Deadline
May 15th, 2010
Prizes
$800 in cash prizes: 1st place story, $400; 2nd place story, $250; 3rd place story, $150.
Publication for all three winning stories.
All contest entries also considered for regular publication.
Eligibility
Anyone is eligible to submit to this contest, regardless of age, citizenship, or publishing experience—with the exception of current or former staff members or guest judges.
SUSAN STRAIGHT
This year's guest judge, Susan Straight, is a novelist and National Book Award finalist whose numerous essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Harper's Magazine. She is a frequent contributor to NPR and Salon.com. Straight's story "Mines," first published in Zoetrope: All Story, was included in Best American Short Stories 2003, and she's been awarded a Lannan Literary Award (2007) and an Edgar Allan Poe Award (2008). She is a professor at the University of California, Riverside.
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