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Red Hen Press invites submissions for the 2012 Red Hen Press Short Story Award. Prize: US$1000 and publication in The Los Angeles Review. Entry fee: US$20 (up to two stories). Length: 25 pages. Deadline: June 30, 2012.

Musicworks (Canada) invites submissions for their Sonic Geography Writing Contest. Write 500 words about the sound of a specific location, and how it influences the space. Length: 500 words max. First prize: $500. Deadline: June 25, 2012. Entry fee: $20 (includes subscription and CDs).

The Bakery US) seeks poems for its premiere issue (July, 2012). Submit 3-10 poems.

Online, quarterly publication The Puritan (Toronto) is seeking fiction, poetry, interviews, and reviews for Issue 18: Summer 2012. Deadline: June 15, 2012.

Online, quarterly publication The Puritan (Toronto) is seeking fiction, poetry, interviews, and reviews for Issue 18: Summer 2012. Deadline: June 15, 2012.

Highbrau Magazine (online, Canada) is looking for submissions on the theme of 'Love and Struggle' for the upcoming 6th issue. Welcomes argument, essay, poetry, fiction, art, and 'fake news.' Length: 750-3000 words. Deadline: June 19, 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).

Quarterly journal Steel Bananas seeks submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, film, and visual art. Theme: Touching/exposure, specifically the biopolitical reality of touching as it manifests in political performance, demonstration, and compassion. Deadline: June 1, 2012.

Sterling Magazine (Canada) is accepting submissions of fiction, poetry and comics of all genres. Max length for fiction: 3000 words; poetry: 3-5 pieces. Payment for accepted material is $25 (CAD). Deadline: June 1, 2012.

Biannual online journal The Rusty Toque (Canada) seeks literary and experimental poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, graphic short fiction, and unproduced short film and play scripts for their Fall 2012 issue.

Fine art and literary journal Nectar Magazine (US) is looking for submissions to their current issue. Theme: 'Most of Us Die'. Length: Up to 4 pieces of writing or 30 pages total. Deadline: June 1, 2012.

Editor Sandra McIntyre with Roseway Publishing (Nova Scotia & Manitoba) is seeking short story submissions for an upcoming anthology of political fiction. Length: 4000 words max. Short graphic fiction is welcome. Payment: $100. Deadline: June 1, 2012.

Marco Polo (US) seeks '100 X 100: One Hundred Short Shorts, One Hundred Words Long.' Submit a short short containing 100 words max. The 100 stories chosen from submissions will be published online. Best story receives a hardcover edition of the book Vitamin P2. Deadline: June 1, 2012.

The Broken City (Toronto), an online literature/arts magazine, is accepting submissions for its summer 2012 edition: The Future. This issue tackles science fiction via poetry, short stories, essays, comics, illustrations and photography. Deadline: June 1, 2012.