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.

Poetry Contests (Update! 2006 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize Info!)
Stripping life down to infintesimally tiny compositions of infintesimal density, or the exact opposite of this. Because poetry is like that, right?