Contest Submissions Are Open

We are now accepting submissions for our annual fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry contests. The winners will be published this spring in Phoebe 43.1. We encourage you to take a look at our past contest winners. We are thrilled to be working with such talented judges, and look forward to reading your work. Submit online and send us the best you’ve got!

The Basics

• All entries should include a cover letter with the submission’s title and author’s contact information (name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address).
• Your name and contact information must not appear anywhere else on the manuscript.
• You may submit multiple entries, but must pay an entry fee for each new submission.
• We will not accept mailed submissions. Please use our online submission manager.

Greg Grummer Poetry Award

Judge: Eduardo C. Corral

DEADLINE: February 1, 2014
PRIZE: $1,000, publication in Phoebe 43.1, and a one year subscription.
ENTRY FEE: $17
SUBMISSION SIZE: Up to 4 poems per submission, totaling no more than 10 pages.

Eduardo C. Corral is the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. He’s the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently lives in New York City.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winter Fiction Contest

Judge: Benjamin Percy

DEADLINE: February 1, 2014
ENTRY FEE: $17
PRIZE: $1,000, publication in Phoebe 43.1, and a one year subscription.
SUBMISSION SIZE: 1 piece per submission, up to 7,500 words. We will not consider novel excerpts.

Benjamin Percy is the author of two novels, Red Moon and The Wilding, as well as two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh andThe Language of Elk. His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men’s Journal, Outside, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and Tin House. His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Whiting Writers’ Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the Plimpton Prize, and inclusion in Best American Short Storiesand Best American Comics.

He is currently at work on the screenplay adaptation of The Wilding for filmmaker Tanya Wexler (Hysteria) and on a novel called The Dead Lands. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Currently he is the writer-in-residence at St. Olaf College and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University.

Annual Creative Nonfiction Prize

Judge: Cheryl Strayed

DEADLINE: February 1, 2014
PRIZE: $750, publication in Phoebe 43.1, and a one year subscription.
ENTRY FEE: $17
SUBMISSION SIZE: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words.

Cheryl Strayed is the author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, and Torch, and the guest editor of The Best American Essays 2013.  Wild, a #1 New York Times bestseller, is the winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the Indie Choice Award, an Oregon Book Award, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and a Midwest Booksellers Choice Award; it was also chosen as the first selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0.  Strayed’s work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, The Missouri Review, The Sun, and The Rumpus, where she has written the “Dear Sugar” column since 2010. Strayed received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and her MFA from Syracuse University. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.

 

>via: http://www.phoebejournal.com/2014-winter-writing-contests/