Contests (Your Chance to Make Our Editors' Eyes Bleed)

And four poisons to choose from, too

Fiction Contests
Got a cool plot? Got a cast of screwed-up characters? Got 2,000 to 7,500 words to put 'em all in? Maybe even a band of high-strung Miltonian monkeys to type it all up for you? Then enter one of Passages North's fiction contests and try to win some cash!

Short-Short Fiction Contests
So you don't have enough time to wade through all those heart-collapsing revisions for a fifteen page story? No problem: Passages North loves the little 1,000-word-max literary gems known collectively as short-short stories, or flash fiction. Twice the punch at a fraction of the price!

Creative Non-Fiction Contests (Update! 2006 Thomas Hruska Nonfiction Prize Info)
It's only true until it's creative non-fiction. Then it's essential.