 dollar entry fee, payable ONLINE

DEADLINE May 31ST 2009
40 pages of text max
email entry to <editors(at)allnationspress.com> (replace (at) with @)
or mail them to
Nonfiction Chapbook Contest
ANP
PO BOX 689
White Marsh, VA 23183

One grand prize winner will receive $750, publication in Family Circle, a certificate for one online mediabistro.com course (valued at up to $610), and a one-year mediabistro.com AvantGuild membership ($49 value). Two runners-up will each receive $250 and a one-year mediabistro.com AvantGuild membership ($49 value), and will have his or her story published on familycircle.com. To enter, send an original fictional short story of no more than 2,500 words to:

Family Circle Fiction Writing Contest
c/o Family Circle Magazine
375 Lexington Avenue
9th Floor, New York, NY 10017

All entries must be typed, double-spaced, and page-numbered on 8-1/2-x-11-inch paper, and must include your name, address, daytime phone number, and e-mail address (optional). No purchase necessary to enter or win. Contest begins March 1, 2009, and ends August 31, 2009. All entries must be postmarked on or before August 31, 2009, and received by September 7, 2009. Entries must be original, unpublished, and may not have won any prize or award. Up to two entries per individual will be accepted, but each entry must be a unique short story. Open to amateur writers who are legal residents of the 50 United States, or the District of Columbia, age 21 or older. Void where prohibited. Operator: Meredith Corporation.

More Details at
http://www.parents.com/family-life/fitness/stress-relaxation/fiction-contest-winners/?page=12

Call for poems: protestpoems.org
Writing for human rights
protestpoems.org is a poetry journal entirely devoted to, and fully committed to, new poetry that tackles human rights issues worldwide.

CALL FOR TRANSCULTURAL NURSING STORIES
Submit your nursing story to Kaplan Publishing’s newest anthology: Beyond Borders: Nurses’ Stories about Working Abroad.
We want nurses from all over the world to reveal what it’s like to practice nursing outside of your home countries. Whether confronted with unfamiliar cultural norms, new medical language, or greater or fewer resources than you would experience at home, your story will open a window into the commonalties and cultural differences in how the art and science of nursing is practiced around the globe.

If you have ever worked outside your own country,or worked in your own country within a cultural very different from your own we would like to read your story.  Email<beyondborders@live.com> for complete submission guidelines.

FICTION OPEN
Deadline: March 31, 2009
http://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp
Open to all themes, all writers. (December’s winning story was that writer’s
first publication.)

Prizes:

1st place wins $2,000, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies.
2nd-place: $1,000 and possible publication.
3rd-place: $600 and possible publication.

Reading fee: $20 per story.

Results post on May 31, 2009. Winning story will be published in Issue 75.

Other considerations:

Word count range: 2,000 – 20,000.

Call for Submissions for New Poetry Anthology on Collecting

http://heartlodge.org/?p=66

post added October 4th, 2008
Muse with us about the why and how of what we collect.

Proposed anthology looking for poems that draw us out
of the expected and into the anthropology of collecting:
Take us from the universe of small things to universal
themes. Dazzle us!

This week’s article tells the story of how I started my writing life and proposes some ways for you to grow yours. Please share some more ideas with us by making comments to this post.