The clock is ticking—only hours remain until the submission window closes for our Fall Fiction Contest! Three finalists will be selected by Anita Felicelli, author of Chimerica and Love Songs for a Lost Continent. The winning story receives a $2,000 prize! Submit now, before it’s too late!
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The winning story receives $2000 + publication, and a note from our judge on why the story was chosen. Second and third place stories earn $300 and $200, respectively, publication, and correspondence from our judge.
Anita Felicelli is the author of the novel CHIMERICA and the short story collection LOVE SONGS FOR A LOST CONTINENT, which won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. Her essays, reviews, and criticism have appeared in the SF Chronicle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Times (Modern Love), Slate, Salon, Catapult, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She graduated from UC Berkeley and UC Berkeley School of Law. She’s a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a VONA alum. She’s received a Puffin Foundation grant, Greater Bay Area Journalism awards, and Pushcart nominations, and her fiction and poems have been anthologized. CHIMERICA appeared on The Millions Most Anticipated List for 2019. Born in South India, she lives in the Bay Area with her family.
GUIDELINES:
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Submissions are open from Oct 1 – Nov 30
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6000 word limit
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Fiction only
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Emerging Writers only. (We are interested in offering a larger platform to new writers. Self-published writers and writers with story collections and novels with a small circulation are welcome to submit. Writers with novels published with a circulation of fewer than 5000 copies can also submit.)
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$20 submission fee
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International submissions allowed
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Previously unpublished work only
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Translations allowed, providing the story has not been published in another language
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Multiple and simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify us if your story is accepted elsewhere
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Winner receives $2000 and publication
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2nd and 3rd place stories receive $300 and $200 respectively, in addition to publication
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Please no identifying information on your story
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All stories are considered for publication
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