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The Bridport Prize (UK) is accepting poems and short stories for its annual contest. First prize in each category: £5000; additional prizes available. Open to international entrants. Poems: 42 lines max. Fiction: 5000 words max. Entry fee: £6 per poem, £7 per story. Deadline: June 30, 2009. More details...

Canada’s oldest and strangest literary festival The Scream (ON) seeks poems on the theme: The Book is Dead. Winner of the contest will read on July 2nd during the Scream's opening night event (Toronto). Submit two poems. Deadline: June 26, 2009. More details...

The Queer History Project (BC) seeks stories on the theme "Pride in Vancouver." Submit recollections (1-2 paragraphs), photographs, and video or audio recordings about Pride celebration experiences (public or private). Deadline: June 28, 2009 (not firm). Also has ongoing call for stories about queer history in Vancouver. More details...

Blue Mountain Press is looking for inspirational stories and wisdom related to Ireland or Irish culture for an upcoming anthology. Accepting stories and essays (100-600 words) and poems (non-rhyming; no minimum word count). Stories should include "a pithy saying at the end, which sums up the inspirational message of your story. For example: 'Laughter is brightest where food is best.'" Payment: US$50 for anthology rights upon publication. Deadline: June 30, 2009 (extended). Send name/address and submission in the body of an email with “Irish” in the subject line to [email protected].

Inscribed seeks poetry, fiction, and essays for the next issue. Deadline: June 25, 2009. More details...

Pop Montreal and Matrix Magazine invite fiction and poetry entries for the Matrix Litpop Award. Categories: Fiction (5000 words max.) and Poetry (up to 5 poems). Prize: a round-trip ticket to Pop Montreal from September 30-October 5, VIP pass to the Pop Montreal Festival, accommodation, publication in Matrix Magazine with full honorarium, and presentation at a special Matrix Litpop event. Entry fee: $25. Deadline: July 15, 2008. More details...

SWAMP (Australia) invites submissions from postgraduate creative writers. Open to international writers currently an Honours/Masters/PhD program. Submit up to 3 poems or prose (3,000 words max). Theme: "Post" (but not compulsory). Deadline: June 5, 2009. More details...

FreeFall Magazine (AB) seeks poetry, prose, and non-fiction for their next issue. Theme: Open. Encourages new, emerging, and experienced Canadian writers, but is also open to international submissions. Payment: One copy. Deadline: June 30, 2009. More details...

Entries are invited for the Tony Hillerman Prize (US) for the 2009 Hillerman Mystery Competition. Submit novel manuscripts (approx. 60,000 words) set in the American Southwest. Prize: US$10,000. Deadline June 1, 2009. More details...

Review Fuse (US) invites entries for the Review Fuse Short Story Contest. Prize: US$50 Cash. Theme: Open (must adhere to clean content policy). Length: 10000 words max. Entry requirement: must register for account (free) and complete peer reviews. Deadline: June 27, 2009. More details...

The Miller's Tale Books (ON) invites entries for a writing competition in celebration of Mississippi Mills Bicycle Month. First prize: $250. Any genre,1500 words max. Entries must include a bicycle reference. Entry fee: $10. Deadline: June 30, 2009. More details...

Boyne Writers Group (Ireland) invite satirical writing for the 2009 Swift Satire competition. Subjects: Banks and Bankers: A Modest Proposal or A Tale of a Tiger: Fat Cats Bring Down the Big Cat. (Reference is to the collapse of Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” economy.) Entries judged on satire, irony, absurd humour, acute political insight, grotesque imagination, and lacerating wit – the hallmarks of Jonathan Swift's best works. Prizes: 1st €500, 2nd €300, 3rd €100. Length: Prose -- 600-800 words; Poetry -- 30-100 lines. Entry fee: €7 (or £5 or $10) per entry. Deadline: June 5, 2009. More details...

Print journal Geist (BC) invites entries for the Geist Fortune Cookie Contest, "the writing contest based on faux wisdom and vague predictions." Submit fiction, poetry, essays, rants, etc. inspired by or based on a fortune cookie. First prize: $250. Length: 500 words max. Entry fee: $20 (includes subscription). Deadline: June 1, 2009. More details...

Pop Montreal and Matrix Magazine invite fiction and poetry entries for the Matrix Litpop Award. Categories: Fiction (5000 words max.) and Poetry (up to 5 poems). Prize: a round-trip ticket to Pop Montreal from September 30-October 5, VIP pass to the Pop Montreal Festival, accommodation, publication in Matrix Magazine with full honorarium, and presentation at a special Matrix Litpop event. Entry fee: $25. Deadline: June 19, 2008. More details...

Meridian Writing (UK) invites entries for their quarterly short story competition. Prizes: £100, £50, and £25. Length: 3000 words max. No theme, any genre. Entry fee: £5. Deadline: June 30, 2009. More details...

Room Magazine (BC) seeks submissions for a themed issue to be published in December 2010 (coinciding with the Winter Olympics). Invites submissions of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Theme: Competition. Deadline: June 1, 2009. More details...

Print journal Geist (BC) invites entries for the Geist Fortune Cookie Contest, "the writing contest based on faux wisdom and vague predictions." Submit fiction, poetry, essays, rants, etc. inspired by or based on a fortune cookie. First prize: $250. Length: 500 words max. Entry fee: $20 (includes subscription). Deadline: June 1, 2009. More details...

The Antigonish Review (NS) invites entries for the 9th annual Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest and the 5th annual Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize. First prize in each contest: $600 plus publication. Entry fee: $25; enter both contests for an additional $10. Deadlines: May 31, 2009 (fiction) and June 30, 2009 (poetry). More details...

The Bridport Prize (UK) is accepting poems and short stories for its annual contest. First prize in each category: £5000; additional prizes available. Open to international entrants. Poems: 42 lines max. Fiction: 5000 words max. Entry fee: £6 per poem, £7 per story. Deadline: June 30, 2009. More details...

gritLIT (ON) seeks "interesting poetry that shows the way." First prize: $200; other prizes available. Twenty free copies of the chapbook to each prize winner. Submit up to 350 lines of poetry, in any form, on any subject. May be a single poem or multiple poems. Deadline: June 1, 2009. Entry Fee: $20. More details...