Short Story Award for New Writers opens today. Bulletin 88

Short Story Award for New Writers. 1st: $1,500, and publication in Issue 94. Deadline: 5/31.



Second- and 3rd-place winners receive $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. Winners and finalists will be announced in the August bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week.
Most submissions to this category run 1,500 - 6,000 words, but can be as long as 12,000. Please, no more than three submissions per person. Guidelines
Note: This contest is open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000.


Results of the February Short Story Award for New Writers


Winners and finalists have been notified, the Top 25 list is posted, and here are the

Honorable Mentions. Our thanks to all of you for letting us read your stories!
1st place goes to Melanie Lefkowitz for "The Mango."
This will be her 1st fiction publication!
2nd place goes to Kathleen Boyle for "Burial Rites of Northern Italians."
3rd place goes to Olivia Postelli for "In the Glow."


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