Saturday, October 1, 2022

Writing Competition: Carve Magazine's Prose & Poetry Contest

2022 prose & poetry CONTEST GUIDELINES

Dates & Prizes

  • Submission Dates: October 1 - November 15.

  • Prizes: $1000 each for one winner in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

  • Winners announced February 1, 2023 and published online in Spring 2023. 

  • Honorable mentions and semi-finalists will be listed online for up to 6 months.

  • All work submitted will be considered for non-contest publication; we will notify author if selected.

    Entry Fee & Eligibility

  • Entry Fees: $17 for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

  • One poem, essay, or short story per entry. No limit to number of entries.

  • Story, essay, or poem must be previously unpublished (including online).

  • 10,000 maximum word count for fiction and nonfiction; 2,000 maximum for poetry.

  • We accept entries from anywhere in the world, but the work must be in English.

  • No genre works (romance, horror, sci-fi, etc.); literary prose and poetry only.

  • Winners of the past two Raymond Carver and Prose & Poetry contests are ineligible.

  • There are no refunds on entry fees for any reason.

Submission Instructions

  • No cover page or author info in document. All identifying information in Submittable is concealed for the contest.

  • No mailed submissions accepted for this contest.

SUBMIT NOW

Submit online via Submittable. (Available midnight EDT October 1.)

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