Deadline: 31 October 2010
Eligibility: no restrictions
Reading/Application Fee: $15-$25
Accepts (genre): novel, short fiction, poetry
Prize/Payment: $1,000, book publication
These are permanent guidelines. We accept entries beginning May 1 annually. Our deadline (postmark deadline) is October 31 annually. Results letters are sent by May 1 of the following year.
Postmark deadline October 31
3 awards: novel, short fiction, poetry // $3,000 in awards
Important: all work must be unpublished when submitted to us and not promised for publication, either in print or online.
Poems or stories or novel excerpts already published individually are not eligible, even if sent from part of a larger book which has not been published.
You may simultaneously submit since we publish only in very rare years when we have an agreement with a literary journal. If your work is accepted elsewhere meantime, you can still win our monetary awards.
Important: for all awards, the term manuscript does not mean a full book. We mean first 50 pages for a novel manuscript, 1 short story for a short fiction manuscript, and 5 poems for a poetry manuscript.
Dana award for the novel is $1,000
For the first 50 pages only of a novel either completed or in progress (in-progress submissions should be as polished as possible). All types of novels accepted (no memoirs). No novels for or by persons under 16. Typed, double-spaced only.
Dana award for short fiction is $1,000
For the best short fiction (no memoirs). Maximum 10,000 words per short story. No stories for or by persons under 16. Typed, double-spaced only.
Dana award for poetry is $1,000
For the best group of 5 poems, judged on the overall excellence of all 5. 5 poems per entry. No light verse or verse for or by persons under 16. Poems may be thematically related but need not be. Poems longer than 100 lines are discouraged. Typed, single-spaced preferred.
Reading fees
$15 per 5 poems
$15 per short story
$25 per novel entry
Make checks payable to: "Dana Awards"
From outside u.s., send international money orders, traveler's checks, or bank checks (all must be formally stamped by the issuing bank as "u.s. Funds" and must be drawn on u.s. Banks only).
Cover sheet: include separate cover sheet with name, address, phone number, e-mail address, title(s) of work(s) submitted. No author's name on manuscript.
Mail submissions to:
Mary Elizabeth Parker, Chair
Dana Awards
200 Fosseway Drive
Greensboro, North Carolina USA 27455
For questions only, e-mail danaawards@pipeline.com or danaawards@gmail.com
More information here.
Eligibility: no restrictions
Reading/Application Fee: $15-$25
Accepts (genre): novel, short fiction, poetry
Prize/Payment: $1,000, book publication
These are permanent guidelines. We accept entries beginning May 1 annually. Our deadline (postmark deadline) is October 31 annually. Results letters are sent by May 1 of the following year.
Postmark deadline October 31
3 awards: novel, short fiction, poetry // $3,000 in awards
Important: all work must be unpublished when submitted to us and not promised for publication, either in print or online.
Poems or stories or novel excerpts already published individually are not eligible, even if sent from part of a larger book which has not been published.
You may simultaneously submit since we publish only in very rare years when we have an agreement with a literary journal. If your work is accepted elsewhere meantime, you can still win our monetary awards.
Important: for all awards, the term manuscript does not mean a full book. We mean first 50 pages for a novel manuscript, 1 short story for a short fiction manuscript, and 5 poems for a poetry manuscript.
Dana award for the novel is $1,000
For the first 50 pages only of a novel either completed or in progress (in-progress submissions should be as polished as possible). All types of novels accepted (no memoirs). No novels for or by persons under 16. Typed, double-spaced only.
Dana award for short fiction is $1,000
For the best short fiction (no memoirs). Maximum 10,000 words per short story. No stories for or by persons under 16. Typed, double-spaced only.
Dana award for poetry is $1,000
For the best group of 5 poems, judged on the overall excellence of all 5. 5 poems per entry. No light verse or verse for or by persons under 16. Poems may be thematically related but need not be. Poems longer than 100 lines are discouraged. Typed, single-spaced preferred.
Reading fees
$15 per 5 poems
$15 per short story
$25 per novel entry
Make checks payable to: "Dana Awards"
From outside u.s., send international money orders, traveler's checks, or bank checks (all must be formally stamped by the issuing bank as "u.s. Funds" and must be drawn on u.s. Banks only).
Cover sheet: include separate cover sheet with name, address, phone number, e-mail address, title(s) of work(s) submitted. No author's name on manuscript.
Mail submissions to:
Mary Elizabeth Parker, Chair
Dana Awards
200 Fosseway Drive
Greensboro, North Carolina USA 27455
For questions only, e-mail danaawards@pipeline.com or danaawards@gmail.com
More information here.
