Contests

Nelson Algren Awards http://about.chicagotribune.com/community/literaryawards.htm
The Nelson Algren awards are for short fiction. Submissions must be written by an American and must be unpublished. One $5,000 prize and three runner-up prizes of $1,500 are awarded.
There is no entry fee. Entries must be received by February 28, 2005.

Announcing the Heartland Writers Guild Winter 2004-2005 Poetry Contest http://www.heartlandwriters.org/2004/poetry.html.
The Heartland Writers Guild is sponsoring the Heartland Writers Guild Winter 2004-05 Poetry Contest. Poems of any style will be accepted and should not exceed two pages in length per poem. Contestants may enter up to three poems. A single $5.00 reading fee must be included with contest entries. Poems must be the original work of the contestant and must be unpublished. The deadline for entries has been extended to Feb. 28, 2005.

THE FIRST BIENNIAL Mary Shelley Prize for IMAGINATIVE FICTION http://www.rsbd.net/mary_shelley_award.htm
Rosebud has the honor to present the successor to the popular Ursula K. Le Guin Contest, namely the Mary Shelley Imaginative Fiction Award. Original unpublished fantasy, horror, mystery and science fiction submissions are welcome, but the editors are open to stories that reach beyond the boundaries of these genres, take a variety of creative and literary risks, and tell a good story. The First Prize is $1000 and publication in ROSEBUD. Deadline: October 1, 2005

RWA-East Texas Chapter *2005 Texas Gold Romance Award For Published Authors. Sponsored by RWA-East Texas Chapter. Fee: $15. Deadline: April 15, 2005. Enter: novels written by RWA Region 5 authors/residents or novels set predominantly in Texas, with an original 2004 copyright. http://home.earthlink.net/~ralsobrook/texgold.htm

Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Entries must be entirely unpublished.) Open to all themes, all subjects. First-place winner receives $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of the issue in which it is published. Second- and third-place winners receive $500/$300, respectively, and acknowledgement in that issue. To submit your story, go to our site, http://www.glimmertrainpress.com , log in, and click on SHORT STORY AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS. Reading fee (payable by visa or mc) is $12 per story. Entries will be accepted through April 5th.