Contests and Markets

Contests!

Career Transition Story Contest: Write a story about changing careers for a chance to win $500 from WorkLifeGroup. Deadline: January 30, 2010.
 
Discovering the Undiscovered competition for Novels & Memoirs: Grace Notes presents this new annual contest. Winner will have their manuscript published plus either a $1000 cash prize or a $500 prize plus a standard royalty agreement. Early Bird Deadline: January 1, 2010. Final deadline: April 15, 2010. Save $5 on the $35 entry fee if you enter by the early bird date.

Markets!

This one's an older link, but still worth a look. It's from Writers' Digest: Get Inside the Top 30 Short Story Markets.

Integrative Ink offers this directory of markets for your short stories, conveniently separated into paying and non-paying markets.

Here's another directory with guidelines for over 300 Short Story Markets.

Happy submissions!