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Albedo One, Ireland’s magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, proudly announces the launch of the Eighth International Aeon Award Short Fiction Contest, 2013. The Aeon Award is a writing competition, and its goals are to promote writers and writing in the speculative fiction genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror or anything unclassifiable or in-between. The contest is open to writers from all nationalities for stories of up to 10,000 words long, that are previously unpublished in English. Grand Prize is €1000 and publication in Albedo One. Second and third place prizes are €200 and €100 and publication in Albedo One. The contest is open from January 1st 2013 to 30th November 2013, after which the winning stories are chosen by our Grand Judges, Ian Watson, Mike Resnick, Todd J. McCaffrey and Michael Carroll. See full guidelines: http://www.albedo1.com/?page_id=723


Country pub collection Vintage Inns are asking you to help complete an eight-line poem, line by line. Just visit http://www.facebook.com/vintageinns to submit your entry. Alternatively, entries can be emailed to pubpoet@gmail.com with full name, address and contact telephone number. Each week Sir Andrew Motion will choose a winner, who'll receive one of his signed books plus dinner for four with wine at their local Vintage Inn.
Welcome to Just a Contest, the website dedicated to writing contests. Browse our pages: you'll find dozens of competitions, grouped by genre (fiction, non-fiction and poetry, with or without entry fee) and by deadline. Use our calendar, selecting your favorite category.
- Are you a United States Writer? Take a look to our list of writing contests for United States writers. You'll find what you are looking for. Click here.
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