Salamander 2015 Fiction Prize
$1,500 Honorarium and Publication
Final Judge: Andre Dubus III
SUBMIT May 1 through June 1, 2015
READING FEE: $15
• All entries will be considered for publication. All entries will be considered anonymously.
• Send no more than one story per entry. Each story must not exceed 30 double-spaced pages in 12 point font. Multiple entries are acceptable, provided that a separate reading fee is included with each entry.
• Please submit a two page cover sheet document with each entry, page one with the title of the story ONLY, and page 2 with the title of the story and your name, address, phone number, and email. Your name should NOT appear anywhere on the story itself.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but the contest fee is non-refundable if the submission is withdrawn. Please notify the editors as soon as possible if a submitted story is accepted elsewhere.
• Previously published works and works accepted for publication elsewhere cannot be considered. Salamander’s definition of publishing includes electronic publication.
• No handwritten, faxed, emailed, or poorly copied/printed manuscripts will be considered.
• Salamander will not consider work from anyone currently or recently (within the past 4 years) affiliated with Suffolk university or thePRIZE judge.
• If you wish to be notified of the arrival ofYOUR manuscript, please enclose a self-addressed stamped postcard. Manuscripts cannot be returned. Contest results will be posted on www.salamandermag.org.
• Contest reading fee includes a one-year subscription.CHECKS should be made out to Salamander. We will send your subscription to the address on your cover sheet unless instructed otherwise. Overseas addresses, please add $10 for subscription postage ($5 for addresses in Canada). Please note that we cannot accept money orders or checks from foreign banks.
Andre Dubus III, author of six books, has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, and a 2012 Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His novel House of Sand and Fog was a National Book Award finalist, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and an Academy Award-nominated film. His book Dirty Love, published in 2013, was a New York Times “Notable Book” and a New York Times “Editors’ Choice” selection. His novel The Garden of Last Days isSOON to be a major motion picture.
SUBMITENTRIES ONLINE OR BY MAIL FROM MAY 1 THROUGH JUNE 1 to:
2015 Fiction prize
Salamander/Suffolk university English Dept.
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108
>via: http://salamandermag.org/contests/