The Starving Writer Contest Guidelines

Our quarterly contest is taking a hiatus. We hope to be accepting submissions in the near future.
Thank you for all your support over the last two years.

Entry Fee - $20. includes one year subscription to the Starving Writer Review and critique of entry.

Categories - Adult fiction, non-fiction, juvenile fiction.

Prizes - First $100  Publication to first place winner in each category. Certificate to all winners.

Word count: 3000 maximum.

Please submit two copies of manuscript, double-spaced, word count in upper right corner.

Include cover letter with name, address, phone number, e-mail, manuscript title, word count, and category.

Send SASE for return of critique and list of winners.

Judging is double-blind with third judge as a tie breaker.

Deadline Currently not open

Make Checks Payable to: The Starving Writer

Send Entries to:
           The Starving Writer
           4230 SE King Rd #99
           Milwaukie, OR 97222

We adhere to the Contest Code of Ethics.

Contest Winners

Quarter 4 2010 Deadline November 20th

Crossing the Line with Frank by Rex Tyler
The Lemon Tree by Bree Murray

Quarter 3 2010 Deadline August 15th

Hair Raising by Sandy McPherson Carrubba
Brian and Me and the Mudd Hole by Kay Learned

Quarter 2 2010 Deadline May 15th

Six Shades of Gray by Jaime Liddick
Walk On by Helen Peppe
Late to Poetry’s Table by Sharon Wood Wortman
Olympic Champion Charlie Green’s Long Run to Faith by Robert B. Robeson
Welcome to Canada by John Graham – Pole
The Burp Bowl by Deborah “Bam” Schildkraut
Transformed! From the Inside Out by Jane Goldenberg


Quarter 4 2009 Deadline Nov 14th

Scrotum Comfort by Ross M Hall
Dairy of a Sex Addict by Kristen Burke
The Wicker Chair by Dan Eskeldson
Traveling Companions By Sandy McPherson Carrubba
Traveling Light by Christy Wise


Quarter 3 2009
Littlebird's Deam by Paul Cummins
The Bridge by Jim Wisneski
De Profundis by Phil Richardson
The Wooden Gauntlet by Joseph Shaffer
Sin of Omission by Heather Haldeman
Not knowing a Man by Christy Wise



Quarter 2 2009
Gloria and Bean by Kathrine L Clark
Little Girl Lost by Tom Doppke