Bellevue Literary Review Contest Guidelines

Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry ~ Judged by Major Jackson

Goldenberg Prize for Fiction ~ Judged by Chang-Rae Lee

Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction ~ Judged by Anne Fadiman

Biographies of the 2015 Judges ~~ Past BLR contest winners

Deadline: July 1, 2014

BLR Prize Guidelines:  

1. The BLR Prizes award outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. 
   First prize is $1000 (in each genre) and publication in the Spring 2015 issue of BLR.  
   Honorable mention winners will receive $250 and publication in the Spring 2015 issue of BLR.

1. Prose should be limited to 5000 words.
   Poetry submissions should have no more than 3 poems. Please include all poems in one document. 
   Submissions that exceed these limits will be disqualified.

1. Entry fee is $20 per submission. For an additional $10, you will receive a one-year subscription to the BLR. (Maximum: four submissions per person). If no entry fee is received, the manuscript will be considered as a general submission.

1. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document or PDF.  Please combine all poems into one document and use first poem as title.

1. Do not put your name on the manuscript document. (This will be entered separately on our website.) A cover letter is not required.

1. Work previously published in print or electronically will not be considered. For the BLR, “published work” means published in print in North America, or published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We ask that authors be honest about web postings. (If a work is discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere—and not openly acknowledged by the author in advance—we will remove it from consideration.)

1. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.  We regret that there can be no refunds or substitutions for withdrawn work.

1. All entries will also be considered for regular publication.

1. Students/friends/colleagues/relations of a judge are not permitted to enter submissions to that judge’s genre.

1. BLR acquires first-time North American rights. After publication, all rights revert to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made.

PLEASE NOTE: There are separate systems for submission and payment. The account/login information that you set up in one does not automatically transfer to the other system. You will need to register in both. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We strongly prefer online submissions. However, if you are unable to submit your work online, please feel free to send a hard copy to the address below. Please include an SASE with hard copy submissions.

Bellevue Literary Review
NYU Department of Medicine
550 First Avenue, OBV-A612
New York, NY 10016

Please feel free to contact us with questions: info@BLReview.org or 212-263-3973

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