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<\/a><\/p>\n2015 Fiction Contest<\/span><\/h3>\n–Judged by Ramona Ausubel<\/span><\/h3>\n$17.00 USD<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\nWe are\u00a0now accepting submissions\u00a0for our annual fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry contests. The winners will be published this spring\/summer in\u00a0Phoebe\u00a044.2. We encourage you to take a look at our previous contest winners.\u00a0Ramona Ausubel<\/b>\u00a0will be judging our fiction contest,\u00a0Roxane Gay<\/b>\u00a0will\u00a0judge the nonfiction submissions, and\u00a0Brian Teare<\/b>\u00a0will judge poetry. Only contest winners will win prize\u00a0money, but we hope to publish some outstanding honorable mentions alongside our prize winners\u00a0in Phoebe 44.2. We look forward to reading your work. Submit online\u00a0and send us the best you\u2019ve got!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Basics<\/span><\/h2>\n\n- All entries should include a cover letter with the submission\u2019s title and author\u2019s contact information (name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address).<\/span><\/li>\n
- Your name and contact information must not appear anywhere else on the manuscript.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n
- You may submit multiple entries, but must pay an entry fee for each new submission.<\/span><\/li>\n
- We will not accept mailed submissions. Please use our online submission manager.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Winter Fiction Contest<\/span><\/h1>\nJudge: Ramona Ausubel<\/span><\/h3>\nDEADLINE:March 1, 2015<\/span>
\nPRIZE:\u00a0$850 and\u00a0publication in\u00a0Phoebe\u00a044.2 (online issue)<\/span>
\nENTRY FEE:\u00a0$17<\/span>
\nSUBMISSION SIZE:\u00a01 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words.<\/span><\/p>\nRamona Ausubel grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the author of the novel\u00a0No One is Here Except All of Us, published byRiverhead Books<\/a>\u00a0in 2012, and a collection of short stories\u00a0A Guide to Being Born (2013).\u00a0 Winner of the\u00a0PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction\u00a0<\/a>and the\u00a0VCU Cabell First Novelist Award,<\/a>\u00a0she has also been a finalist for the\u00a0New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award<\/a>, and long-listed for theFrank O\u2019Connor International Story Award\u00a0<\/a>and the\u00a0International Impac Dublin Literary Award<\/a>.\u00a0 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.<\/span><\/p>\nHer work has appeared in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/a>,\u00a0One Story<\/a>,\u00a0Electric Literature<\/a>,\u00a0FiveChapters<\/a>, the\u00a0Green Mountains Review<\/a>,\u00a0Slice<\/a>\u00a0and elsewhere and collected in The Best American Fantasy and online in\u00a0The Paris Review<\/a>.\u00a0 Her work was included in a list of \u201c100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2008\u2033 in the Best American Short Stories and thrice as a \u201cNotable\u201d story in the\u00a0Best American Non-Required Reading<\/a>.\u00a0 She has been a finalist for the Puschart Prize and a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference and the Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference.<\/span><\/p>\nRamona has taught and lectured at the University of California, Irvine, the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 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.<\/span><\/p>\n
$17.00 USD<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n We are\u00a0now accepting submissions\u00a0for our annual fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry contests. The winners will be published this spring\/summer in\u00a0Phoebe\u00a044.2. We encourage you to take a look at our previous contest winners.\u00a0Ramona Ausubel<\/b>\u00a0will be judging our fiction contest,\u00a0Roxane Gay<\/b>\u00a0will\u00a0judge the nonfiction submissions, and\u00a0Brian Teare<\/b>\u00a0will judge poetry. Only contest winners will win prize\u00a0money, but we hope to publish some outstanding honorable mentions alongside our prize winners\u00a0in Phoebe 44.2. We look forward to reading your work. Submit online\u00a0and send us the best you\u2019ve got!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n DEADLINE:March 1, 2015<\/span> Ramona Ausubel grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the author of the novel\u00a0No One is Here Except All of Us, published byRiverhead Books<\/a>\u00a0in 2012, and a collection of short stories\u00a0A Guide to Being Born (2013).\u00a0 Winner of the\u00a0PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction\u00a0<\/a>and the\u00a0VCU Cabell First Novelist Award,<\/a>\u00a0she has also been a finalist for the\u00a0New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award<\/a>, and long-listed for theFrank O\u2019Connor International Story Award\u00a0<\/a>and the\u00a0International Impac Dublin Literary Award<\/a>.\u00a0 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Her work has appeared in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/a>,\u00a0One Story<\/a>,\u00a0Electric Literature<\/a>,\u00a0FiveChapters<\/a>, the\u00a0Green Mountains Review<\/a>,\u00a0Slice<\/a>\u00a0and elsewhere and collected in The Best American Fantasy and online in\u00a0The Paris Review<\/a>.\u00a0 Her work was included in a list of \u201c100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2008\u2033 in the Best American Short Stories and thrice as a \u201cNotable\u201d story in the\u00a0Best American Non-Required Reading<\/a>.\u00a0 She has been a finalist for the Puschart Prize and a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference and the Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n Ramona has taught and lectured at the University of California, Irvine, the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 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.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Basics<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Winter Fiction Contest<\/span><\/h1>\n
Judge: Ramona Ausubel<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nPRIZE:\u00a0$850 and\u00a0publication in\u00a0Phoebe\u00a044.2 (online issue)<\/span>
\nENTRY FEE:\u00a0$17<\/span>
\nSUBMISSION SIZE:\u00a01 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words.<\/span><\/p>\n