Saturday, November 23, 2019

Writing Competitions: New Letters

The $2,500 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry for the best group of three to six poems.

The $2,500 Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction for the best Essay.

The $2,500 Robert Day Award for Fiction for the best short story. 

GUIDELINES

Upload your writing online by midnight (PST) Monday, May 18th. Entries sent after midnight (PST) May 18th cannot be considered or refunded. Please read guidelines carefully to insure best service.

Submit with each entry:

$24 entry fee for each manuscript submitted. A one-year subscription or subscription renewal to New Letters, shipped to any address within the United States, is included in the price of the first entry. (Subscriptions mailed outside the U.S. require a $15 postal surcharge.)

Please include one cover sheet with your entry stating the genre and the tile of the essay or short story. For poetry, please list the titles of each poem. Your personal information should not appear anywhere on the entry.


RULES AND NOTES
  • Simultaneous submissions of unpublished entries are accepted with proper notification upon acceptance elsewhere.
  • All entries will be considered for publication in New Letters.
  • Fiction and essay entries should not exceed 8,000 words. A single poetry entry may contain up to six poems, and those poems need not be related.
  • Multiple entries are accepted with appropriate fees.
  • Manuscripts will not be returned.
  • No substitutions after submissions. No refunds will be offered for withdrawn material.
  • Current students and employees of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and current volunteer members of the New Letters and BkMk Press staffs, are not eligible.
Read the complete guidelines and submit your work here.

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