Our Winter Award. Send us your best work under 7000 words.

$3000 + Publication + Agency Review

“Thanks for providing a place for emerging talents to thrive!”
— Amy Williams, The Williams Agency

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Welcome to our Winter Short Story Award For New Writers. The winning story will be awarded $3000 and publication online. Second and third place stories will be awarded publication and $200 and $100 respectively. All winners and honorable mentions will receive agency review by: Nat Sobel from Sobel Weber, Victoria Cappello from The Bent Agency, Andrea Morrison from Writers House, and Mark Gottlieb from Trident Media. It’s an awesome chance to get your work seen by agents in the industry.

Winner update: Caitlin O’Neil earned representation from Victoria Marini and our Fall Fiction winner selected by Kelly Link sold her story collection to Grove Atlantic with our winning piece as the title story. Awesome. Now we want to see your story.

GUIDELINES:

• Winner receives $3000, publication, and agency review
• Second and third place prizes ($200/$100, publication, and agency review)
• Stories under 7000 words
• Previously unpublished stories only
• Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed
• Emerging writers only (We are interested in offering a larger platform to new writers. Self-published writers and writers with story collections and novels with a small circulation are welcome to submit. Writers with works published with a circulation of less than 5000 copies can also submit)
• International submissions allowed
• $20 entry fee
• Deadline: Jan 15, 2018
• Please no identifying information on your story
• All stories are considered for publication

To submit a story click the submit button: