Writing Competition for Undergraduate and Graduate Students Ages 18-30: Arch Street Press

Arch Street Press is pleased to present its annual prize for America’s best college writer. The Arch Street Prize is designed to stimulate interest in writing and to promote today’s extraordinary young writers. The contest is open to any undergraduate or graduate student between the ages of 18 and 30 who has not previously had a book published. Arch Street Press offers each winner a standard book contract for a future work, together with a mentoring program and $1,000 cash prize.

The manuscript must be a work of nonfiction or fiction that does not exceed 10,000 words.The contest deadline is May 31, 2017.

Format:

Include a cover sheet with your name, address, phone number and the title of your manuscript.

Put your name on the cover sheet only; to ensure that every manuscript finalist is evaluated with the utmost fairness, all manuscripts are submitted to the judges without any identifying material.

Arch Street Press accepts both email (preferred):  

contactATarchstreetpressDOTorg (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

and postal mail submissions. Manuscripts may be mailed to:
Robert Rimm, Managing Editor
Arch Street Press
1122 County Line Road
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

For full contest details, please visit our website.