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Best of the House Short Story Winners

Issue 9 of Clapboard House online literary journal features the Best of the House Short Story Contest Winners: “Manhunt” by winner Ruth Joffre, and finalists “La Fecha” by Avra Elliott and “Healthy and Happy” by Max Gray.

Clapboard House submissions are now open for short fiction and poetry as well as submissions from poets to their no-fee Best of the House Poetry Contest, to be judged by Eric Nelson. Deadline May 1.

Fugue Prose and Poetry Contest Winners

Fugue’s Ninth Annual Prose & Poetry Contest are featured in the newest issue (#39). Junot Díaz, fiction judge, selected first place: Colette Sartor, “A Walk in the Park”; and first runner-up: Paul Vidich, “Jumpshot.” Ilya Kaminsky, poetry judge, selected first place Caitlin Cowan, “Flight Plan”; first runner-up: Corrie Williamson, “The Language of Birds”; and second runner-up: Rachel Patterson, “August Ghazal.”

Fugue’s Tenth Annual Prose & Poetry Contest is open for sumbissions until May 1, with judges Judith Kitchen (nonfiction), Dorianne Laux (poetry) and Steve Almond (fiction).

Prism Review Fiction and Poetry Prize Winners

This year’s winners of the Prism Review prizes in fiction and poetry are Mary Ann Davis for her poem, “From the Sublunary Year” and Becky Margolis for her story, “Weatherization.”

Poetry judge Craig Santos Perez says the winning poem “manages to weave lyricism, abstraction, narrative, image, symbolism, formal experimentation, character, and deep emotion into a haunting poetic experience. It’s a heartbreaking attempt to ‘fill the silence of illness.'”

Fiction judge Lucy Corin says of “Weatherization,” “There’s something to the flattened tone that suggests something quite gutsy about the issues the story takes up about violence . . . . In the end, what I ask of a story is that it really push itself beyond its initiating premise, that the issues it raises be taken up with as much complexity as possible, evading every easy answer, every self-satisfaction.”

Both winners receive $250 and they will appear in the forthcoming issue of Prism Review, to be published this spring.

Salamander Fiction Contest Winners

The newest issue of Salamander (v16 n2) includes the winners of the magazines first-ever fiction contest with Jill McCorkle as final judge. The first prize winner is Timothy Mullaney (“Green Glass Doors”) and runner up is Susan Magee (“The Mother”). The judge for Salamander’s 2011 fiction contest will be Jim Shepard. Entry period is April 15 – May 15 (postmark deadline).

New Issues Green Rose Prize Winner

The Editors of New Issues Poetry and Prose are pleased to announce the winner of the 2011 Green Rose Prize: Corey Marks for his manuscript The Radio Tree. Corey wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2012.

Also accepted for publication: The Frame Called Ruin by Hadara Bar-Nadav to appear in the fall of 2012

The Green Rose Prize is awarded to an author who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. Winners are chosen by the editors of New Issues Press.

AROHO Lighthouse Poetry Prize Winner

A Room of Her Own Foundation has announced the 2010 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize winner: Carolyn Guinzio for her work &. The prize is awarded for the best, unpublished poetry collection by a woman.

2010 Finalists include Jennifer Beebe, Claire Clube, Rebecca Dunham, Laura Dunn, Rebecca Howell, Hila Ratzabi, and Ruth Thompson.

The 2011 competition is open until August 31, 2011 (postmark). See the AROHO website for downloadable cover sheet and details

Narrative 30 Below Contest Winners

Narrative announced the winners of their annual 30 Below contest for which all entrants in the contest were between the ages of eighteen and thirty:

First Place: Kevin A. Gonzalez for “Cerromar”

Second Place: Jacob Powers for “Safety”

Third Place: Erika Solomon for “Rules for Jews in Damascus”

Upcoming Narrative contest: The WINTER 2011 STORY CONTEST

Entry deadline: March 31 at midnight, Pacific daylight time.

Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Winners :: January 2011

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their Short Story Award for New Writers. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation greater than 5000. The next Short Story Award competition will take place in February. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Clayton Luz [Pictured], of Chicago, wins $1200 for “When the Wind Blows the Water Grey.” His story will be published in the Spring 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Second place: Joseph Johns, of Decatur, GA, wins $500 for “Strange Birds.” His story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing his prize to $700.

Third place: Jonathan Tucker, of Mwanza, Tanzania, wins $300 for “The Coffin Makers.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline soon approaching for the Very Short Fiction Award: January 31

Glimmer Train hosts this competition twice a year, and first place is $1200 plus publication in the journal. It’s open to all writers, no theme restrictions, and the word count must not exceed 3000. Click here for complete guidelines.

Black River Chapbook Competition Winner

Charlotte Pence has won the Black River Chapbook Competition for her manuscript Branches. Charlotte will receive $500 in prize money and a publication contract from BLP. See a full list of finalists here.

Charlotte Pence is a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at the University of Tennessee and former editor of Grist: The Journal for Writers. She most recently received the 2009 Discovered Voices award from Iron Horse Literary Journal given to one graduate student in the country for poetry each year. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, North American Review, Denver Quarterly, RATTLE, Tar River, and many other journals. She also has an anthology forthcoming with University Press of Mississippi titled Lyrical Traditions: The Intersections Between Poems and Songs.

Gary Finke Creative Writing Prize Winners – 2011

The 2010 annual issue of The Susquehanna Review of undergraduate writing features the winners of the Gary Finke Creative Writing Prize: Caitlin Moran, winner in prose for “All Her Numbered Bones” and Sky Shirley, winner in poetry for “The Paper Called them Black-Fish.” Both winners were selected by Gary Finke for the prize in his name which was established this year in his hone. Finke has directed the Susquehann University Writers Institute since he founded it in 1993. Through the contest, TSR hopes to pay tribute to extraordinary student writers outside the Susquehanna community in both poetry and prose.

The Antigonish Review Contest Winners

Celebrating 40 years in print (1970 – 2010), the fall 2010 issue of The Antigonish Review features works by the winner of the ‘TAR 40’ open-genre contest, Jennifer Kirkpatrick Brown, and honorable mentions Steve Lautermilch and Royston Tester. Also included in this issue are winners of the Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest: First Prize Moez Surani, Second Prize Margaret Slavin Dyment, and Third Prize Patricia Young; and winners of the Sheldon Currie Fiction Contest: First Prize Amber Hayward, Second Prize Ben Hart, and Third Prize Peter S. Lee.

Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction Winner

The fall/winter print issue of Colorado Review features the winner of the 2010 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction: Katherine Hill, “Waste Management.” Hill’s story is also available full-text online. The prize was established in memory of Liza Nelligan – a classmate, student, teacher, colleague, and friend of many in the English Department at Colorado State. This year’s final judge for the prize was Andrea Barrett.

The 2011 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction is now open March 11, 2011 (postmark)

Narrative Fall Story Contest Winners

Ther Narrative Fall Story Contest Winners and Finalists have been announced:

FIRST PRIZE
Heather Brittain Bergstrom, “Reading Henry James in the Suburbs”

SECOND PRIZE
Alexander Maksik, “The Barbarians”

THIRD PRIZE
Russell Working, “The Vanishing”

FINALISTS
Greg Brown
Julie Dearborn
Rachel Ewing
Abby Frucht
Ann Harleman
Marc Kaufman
Jerry D. Mathes II
Marsha Rabe
Greta Schuler
Lauren Taylor

The Winter 2011 Story Contest, with a $3,250 First Prize, a $1,500 Second Prize, a $750 Third Prize, and ten finalists receiving $100 each. Open to fiction and nonfiction. All entries will be considered for publication. Contest deadline: March 31, 2011.

Glimmer Train Family Matters Contest Winners

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their October Family Matters competition. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers for stories about family. Word count should not exceed 12,000. (All shorter lengths welcome.)

The next Family Matters competition will take place in April. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Lee Montgomery [pictured], of Portland, OR, wins $1200 for “Torture Techniques of North Americans.” Her story will be published in the Spring 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Second place: Graham Arnold, of Toronto, Ontario, wins $500 for “A Difference of Nothing.” His story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing his prize to $700.

Third place: Maggie Shipstead of Atherton, CA, wins $300 for “The Sadness that Radiates from God.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline soon approaching: Fiction Open: Jan 2

Glimmer Train hosts this competition quarterly, and first place is $2000 plus publication in the journal. It’s open to all writers, no theme restrictions, and the word count range is 2000-20,000.

Click here for complete guidelines.

Open Minds Poetry Contest HM

The Fall 2010 issue of Open Minds Quarterly: Your Psychosocial Literary Journal includes the honorable mentions of the 2010 BrainStorm Poetry Contest. This is the eighth annual poetry contest for mental health consumers and include works by Catherine Martell, Eufemia Fantetti, Zan Bockes, Kate Flaherty, Anthony Chalk, Mark Murphy, E.V. Noechel, Brock Moore, Christopher Gaskins, Lisa Morris, Jerome Frank, Debrenee Adkisson, Gail Kroll, Diane Germano, Carla E. Anderton, Monika Lee, John Parsons, and Robin Barr Hill.

Narrative 30 Below Contest Winners

Narrative has named the finalists and winners for their 30 Below Contest 2010 (All entrants in the Contest were between the ages of eighteen and thirty.):

FIRST PRIZE
Kevin González – “Cerromar”

SECOND PRIZE
Jacob Powers – “Safety”

THIRD PRIZE
Erika Solomon – “Rules for Jews in Damascus”

FINALISTS
Caroline Arden
Stephanie DeOrio
Katharine Dion
Kelly Luce
Michael Nardone
Hannah Sarvasy
Samantha Shea
Douglas Silver
Cam Terwilliger
Jessica Wilson

The Fall 2010 Story Contest, with a $3,250 First Prize, a $1,500 Second Prize, a $750 Third Prize, and ten finalists receiving $100 each. Open to fiction and nonfiction. All entries will be considered for publication. Contest deadline: November 30, midnight, Pacific standard time.

Glimmer Train September Fiction Open Winners :: 2010

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their September Fiction Open competition. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers for stories with a word count range between 2000 – 20,000. The next Fiction Open will take place in December. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Lydia Fitzpatrick [pictured] , of Brooklyn, NY, wins $2000 for “In a Library, in Saltillo.” Her story will be published in the Winter 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Second place: Andrea Scrima, also of Berlin, Germany, wins $1000 for “Leaving Home.”

Third place: Brenden Wysocki, of Marina del Rey, CA, wins $600 for “A Dodgy Version.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Short Story Award for New Writers Deadline: November 30

This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5000. No theme restrictions. Word count should not exceed 12,000. (All shorter lengths welcome.) Click here for complete guidelines.

Narrative Poetry Contest Winners

Narrative Magazine Second Annual Poetry Contest Winners

First Place: Kate Waldman
Second Place: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Third Place: Ezra Dan Feldman

Finalists:
Mermer Blakeslee
Laton Carter
Katharine Coles
Maria Hummel
Gray Jacobik
Jenifer Browne Lawrence
Lynn Melnick
Steve Price
Marsha Rabe
Christie Towers

The Narrative Magazine Fall 2010 Story Contest is still open to fiction and nonfiction. All entries will be considered for publication. Deadline: November 30, at midnight, Pacific standard time.

Narrative Spring 2010 Story Contest Winners

The Narrative Spring 2010 Story Contest Winners‘ stories are now available to read online. Winners and finalists:

FIRST PLACE ($3,250)
Scott Tucker, “I Would Be Happy to Leave This Asylum”

SECOND PLACE ($1,500)
Peter Grimes, “Victoria”

THIRD PLACE ($750)
Megan Mayhew Bergman, “Birds of a Lesser Paradise”

TEN FINALISTS ($100 each)
Elizabeth Benedict
Mary Costello
Marta Evans
Katherine Jaeger
Elias Lindert
Alexander Maksik
Jerry Mathes II
E. V. Slate
Lynn Stegner
Lori Tobias

Tupelo Press / Crazyhorse Award Winner

Winner of the Tupelo Press / Crazyhorse Award The Forest of Sure Things by Megan Snyder-Camp is now available for purchase.

The 12th Annual Tupelo Press Award for a First or Second Book of Poetry is an open competition with a $3,000 prize. Submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad (translations are not eligible for this prize). Final judges will be the editors of Tupelo Press and the journal Crazyhorse. All entries must be postmarked or uploaded to the online Submission Manager between January 1 and April 15, 2011.

Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Winners :: November 2010

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their Short Story Award for New Writers. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation greater than 5000. The next Short Story Award competition will take place in November. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Kathryne Young [pictured], of Woodside, CA, wins $1200 for “Roadrunner.” Her story will be published in the Winter 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories, out in November 2011.

Second place: Jennifer Tomscha, of Ann Arbor, MI, wins $500 for “Sure Gravity.” Her story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories, increasing her prize to $700.

Third place: Kate Rutledge Jaffe of Missoula, MT, wins $300 for “Talk About the Weather.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline soon approaching for Family Matters: October 31

This competition is held twice a year and is open to all writers for stories about family. Word count should not exceed 12,000. (All shorter lengths welcome.) Click here for complete guidelines.

Failbetter Novella Winner Online

Los Angeles writer Lou Mathews was the winner of Failbetter‘s Tenth Anniversary Novella Contest for his work The Irish Sextet: “the heartrending, ultimately redemptive story of a dedicated LA priest whose life is nearly wrecked when he stands up to the Church’s efforts to sweep its pedophilia scandal under the rug.”

Failbetter is running Sextet in serial form on their site — the first two installments, “An Education” and “Corporal Punishment,” are live now, with the other five coming, about one a month, over the course of the winter.

Roanoke Review Fiction Contest Winners

The 2010 issue of Roanoke Review (v35) includes the winners of their 2009 Fiction Contest: First Place – Leslie Haynsworth, “Two Left Feet”; Second Place – Josie Sigler, “El Camino”; Third Place – Alice Stern, “I Hear You Talking.”

Based out of Roanoke College in Salem, Virgina, the Roanoke Review annual fiction contest for 2010 is open for submissions until November 8 (postmark or online). Winners receive a cash prize as well as publication.

Consequence Prize in Poetry Winner

In 2009 Consequence began the Prize in Poetry, an annual award given for an outstanding poem on the subject of war. Kevin Bowen selected Andreas Morgner’s winning poem, “N’Djamena Chad,” and those of seven finalists published in the Spring 2010 issue: Chris Agee, David Eye, Joseph Hutchinson, Jen Karetnick, Barbara Leon, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, and Danny Wilson.

Morgner’s poem is also available full-text on the magazines homepage.

Nimrod Literary Awards 2010

The Fall/Winter 2010 issue of Nimrod (University of Tulsa) includes works by winners, honorable mentions, finalists and semi-finalists of the 32nd Nimrod Literary Awards.

For The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry: first prize winner Terry Blackhawk; second prize winner Jude Nutter; and honorable mentions Harry Bauld, Katie Kingston, and Francine Marie Tolf.

For The Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction: first prize winner Shannon Robinson; second prize winner Laura LeCorgne; and honorable LydiaKann and Sue Pace.

There were 690 poetry manuscripts and 571 short stories submitted to the 2010 competition. The finalists’ manuscripts, without cover letters or names, were sent to the judges for 2010, Molly Peacock, poetry, and David Wroblewski, fiction. They chose the winners and honorable mentions from the finalist group. Semifinalists and finalists are also noted on Nimrod’s website.

The 33rd Nimrod Literary Awards competition begins January 1, 2011; the postmark deadline is April 30, 2011.

Canteen Photo Contest Winners and Non-Winner

Issue Six of Canteen devotes forty pages of the journal to the 2010 Canteen Awards in Photography: Anatomy of a Photo Contest, including a comment about this inaugural event from Stephen Pierson, introductory and individual portfolio remarks from judges Arnold Lehman, Director of the Brooklyn Museum, and Matthew Porter, Photographer. Rowan James was selected as the winner, and Shea Naer, Tracey Mancenido-Tribble and James Frank Tribble as runners-up. There is also the inclusion of a selection of divisive “non-winning” photos with the opposing viewpoints of the judges as well as the comments of the photographer himself, Geoff Smith. An epilogue by Porter with several other non-winners rounds out the collection.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Winners

The Fall 2010 issue of The Kenyon Review includes several of the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Award Recipients. Of the 590 entrants, first prize went to Anna Faison (Aiken, South Carolina). Her poem “Han” appears in The Kenyon Review. Runners up whose works were also published include Emma Broder (Hamden, Connecticut) and Megan Gallagher (Greenville, South Carolina). Though their works do not appear in print, special merit recognition was given to Kevin Hong (Needham, Massachusetts), Mallory Weiss (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) and Vienna Wagner (Carmel, Indiana).

The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers is open for electronic submissions November 1 through November 30, 2010. The link to the submissions page for the contest will be active from this webpage on November 1, 2010.

Many Mountains Moving Contest Winners

The 2010 print annual of Many Mountains Moving: A Literary Journal of Diverse Contemporary Voices features the winners of their contests from the past two years:

2008 Flash Fiction
Winner: Laura Loomis
Runner-up: Maureen O’Briend

2008 Poetry
Winner: Brian Brodeur
Finalists: Susan Deer Cloud, John Jeffire, Mark Wagenaar, and Sarah Zale

2009 Flash Fiction
Winner: Francisco Q. Delgado
Runner-up: Karin Lin-Greenberg

2009 Poetry
Winner: Margaret Walther
Finalists: Brian Brodeur, Ellen LaFleche, Christa Setteducati, and Kathryn Winograd

MMM 2010 Flash Fiction and Poetry Contest is open until December 30, 2010; MMM also has a Poetry Book Prize with an extended deadline of September 20, 2010.

Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Winners :: September 2010

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their July Very Short Fiction competition. This competition is held twice a year and is open to all writers for stories with a word count not exceeding 3000. No theme restrictions. The next Very Short Fiction competition will take place in January. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: J. Kevin Shushtari, of Farmington, CT, wins $1200 for “The Vast Garden of Strangers.” His story will be published in the Winter 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories, published in November 2011.

Second place: Graham Arnold, of Downers Grove, IL, wins $500 for “The Story Is in the Reflection.”

Third place: Nahal Suzanne Jamir, of Tallahassee, FL, wins $300 for “In Perfect English.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline soon approaching for the September Fiction Open: September 30

This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers. Word count range: 2000-20,000. No theme restrictions. Click here for complete guidelines.

Narrative Poetry Prize Winners

Winners of the 2010 Narrative Magazine Poetry Contest have been announced:

First Prize
Kate Waldman

Second Prize
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Third Prize
Ezra Dan Feldman

Finalists
Mermer Blakeslee
Laton Carter
Katharine Coles
Maria Hummel
Gray Jacobik
Jenifer Browne Lawrence
Lynn Melnick
Steve Price
Marsha Rabe
Christie Towers

Upcoming Narrative Magazine contest deadlines:

The Fall 2010 Story Contest, with $6,500 in prizes. Open to fiction and nonfiction. All entries will be considered for publication. Deadline: November 30, 2010.

The 30 Below Story Contest 2010, with $3,550 in prizes. All entries will be considered for publication. Open to all submissions from writers and artists age thirty and below. Deadline: October 29, 2010.

Big Muddy 2010 Contest Winners

The newest issue of Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi Valley features the Southeast Missouri State University Press’s 2010 Fiction Contest Winners. Kel Munger (“Missus Finn”) won the Mighty River Short Story Contes and Erica Lehrer won the Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest. James H. Crews, Jr. is this years winner of the Copperdome Chapbook Contest for What Has Not Yet Left to be published by MSUP.