2016 PSYCHOPOMP MAGAZINE
SHORT FICTION AWARD
*We will be accepting contest entries until February 28, 2016*
The Psychopomp Magazine Short Fiction Award recognizes outstanding pieces of fiction that push the boundaries of genre and/or form. Surprise us! Show us something we’ve never seen before. Note: As with our regular submissions, we ARE open to realist fiction and work that may veer towards the hard genre but are most interested in stories that work between these realms and/or is innovative in the way a story is told.
First Place Award: $500 and issue publication
All finalists will be considered for publication on our site as “special contest features.”
Judges: Editors Cole Bucciaglia & Sequoia Nagamatsu
Sequoia Nagamatsu was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and Oahu, Hawaii. He is the author of the forthcoming story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press), and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Conjunctions, ZYZZYVA, Black Warrior Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, West Branch, Redivider, Tin House online, The Fairy Tale Review, Bat City Review, Puerto Del Sol, Lightspeed Magazine, Gargoyle, Hobart, and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, among others. He is currently working on a novel, Girl Zero, and a second story collection revolving around alternative funerary practices.
Cole Bucciaglia was born in Philadelphia and educated at Ithaca College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in West Branch, Tin House online, Bartleby Snopes, PodCastle, Gingerbread House, Weave, Extract(s), and Timber Journal. She received her MFA at Southern Illinois University and generally writes about childhood, death, shapeshifting, and other magic. Prior to graduate school, she lived in Japan for over two years, teaching high school and collecting adorable stationery. Cole is a former Assistant Editor at Crab Orchard Review. She likes animals and arts & crafts
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Please follow the guidelines closely.
1.Submit up to 6,000 words (double-spaced, 12-point font, pages numbered) of a short story or a self-contained excerpt of a novella or novel. The Psychopomp Magazine staff reserve the right to stop reading at any point after our specified limit. Work previously published is ineligible. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you inform us immediately that your work has been accepted elsewhere.
2. Please do not send publication history or a cover letter. We just want to see your work. To that end, please remove the writer’s name from within the manuscript. If the byline is different from the name under which you submitted, you can inform us of your preferred publishing name later in the event that your story wins.
3. Submit anytime between October 15, 2015 and February 28th, 2016 via our submissions manager. The entry fee is $15, payable during the time of submission.
4. Results will be posted to the website by April. Finalists and winners will be notified by email.
5. For questions, email psychopompmag@gmail.com with “Contest Question” in the subject heading.
6. Those closely affiliated (personally or professionally) with the editors are ineligible to submit. This includes but is not limited to current or recently graduated College of Idaho or Southern Illinois University students.
>via: http://psychopompmag.com/contests/