Here are a few current contests I have received notification from. Wednesday I will post tips on how to know if a contest is legit. You can be sure that these listed below are:

(These were found in my WOW: Women On Writing email newsletter. You should check out the site. They have invaluable tools, classes, and info for writing.)

Discovering the Undiscovered Competition 2012
Deadline: February 15 (Early Bird), October 1, 2012 (Final)
Entry Fee: $23
Prizes: $1,000
Guidelines: Open to all forms of fiction or creative nonfiction including novels, memoirs, or collections of short fiction and essays. Manuscripts between 30,000-200,000 words.
Details: www.gracenotesbooks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic...

100 Words or Fewer Writing Contest Nine
Deadline: February 18, 2012
Entry Fee: $15; plus checkmark evaluation: $10 additional; plus critique: $40 additional.
Prizes: $400, $50
Guidelines: Categories for stories are "Eating" and "Uncommon Character." Your story must relate to one or the other, but the connection can be loose. Original and complete fiction of not more than 100 words. See the website for examples of winning stories, checkmark evaluations, and critiques.
Details: www.100wordsorfewerwritingcontest.com

HOOT Monthly Contest
Deadline: February 20, 2012
Entry Fee: $2
Prizes: 30% of the entry fees
Guidelines: Flash fiction, poetry, and memoir that is fewer than 150 words.
Details: www.hootreview.com

Poetry-in-Motion Writing Contest
Deadline: February 29, 2012
Entry Fee: $25
Prizes: $1,000
Guidelines: Theme: Holidays and Special Events, Past and Present. The writer should submit one sonnet (which commonly consists of 14 lines, each of which has ten syllables written in iambic pentameter).
Details: www.risingstar31.com/contests.html

Wag's Review Third Annual Winter Writers Contest for Fiction
Deadline: February 29, 2012
Entry Fee: $20
Prizes: $1,000; $500; $100
Guidelines: Accepting submissions in fiction, poetry, and essays. Up to 10 pages of poetry, and up to 10,000 words of prose.
Details: www.wagsrevue.com/submit.php

 
Twisted Stringybark Short Story Award 2012
Deadline: March 4, 2012
Entry Fee: $9.75
Prizes: $500
Guidelines: Maximum word count 1,500 words; must have some link to Australia (no matter how tenuous); and must have a twist in the tail!
Details: www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Home.html

2012 Foolish Writing Contest
Deadline: March 15, 2012
Entry Fee: $5
Prizes: $100, $50, $25
Guidelines: Answer this question, "It was so funny..." (in 200 words or less)
Details: www.foolishtimes.net

Robert Frost Poetry Contest for Poems and Haiku
Deadline: March 15, 2012
Entry Fee: $10
Prizes: A two week residency at The Studios of Key West plus $200 cash; $100; $50
Guidelines: Poems may be rhymed or unrhymed, metered or free verse, up to 40 lines. Haiku should be a short poem of no more than 17 syllables.
Details: www.tskw.org/news-room/announcing-2011-robert-frost-international-p...

Annual Writers-Editors International Writing Competition
Deadline: March 15, 2012
Entry Fee: $3-$20
Prizes: $100, $75, $50
Guidelines: Nonfiction (previously published and unpublished); Fiction (short story and novel chapter); Children's Literature; Poetry.
Details: www.writers-editors.com/Writers/Contests/Contest_Guidelines/contest...

Good luck!