Playlist for THE DOUBLE SUN--Chapter One

In my novel, THE DOUBLE SUN, one of my main characters, Irene Wittman, had dreams of becoming a singer and movie star until, well...life.

However, this means there are lots of musical references throughout the book. While I wait on feedback for revisions, I thought I'd share with you my DOUBLE SUN playlist. Each of these songs reflect a character's mood or an important event in the novel.

Since there are so many songs, I'll share these in snippets, sorted by chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter One Playlist
"Day-O, The Banana Boat Song," Harry Belafonte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tou8-Cz8is

“When I Fall in Love,” – Nat King Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfAb0gNPy6s

“Lohengrin Wedding March,” Richard Wagner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLQpdnvAXA

Writing Competition: Terrain.org 10 Annual Contests in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction

The submission deadline for the Terrain.org 10th Annual Contests in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction is fast approaching: September 2, 2019 (Labor Day). 

There is no theme for this contest, which has a $15 submission fee (set of 3-6 poems or long poem, story or flash fiction set up to 5,000 words, essay or flash nonfiction set up to 5,000 words) for a $500 prize in each genre, $100 to finalists. All submissions are considered for publication. Notifications by the end of November for publication in early 2020.

Judges

Poetry: Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy, the award-winning author of Trophic Cascade and four other poetry collections, is the editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry.

Nonfiction: Alison Hawthorne Deming
Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of four nonfiction books, most recently Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit, and five poetry books, as well as a recent Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction and Regents’ Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona..


Fiction: Tara Lynn Masih
Tara Lynn Masih’s publications include The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays, and the award-winning novel My Real Name Is Hanna–and she founded the Best Small Fictions series in 2015.

Call for Submissions: The Best Week Project

Here at The Best Week Project, we are asking a simple question.

 

What was the best week of your life? Why?

 

Submission guidelines: Write a few sentences to a paragraph describing the best week of your life. We would love if you included a photo or illustration, too.

 

Link to submit your work.

 

Please pass along this call for submissions to anyone who might be interested. Submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis. We can’t wait to read about your best week!

Call for Submissions: Belletrist Magazine

Belletrist Magazine Wants Unforgettable Poetry and Prose

We're coming up short this year, so we've reopened our submission boxes! Belletrist Magazine is looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art for our upcoming print issue. The editors would like to see work that is delicate and intimate with a hard edge; we gravitate towards work that is tender but can be fierce.

John Updike wrote in the forward to the Best American Short Stories of the Century, "I tried not to select stories because they illustrated a theme or portion of the national experience but because they struck me as lively, beautiful, believable, and, in the human news they brought, important.."

In Updike's words, we want to see the human news on the page.

Past contributors include Anita Felicelli, Khanh Ha, Kelly Cherry, Robert Vivian, Jason Bargueño, Mehdi M.. Kashani, Arlene Naganawa, David Ellis Dickerson, and many more.

We kindly ask you to submit your best work in just one genre. Multiple submissions, and submissions by the same author to multiple categories, are politely declined without review. Thank you for understanding the time and energy it takes to give your work our best attention and consideration. We will respond as soon as we are able to fully consider your work.

For our print issue, we accept prose submissions up to 7,000 words. For our online content, we ask that you submit no more than 1,500 words. We will read up to 5 poems at a time.

Please submit through our Submittable page.

Writing Competition: Into the Void's Fiction Prize

Win $1000 for Your Story in Into the Void's Fiction Prize

Deadline: October 31, 2019

Win $1,000 for your short story of up to 5,000 words in the Into the Void Fiction Prize! Also prizes for 2nd and 3rd places. The three winning stories will be published in print and online in Issue 15.

Entry fee is CA$12 (US$9) per story. Each entry comes with a free one-year online subscription to Into the Void.

More details and last year's winning stories here.

Call for Submissions from Millennials: Sleet Magazine

Sleet's Special Millennial Edition: Call for Submissions

Deadline: September 15, 2019

Sleet Magazine, now 10 years old, is calling on Millennials! Our Winter edition will feature only writing by Millennials. Tell us how you feel, what you love, hate, dream of. . . 

We are looking for poetry, fiction, irregulars, and CNF. As always, at the end of the day, our magazine is about love in all its wacky forms.

See guidelines here.

Call for Submissions: Walloon Writers Review

Walloon Writers Review Call For Submissions

Deadline: September 6, 2019

Walloon Writers Review is an independent print-only literary magazine published annually. We share the passion for Northern Michigan and the UP and here is a place to submit your stories, poetry, creative writing, legends and tales, and nature photography. Michigan writers encouraged but those who visit or have spent time here are welcome.

Submittable fee $6 is shared with an area nonprofit that works to preserve the natural beauty of the region.

Guidelines available at our website. Current edition is available at independent bookstores, direct, or Amazon.com.

Call for Submissions: Utopia Science Fiction

Deadline: August 31, 2019

Utopia Science Fiction is seeking quality science fiction. We're looking for character rich, diverse settings. We're looking for well-written, engaging plots that steer away from common tropes. We're open to a vast variety of writing styles and topics. Surprise us! We prefer pieces with a more optimistic vibe, but will consider anything not outright dystopian.

We pay our authors and offer feedback on submissions whether accepted or not. Short stories must be under 6,000 words. We accept poetry with a Sci-Fi vibe and we're more than happy to take articles on science facts or scientific technologies or discoveries.

Call for Submissions: History Through Fiction

Beginning August 1, 2019, History Through Fiction is open for submissions. We seek high quality fiction that is rooted in accurate and detailed historical research. Our novels combine elements of fiction and nonfiction to create compelling and educational narratives.

History Through Fiction offers a contract that includes an advance on royalties and covers all production expenses.

Read full guidelines and submit here.

A Celebration!

It's party time! I am celebrating the completion of the first draft of my second novel, THE DOUBLE SUN.

188,844 words

27 chapters plus a prologue and epilogue

393 pages

 Let the editing and revisions begin!

And here is a picture of my story board with the completed draft. Each gold/yellow index card is a single scene.

Scroll on down to view my newly posted writing opportunities.

Call for Submissions on Theme of Borders: Tiferet

Tiferet Opens Submissions: Border issue

Tiferet has open submissions to its first ever themed issue. We invite fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual media/arts to be submitted through our submittable page for consideration in the journal until September 1st. We will interpret this theme broadly, but you might consider exploring it in a number of ways: spiritual, physical, or emotional borders, or perhaps through your unique cultural leans. We encourage submissions from marginalized and underrepresented groups within the literary community.

For more details on our open submission windows, please check out our website.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: The Queer Movement Anthology

Call for Submissions: The Queer Movement Anthology

Contemporary literatures have at their core the queering of subjectivity. Writers Othered by society not only have rendered themselves visible, but have also formed collectives, workshops groups, and publications to confront the regimes of power that have historically invented mechanisms to invalidate and punish modes of becoming in alterity. In what this book project calls the queer movement, transnational solidarities and oppositional alliances are intentionally created and nurtured to further a more pronounced antagonism to arbitrary power play that generally targets embodiments of queerness. The queer movement is a living documentation of the evolution of resistance, pushing against the erasure of subjugated identities.

Based on the interpretation that the queer movement has a global pendulum, and whose scream for emancipation constitutes a history that sits with other histories of protests against prejudice and systematic oppression across time and borders, this book project is envisioned to be a gathering of diverse voices, ways of thriving, methods of freedom, possibilities that demand no fixity.

Writers writing from queerness are invited to submit poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or essays for possible inclusion in the anthology.

This anthology is tentatively set to be published by Seagull Books in either late 2020 or early 2021, as part of Seagull Books' Pride List. Seagull Book titles are internationally distributed by the University of Chicago Press.

Deadline: Nonspecific; depends on accepted submissions

For important details regarding submissions, please visit our Facebook page.

Writing Competitions: Black Water Review

$1500 & PUBLICATION in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry.
$800 & PUBLICATION in our Flash Category. 

Poetry Judge: Tommy Pico
Fiction Judge: Rivers Solomon
Nonfiction Judge: Selah Saterstrom
Flash Judge: Vi Khi Nao

DEADLINE: September 1st, 2019

See our website for more info.

GUIDELINES

• Fiction and Nonfiction: Submit up to 7,000 words. 

• Poetry: Submit a packet of up to 3 poems.

•  Flash: Submit a packet of up to 3 flash pieces. This can be in any genre, as long as the author considers it “flash.” We encourage experimental, hybrid, and lyrical submissions in this category. Image + text work is also welcomed. Surprise us.

•  Do not include your contact information in your document. We will use your Submittable information to contact you, so please make sure your contact information is accurate and up-to-date.

•  Multiple submissions are welcome, as are simultaneous submissions. Please notify us immediately if your submission is accepted elsewhere.

•  We accept only previously unpublished work for publication.

Winners in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry genre receive $1500 and publication in BWR 46.2, our Winter/Spring 2019 issue. Two runner-ups in each genre receive monetary compensation and acknowledgment in that issue. We may consider any submission for general publication.

The winner in Flash receives $800 and publication in BWR 46.2, our Winter/Spring 2019 issue. Two runner-ups receive monetary compensation and online publication. We may consider any submission for general publication.

The contest is open April 1 – September 1st. Winners will be announced in October.

SUBMIT

Submit your work through Submittable. We do not accept mailed or emailed submissions.

Upload your submission as a .docx or .pdf.

Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry: there is a $20 entry fee for each submission ($30 for international submissions). All domestic entrants receive a one-year subscription to BWR as a thank-you for your interest and support. 

Flash: there is an $8 entry fee.

Please email us at:

blackwarriorreviewATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

with any questions.

Writing Competition: 2019 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize

Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2019

Deadline: August 15, 2019

Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2019: Judge is Marilyn Chin.

$1,000 for first place and a letterpress broadside, $500 for second, $250 for third, and top five published in Red Wheelbarrow. Submit up to 3 original unpublished poems.

$15 entry fee.

Deadline: August 15.

Complete guidelines here.

Writing Competitions: The Ocotillo Review Summer Writing Contests

The Ocotillo Review Summer Writing Contests $1000 Prizes!

Deadline: August 20, 2019

The Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize seeks poems of up to 65 lines. Natalia Trevino will Judge. $1,000 Prize/$20 entry. Revenue donated to MD Anderson Foundation (cancer research).

The Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Prize Seeks Stories up to 4,200 words. Michael Noll will Judge. $1,000 prize/$20 entry. Revenue donated to Michael J. Fox Parkinson's Foundation.

All entrants are considered for publication and receive a copy of The Ocotillo Review V.4.1. Kallisto Gaia Press is a 501(c)3 literary nonprofit and a proud member of CLMP.

More info at our website. Send us your best!

Call for Submissions: Hoxie Gorge Review

Hoxie Gorge Review seeks Submissions of Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction 

Deadline: October 15, 2019
Hoxie Gorge Review is a new online literary journal, committed to publishing innovative poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by both emerging and established contemporary writers. We seek poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction for our first issue. We seek work that compels us, that challenges us, that breaks us open. Send us your best.

No fee to submit.

For more information, visit our website.

To submit, go here.

Simultaneous submissions accepted. Deadline October 15.

Call for Chapbook Submissions: Porkbelly Press

Porkbelly Press seeks micro chapbooks (about 8-10 pages) for our 2020 line.
We’d like to see poetry, prose poems, micro fictions, flash fiction, flash essay, micro essays, and combinations or hybrids. Yes, we’ll consider visual narratives / mini comics as well!
Subject matter is open, though we do prefer related pieces with a tight theme.

 

Reading through July.

 

(If you're interested in submitting a longer work, 12-28 pages or so, we'll be reading chapbooks in January.) 

 

Our books are printed and bound by hand. More information on our press & specific titles on our website.

Call for Submissions: Badwater

We are currently accepting submissions for our inaugural issue, to be released in September. We welcome submissions of up to five poems as well as fiction and creative nonfiction pieces up to 7,500 words. We seek original, unpublished works that showcase the best of established and up-and-coming writers alike. We are especially dedicated to publishing the work of mis/underrepresented groups (e. g. writers of color, writers along the LGBTQ+ spectrum, disabled writers, womxn writers and/or nonbinary/gender-nonconforming writers). We hope to establish a strong tradition of evocative work, and we are certain your contribution will help propel Badwater on this path.

Of course, while this is our first issue, we may not be able to accept every submission received. Please note that we value your work and your decision to trust us with it, regardless of the ultimate submission status.

For submission guidelines, please visit us our website.

Please note our submission period for the inaugural issue will close on September 1st; the issue will go live on the 15th. We will resume taking submissions in October.

Call for Submissions of 42-Word Stories to Anthology: BAM

Hello writers. We're seeking submissions for 42 categories of 42, 42-word stories.

Send your 42-word stories to us with a 42-word bio and 42-character title (the latter includes spaces). Read the categories in the link below and submit through Submittable. NO FEE. We need 1,764 stories, so please forward this to your friends.

Deadline: TBA.

Guidelines here.

Remember to remember,
BAM

Writing Competition: Pigeon Pages Flash Contest

PIGEON PAGES FLASH CONTEST
Judged by R.O Kwon, author of The Incendiaries

The winner will receive $250 and publication in Pigeon Pages
Honorable mentions will receive $50 and publication

Submission Guidelines
The contest is open to submissions via Submittable through August 1st.

Previously unpublished flash fiction and creative nonfiction pieces of 850 words or less are eligible for this contest.

$7 entry fee for one submission of 850 words or less; $15 entry fee for up to three submissions of 850 words or less, submitted in one document.

We do accept simultaneous submissions, but we ask that authors let us know if the submitted piece is accepted elsewhere.

Authors should not include personal information on their story as submissions will be read blind.

All submissions will be considered for publication in the general journal.

Call for Submissions: the museum of americana

Call for submissions: the museum of americana, an online literary review, is seeking work for our Fall/Winter Issue 19. From August 1-31, we'll be reading submissions of previously unpublished fiction, nonfiction, humor writing, poetry, and art. We seek work in these genres that showcases and/or repurposes historical American culture. Pitches for reviews, interviews, and music for our American Songbook are considered year round.

Full guidelines. 

And for news and updates, you can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
  

Call for Submissions: Two Hawks Quarterly

Two Hawks Quarterly.com is reading submissions in fiction, CNF, poetry, and genre X, all summer long.

We are looking for work that is exquisitely crafted, takes chances, and has something original to say. Especially on the lookout for fiction that reaches beyond the standard tropes, and for diverse voices.We want work that grabs us, makes us think AND feel, and keep on thinking and feeling after we’ve stopped reading. Better yet, work that merits more than one read.

Check us out. Submit here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Things That Go Bump in the Dark

Short Stories appropriate for world-wide audiences.

• Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller (not horror).

• Theme: THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE DARK

• Each story in the upcoming anthology will include a noise in the dark/in the night that is significant to a part of or the whole story.

• Poetry: 1-3 poems; typed.

• Fiction/Non-fiction: 500-7500 words; typed, double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman. Please submit all written work as WORD DOC file. Please let us know that you are submitting and give permission for SEZ to publish your work in our anthology. Authors receive copy.

Due on or before July 30, 2019 

Submit to:

sezpublishing[at]hotmail[dot]com (Change [at] to @ and [dot] to . )

More Information here.

Call for Submissions: Panpoly

Panpoply is open for submissions for Issue 13 now though July 28.

We're an e-zine featuring poetry and short prose, which has been read in over 140 countries, featuring writers from over 20 nations.

We read submitter-unidentified, taking as much joy in debuting a new voice as including highly-acclaimed writers.

Please review our guidelines carefully at our website. We look forward to reading your work.

Writing Competition: Tolsun Books Memoir Chapbook Competition

Memoir Chapbook Competition!

Deadline: July 31, 2019

Tolsun Books invites you to enter our 2019 Memoir Chapbook Competition. Submit a memoir made from parts, no more than 25 pages long.

Winner will receive publication in our 2020 catalog and 50 copies of the book.

Entry fee is $5, and we will be accepting submissions free of charge on July 15th.

Judged by award-winning essayist Jen Hirt. More information at our website.

Call for Submissions: Anthology of Contemporary Chicanx Writers

Call for Submissions: Anthology of Contemporary Chicanx Writers

Deadline: August 1, 2019

Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts and The Black Earth Institute are collaborating to publish an anthology of Contemporary Chicanx Writing. We want writing that goes deep into the culture and reveals heritage in new ways. We want work that is puro Chicanx which is more attitude than racial or ethnic identity; it may overlap with other Latinx cultures. We don’t ask for identification beyond exploration of that attitude and everything in between. Our focus on Chicanx culture that has been a large part of this country for hundreds of years and is still under-explored and understood only at a distance by the dominant culture.

We are calling for poems and prose. Submit up to 5 poems with a 100 word limit per poem, one prose piece up to 4000 words by August 1, 2019. Do not submit more than once in any genre.

Online submissions only.

Payment in contributor copies. All book profits will be donated to worthy nonprofit organizations helping immigrants from Mexico and Central America.

Editorial Board includes Luis Alberto Urrea, Carmen Tafolla, Matt Mendez, Octavio Quintanilla, Edward Vidaurre, Beth Alvarado, Terry Acevedo and Denise Chavez. Publication is planned for 2020.

Call for Submissions on Theme of Anne of Green Gables: Eastern Iowa Review

Anne of Green Gables Fan Issue

Deadline: September 30, 2019

Fiction, nonfiction (centered around author Lucy Maud Montgomery, Prince Edward Island, etc.), poetry, and artwork. All submissions must revolve around the character(s) in the Anne of Green Gables books or first Kevin Sullivan movie starring Megan Follows. Time period can vary from past to future. We welcome unique, experimental, and/or lyrical work. Finish someone's story, add to it, transport them to another time, etc. ALL THINGS ANNE! We are loving this theme and want to see it explored. 

We may choose one Editor's Choice award. This will be an online issue. Please submit!

Call for Submissions on Theme of Truth and Lies: Spectrum

This year, Spectrum is looking for the Truth.

The unfortunate truth is that we all lie and keep secrets. Some of us lie because we fear the consequences of the truth. Some lie because they fear how others will treat them. Others lie about what they believe in or lie about who they really are. To tell the truth, all the time is an unthinkable burden. To always lie is just as difficult and catastrophic.

For the 63rd volume of Spectrum, we want to examine these lies as well as the truths that we reveal.

These truths and lies can be small, like being honest about a friend’s hairstyle that you don’t like. Or they can be large, like coming out as transgender or gay to family. They can be on a societal level, like propaganda and misinformation. Whatever the setting or scale of the story, we want to hear about the lies and/or truths you or your characters encounter and how we all navigate this complicated landscape of fact and fiction.

We accept fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art, but don't be limited by these genres. If it can be printed in two dimensions, we will consider it for publication. This includes sheet music, photography, collages, poems and stories with untraditional layouts, and anything else that catches your fancy. Surprise us and our readers.

For more information and to submit, visit our Submittable or our website.

Writing Competition: The Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction

The Barnhill Prize honors Anne’s generous spirit of support for all who love to read and write; her lifelong empathy with those who mine their childhood experience to understand themselves now; the natural vulnerability in her compelling prose and poetry; and her boundless generosity in sharing her writing passions with the world.

 

Selection process: Editors determine the pool of 10 finalist essays. Those 10 essays will be read by an outside judge who makes the final selection of one winning essay. The author of the winning essay receives a cash award of $250. The winner has ten days to accept the award. More information about this year's judge, M. Randal O'Wain, can be found here.

 

Eligibility: The competition is open to writers in English, whether published or unpublished. Previous winners of this award are not eligible to win again. Writers must be residents of North America.

 

Essay Guidelines:

• Essays should be double-spaced and no more than 3,500 words in length.

• The award recognizes outstanding creative nonfiction that reflects our mission: (See About)

• Essays are only accepted via our Submittable online platform. No paper, please.

• Please be sure essay pages are numbered and that your name is NOT on the document that is your essay.

• Please use a standard, easy-to-read font such as Times New Roman in twelve-point size.

• Essays may not have been previously published.

• Authors may submit more than one essay to the competition for consideration as long as no material is duplicated between submissions. Each submission will require a separate entry fee.

• Essays under consideration for this competition may be submitted elsewhere at the same time. Please withdraw your essay if it is accepted by another publisher and should no longer be considered for the Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction competition. Withdrawal can be completed via the submissions manager website. Entry fees ($10 per submission) are not refundable.

•  Deadline: July 31, 2019

The final judge will not be aware of the names or publication records of the authors. If he believes he recognizes the work or identity of the writer, he will disclose that to our editors..
Please forward any questions to edg (at) longridgeeditors (dot) com. Thank you!

Call for Submissions: Anomaly

Anomaly, an online international and intersectional journal of arts and literature, is seeking work for our 2019 Spring and Winter 2019-2020 issues. We are looking for creative nonfiction, translations, fiction, poetry, and comics, as well as proposals for feature folios.

For more information, please visit our Submittable page.

Deadline: September 01, 2019.

Call for Submissions: Ponder Review

Ponder Review is open for submissions of Poetry, Fiction, Flash, Creative Nonfiction, Short Plays, New Media, and Visual Art: now through Sept. 15, 2019. Beat the rush and submit by August!

Published In print and online by the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women, we seek a diversity of writers and styles. We are proud to publish new voices alongside established names, experimental and cross-genre work is welcome, and we do not discriminate based on gender, origin, religion, etc.

Online submissions through Submittable with a $2 fee. Back issues are available free online.

See our full guidelines here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology: Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas

Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas

 

If you think cats and water don’t mix, think again.

 

Editor Rhonda Parrish is putting together an anthology for us full of feisty felines on the high seas! We want pirate cats, and Viking cats. Submariner cats and explorer cats. This book is going to be filled with adventure-loving cats, puns and fun. We want it to be a wild, rollicking ride complete with sword fights, sea monsters, treasure hunting, discovering new worlds and lots and lots of kittens.

 

Be careful not to get too caught up in the fun and forget to include a strong plot and detailed characters for your story, though.

 

Rhonda is a sucker for a great setting, three-dimensional characters and high stakes. And if your story elicits real emotion from me–laughter, tears, anger or anything in between–you will have increased your chances of success significantly.

 

Rights and compensation: Payment: $50 CAD flat fee and a paperback copy of the anthology. In exchange we are seeking first world rights in English and exclusive right to publish in print and electronic format for six months after publication date, after which publisher retains nonexclusive right to continue to publish for the life of the anthology.

 

Open submission period: June 1, 2019 – July 31, 2019

 

Length: Under 9,000 words

 

No simultaneous or multiple submissions.
No reprints.
Canadian spelling, please.

 

How to Submit: Manuscripts are to be done through a Submittable form.

Call for Submissions: Spittoon Monthly

Spittoon Monthly publishes one exceptional short story or set of poems each month. We consider all varieties of English-language fiction and poetry, and we particularly encourage diverse writing from around the world.

 

The poetry deadline has passed but there is still time to submit your fiction. Our next fiction deadline is August 5.

 

Fiction submissions should be less than 4000 words. For complete submission details and to read previous featured writers, please go here.

Writing Competition: Prime Number Magazine Flash Fiction Contest

Ends on September 30, 2019

Entry Fee: $7.00 USD

The Prime Number Magazine Flash Fiction Contest (must be 18 years of age or older to enter)

First Prize: $353 (a prime number) and publication
Second Prize: $151 (a prime number) and publication
Third Prize: $53 (a prime number dear to us) and publication

Winners will be announced no later than one month following the close of submissions and the winning stories will appear in the next quarterly issue of Prime Number Magazine. Prizes awarded upon publication.

Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to reading your stories.

Guidelines:

• Prime Number Magazine’s flash fiction contest can earn you a cash prize plus publication in Prime Number Magazine (a Press 53 Publication). Writers must be 18 years of age of older to enter.

• Deadline: Sept 30, 2019, midnight Eastern Standard Time.

• Reading fee: $7 (a prime number)

• Entries will only be accepted through Submittable, your online submissions manager.

• Final Judge: the Press 53/Prime Number Magazine editorial staff

• Winner Announced: No later than Nov 1, 2019

How to Enter:

• Submit one unpublished story that is no more than 751 words, double-spaced in 12-pt. type with numbered pages. Multiple entries require separate reading fees.

• Reading fee is $7 per entry and is nonrefundable.

• The judging process is “blind,” so author’s name should not appear anywhere on or in the story.

• Writer will be prompted by Submittable to give name, bio, and contact information so no cover letter is necessary.

• Open to any writer anywhere in the world whose entry is unpublished and written in English and who is at least 18 years old.

• Authors who have published a book with Press 53 are not eligible to enter.

• Entries will only be accepted through Submittable, your online submissions manager. Requests to open your entry for editing via Submittable cannot be accepted after the deadline.

• Writer is asked to withdraw the submission through Submittable should it be accepted for publication elsewhere. If entry is withdrawn, reading fee is nonrefundable and entry cannot be replaced with another piece.

• The winning story must remain unpublished until it appears in Prime Number Magazine, otherwise the prize and publication will be forfeited. All rights revert back to author upon publication.

• Cash prize awarded upon publication.

Prime Number Magazine is granted First Serial Rights with the right to archive the story indefinitely.

All other rights revert back to author upon publication.

Confirmation of entry will be sent via e-mail by Submittable immediately after submission.

An announcement of our winners will be sent to all entrants via email through Submittable, and posted on Facebook, Twitter and in Prime Number Magazine.

Writing Competition: Julia Peterkin Award for Flash Fiction

Ends on August 15, 2019 $12.00 USD

The contest is open to prose submissions between June 1 - August 15.

Previously unpublished fiction of 850 words or less are eligible for this contest. We are especially interested in stories that demonstrate a strong voice and/or a sense of place, but we consider all quality writing.

We will select one winner to receive a cash prize of $500, and 4 runners up will recognized but receive no prize. Winners will be named in October. All winning entries will be published in the Fall / Winter issue of South 85 Journal, which will be released December 15.

To read last year's winners, visit our website.

We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw your entry if your piece is accepted elsewhere.

Please do not include personal information on your piece, as submissions will be read blind.

All winners must be over 18 years old and reside in the U.S. in order to claim their cash prize.

Please use double-spacing and a 12 point, standard font. We suggest Times New Roman. We consider only previously unpublished work.

Submit your work here.

Current and former staff members are not eligible for participation. Current Converse College students and Converse College alumni are not eligible for participation.

South 85 Journal does not publish work which has been previously published either in print or online. Our reply time is typically six to eight weeks. We acquire exclusive first-time Internet rights only. All other rights revert to the author at publication, but we offer formal, written reassignments upon request. Works are also archived online. We ask that whenever an author reprints the work that first appeared in our pages, South 85 Journal be given acknowledgment for the specific work(s) involved. Only the main contest winner will receive a prize.