George Mason University

The Missouri Review is now offering $15,000 in prize money for the 19th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize Contest -- $5,000 per genre in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Past winners’ work has been reprinted in the Best American series. Each entry is $20. All entrants receive a one-year subscription to The Missouri Review, either in print or in the new environmentally friendly digital format, which includes bonus audio content.
Deadline: October 9, 2009
For details go to: http://missourireview.com/contest

Levine Poetry Prize
$2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press 
Final Judge: Garrett Hongo 
Postmark Deadline: 9/30/09 
Previous Winners: Shane Seely, Neil Aitken, Lynn Chandhok, Roxane Beth Johnson, Steve Gehrke,  Fleda Brown. 
2009 submission guidelines

The Breakwater Review an online literary journal run by students in the creative writing MFA program at the University of Massachusetts Boston , is seeking high-quality submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, but work must be submitted by November 15 to be considered for the January issue. Submissions received after November 15 will be considered for the June issue. We are currently considering fiction under 5,000 words, nonfiction under 3,000 words, or 3 to 5 poems. We look forward to reading your best work.  The Breakwater Review is particularly interested in discovering new and interesting voices and welcomes submissions from previously unpublished writers.
For details go to: www.breakwaterreview.com

The Cosmos Club offers up to $3,000 for about 15 graduate students who attend Metropolitan Consortium of Washington Area Universities, including Mason.  For the past few years,  Mason students have successfully competed for these awards.  The application process has changed a bit and there is now on on-line form.  
Deadline: November 1, 2009
For more details go to: http://www.cosmosclubfoundation.org/scholars/grants-program.html