Writing Competition: The Writer's Block Prize in Fiction

The Writer's Block Prize in FICTION opens for submission May 1, 2019.

Award-winning novelist Garth Greenwell will judge.

OPENING DATE: May 1, 2019
DEADLINE: August 1, 2019

AWARD:

Winner will receive $500 and publication in The Louisville Review, the literary magazine of Spalding University’s nationally distinguished low residency MFA in Writing program. Winner also will be invited to read the winning story at the 2019 Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, KY on November 16.

GUIDELINES:

• Submit up to 3 stories, 4,000 words maximum.

• Submission fee: $12.

• Your name and contact information must NOT appear on any pages of the submission. 

• All entries must be submitted electronically via Submittable.

• Submissions should not have been published previously in any form, whether in print or online.

• Multiple submissions are allowed, but require separate entry fees.

• Simultaneous submissions are permitted; please withdraw your work through Submittable if it is accepted for publication elsewhere

• Winner will be notified by October 2019.