CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW's Annual Literary Contests:
The 2013 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, Jack Dyer Fiction Prize, & John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize
$ 2000 prize for Poetry $ 2000 prize for Fiction $ 2000 prize for Literary Nonfiction
One winner and two finalists will be chosen in each category. The three
category winners will be published and the finalists offered publication
(with a minimum payment of $200) in the Winter/Spring issue of CRAB
ORCHARD REVIEW. The winners and finalists will also be announced in the
March/April POETS & WRITERS and on the CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW Website.
Contest Guidelines
The postmark deadlines for this year's prize competitions are March 1,
2012 through May 2, 2012. Please do not send entries via FedEx, UPS,
DHL, Express Mail--we don't want you to spend the extra amount when this
is a POSTMARK deadline.
Online entries should be sent through Submittable (there is an
additional $2.50 processing fee for online entries, making the entry fee
for each online entry $22.50).
Entries must be previously unpublished*, original work written in
English by a United States citizen or permanent resident (current
students and employees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are
not eligible). Name, address, telephone number, email address, and work
title (or titles for poetry entries) should appear only on a cover sheet
for the entry. The author's name should not appear on any subsequent
page. All entries must be postmarked or submitted online between March
1, 2012 and May 2, 2012 (online entries will be accepted until 12:00 AM
(CDT) on May 2, 2012). Late entries will be returned unread. Postal
submissions should enclose a #10, self-addressed, stamped envelope for
notification of winners; online submissions will receive notification of
the results by email. Do not include an envelope or postage for return
of manuscript for postal submissions since entries will be recycled upon
the decision of the final judges and notification of the winners.
*We have had people ask about what is eligible as unpublished work and
at CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW we define "unpublished" as work that has not been
published by an online or print publication and is not currently
accepted for such publication; we do allow work that has been posted
online by the writer (though we will ask that the work be taken down
until after the time it is published in CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW) or is
available online as part of a thesis or dissertation required for the
completion of a degree. Simultaneous submissions are considered for the
Annual Literary Contests, but the winning entries must meet the criteria
as unpublished work described here.
Entry Guidelines (there is no theme for the Literary Prize entries; just send your best work):
Poetry entries should consist of 3 poems; 100 line limit per poem.
Prose entry length: up to 6000 words for fiction and up to 6500 words for literary nonfiction.
One poetry entry (3 poems; 100 line limit per poem), one story entry in
fiction, or one essay entry in literary nonfiction per $20 postal entry
fee/$22.50 online entry fee; a writer may send up to three entries in
one genre or a total of three entries if entering all competitions.
Entry fee: $20 for each postal entry/$22.50 for each online entry
(remember that a Poetry entry is 3 poems; 100 line limit per poem).
Please make checks for postal entries payable to CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW.
Each fee entitles entrant to one copy of the 2013 Winter/Spring issue of
CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW, which will include the winners of these
competitions, and one copy of the 2013 Summer/Fall issue of CRAB ORCHARD
REVIEW, our special issue "Prairies, Plains, Mountains, & Deserts."
If you send two entries with $40, we will extend your subscription an
additional year; if you send three entries with $60, we will extend your
subscription two additional years (online entries $22.50 each).
Address:
Mail entries to:
CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW Literary Contests
Dept. of
English, Mail Code 4503
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1000
Faner Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901.
Please indicate on the outside of the
envelope if an entry is "POETRY," "FICTION," or "LITERARY NONFICTION."
Online entries should be sent through Submittable (there is an
additional $2.50 processing fee for online entries, making the entry fee
for each online entry $22.50).
Please submit your file in .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, .pdf, .odt, or .wpf.
Single space for poetry and double space for prose. 12-point font,
Times New Roman or Times preferred.
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