AWomansWrite  http://www.awomanswrite.com/

awomanswrite is a quarterly writing contest for women, featuring a critique for every entrant, and a cash prize for the best submission. AWW is a resource for creative women. It encourages work by, for and about women, but stories about men will not be overlooked. Just be sure that your viewpoint rings true and the experiences you portray are authentic to the character and setting. Be natural.

This is a fiction contest. Memoirs, biographies, and other nonfiction are not eligible for this competition.

Entry fee is $40.00 for all submissions and includes a thorough, thoughtful critique with editing comments and corrections. You will be given an opinion about character and plot development.
You then have the option to resubmit the entire novel, having applied changes based on our comments and suggestions. This resubmission will be accompanied by a $20 reading fee and represents your final entry into the competition.

Entries submitted initially for critique will be judged if not resubmitted. Resubmissions will be judged as the final entry in place of the original entry, with no exceptions. Payments must be made via PayPal.

Boston Review’s Seventeenth Annual Short Fiction Contest http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/ 

The winning author will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in Boston Review, the summer of 2010. Stories should not exceed 4,000 words and must be previously unpublished. Manuscripts should be submitted with a cover note listing the author's name, address, and phone number; names should not appear on the stories themselves. Note that simultaneous submissions are not eligible. Any author writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current student, former student, or close personal friend of the judge. A $20 entry fee ($30 for international submissions), payable to Boston Review in the form of a check or money order, must accompany each story entered. Entrants will receive a one-year print subscription to the Review beginning with the summer 2010 issue. Submissions must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2009. Manuscripts will not be returned. The winner will be announced no later than May/June, 2010, on the Boston Review Web site. Send submissions to:

Contact: Short-Story Contest, Boston Review, 35 Medford St., Suite 302, Somerville, MA 02143

Canadian Writer's Journal Semi-annual Short Fiction Contest  http://go.to/cwj

The deadline is April 30^th, 2009. The first prize is $150. The second prize is $100. The third prize is $50.

Entries must be original, unpublished stories, any genre, maximum length 1,500 words (accurate word count please).

Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, and prepared in standard form except that no identification of the author is to appear on the manuscript itself.

Name, address and a short biography of the author are to be submitted on a separate sheet to accompany the entry.

Entries received too late for one deadline will be held over for the next deadline date. If you include an email address, an email confirmation that your entry has been received will be sent. A self-addressed stamped postcard would also be another way for you receive confirmation that the entry was received.

Winners to be announced and prize winning stories are published in the new annualCanadian Writer's Journal. Entry gives permission to include all the contest winners in Choice Works which is published and available separately.

No extensions. Entries received after the deadline for one contest will be held over to the next deadline date.

Compiled by Preethi Burkholder, Editor and Founder, Gifted Hands Writing, April 18th, 2009. This list will next be updated on June 02, 2009