Opportunities
Nelson Algren Awards The Nelson Algren awards are for short fiction. Stories must be unpublished. Length: 2,500 and 10,000 words. No entry fee. Top award: $5,000 prize and three runner-up prizes of $1,500 are awarded. This writing contest is sponsored by the Chicago Tribune. Submission guidelines. Submission dates: (closed for 2008, check back for 2009). Send submissions to: Nelson Algren Awards
Ohio State University Prize for Short Fiction This annual award is given to the manuscript collection of short fiction selected by an independent judge to be the best submitted. Entry fee is $20. The winning author will receive $1,500 and publication of his/her entry. The winner and finalists will be announced in May. Submissions will be made during the month of January, a change from previous years. Submissions may include short stories, novellas, or a combination of both, but a single novella by itself is not an eligible submission. Previously published stories or novellas may be included in the manuscript. Manuscripts must be between 150 and 300 typed pages (approx. 40,000 to 80,000 words). Individual stories or novellas in the collection may not exceed 125 pages (approx. 35,000 words). For submission format details, go to contest sponsor Ohio State Press’ web site, http://www.ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?/books/series%20pages/osushortfiction.htm Mail entry fee and submission package to: Fiction Editor Glimmer Train Press
#1 . . . Standard story submissions Glimmer Train wants original, unpublished short stories, 12,000 words maximum. No children’s stories, however. Submit on line, not via mail. Go to Glimmer’s web site to click into the process. Dates for submissions to this publication are January, April, July, and October. Response within 16 weeks. Pays $500 for first-publication rights. Here’s Glimmer Train’s web address: http://store.yahoo.com/glimmertrain/writguid1.html
#2 . . . Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open This is a contest, but has the same story guidelines as if you were submitting for publication. Submissions are online. Fee, $15 per story. First-pace winner gets $2,000 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories. Dates for submission . . . May 1 - July 15. Results on October 15. Also November 1 - January 15. Results on April 10.
#3 . . . Gimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award Original, unpublished very short stories submitted online for this contest cannot be longer than 2,000 words. Fee, $10 per story. First-pace winner gets $1,200 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories.
#4 . . . Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers Original, unpublished short stories submitted online for this contest. Maximum length is 12,000 words. Fee, $12 per story. First-pace winner gets $1,200 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories.
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