Our regular reading period for the summer issue closed March 15. Reading period and free submissions for our winter issue run August 1 – October 1, 2014.Author Rick Bass will serve as the judge for Whitefish Review’s fiction prize—”The Rick Bass/Montana Prize for Fiction”.

First place winner of the fiction prize will receive a $1,000 and be published in #16 to be released December 2014. All submissions will be considered for publication, but only one story will be awarded the prize.

Rick Bass is the author of over twenty books of fiction and nonfiction. Bass received the 1995 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship, and has been a finalist for the Story Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has appeared in the Pushcart and O. Henry anthologies, Best American Short Stories, and numerous literary magazines. His memoir Why I Came West was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Bryan Woolley of the Dallas Morning News said, “Probably no American writer since Hemingway has written about man-in-nature more beautifully or powerfully than Rick Bass.”

Online Submission Deadline: Sept.15, 2014Submission Fee: $15

Submission Information
→ Prose should be typed double-spaced in 12-point Times font.
→ Submit one (1) previously unpublished story under 5000 words per entry.

***IMPORTANT***
1. Mac users, please be sure you save your file so the filename includes the “.pdf”, “.doc”, “.docx”, or “.rtf” file extension.
2. PLEASE NAME YOUR DOCUMENT USING THIS STANDARD
     → File Naming Standard: “yourlastname_fiction_titleofwork.doc”

On pieces that we edit, authors will have the opportunity to approve all changes before publication.

>via: https://whitefishreview.submittable.com/submit/15537