2015 Fiction Contest
–Judged by Ramona Ausubel
We are now accepting submissions for our annual fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry contests. The winners will be published this spring/summer in Phoebe 44.2. We encourage you to take a look at our previous contest winners. Ramona Ausubel will be judging our fiction contest, Roxane Gay will judge the nonfiction submissions, and Brian Teare will judge poetry. Only contest winners will win prize money, but we hope to publish some outstanding honorable mentions alongside our prize winners in Phoebe 44.2. We 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.
Winter Fiction Contest
Judge: Ramona Ausubel
DEADLINE:March 1, 2015
PRIZE: $850 and publication in Phoebe 44.2 (online issue)
ENTRY FEE: $17
SUBMISSION SIZE: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words.
Ramona Ausubel grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the author of the novel No One is Here Except All of Us, published byRiverhead Books in 2012, and a collection of short stories A Guide to Being Born (2013). Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, she has also been a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and long-listed for theFrank O’Connor International Story Award and the International Impac Dublin Literary Award. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where she won the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Fiction and served as editor of Faultline Journal of Art & Literature.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, One Story, Electric Literature, FiveChapters, the Green Mountains Review, Slice and elsewhere and collected in The Best American Fantasy and online in The Paris Review. Her work was included in a list of “100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2008″ in the Best American Short Stories and thrice as a “Notable” story in the Best American Non-Required Reading. She has been a finalist for the Puschart Prize and a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Ramona has taught and lectured at the University of California, Irvine, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Pitzer College and the University of California, Santa Barbara and served as a mentor for the PEN Center USA Emerging Voices program. She is a faculty member of the Low-Residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
She is at work on a new novel and a new collection of stories.
>via: https://phoebe.submittable.com/submit/36320