WritersType Competitions First Chapter, Short Story, & Flash Fiction http://www.writerstype.com/ WritersType.com sponsors three annual contests in the categories of First Chapter, Flash Fiction, and Short Story. In each category, the monthly winner receives $25 honorarium, comments from our readers, and publication on our site. Each month, the top two submissions in each category advance to the [...]

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Ruminate Magazine is hosting their second annual VanderMey Nonfiction prize, judged by Leslie Leyland Fields, award-winning author and editor of “The Spirit of Food”.  The winner will be awarded a prize of $1000 and publication in the Spring 2012 issue, and the runner up will receive publication as well. Contest Name:  VanderMey Nonfiction Prize Submissions:  [...]

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Copyright 2011 :: Open photo contests and competitions

Theme: “Beyond Aid… Research and Innovation as key drivers for Health, Equity and Development”

Try to focus on the following with your submissions:

• Innovations in research for health and the impact on people’s lives;
• The results of research for health, equity and development;
• Research for health, equity and development “in action”;
• The potential of research for health;
• Examples of concrete innovative projects with an impact on health, equity and development;
• How research and innovation can work for health, equity and development in all sectors (e.g. environment, education, business, and technology).

Prizes:

• 1st place: USD 2000
• 2nd place: USD 1000
• 3rd place: USD 500
• 50 Entries will be exhibited in Cape Town, South Africa

Finalists will be announced on or before March 1^st, 2012.

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Tourism Australia is calling for submissions for its latest digital and social media campaign titled Project :12.

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American Photography promotes and preserves the finest pictures being created today by established, emerging and student photographers from thousands of submissions. American Photography 28 will be published in November 2012 for worldwide distribution and will launch at our annual Party in New York City – the industry’s most anticipated networking event of the year that brings photographers, illustrators and creatives together to celebrate the years best images.

• Editorial
• Books Advertising
• Posters
• Promotion
• Packaging
• Video
• Unpublished
• Student work.

• News
• Food
• Sports
• Fashion
• Portraiture
• Conceptual
• Travel
• Lifestyle
• Nudes
• Fine Art

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Copyright 2011 :: Open photo contests and competitions

Theme: The exhibition aims to explore concepts and issues of the protest. Demonstrations have gained a global momentum as people around the world demand change. Enter timely photography that documents the refusal to accept the status quo of dictatorships, corporate greed, and abuse of the environment. Submissions documenting Protest in Middle East, Student Protest, Global Warming, and the current U.S. are most welcome.

There will be an exhibition “Occupy” occurring January 14 – 22, 2012, for the selected works.

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Submit your images to ThePhotoVote.com Call For Entry “Your Best Shot”. Free Entry: Win $100 and Software
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The Bethlehem Writers Group is currently accepting submissions for their debut Short Story Award. Jonathon Maberry, a NY Times bestselling author, will judge. The winner will receive $200 plus the opportunity to be published in their next anthology, “Seasonal Pursuits: Sweet, Funny and Strange Tales,” due to be released next fall. There are runner-up prizes also. Entry fee: $10 [...]

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The City of Melbourne is pleased to introduce a new public art commissioning structure for the creation of innovative artworks as part of its Public Art Program in 2012. Submissions are now open.
Expressions of Interest are invited in three categories:
- Category 1 invites artists to develop artworks to the value of $5000
- Category 2 invites artists to develop medium-scale artworks to the value of $50,000
- Category 3 invites artists to develop large-scale artworks to the value of $360,000

Closing date for Category 1: Friday 2 December 2011 Closing date for Categories 2 and 3: Friday 9 December 2011

For full information and to download a submission form, go to www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/publicart

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The Expressions of Interest stage of the development of the Australian Pavilion in Venice, Italy has now closed. 67 submissions were received.

Find out more about the redevelopment process >