LEE & LOW BOOKS, award-winning publisher of children's books, is pleased to announce the eleventh annual NEW VOICES AWARD. Given for a children's picture book manuscript by a writer of color.

Deadline: September 30, 2010.

$5,000 first prize for each category of fiction, poetry, and essay.

Deadline October 1, 2010.

The Jack Straw Foundation's University District facility has an available office space for rent. Priority goes to writers, but the foundation will consider other fields.

Deadline: Open

PLOP! Literary Series is a monthly series hosting writers and musicians from across the Northwest in an intimate house setting.  Providing artists with an opportunity to challenge, shape and engage their work and the audience by thinking in new ways about space. Seeking Writers & Literary Artists for upcoming performances September 18th & November 13th.

Deadline: September 6, 2010

7,500-word limit. Winner receives $1,000 and publication. The 25 finalists will be considered for publication. Enter previously unpublished original stories up to 7,500 words.

Deadline: October 01, 2010

Each issue of Literary Laundry is accompanied by a writing competition. All pieces submitted to us for review will be  entered into consideration for our Awards of Distinction.

Deadline: December 1, 2010

The three prizewinners and seven honorable mentions will be considered for representation by the William Morris Agency, ICM, Regal Literary, the Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inkwell Management, Sterling Lord Literistic, and the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency.

Deadline: 10/01/10

The theme for September is "Changing Seasons". The changing of seasons could be something in your life, a milestone, a goal met. Anything symbolic or metaphoric, of a change taking place. The beginning of one thing, and the ending of another. Tell us about the changes in your life...

Deadline: September 15, 2010

I'm creating a new group of art studios in the Int'l District, a few blocks from the Pioneer Square galleries at 519 S. Main St. @ 6th Ave. S, (by Maneki & the Panama Hotel). We should be ready to go sometime in November, and I'm starting a waiting list of people who want to see the spaces as soon as the contractors have the walls up....

We invite you to become an agent provocateur thru poetry. Let your voices be heard. Become a subversive human. Poets are welcomed from all countries, as art should ignores geographical limits.