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Entries are invited for The Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition (UK). First prize in each category (Poetry and Fiction): £500. Open to international writers. Entry fee: £12. Deadline: August 31, 2012.

The Capilano Review (BC) invites entries for the 2nd annual Robin Blaser Poetry Award. Prize: $500 + publication in the Fall issue. Fee: $35 ($45 for non-Canadian; includes subscription). Length: 8 pages max. New deadline (not postmark): August 15, 2012.

Atlas Magazine (US) is looking for poetry, essay, article, and short stories for their premiere issue. Theme: Exploration. Deadline: August 20, 2012.

New online literary journal Pachinko! (US) seeks short stories, narrative articles, essays, photos, videos and comics for the premiere isse. Deadline: August 15, 2012.

BLACKBERRY: a magazine seeks poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, artwork, and photography that 'exposes readers to the diversity of the black woman’s experience.' Theme: Belief. Deadline: August 1, 2012.

Monthly journal Switchback seeks fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art for issue #16: Current. Deadline: August 31, 2012. Also accepting writing on this month's prompt: "No one really knows the ones they love. If you knew everything they thought, I bet that you'd wish that they'd just shut up."

OneTitle Magazine (Canada) has an open call for short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Appreciates the 'horror, bizarro, and fantasy realms, as well as some off-beat romance.' Open to new and established authors. Deadline: August 15, 2012. No monetary payment.

Cordite Poetry Review (Australia, print) seeks work for Issue #40: Interlocutor. Accepts poetry, prose poems, flash fiction prose and digital forms. Payment: AUS$60 (AUS$90 for 2). Deadline: August 14, 2012.

The Malahat Review invites entries for the University of Victoria 50th Anniversary Prize. Prizes: $2200 in total prize money. Four genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and dramatic monologue. Open to UVic alumni, students, and residents of Victoria, Canada. Entry fee: $15. Deadline: August 15, 2012.

Entries are invited for the Alice Munro Writers & Readers Festival short story contest. Theme: Renewal. Length: 5000 words max. First prize: $500 (Adult) and $300 (Teen). Entry fee: $20 (Adult only). Deadline: August 1, 2012.

Registration is now open for the Canadian-born 35th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest. First prize: publication; additional prizes available. Fee: $50/$55. Registration deadline: August 31, 2012.

New e-literary journal Cactus Heart (US) seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, art & photography for Issue #2. 'Spiny writing' writing preferred. Deadline: August 1, 2012.

Memoirs Ink is looking for original, well-written personal essays, memoirs, or stories that are based on autobiographical experiences. First prize: US$1000; additional prizes available. Entry fee: US$15. Deadline: August 15, 2012.

Leap Local is accepting 500-650 word travel story submissions to their 3rd annual international competition. First prize: $500; additional prizes available. Top three stories will be published in Leap's travel magazine,"What on earth?". Deadline: August 31, 2012. No entry fee.

Red Hen Press (US) is accepting submissions of unpublished poetry manuscripts for the 2012 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Prize: US$3000 plus publication of the selected collection. Length: 48-96 pages. Entry fee: US$25. Deadline: August 31, 2012.

The Malahat Review (Canada) invites entries for theConstance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize. Prize: $1000. Submit creative nonfiction 2000-3000 words. Deadline: August 1, 2012. Entry fee (includes subscription): $35; US$45 for international.

Print journal Descant (Canada) is looking for the stories of the Indian Diaspora -- its triumphs and its tragedies of these 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation expats. Seeking essays, poems, fictions, memoirs, and art. Deadline: August 15, 2012.

FreeFall Magazine (Canada) seeks poetry, fiction, non-Fiction, creative non-fiction, and flash fiction for the Winter issue. Deadline: August 31, 2012. Payment: up to $100.

Switchback is accepting submissions for Issue 16 (pub. November). Theme: Current. Open to previously unpublished fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. Deadline: August 31, 2012.

Seeking true stories, 500 to 2500 words for a new anthology series, Not Your Mother's Book (US). Pays in books or royalties. Deadline: June 1, 2012 (Themes: On Being a Woman and On Dogs) and August 1, 2012 (Theme: On Travel).

Geist (BC) invites entries for their Erasure Poetry Contest. Details: Copy the passage an excerpt from 'How Should a Person Be?' a creative non-fiction novel by Sheila Heti and erase words to create a poem. Deadline: August 1, 2012. First prize: $600. Entry fee: $20 (includes subscription).