2011 Literary awards
Contest Guidelines
Please note that we do not accept submissions via email. We also do not accept any previously published work, including online publication and "revised" or altered versions of stories, poems, or essays.
- Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in the
Spring 2012 issue of the American
Literary Review will be given for a poem, a short story, and an
essay.
- Submit up to three poems, a short story of up to 8,000 words, or
an essay of
up to 6,500 words with a $15 entry fee between June 1 and October 1, 2011. Make checks payable to American Literary Review. Entries submitted before June 1 or after October 1 will be returned unread.
- Include a cover page with author's name, title(s), address, and
phone number.
Do not include any identifying information on subsequent pages except for the
title of the work.
- Enclose a $15.00 reading fee (includes subscription) and a SASE
for contest
results. Multiple entries are acceptable; however each entry must be accompanied
by a reading fee. (Note: only the initial entry fee includes a subscription.
Subsequent entry fees go to contest costs only and will not extend the subscription.) Make checks payable to American Literary Review.
- Short Fiction: One work of fiction per entry ($15), limit 8,000
words per work.
- Creative Nonfiction: One work per entry fee, limit 6,500 words per
work.
- Poetry: Entry fee covers up to three poems (i.e. one to three
poems would
require an entry fee of $15; four to six poems would be $30, and so on).
- Label entries according to contest genre and mail to ALR's regular
submission address:
For example: American Literary Review Short Fiction Contest
P.O. Box 311307
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-1307