The Tennessee Writers Alliance 2008 Literary Awards Competition The Tennessee Writers Alliance Short Fiction Award The Tennessee Writers Alliance Poetry Award Judges to be announced Deadline: July 1, 2008 postmark Prizes: $600, $300, and $150 in each category Entry fees: $15 for TWA members, $20 for non-members Entry is one short story, or a batch of up to three poems For complete guidelines, send SASE to: TN Writers Alliance Contest P.O. Box 257 Linden, TN 37096 Request guidelines as e-mail attachment: rtmackin@mtsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Submissions/Contests Friends of TWA

MOTIF, an annual anthology series by MotesBooks of Lousville, is accepting submissions of poems, short stories, song lyrics, short memoir, essays, letters, creative non-fiction, and other genres for their inaugural publication. The working title is Writing By Ear, and the theme is Music. Editor is Marianne Worthington, and deadline for submission is August 5, 2008. Publication date is November, 2008. For complete guidelines, visit www.motesbooks.com/MOTIF-Call-For-Submissions.html.

The Writer' Workshop, Asheville, is sponsoring its 19th annual Poetry Contest, with a May 30, 2008 postmark deadline, First prize is $300. An entry includes three poems, with a $20 entry fee ($15 for Workshop members). In addition, the Writers' Workshop sponsors a Hard Times Writing Contest (July 30, 2008 deadline), Short Fiction Contest (September 30, 2008 deadline), and 20th annual Memoirs Competition (November 30, 2008 deadline). Please visitwww.twwoa.org

for complete information.

Young writers ages 8 to 18 are invited to enter the Changing My World Contest (deadline July 25, 2008) and the Thomas Wolfe Writing Contest (December 31, 2008 deadline), sponsored by The Writers' Workshop of Asheville. Please visit www.twwoa.org