The January 31, 2010 deadline is approaching for the annual Erma Bombeck Writing Competition. Entrants are invited to submit personal essays in the categories of humor or personal interest. Submissions are made on line only. There is no submission fee.

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Calling all US College and High School Writers: A Challenge!

Yesterday, I published an article about The Nation's student writing contest.

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Touchstone and Simon & Schuster and Gather.com have initiated the world's first novel-publishing contest, helping writers ride the American Idol wave.

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Love to write? There are many different venues to submit your work to the world.

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Writing 50,000 Words Is Good For You!

I don't know if anybody noticed, but National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is coming up. That's the yearly competition that challenges writers around the world to write fifty thousand words in a month. Fifty. Thousand. Words. In. A. Month.

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