Contests, Classes and Markets

Contests!
Writers Digest has a couple of contests that might be of interest to you.

• Their 10th Annual Short Short Story Competition offers a $3000 grand prize for stories up to 1500 words. But hurry--contest deadline is December 1, 2009.
• Their 5th Annual Poetry Awards Competition is open to any poem under 32 lines in length.  Contest deadline is December 15, 2009.
• The Writers' Digest Shop has a contest of a different sort: you can win your wish list of books, up to a total value of $150. Register or sign up by December 2, 2009 to be eligible.

On the Premises has launched a "delicate" contest. Write a short story of between 1000 and 5000 words in which one or more characters have to handle an object, person or situation that they consider "delicate" for your chance to win. Contest deadline is January 30, 2010.

Classes!

Linda Formichelli and the Renegade Writer bring you another FREE teleclass: Secrets to Essays that Sell with Amy Paturel.

Markets!

Writers' Digest has again compiled its list of 24 Agents Who Want Your Work, and it's now available online.