Enter to Win the 2015
Miami University Press Novella Prize!
Miami University Press invites submissions to its 2015 Novella Contest. The prize is awarded annually to a novella-length manuscript of original fiction (18,000–40,000 words). The winner receives $750 against royalties, a standard contract, publication by Miami University Press and 10 copies of the book.
- Judge: Joseph Bates
- Submission deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2014**
- Reading Fee: $25 (non-refundable)
- Announcement: We will announce the prize winner on our website as well asFacebook and @MiamiUPress in January 2015. All entrants receive a copy of the winning book.
- Guidelines: Click the button below to find out about eligibility and other novella guidelines.
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Winner of the 2014
Miami University Press Novella Contest
Miami University Press is delighted to announce the winner of its 2014 novella prize:
FOUNTAIN by Tote Hughes
In an unnamed city, columnist Pinson Charfo wakes one morning to find a strange note at his bedside from a Mr. Ralfo to a Mr. Cormill, neither of whom he knows . . . the first in a succession of odd clues that seem designed specifically for him to follow. As Charfo investigates further, pursuing increasingly absurd leads, he becomes embroiled in a peculiar mystery featuring plagiarized manifestos, occult societies, masquerade balls, the search for pornographic prints, and a busted fountain whose runoff forms an underground river beneath the city’s unsuspecting feet. Tote Hughes’s FOUNTAIN is a detective story in the best metaphysical and metafictional sense, a comic tour de force set in a world of shifting signs and dreamlike insolubility.
Tote Hughes lives in Geneva, Switzerland, working at CERN in pursuit of a PhD in high energy physics.
FOUNTAIN was chosen by the contest’s judge Joseph Bates from among 92 manuscripts submitted this year. Two manuscripts were named as runners up:
The Sorrow Proper by Lindsey Drager
Newborn by Agustin Maes
NOTE: Production for FOUNTAIN has begun. All those who submitted manuscripts will receive a copy of the book when it is published.
>via: http://www.orgs.miamioh.edu/mupress/novella/index.html