$1000 award for a novel or collection of short fiction published in 2009.
  
Deadline: April 1, 2010

For rules and application, visit: http://www.pccc.edu/uploads/89/66/896674659672f2645e5e5633a02da201/fiction_prize_rules.pdf

Eligibility
The Iowa Poetry Prize, open to new as well as established poets, is awarded for a book-length collection of poems written originally in English. Previous winners, current University of Iowa students, and current and former University of Iowa Press employees are not eligible.

Manuscript
Manuscripts should be 50 to 150 pages in length. Put your name on the title page only; this page will be removed before your manuscript is judged. Poems included in the collection may have appeared in journals or anthologies; poems from a poet’s previous collections may be included only in manuscripts of new and selected poems. Manuscripts will be recycled; please do not include return packaging or postage.

Publication
The winning manuscript will be published by the University of Iowa Press under a standard royalty agreement.

Submission
Manuscripts should be mailed to:

The Iowa Poetry Prize
University of Iowa Press
119 West Park Road
100 Kuhl House
Iowa City IA 52242-1000

Submissions must be postmarked during the month of April.

A $20 reading fee is payable to the University of Iowa Press Poetry Fund. Simultaneous submissions are considered, but please notify them immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Only the winners will be notified. The results will be announced on the website in the summer.

Visit: http://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/authors/iowa-prize.htm

You must be registered for the ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO to be considered for this event!

ASCAP is pleased to offer another exciting another opportunity to get your music heard at the EXPO. If you are an independent songwriter-performer registered to attend the EXPO, then you can enter your music for a chance to perform at a special showcase in the Hollywood Ballroom at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel before an audience of prominent music industry tastemakers on the evening of Friday, April 23rd. Pick The Band is offering attendees a shot at sharing your musical talent with the industry and the EXPO audience. For more information on Pick The Band, visit: http://www.picktheband.com/. One band has already been selected to perform from a separate Pick The Band contest.

All music genres will be considered. We want to hear and/or see you perform! You simply need to submit a link(s) to live audio or video performances located online accessible by a website link (such as your website or any other site where a live performance is currently posted and publicly available). You may submit up to three links. The deadline for submissions is April 15th at 2pm EST.

Whether you are chosen to perform or not, the Attendee Showcase is a perfect opportunity to network and make connections at the ASCAP EXPO.

Guidelines and Details

-You must be registered to attend the ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO in order to submit.
-Submissions are being taken online until Thursday, April 15 at 2pm EST.
-Submit link(s) to a live audio or video performance located online accessible by a website link (such as your website or any other site where a live performance is currently posted and publicly available). You may submit up to three links.
-All genres are accepted.
-The songs in the links submitted must be an original work written or co-written by you.
-Those selected to be on the showcase will be notified in advance of the EXPO or prior to the Showcase on the afternoon of Friday, April 23, 2010. Entrants should not contact ASCAP or Pick The Band to see if they have been selected.
-You must agree to all contest Official Rules, Terms and Conditions and the Terms of Service of PickTheBand.com, including the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Band Release associated with your creation of a profile on PickTheBand.com. Any false information will result in automatic disqualification.

To submit to the showcase, visit: http://www.picktheband.com/index.php?cn=frontend/contest&co=ascapexpo

Three winners will each receive $500 plus payment for publication in EVENT 39/3. Other manuscripts may be published. Preliminary judging by the editors of EVENT.

Final Judge:  Lynn Coady is the author of the novels Strange Heaven (1998), Saints of Big Harbour (2003), and, most recently, Mean Boy (2006). She has also published a short story collection, Play the Monster Blind (2000). Her non-fiction has appeared in magazines and newspapers across Canada. She has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, as well as the Rogers Writers’ Trust Award, and is a recipient of the Dartmouth Book Award, The Canadian Authors Association Jubilee Award and the CAA Award for Authors under Thirty. In 2005 she received the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career, and in 2007 she received the Writers Guild of Alberta George Bugnet fiction prize for Mean Boy. She lives in Edmonton.
 
Myrna Kostash, Andreas Schroeder, Sharon Butala, Tom Wayman, Di Brandt, Terry Glavin, Karen Connelly, Charles Montgomery and Timothy Taylor are some of the past judges.

Writers are invited to submit manuscripts exploring the creative non-fiction form. Check your library for back issues of EVENT with previous winning entries and judges' comments. Contest back issues are available for $9 (CAN$13 for overseas residents). Postage and GST included. To purchase a print copy now, visit http://www.douglas.bc.ca/visitors/event-magazine/online-sales.html.

Note: Previously published material, or material accepted elsewhere for publication, cannot be considered. Maximum entry length is 5000 words, typed, double-spaced. The writer should not be identified on the entry. Include a separate cover sheet with the writer's name, address, phone number / email, and the title(s) of the story (stories) enclosed. Include a SASE (Canadian postage / IRCs / US$1). Douglas College employees are not eligible to enter.

Entry fee: Multiple entries are allowed, however, each entry must be accompanied by a $29.95 entry fee (includes GST and a one-year subscription; make cheque or international money order payable to EVENT). Those already subscribing will receive a one-year extension. American and overseas entrants please pay in US dollars.

Deadline for entries: Postmarked by April 15, 2010.

Send entries to:

EVENT
Non-Fiction Contest
PO Box 2503, New Westminster, BC
V3L 5B2   Canada 
Phone: 604-527-5293 Fax: 604-527-5095
Email: event@douglas.bc.ca

Ambience Productions is dedicated to promoting creative talent on a global scale. Through our website and contests we showcase some of this talent and introduce the world to new and emerging artists, photographers and writers.

The Ambience Photography Contest 2010 is open to all categories of photography. Amateur and professional photographers are all welcome, as too are entrants from all countries. Post processing and image manipulation in software is also allowed in this year's competition.

The contest will be judged by Ambience Productions. We have experienced photographers on board and no preference will be given to a particular category of photography. Our judges produce a diverse variety of photography themselves and are keen to view all types of images.

Winners receive great prize money - more than our previous contests - as well as a downloadable certificate to commemorate your win! The winning entries and photographer's profiles will be published on our site.

For the first time the prize money is topping the thousand dollar mark and will be allocated for the 5 prize winners. First prize is $500, second prize is $250, third prize is $200, fourth prize is $150 and fifth prize is $100.

For more information visit: http://www.ambienceproductions.com.au/photocontest.htm

The 2010 UK Songwriting Contest is NOW OPEN to entries from the UK and from around the word and offering great prizes to EVERYONE who enters - guaranteed - and a genuine opportunity to showcase your work to top producers and music industry executives. This is your chance to take part in a respected international event established in association with the The BRIT Trust (of BRIT Awards fame) and have your song showcased to the music industry in London. Many past entrants have been offered recording and publishing deals, and every year the media takes an interest with many contestants featured on TV, on radio, and in the press in the UK and internationally.

For more information, visit http://www.songwritingcontest.co.uk/

The 2010 Ladies Rock Camp  will be held May 29th-31st at Music Garage. APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE NOW for both sessions of camp. To apply to camp please complete our online application.

Ladies Rock Camp is a fundraiser for Girls Rock! Chicago. At this intensive weekend-long workshop, women ages 19-99 will follow a program similar to what the girls do at our summer camp: learn an instrument, form a band, write a song, and perform it - in just three days. If you are one of the many women who has thought, “I wish Girls Rock! Chicago was around when I was a kid!” this is for YOU. Each applicant will choose to play guitar, bass, or drums as her main instrument for the weekend. We assign instruments on a first come, first serve basis, so please provide us with a second choice instrument…NO MUSICAL EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY. You can view the tentative Ladies Rock Camp Schedule here.

Tuition is $400. For each woman who attends Ladies Rock Camp, we are able to provide a scholarship to one student at Girls Rock! Chicago Summer Camp. We are offering a limited number of Ladyfriend discounts. To apply, please fill out the starving artist discount portion of this application. If you have any questions about Ladies Rock camp email: info@girlsrockchicago.org

For more information, visit: http://girlsrockchicago.org/ladies-rock/

Participate in a 4 week, weekly Tele-Workshop on Artist Image and Mindset with gilli moon.

For artists of all genres and styles,... WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE IN 2010?

REGISTER TO ATTEND
gilli moon's
DEFINING THE ARTIST WITHIN - WORKSHOP
A weekly 1 hour tele-workshop for 4 weeks

WHERE: on the phone, (no computer access needed except for prep/homework between sessions). (Dial in number provided after registration.)

WHEN: Tuesdays in March 9, 16, 23, 30 (USA)
6:30pm PST - Pacific Standard Time/Los Angeles

Other locations, please check timezones.
Must attend all 4 sessions.

REGISTER ONLINE at http://www.gilli.net/WorkshopImage

Whether you want to be a rock star, or a consummate artist, or both, you need to be clear and focused with what path you take and how you are going to promote yourself. But it all begins with who you are. This workshop helps artists become clear with their innate qualities, and how best to go about promoting that and capitalizing on that to create a successful career in the arts.

Now's the time to start thinking about next year's plans: as an artist, you have the opportunity to reinvent yourself in every way - the way you are, through your persona, performances, promotion, online, marketing... everything you do and breathe.

For all artists, whether musicians, singers, painters, actors or those wanting to define one's path and find clarity in how to present oneself to the world ... this workshop is for YOU.

Come to this intense workshop for artists who want to explore:

who you are
what you want
and how you can get it

COST: US$25/session (restrictions apply. Must pay all 4 weeks upfront - Total $105 (includes $5 paypal processing fee).

LIMITED SPACES. RSVP ASAP.

UPDATE: NEW DATES AND TIMES: Moved from Tuesday to:
Starting this Saturday 13th March
Saturday March 13, Saturday March 20, Saturday March 27, and then skip a week and do Saturday April 10.
10.00am PST (L.A Time) - Pacific Standard Time/Los Angeles (other time zones listed on the website)
DETAILS & OFFICIAL REGISTRATION: http://www.gillimoon.com/WorkshopImage

RW Colorado Country Music Expo is July 10th & 11th, 2010 at the Phil Long Expo Center in Colorado Springs, CO.

Now Taking Artist/Band Submissions for the 2010 Expo, now until April 15, 2010.

For application contact: roldancate@gmail.com
Website: www.rwmusicexpo.com

July 10th & 11th, 2010 Phil Long Expo Center
Colorado Springs, CO

MEET YOUR FAVORITE ARTISTS

DARRYL WORLEY, TRENT TOMLINSON & CANDICE CRAIN
Just to name a few!

The Expo will feature Artist Meet n Greets, All Day Acoustic Performances & Artist Photo Opportunities

Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in the Expo.

Tickets go on sale in May.

Split This Rock Poetry Festival invites poets, writers, artists, activists, dreamers, and all concerned world citizens to Washington, DC, for poetry, community building, and creative transformation as our country continues to grapple with two wars, a crippling economic crisis, and other social and environmental ills.

From March 10 through March 13, 2010, the festival will feature readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, film, activism — opportunities to speak out for social justice, imagine a way forward, and celebrate the many ways that poetry can act as an agent for social change.

More information at http://www.splitthisrock.org/