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January 29, 2010
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ALL ROADS FILM PROJECT
The All Roads Film Project is a National Geographic initiative
dedicated to helping indigenous and underrepresented minority-
culture storytellers around the world showcase their works and
promote greater knowledge, dialogue, and understanding with a
broader, global audience. All Roads includes a film festival,
photography program, and seed-grant program. The seed-grant
program is open to indigenous and underrepresented minority-
culture filmmakers as well as filmmakers who can demonstrate
that they have been designated by indigenous or minority
communities to tell their story. Grant funds should be used
toward the development and production of a feature film, long
documentary, short documentary, shorts, animation, or music
video. The program awards grants ranging from $1,000 to $10,000
and up to sixteen film projects annually. Funding may be used
for equipment, travel for field research, editing time, etc.
Deadline: Quarterly (next is March 15, 2010.) Visit
http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/all-roads/ for more information.
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January 19, 2010
LEAPFROG 2010 FICTION CONTEST
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Adult fiction:
literary novels, novellas, and short-story collections,
minimum 22,000 words. Children's fiction: middle-grade and
YA novels, minimum length 20,000 words. No picture books.
First prize: Publication contract offer with advance, plus
finalist awards, for one book in each category. Finalists:
$150 plus manuscript critique by finalist judges. Judges
are Marge Piercy (adult fiction) and the Leapfrog editorial
staff. Children's fiction finalist judge TBA. Opens January 15, 2009. Deadline May 1, 2010.
ENTRY FEE
$30 for adult literary fiction
$20 children's fiction.
For more information, visit http://www.www.leapfrogpress.com
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January 4, 2010
SEVENTH GLASS WOMAN PRIZE
The Seventh Glass Woman Prize will be awarded for a work of
short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose) written by a
woman. Length: between 50 and 5,000 words. The top prize
for the seventh Glass Woman Prize award is US $600 and possible
(but not obligatory) online publication, I will also award one
runner up prize of $100 and one runner up prize of $50, together
with possible (but not obligatory) online publication. Subject
is open, but must be of significance to women. My criterion is
passion, excellence, and authenticity in the woman's writing
voice. Previously published work and simultaneous submissions
are OK. Previous Glass Woman Prize winners are welcome to
submit again. Copyright is retained by the author.
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NO ENTRY FEE. Deadline
March 21, 2010. Visit
http://www.sigriddaughter.com/GlassWomanPrize.htm for more information.
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December 29, 2009
Women Writers Wanted!
Catherine of Siena Virtual College wishes to grant a full scholarship to four women with Indian roots who would like to participate in an online, international, interfaith learning circle on the topic WOMEN IN ISLAM (8 weeks) or WOMEN WRITING, LIVES CHANGING (5 weeks) beginning week of 04 Jan 2010. Please send an email to moderator@fuse.net to get full details.
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December 18, 2009
RBC BRONWEN WALLACE AWARD FOR EMERGING WRITERS
NO ENTRY FEE
Deadline: January 15, 2010. A prize of $5,000 will be awarded
to the best work of short fiction. Two honourable mentions
will each receive $1,000 prizes. To be eligible a candidate
must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, under the
age of 35, unpublished in book form and without a book contract,
but whose literary work has appeared in at least one independently
edited magazine or anthology. Visit http://www.writerstrust.com/programs_apa_bronwenwallace.html for more information.


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December 7, 2009
AOL NEWS
AOL News is seeking sharp, Web-savvy freelance writers for our
new site Sphere.com. Much of what is on AOL News will fold into
Sphere in the coming weeks. We have openings right now for mornings,
afternoons, evenings and weekends. Ideally, we'd like writers to
work in 4-hour shifts, but we can also be flexible. Send us a
brief cover letter, your resume and a couple clips. Better yet,
take a stab at a story from today's news that you find interesting.
Write a piece under 500 words that summarizes the news, links to
other sources, and puts everything into context. Visit
http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=1127379 for more information.
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November 30, 2009
J-LAB GRANTS FOR INTERACTIVE JOURNALISM
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American
University has received a $200,000 grant from the McCormick
Foundation to fund eight women-led start-ups over the next
two years that will generate new ideas in the world of news
and information and model a spirit of journalistic
entrepreneurship. Under the new grant, a total of eight winners
(four in 2010 and four in 2011) will be given $12,000 each in
funding to launch their ideas and to blog about the process
during the first year of their projects. The deadline for
next year's proposals is April 12, 2010. Visit
http://www.newmediawomen.org/site/proposal_guidelines/ for more information.
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November 16, 2009
BUXTON POETRY COMPETITION
This year's theme is "A
Breath of Fresh Air". Poets of all ages are welcome to enter -
there are three categories:

Open Poetry for poets 19 and over,
Young People's for budding poets between 12 and 18,
Children's Poetry for the 11 and unders.

Five finalists from each category will be selected by a panel
of judges. The first three winners from the Open Category will
receive a cash prize (£300, £200, £100). The first three winners
from the Young People's and Children's categories will receive
Waterstone's book tokens. The 15 finalists will have their work
exhibited in the Devonshire Dome during Buxton Festival 2010 as
well as being announced in the local media and listed on the
University and Festival's website. The three first-place poems
will be published in the 2010 Buxton Festival programme. The 15
finalists will be invited to an Awards Event at the Devonshire
Dome during Buxton Festival 2010. The three first-place poets
will have an opportunity to read their poems at the Awards
Event. Deadline April 1, 2010. Poems must not exceed 40 lines. The cost to submit a poem is £5. Entries to the young people's
and children's categories are free.
For more information, visit
http://www.derby.ac.uk/buxtonpoetrycompetition
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November 8, 2009
MOTHERWELL PRIZE
http://www.fence.fenceportal.org/contest/motherwell.html
>This prize is for a first or second full-length collection
of poems by a woman writing in English. Winner receives
$1,000 and publication. Send entry form with 48-80-page
manuscript. Deadline November 30, 2009. To be judged by
Fence Books editors, with Spring 2011 publication by Fence Books. $25 ENTRY FEE
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October 20, 2009
The Dzanc Prize
In 2007, to further its mission of fostering literary excellence, community involvement, and education, Dzanc Books created the Dzanc Prize, which provides monetary aid in the sum of $5,000, to a writer of literary fiction. All writers applying for the Dzanc Prize must have a work-in-progress they can submit for review, and present the judges with a Community Service Program they can facilitate somewhere in the United States. Such programs may include anything deemed "educational" in relation to writing. Examples would include: working with HIV patients to help them write their stories, doing a series of workshops at a drop-in youth homeless center, running writing programs in inner-city schools, or working with older citizens looking to write their memoirs. All community programs under the Dzanc Prize must run for a full year.

The submissions for the Dzanc Prize are reviewed by, and the prize will be awarded by, a panel of Steve Gillis, Dan Wickett, Steven Seighman, and Keith Taylor. All writers, including friends and associates of the panel, are eligible for the prize. The integrity and objectivity of Dzanc Books will not be compromised and, given our vast connections to so many great writers, exclusion of any kind would be impossible.

Any questions can be submitted to prize@dzancbooks.org.

GUIDELINES

Those submitting should send to prize@dzancbooks.org, the following:

a) an MS Doc file of their work in progress
b) an MS Doc file of their Literary Community Service - this plan should be in as great detail as they can provide, including sign-offs from personnel where they believe it will be necessary (for instance, if the LCS is to work in a retirement home - we'd like to know the specific retirement home and that they have somebody's approval to set up such a program)
c) an MS Doc file of their latest cv/resume

DEADLINE: November 01, 2009.

The 2009 winner will be notified in January 2010.
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