Submissions for our ninth anthology are NOW OPEN! This year’s contest is judged by Rick Bass himself, selecting the 10 stories and essays that will be included in this year’s anthology. The contest runs through the final Sunday of March, March 29, so mark your calendar. $5000 will be awarded between the 10 winning authors. Full details below:
$5000 Awarded!
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Previously unpublished works of fiction and narrative nonfiction only
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Up to 7000 words
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We accept simultaneous submissions as long as work is withdrawn if it is accepted elsewhere
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Multiple submissions are allowed
- International submissions allowed
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Writers must not have published a novel-length work at the time of submission (authors of short story collections and self-published titles can submit as can authors with work with a low distribution, about 5000 copies)
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Standard formatting please (double-spaced, 12 pt font, pages numbered)
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$20 reading fee
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Submissions are not limited to writers in the US. All English-language submissions are welcome
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Writers who have earned an Anthology Prize before and whose work appears in our printed book cannot submit to this category but are welcome to send us work in other open categories.
RICK BASS is the author of over 30 books of fiction and nonfiction, and a winner of the 2016 Story Prize. He lives in Montana, where he is the founding board member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council. His stories, articles and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative, Men’s Journal, Esquire, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Harper’s, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Tin House, Zoetrope, Orion, and numerous other periodicals.