2013 NC State Short Story Contests

This fall’s fiction contest (one of the largest free contests in the South) will be judged byRebecca Lee, author of the acclaimed The City is a Rising Tide and the widely celebrated collection fo short stories, Bobcat and Other Stories, which won raves from the national literary press.  She teaches in the MFA program at UNC-Wilmington.

Here are the CATEGORIES you may enter:

An unpublished SHORT FICTION story of no more than 20 double-spaced pages; limit 5000 words. The James Hurst Fiction Prize for the winning story is $500. There will also be some Honorable Mention awards.

A unpublished SHORT-SHORT FICTION story of no more than 5 double-spaced typed pages; limit 1200 words. Top prize $250.

You may enter one story in both categories. 

Here are the RULES: 

The contest is open to all North Carolina residents except 1) tenured/tenure-track professors in the University of North Carolina system or 2) writers with a published book, 3) previous winners. 

Your entry may not have been published in either printed form or by an established online venue.

All entries must be double-spaced, typed, and please include a word count on the first page. Do NOT put your name on the story, so it may be judged anonymously. Put your name on a cover sheet along with your contact information.

Previous finalists should submit new work.

No email submissions accepted. Due to volume, we cannot contact each contestant or return stories afterwards. 

                   DEADLINE (all entries must be postmarked by) :
                                             OCTOBER 21st

Contestants should submit their entries to: 

NCSU Short Story Contest
Campus Box 8105
English Department
NCSU
Raleigh, NC 27695-8105

>via: http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/creativewriting/story_contest.php