OUR SEVENTH ANNUAL SHORT STORY CONTEST, the Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction, is accepting submissions through this month of October. First prize is $1200 and publication on writingsite.com. Finalists will also be offered publication. Thank you to all our authors for submitting your work and helping to make this contest so successful. Please click here for guidelines.
GREAT WRITING NEWS TO SHARE:
BLAKE KIMZEY has more good news to share since he was a finalist in our 2007 contest. He continues to publish short stories--two most recent in PANK and Dark Sky. He is currently in the MFA Fiction program at UCA, Irvine. Take a look at Blake's fun web site to learn more. Good going, Blake!
SANDRA HUNTER, whose short story Radio Radio won our 2010 contest, has a novel, Waiting For Heaven, coming out soon in the U.K. Her novel Halfway Around the World was a finalist for the 2011 UNO Study Abroad Fellowship.
SUSAN SCHOENBERGER'S first novel, A Watershed Year, is available from on-line book sellers. Susan is a former Connecticut seminar member and we wish her good sales on this extremely well-written book. It's a great read! Go to Susan's web site to learn more about A Watershed Year.
2007 Finalist Randy Susan Meyers' novel The Murderer's Daughters is available from St. Martins Press.
2003 Finalist Aaron Morales' novel, Drowning Tucson, is with Coffee House Press. His chapbook, From Here You Can Almost See the End of the Desert, is available through the University of Notre Dame's Momotombo Press.
2007 Finalist Kevin Leahy has published several stories and has been a finalist in Glimmer Train and Bookmark contests.
TO ALL OUR FORMER CONTEST WINNERS AND HONORABLE MENTIONS--please keep us posted on your latest publication or award -- we want to know and let others know, too!
PER SE IS AN ANTHOLOGY dedicated to the memory of Arthur Edelstein. Proceeds from its sale support the Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction. PER SE consists of stories, novel excerpts, and poetry contributed by Art's former students, many of whom have published and/or received awards for their fiction. With an introduction by Elinor Lipman, PER SE is available on all the dot-com bookstores. Our link takes you to Amazon. Buy a copy to discover excellent writing and to help support writers. Thank you!
UPCOMING CONTEST DEADLINES:
Edelstein Prize: $1200 & put, short story, Oct 31
Calvino Prize: $1500 & pub, fabulist fiction, Oct 14
Indiana Review: $1000 & pub, short story, Oct 15
Glimmer Train: $1200 & pub, short story (family), Oct 31
VanDyke Prize: $1000 & pub, short story, Oct 15
Dana Awards: $1000 (4), short story, novel in prog., Oct 31
Kore Press:$1000 & pub, ss by female writer, Oct 31
Narrative: $1000, short story (writer under 30), Oct 31
Bakeless Prize: pub & fellowship, first book, Nov 1
Briar Cliff Review: $1000(3) & pub, short story, Nov 1
Chautauqua Prize: $1000 & pub, short story, Nov 1
New Rivers Press: $1000 (2), book length fiction, Nov 1
Steinbeck Award: $1000 & pub, short story, Nov 1
Danahy Prize: $1000 & pub, short story, Nov 1
Doctorow Prize: $15,000 & pub, ss coll., novella, novel, Nov 1
Sukenick Prize: $1000 & pub, ss coll., novella, novel, Nov 1
Roanoke Review: $1000 & pub, short story, Nov 8
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