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This is old news but has escaped my attention until now: The Atlantic Monthly is accepting entries for its annual student writing contests. (Student status being of the undergrad or grad varieties.) Entries accepted in fiction, poetry, and something called “personal or journalistic essays” that sounds a lot like creative non-fiction.
Prizes are $1,000 for first place, $500 for second and $250 for third. Postmark deadline is December 1.
The best part? No entry fee.
Full details here. Good luck.
Sorry about that title, but note that I’m refraining from any kind of “it was the best of contests, it was the worst of contests” opening. Each of these contests has something to recommend it, and each is run by a noteworthy and worthwhile lit mag.
Zoetrope: All-Story is holding its 2007 short fiction contest. The prize is $1,000, the judge is Joyce Carol Oates, and the entry fee is $15.
Black Warrior Review is also holding a contest, this one for both fiction and poetry. Prizes are $1,000 for first place in each category, plus publication in BWR. Judges: Josh Russell (fiction), Dean Young (poetry). Entry fee is $15, but note well that the entry fee entitles the contestant to a year’s subscription of BWR.
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The L Magazine, a sassy New York bi-weekly, has announced their second annual Literary Upstart contest. 1,500 words, due April 12; if you just can’t decide which of your stories to submit, don’t sweat it — you can send in two. The finalists — which last year included Pittsburgh MFA student Sarah Harris, at left — read together in a watering hole somewhere in New York City during the summer to face off for a cash prize and adulation of the many.
(photo by Nicky Digital)
The Nelson Algren Awards for short fiction are open for just 3 more days. Run by the Chicago Tribune, the top prize is a luscious $5,000 — quite a purse for a previously unpublished story. Runners-up get “only” $1,500. They want 2,500-8,000 words, and they want it by mail, and they want it postmarked by Thursday. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.