THE LOVE ON THE ROAD

2014 WRITING CONTEST

The deadline is approaching for our second annual international Love on the Road Writing Contest, which will lead to the second annual edition of our Love on the Road anthology. We hope this year’s contest and anthology will be as successful as last year’s. Here’s how it will work.

We’ll accept submissions from May 1, 2014 to July 31, 2014. We at Malinki Press will choose our favorite 12 submissions and send those to our independent panel of judges. The judges will choose first-, second-, and third-prize winners. We’ll announce the winners in September and award them prizes of $200, $100, and $50, respectively, paid that month.

We will work with Dublin-based Liberties Press to publish Love on the Road 2015: Another Twelve Tales of Love and Travel as a trade paperback in the spring of 2015 (it’s scheduled for February). We will also make the paperback available via Amazon and Flipkart, and publish it as an ebook.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We’re looking for stories about people making connections, whether these connections are platonic, the kinds that lead to weddings, the kinds that just lead to bed, or the kinds that lead to heartbreak. We’re interested in stories about people traveling together, travelers who meet people while on the road, or people who meet travelers passing through. 

Submissions should be 4,000 to 6,000 words and can be fiction or nonfiction. They must be original and cannot have been previously published. Please send them as a .doc, .rtf or similar file, written in single-spaced 12pt Times New Roman font, with your name and contact details on the first page. Submissions from LGBTQ writers are welcome.  

There is a US$10 per story reading fee. Writers submitting from North America, Europe, Australia or New Zealand should pay via PayPal, to lotr2014@malinkipress.com. 

Writers submitting from countries from which it is difficult (or impossible) to pay the fee via PayPal are encouraged to email us to make alternative arrangements; we want to read your stories and we’re flexible. 

If you want to get a better idea of the kinds of stories we like, you’d do well to read the ones we picked last year in Love on the Road 2013: Twelve Tales of Love and Travel. That’s certainly not mandatory, though.

For more information or to submit: lotr2014@malinkipress.com

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