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The information given here is for GUIDANCE ONLY. While every effort is made to ensure that it is accurate, before entering any listed competition you should obtain full rules and an entry form from the organisers.

Deadline	First Prize	Summary
11 May 2008 – Competition is broken down into weeks, with 6 books advancing to Round 2 each week.	First Prize US$5000	BOOKHABIT.COM UNPUBLISHED COMPETITION International competition open to unpublished books, of any genre, with a minimum of 50,000 words. You can also earn money from the sale of your book during the competition. Upload your book on the website. For further details, rules & entry form visit http://www.bookhabit.com
31st May 2008	Entry fees: £3 per single submission £10 for four submissions	Micro-Fiction Competition 2008 Closing date 31st May 2008 Submission guidelines: Leaf invites micro-fiction of up to 300 words on any subject. Enter by post or online, Full details on website. Overall winner receives £200. Runner-up receives 10 Leaf Books. All selected entries will be published in a competition anthology. Winner will be annouced end of July 2008
30th July 2008		Arts Angels Publishing, Vancouver Island, Canada is looking for stories, art work and poems for a book to be published summer 2008. The prize is two free books and publishing. Length, entry fee and other details under Competitions and Stories at www.elizahemingway.com
31st July 2008	First Prize: $500.00, 2nd: $250.00, 3rd: $100.00	The Dream Quest One Writing Contest is open to anyone who has a story that's worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream and choose to make your dreams a reality. Write a short story, 5 pages maximum on any theme, single or double line spacing. Must be neatly hand printed or typed. Multiple entries are accepted. All works must be original. Prizes: $500.00, $250.00, $100.00. Entry fee is $10(USD) per story. Postmark deadline: July 31, 2008. Send your name, address, phone#, email address with brief info (Tell us a littlel about yourself) on the coversheet. Include a self addressed stamped envelope. Make fee(s) payable to: DREAMQUESTONE.COM. Mail entri(es)/fee(s) to: Dream Quest One Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 3141, Chicago, IL 60654. Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com/rules.html for guidlines and to enter online. Dont' go anywhere if you can't take you dreams with you...
1st August 2008	1st €600	Creative Writing Competition: €1,000 in prizes plus major reading opportunity Over The Edge New Writer of the Year 2008 sponsored by Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Bank of Ireland, Kelly Office Supplies and Des & Mary Kavanagh The Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2008 competition is open to both poets and fiction writers. The winner will receive a cash prize of €600, a spot as a Featured Reader at an Over The Edge: Open Reading, and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2008. The runner-up will receive a cash prize of €300, while the third-placed writer will receive €100. Entries will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name on your poem(s) or story. Put your contact details on a separate sheet. Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines. Entries longer than these will be disqualified. Multiple entries are acceptable but each entry must be accompanied by a €15 fee and an SAE. Fee payable by cheque or money order to Over The Edge. All entries must be typed. To take part you must be at least sixteen years old by August 1st 2008 and not have a book published or accepted for publication. Chapbooks excepted. Poems and stories entered in the competition must not have been previously published. THE CLOSING DATE IS AUGUST 1ST 2008. For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748 or e-mail over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com or see http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/
30th September 2008	1st £200 entry £3	Mostly Life Competition Mostly Life (a sister site of Leaf Books: www.mostlylife.com ) invites you to submit humorous material in any publishable medium imaginable: writing (fiction or non-fiction, including comic verse), videos (live-action or animated), audio files, cartoon strips, still pictures, games and anything else that comes to mind. All original, previously-unpublished and non-offensive material will be considered. Video/audio material should ideally be no longer than five or six minutes - remember that it has to quickly capture and then maintain its audience's attention. Similarly, writing should ideally not go beyond a couple of pages. Entry fee: £3 per entry, £10 for four entries. One winning entry will receive £200 and publication on the Mostly Life website. Other selected entries may also be published if they sufficiently tickle the judges' fancy. The winner or winners will be announced on the Leaf and the Mostly Life website. All copyright remains with the authors. Enter online - and pay via paypal or credit card. Note, the payments go to the mothership at Leaf Books. Single Entry (£3.00): Four Entries (£10.00) Or enter by post: Mostly Life, c/o Leaf Books, GTi Suite, Valleys Innovation Centre, Navigation Park, Abercynon, RCT, Wales, U.K. CF45 4SN
22nd October 2008	1st £60 entry £4	Ballista magazine’s 2008 Open Short Story Competition: First Prize: £60; Second Prize: £30; Third Prize: £20. Entry fee: £4.00. Winning entries will appear in issue 6. Closing date: 31 October 2008 (Hallowe’en). Judged by the editors (Paul Neads & Andrew Myers) and multi-award winning writer Rosie Garland (aka Rosie Lugosi). Stories on the themes of the supernatural, paranormal, modern horror, sf, mythos, macabre or the downright bizarre. For full rules and to enter, please visit www.mucusart.co.uk/ballista.htm.

Ongoing Competitions
March, July, October, December	1ST £75.00, 2ND £25.00, 3RD £15.00 entry £3	Scribble Open Short Story Competition up to 3000 words. Prizes awarded for the best three stories in each issue. Stories from non-subscribers are welcome but must be accompanied by the entry fee. Free unlimited entry for subscribers. Scribble is published in March, July, October, and December. More details HERE