Free Writing Contests

For all you dudes and dudettes with short stories sitting on dusty hard drives, here are some free contest.

No entry fee, but there are deadlines:

You got nothing to lose, unless you plan on biting your fingernails for several months.

 familycircle.com

glimmertrain.org

uipress.uiowa.edu

contest@all-story.all-all-story.com

And if you really want to impress me:

writersofthefuture.com

Heck, I’d impress myself if I got Honorable Mention in any of them.  Go spank ‘um.