Ruminate Magazine celebrates five years of publishing with its summer 2011 issue themed: Feasting. The issue also includes winners from Ruminates first annual nonfiction prize, judged by Al Haley. Josh MacIvor-Andersen essay, “Flexing, Texting, Flying,” took first place, with “Van Gogh’s Parable” by A.J. Kandathil taking second.

Winners of the River Styx Fifth Annual (2011) Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest appear in issue 85

1st Place
Katie Cortese, “Thrill Ride”

2nd Place
Laura Kate Resnik, “Ms. Muffet”

3rd Place
Allison Alsup, “Pioneers”

Honorable Mentions
Jeanne Emmons, “Vinyl”
Kim Henderson, “Girls”
Thomas Israel Hopkins, “When the Immigrant Is Hot”
Hugh Martin, “Three Months Before We Ship to Iraq”
Francine Witte, “Husband Weight”

Winner of the Willow Springs Fiction Prize, Sarah Hulse’s “Sine Die” appears in the newest issue of the publication (Fall 2011 #68).

Bellingham Review Spring 2011 includes works by the 2011 first-place contest winners along with judge’s comments on the published pieces. A full list of winners, runner ups and finalists is available on BR website.

The Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction
Final Judge: Ira Sukrungruang
First Place: Jay Torrence – “Buckshot”

The 49th Parallel Award in Poetry
Final Judge: Lia Purpura
First Place: Jennifer Militello – “A Dictionary of Mechanics, Memory, and Skin in the Voice of Marian Parker”

The Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction
Final Judge: Adrianne Harun
First Place: Lauri M. Anderson – “Hand, Mouth, Ring”

Tupelo Press announced that Ellen Dor

The Memoir (and) Prizes for Memoir in Prose or Poetry are awarded to the most outstanding prose or poetry memoirs—traditional, nontraditional or experimental—drawn from the submission period.

Issue 8 (2011) of Memoir (and) awarded Grand Prize to David Norman, “Flight Patterns”; Second Prize to Charles Atkinson, “Passing Bell for Kobun Chino, Sensie”; and Third Prize to William Caverlee, “Longleaf Parish.” Each contributor receives a cash award in addition to publication.

The submission period for Issue 10 is now open and will close at noon Pacific time, August 16, 2011.

The newest issue of George Mason University’s Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art (Fall 2011 Issue 40.2) features works by the winners of the magazine’s annual contest:

Winter Fiction Contest
Judged by Caitlin Horrocks
Winner: Aja Gabel, “Little Fish”
Honorable Mention: Dwight Holing, “Spines”

Greg Grummer Poetry Award
Judged by Dan Beachy-Quick
Winner: Mark Wagenaar, “Moth Hour Reliquaries”
Honorable Mention: Grace Curtis, “Wordsplay”

Inaugural Nonfiction Contest
Judged by Shauna Cross
Winner: R.B. Moreno, “I’d Like to Talk About the Bigger Stuff”
Honorable Mention: Jessica McCaughey, “On the Music of Distraction”

Ahsahta Press has announced the winner of the tenth annual Sawtooth Poetry Prize competition: Karen Rigby of Gilbert, Arizona [pictured], whose manuscript Chinoiserie was selected by Paul Hoover. She will receive the $1,500 prize in addition to the publication of her book by Ahsahta Press in January 2011.

Hoover also selected Early Poems by Lucy Ives of Flushing, New York, as the runner-up in the competition; her manuscript will be published by Ahsahta in September 2013.

Full list of semifinalists and finalists available here.

Sawtooth Poetry Prize 2012 Call for Manuscripts: January 1, 2012 through March 1, 2012. Final Judge: Heather McHugh. The winning volume will be published in January 2013 by Ahsahta Press.

Tupelo Press has announced that Lynn Emanuel has selected as winner of the 2010-2011 Dorset Prize: Ruth Ellen Kocher of Boulder, Colorado [pictured] for her manuscript, /domina Un/blued.

Hadara Bar-Nadav of Kansas City, Missouri and Malachi Black of Provincetown, Massachusetts were named runners-up.

Winners of the 20th annual Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, Susan Steudel, and the Best Short Fiction Prize, Will Johnson, have their winning works published in the spring 2011 (#247) edition of The Fiddlehead: Atlantic Canada’s International Literary Journal. Also included are poetry and fiction honorable metions: Catherine Owen, Tim Bowling, Charmaine Cadeau, and Sandra Jenson. These winning entries can also be read on The Fiddlehead website.

This annual contest awards $1500 to the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, $500 each for Two Honourable Mentions and $1500 for the Best Story, $500 each for Two Honourable Mentions. The deadline for entry is December 1, 2011. The winning entries will be published in the Spring 2012 issue of The Fiddlehead (No. 251) and on their web site. The winning authors will be paid for publication in addition to their prizes.

[Cover image: “The Hill” by Glenn Priestley]

The latest issue of The Missouri Review (v34 n1) includes the winners of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize: John Hales for his essay “Helpline”; anna Solomon for her fiction “The Long Net”; and George Looney for his poems “To Account for Such Grace,” “Early Pastoral,” “The Consolation of a Company of Acrobats,” and “A Temporary Delyaing of the Inevitable.”

The editors at Black Lawrence Press have announced that Tracy DeBrincat has won The Big Moose Prize for her novel Hollywood Buckaroo. Tracy will receive $1,000 in prize money and a publication contract from BLP. The Big Moose Prize is an annual award for an unpublished novel. The prize is open to new, emerging, and established writers. The deadline is January 31.

The Winter 2011 issue of Mississippi Review is devoted to the winners and finalists of the 2011 Mississippi Review Prize:

Fiction Winner
Rachel Swearingen, “Felina”

Finalists in Fiction
Cheryl Alu, “Generally Recognized as Safe”
Laurie Blauner, “In the Real World”
Elisabeth Cohen, “Irrational Exuberance”
Peter Grimes, “Head Game”
Michael Pearce, “Dragon Arm”
Jamie Poissant, “The Cost of Living”

Poetry Winner
Harry Waitzman, “The Red Dress”

Finalists in Poetry
J.P. Dancing Bear, “Genesis in Retrograde”
Susan Browne, “A Brief History of My Life”
Johanna Dominquez, “When There is Death Everywhere”
Paul Doty, “Box Kite”
Ansel Elkins, “Ghost at My Door”
Bryan Emory-Johnson, “Mose T.”
Julie Hanson, “Grab the Far End”
Elizabeth Harmon, “The Danger of Being a Sister”
Sara Hong, “Porky Pigs”
Rich Ives, “An Extraordinary Display of Restraint Concerning Her Festival of Big Sticks”
Mary Emma Koles, “Parched”
Debra Marquart, “Nil Ductility”
Elisabeth Murawski, “Lost Art”
Patricia Colleen Murphy, “Good Fences”
Frank Ortega, “Laundry”
Nancy K. Pearson, “Margalo”
Laura Read, “After the Hysterectomy”
Jonathan Rice, “In the Old Metropolitan Hospital”
Jesse Schweppe, “July Rain, Amherst”
John Surowiecki, “Janice, Who Was Tall”
Jennie Thompson, “Animals”
Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, “Often, not Always”
Harry Waitzman, “Fish Ball Soup and Flowers”
Maya Jewell Zeller, “My Brother’s Fish”
Kristin Hotelling Zona, “The Gut”

The Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Black Warrior Review includes the winners for the Sixth-Ever Fiction and Poetry Contests: Phillip Tate, first place fiction; Kimberly Burwick, first place poetry; and the First-Ever Nonfiction Contest winner: Molly Schultz, first place.

Black Warrior Review’s 2012 Contest is open for submissions until September 1, 2011. Winners in each genre receive a $1,000 prize and publication in the Spring/Summer issue.

Gulf Coast Summer/Fall 2011 includes the winners of their 2010 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, as chosen by Joe Bonomo. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram won first place for “Animals Do Not Have Delusional Acts.” Honorable mentions were Benjamin Glass for “Tennessee Apology,” and Robert Thomas for “Picnic.”

The Winter 2011 issue of Western Humanities Review includes the winners of the 18th Annual Utah Writers’ Contest. David Baker selected works by Christopher Patton for the poetry prize, and Laird Hunt selected “The Nest We Live In” by Timothy O’Keefe.

On February 12, 2011, Brick Street Poetry celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Preseident-Elect Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural train in Zionsville, Indiana. Winner Shari Wagner’s poem, “Lincoln Field,” appears in the Winter 2011 issue of Tipton Poetry Journal, along with poems of finalists John Cardwell, Jared Carter, Joseph Heithaus, Jennifer Lemming and James Murdock.

The issue also features Rita Dahl’s “Haukka leikkii kyyhkysellä” self-translated from Finnish to English as ”A hawk plays with a pigeon.”

The latest issue of Bellevue Literary Review (v11 n1) features the winners of the 2011 BLR Prize. Jill Caputo, whose fiction received an honorable mention, died in August of 2010. In the foreword, Editor-in-Chief Danielle Ofri recounts the prize selection process and discovery of the sad news; BLR‘s decision came five weeks after Caputo’s death, and they had no way to know until attempting to contact her to congratulate her. Jill Caputo’s family gave permission for the publication of her story, and BLR has dedicated this issue in her memory.

Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry, judged by Marie Ponsot
Winner: “Sinkhole” by Janet Tracy Landman
Honorable Mention: “Climacteric” by Cynthia Neely

Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, judged by Andre Dubus III
Winner: “But Now Am Found” by Patti Horvath
Honorable Mention: “Winston Speaks” by Jill Caputo*

Burns Archive Prize for Nonfiction, judged by Jerome Groopman, MD
Winner: “The Tag” by Elizabeth Crowell

The annual BLR Prizes award outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. The contest is open each year from February 1 – July 1.

The newest issue (34.1) of Room Magazine, Canada’s oldest literary journal by and about women, includes the first and second prize winners of the 2010 Contest.

Fiction, Judged by June Hutton
1st Place: “Chocolate Season” by Amy Kenny, Hamilton, ON
2nd Place: “Pill-Sorting for Dummies” by Judy McFarlane, West Vancouver, BC
Honourable Mention: “Sum our Polaroids” by Kathleen Brown, Markham, ON

Poetry, Judged by Jennica Harper
1st Place: “Pre-med, Prepatoria” by Melissa Walker, Stratford, ON
2nd Place: “The Mountain Pine Beetle Suite” by Chantal Gibson, Vancouver, BC
Honourable Mention: “The First Word” by Kim Trainor, Vancouver, BC

Creative Non-Fiction, Judged by Lynne Van Luven
1st Place: “The Goddess of Light & Dark” by Jane Silcott, Vancouver, BC
2nd Place (tie): “Love and Other Irregular Verbs” by Sigal Samuel, Vancouver, BC
2nd Place (tie): “The Visitor” by Lesleyanne Ryan, Holyrood, NL

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their January Very Short Fiction competition. This competition is held twice a year and is open to all writers for stories with a word count not exceeding 3000. No theme restrictions. The next Very Short Fiction competition will take place in July.

Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Matt Lapata, of Chicago, IL, wins $1200 for “Ohio Home.” His story will be published in the Summer 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories. [Photo credit: Dio Traverso.]

Second place: Jennie Lin, of Mountain View, CA, wins $500 for “Seven Winters of Teeth.”

Third place: Rav Grewal-Kök, of Brooklyn, NY, wins $300 for “Prisoners.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline for the March Fiction Open: March 31

This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers. Word count range: 2000-20,000. No theme restrictions. Click here for complete guidelines.

Issue 39.3 of Event Magazine (CA) features works by winners of the 2010 Non-Fiction Contest as well as an introduction by Judge Lynn Coady. Ten manuscripts were chosen from 153 entries and sent without the writers’ names to Coady for final judging. The three winners of $500 each + publication are:

“Dreamers” by Jane Finlayson, Toronto, ON
“Sleep, Mother and Child” by Suzanne Nussey, Ottawa, ON
“Issues of Skin” by Chris Urquhart, Vancouver, BC

The 2011 Event Non-Fiction Contest is currently open until April 15.

Alligator Juniper annual 2010, a publication of Prescott College, includes the winners of the 2010 National and Student Writing and Photography Contest:

National Prizewinners
Fiction: “Wings Raised Up ” by Laurie Ann Doyle
Poetry: “In Leaving My Lover Teaches Me Half a Bible Story ” by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Creative Nonfiction: “The Mormon Martyr’s Guide to Chemical Reactions ” by Miles Fuller
Photography: “Covenant Transport I ” by Marilyn Szabo (selected by David Taylor)

Prescott College Student Prizewinners
Fiction: “How to Become a Model ” by Laura Hitt (selected by Vickie Weaver)
Poetry: “Tierra Bendita ” by Jessica Roth (selected by Zach Savage)
Creative Nonfiction: “White Birds ” by Jessica Roth (selected by Dianne Aprile)
Photography: “Guardian Angel ” by K. Angeline Pittenger (selected by David Taylor)

A complete list of winners and finalists is available on the AJ website.

Published at Florida State University, the most recent issue of The Southeast Review ( v29 n1) includes winners and finalists from their 2010 contests:

World’s Best Short Short Story Contest judged by Robert Olen Butler

Winner: Betsy Denson, “Rest” and “Motion”
(Note: In what TSR considers a “rare” event, all three of Denson’s submissions were selected as winning stories!)

Finalists:
Mical Darley, “Bruce Ismay Commentates the Winter Olympics, St. Mortiz, 1928”
Betsy Denson, “Impact”
Jen Fawkes, “Dear Ahab”
M.J. Fievre, “On the Balcony”
Amina Gautier, “Prone”
Kim Henderson, “The Carousel”
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, “A Clean-Shaven Man”
Rebecca J. Schmuck, “There Are No Philosophers Anymore”

SER Poetry Contest judged by Barbara Hamby

Winner: Rebecca Hoogs, “Miss Scarlet”

Finalists:
Chuck Carlise, “Street Ghazal”
Alicia Case, “Inversion”
Chad Faries, “Fracture: Of Flying”
Dion Farquhar, “Legacy”
Gabor Gyukics, “Forge or Subdue”
Rebecca Lauren, “Eschatology”
Ellen LaFlèche, “Midwife Man”
Jeanne Wagner, “Kentucky is the Saddest State”
Diana Woodcock, “Counting Desert Birds”

SER Narrative Nonfiction Contest judged by Julianna Baggott

Winner: Deborah Thompson, “See Monkey Dance, Make Good Photo”

Finalists:
Lisa K. Buchanan, “Sixty-Seven Reasons to Answer the Door on Saturday at 6:03 a.m.”
Caitlin Leffel, “Hope for Dead Letters”

The Southeast Review 2011 contests are open until March 15.

The Winter 2010 (173) issue of The Malahat Review includes the winner of the 2010 Creative Non-Fiction Prize, Eve Joseph, whose essay, “Intimate Strangers,” was selected by final judge David Leach from 188 entries. An interview with Joseph is available on TMR website. The deadline for the 2011 Creative Non-Fiction Prize is August 1, 2011. First prize is $1000 (CA) + publication.

The Winter/Spring 2011 Sycamore Review includes works by the winner of the Wabash Prize for Poetry, “Selene’s Horse” by Nancy K. Pearson: First Runner-Up, “Water Witching” by Jonathan Rice: and Second Runner-Up, “Looking over His Shoulder, Eadward Muybridge Address the Mirror” by Alexander Lumans.

The Dos Passos Review Spring 2011 (7.2) offers a special preview of the works by Briery Creek Press Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry 2011 winner Bonnie Bolling. Over a dozen poems from her collection In the Kingdom of the Sons are offered in this journal issue.

Issue 84 of River Styx includes poems by the winners of the 2010 River Styx International Poetry Contest:

1st Place Stephen Gibson, “Megapixels”
2nd Place Diana Arterian, “The Albatross, Golden Mollymawk”
3rd Place Will Greenway, “Annunciation”
Honorable Mention Susan Cohen, “Pantoum of The Blue Virgin”

The 2011 contest is currently open until May 31, 2011; Judge B. H. Fairchild.. Entrance fee includes a one-year subscription to the magazine, all entrants are considered for publication, and the winners are published with the first place winner receiving $1500.

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their December Fiction Open competition. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers for stories with a word count range between 2000 – 20,000. The next Fiction Open will take place in March.

Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Stefanie Freele, of Geyserville, CA, wins $2000 for “While Surrounded by Water.” Her story will be published in the Spring 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Second place: Dana Kroos, of Las Cruces, NM, wins $1000 for “Sleepwalkers.” Her story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Third place: Joseph Johns, of Decatur, GA, wins $600 for “Reckoning Day with High Cirrus.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Short Story Award for New Writers: Deadline February 28

This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5000. No theme restrictions. Most submissions to this category run 3000-6000 words, but can go up to 12,000. Click here for complete guidelines.

Winners of The Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize Contest are included in the most recent issue (35.2): First Place Nancy K. Pearson, Rummer-ups Charles Atkinson and Alexander Landfair, and Honorable Mentions Rebekah Dinnerstein, Kelly J. Lund, and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach.