Writers at Work Fiction Writing Competition 2010

31 August 2010
Writers at Work Fiction Writing Competition 2010
Deadline: 15 September 2010
Eligibility: no restrictions
Reading Fee: $20
Accepts (genre): short stories
Prize/Payment: $1,000

Fiction Writing Competition 2010

* Three Fiction Prizes: $1000, $350 and $150
* First prize includes publication in Quarterly West
* All finalists will be considered by Quarterly West

Judge: François Camoin

Entry fee: $20 per submission

Deadline: September 15, 2010

Manuscripts must be no longer than 7,500 words or 20 pages

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the Writers at Work web site via PayPal, below.

François Camoin is author of April, May, and So On and Like Love but Not Exactly, and other fiction, and teaches at the University of Utah. His work appears in Mid-American Review, Missouri Review, Nimrod and Quarterly West

Guidelines:

* Judging is blind. Manuscripts must not contain the name of the submitter.
* Writers are eligible if they have not yet published a book-length volume of original work with a national press in the genre in which they submit a manuscript.
* Only unpublished work may be submitted. Work will be considered published if it has appeared in any print journal or literary magazine or has appeared in an electronic magazine or journal. Posting work on personal websites is not considered publishing.
* Please do not submit work from chapbooks or work published by a vanity press. Self-published work printed for limited distribution is acceptable.
* Current or former students who have studied with the judge in an accredited degree-granting program or institution are not eligible for the competition.
* Previous winners are not eligible in the genre in which they have won.
* Writers at Work Board members are prohibited from submitting manuscripts during their tenure on the board.
* Manuscript should contain a short story or novel chapter

Prizes

* First prize is $1000 and publication in Quarterly West
* Second prize is $350
* Third prize is $150
* All finalist manuscripts will be submitted to Quarterly West for consideration.

Before electronically submitting Manuscripts no longer that 7,500 words or 20 pages, payment of the $20 Entry Fee must be made through PayPal.

More information here.
  • Maltz Museum of Jewish/ Palestinian Heritage:
    Deadline: 5 January 2011WHAT WILL YOU DO TO STOP HATRED AND DISCRIMINATION? After disease, humanity's deadliest scourge has always been hate... hate has killed…
  • Job Opening: Content Writers for IOMX (web publishing company, India)
    IOMX is a web publishing company based in Mumbai. The company creates content for various online portals and websites. It also deals in Internet consulting and web…
  • English to Malay Telecommute Translator Needed (for 630,000-word project)
    I have immediate project to be translated from English into Chinese, Japanese, Malay and Korean. 20 000 words, subject area – IT-related. Trados is not mandatory,…
Related Opportunities:
Ranked: 500 highest-paying publications for freelance writers
The Freelance 500 Report (2015 Edition, 138 pages) profiles the highest-paying markets, ranked to help you decide which publication to query first. The info and links in this report are current. Details here.