That’s right, folks—for our thirteenth year, our anthology will be published under the title Best Emerging Writers! As always, we’re committed to providing a platform to new and emerging writers, which is why we’re expanding this project we hold so dear. This year’s ten finalists will receive a $700 prize along with publication in our internationally distributed print anthology as well as publication right here on our website! Gina Chung, author of Sea Change and the newly released Green Frog will select the ten winners from a shortlist of thirty. Submissions open April 1. Find all the details below or on or contest page.
About the Judge
Gina Chung is a Korean American writer from New Jersey currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel Sea Change, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a 2023 B&N Discover Pick, an APALA Adult Fiction Honor Book, and a New York Times Most Anticipated Book, and the short story collection Green Frog (out March 12, 2024, from Vintage in the US and June 6, 2024, from Picador in the UK). A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, she is a 2021-2022 Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. Her work appears or is forthcoming in One Story, BOMB, The Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Catapult, Electric Literature, and Gulf Coast, among others.
Guidelines:
- Submissions of fiction or creative nonfiction must be under 7,000 words.
- Submitted work must be previously unpublished, which includes publication on personal blogs, social media accounts, and other websites. Previously published work will be automatically disqualified.
- The entry fee per submission is $20.
- Multiple submissions are allowed, though each submission requires a $20 fee.
- Simultaneous submissions are also allowed. However, if your submission is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw your submission on Submittable, or contact us otherwise to let us know the piece is no longer available.
- We do not require anonymous submissions for this contest, though the guest judge will review the shortlist anonymously.
- This contest is for emerging writers only. Writers with single-author book-length work published or under contract with a major press are ineligible. We are interested in providing a platform to new writers; authors with books published by indie or university presses and self-published authors are welcome to submit unpublished work.
- International submissions are allowed, provided the work is written primarily in English. Some code-switching/meshing is warmly welcomed.
- No translations, please.
- All submissions must be double-spaced with one-inch page margins and use Times New Roman or Garamond 12 (or larger, if needed for accessibility).
- The contest’s deadline is 11:59 p.m. PDT on June 2, 2024.
- All entries are considered for publication in New Voices.
- Friends, family, and associates of the guest judge are ineligible for this award.
- Writers whose work appears in previous editions of our anthology are ineligible for this award.
- A significant portion of the editorial letter fee is paid directly to your feedback editor.
Ten winners will receive:
- a $700 award;
- publication in our internationally distributed anthology and on our website;
- a contributor’s copy;
- and exposure to over fifty literary agencies as part of our exclusive mailing. We send our anthology to editors, writers, and literary institutions across the country.