NEW AMERICAN FICTION PRIZE - $22.50
Size limit: Approximately 100-500 pages.
The submission period for the 2012 New American Fiction Prize is now open. Winner receives a $1000 award, book publication, and 25 complimentary author's copies. All full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including novels, novellas, collections of stories and/or novellas, novels in verse, and linked collections, as well as full-length collections of flash fiction and short-shorts.
The final judge this year is Kyle Minor, author of In the Devil’s Territory (Dzanc Books). His work has also appeared in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories (Houghton Mifflin), Surreal South (Press 53), and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House).
To submit, please upload your manuscript (approx. 100-500 pages) as a Microsoft Word file and pay the $22.50 reading fee according to the instructions here at Submishmash.
We read manuscripts blind, so please include your contact information (name, manuscript title, address, telephone number, email address) in the cover letter field here at Submishmash, but exclude any identifying information from the manuscript itself.
Submission deadline is 11:59pm on May 31, 2012.