Jeanne Leiby Memorial
Chapbook Award
The Florida Review is proud to announce the fourth annual Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award in Fiction, Essay, or Graphic Narrative. For more information, write flreview@ucf.edu.
Judge:
Patricia Grace King was the 2013-2014 Carol Houck Smith Fellow in Fiction at the University of Wisconsin. Her two chapbooks, Rubia and The Death of Carrie Bradshaw, won the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Award and the Kore Press Short Fiction Contest, respectively. Her stories appear in Ploughshares, Narrative Magazine, Nimrod, and other literary journals.
Deadline
Extended to December 30, 2014
Prizes
- First Place: $1000 and chapbook publication
- Second Place: Tuition at Sanibel Island Writers Conference and a selection of the entry considered for publication in The Florida Review
- Third Place: Tuition at The Florida Writers Conference and a selection of the entry considered for publication in The Florida Review
Guidelines
- Submit up to 45 pages (double spaced and in MS Word for fiction or essay, pdf or jpeg if graphic narrative)
- This is a blind-read contest. The manuscript should not have your name or other identifying information on any page
- Submit a cover letter with your name and the title (or titles) of the submitted writing
- Any combination of long or short stories, essays, or flash fiction or nonfiction–as well as graphic narrative–will be considered
- Graphic Narrative must be black and white and in jpeg or pdf format
- Entry fee is $25.
- All submissions will be considered for publication in The Florida Review
- Simultaneous submissions are OK as long as they are withdrawn immediately upon acceptance elsewhere
- Submissions through Submittable (link below) will be accepted until midnight on December 30, 2014. Submissions sent by mail must have a December 30 postmark and must include a check for the entry fee (made out to “UCF-The Florida Review”).
- Notification of results will be posted on The Florida Review website by Summer 2014
- In the unlikely event that no submitted manuscript is selected by the judge as fitting chapbook publication, only the second and third prizes will be awarded
- Submit here to The Florida Review
>via: http://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/chapbook.php