This was in my inbox today – do you have a story you could enter?

The deadline for the fifteenth annual Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest is Monday, October 3. Enter now at www.all-story.com/contests.cgi. 

GUEST JUDGE:
National Book Award-finalist Jim Shepard will award the prizes.

PRIZES:
First prize is $1,000; second prize $500; and third prize $250.

LITERARY AGENCIES:
The three prizewinners and seven honorable mentions will be considered for representation by William Morris Endeavor, ICM, Regal Literary, the Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inkwell Management, Sterling Lord Literistic, Aitken Alexander Associates, Barer Literary, the Gernert Company, and the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency.

DATES:
All entries must be complete by October 3, 2011. Results will be announced at the website December 15, 2011, and in the Spring 2012 issue of Zoetrope: All-Story; and the winning story will be published as a special online supplement to that Spring 2012 issue.

Complete contest guidelines are available at the website. Please read them before submitting.

Please e-mail us at contests@all-story.com with further questions. We look forward to reading your work.

Best of luck,
The editors at Zoetrope: All-Story

This is from the American Literary Review’s website:

2010 Literary awards

Contest Guidelines

    Please note that we do not accept submissions via email.   

• Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in the Spring 2011 issue of the American Literary Review will be given for a poem, a short story, and an essay.
   
• Submit up to three poems, a short story of up to 8,000 words, or an essay of
  up to 6,500 words with a $15 entry fee by October 1, 2010. Entries submitted after this deadline will be returned unread.
   
• Include a cover page with author’s name, title(s), address, and phone number.
  Do not include any identifying information on subsequent pages except for the
  title of the work.
   
• Enclose a $15.00 reading fee (includes subscription) and a SASE for contest
  results. Multiple entries are acceptable; however each entry must be accompanied
  by a reading fee. (Note: only the initial entry fee includes a subscription.
  Subsequent entry fees go to contest costs only and will not extend the subscription.)
   
• Short Fiction: One work of fiction per entry ($15), limit 8,000 words per work.
   
• Creative Nonfiction: One work per entry fee, limit 6,500 words per work.
   
• Poetry: Entry fee covers up to three poems (i.e. one to three poems would
  require an entry fee of $15; four to six poems would be $30, and so on).
   
• Label entries according to contest genre and mail to ALR’s regular submission address:For example: American Literary Review Short Fiction Contest
                      P.O. Box 311307
                      University of North Texas
                      Denton, TX 76203-1307