The Tennessee Writers Alliance 2008 Literary Awards Competition The Tennessee Writers Alliance Short Fiction Award The Tennessee Writers Alliance Poetry Award The entry deadline has passed. Awards will be presented at the 2008 Southern Festival of Books, October 10-12, in Nashville. Judges for the 2008 competitions were William Gay, fiction, and Gaylord Brewer, poetry. Please visit this website in early 2009 for information on the next contests. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 sponsors a Short Fiction Contest (September 30, 2008 deadline), and 20th annual Memoirs Competition (November 30, 2008 deadline). Please visitwww.twwoa.orgfor complete information.

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

The Union County Writers Club of North Carolina announces their annual contest for short story, fantasy, poetry, and children's story. The deadline for the 2008 competition is October 31. Visit www.unioncountywritersclub.org/contest.html for complete guidelines.