2015 Innovative Short Fiction Contest
This contest reopens to new submissions on February 1st, 2015. Visit the 2015 Innovative Short Fiction Contest page for details.
Contest Judge: Amelia Gray
Prize: $500, publication, copies of the issue, and a copy of the judge's latest book
Contest Guidelines
The winning story will be published in The Conium Review's next issue. The winning author will receive $500, five copies of the issue, and a copy of the judge's latest book.
Innovative short fiction should take risks that pay off. Don’t tell us a story we’ve already heard before. Show us something new with your subject, style, or characters. Make sure your writing has a "wow" factor.
The 2015 contest judge is Amelia Gray. Amelia is the author of Gutshot (FSG Originals, forthcoming in 2015), THREATS (FSG Originals, 2012), Museum of the Weird(Fiction Collective Two, 2010), and AM/PM (Featherproof Books, 2009). If you are a family member, coworker, or student of the judge, you are ineligible for this contest.
Contest Deadlines
Submissions must be received between February 1st, 2015 and May 1st, 2015. Everybody who submits to the contest receives a free digital download of the issue. All submissions must include a $15.00 entry fee. The winner will be announced by July 15th, 2015.
Submission Guidelines
All manuscripts must be submitted through our Submittable page between February 1st, 2015 and May 1st, 2015. Your submission may include any combination of flash fictions or short stories up to 7,500 total words. Upload your submission as a single manuscript file. Your name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. The judge reads blind, and he will recuse himself from considering any manuscript where the writer is identifiable.
In the "Biography Statement" field, please include a two or three sentence third-person bio. This bio will not be viewable by the contest judge. If you win the contest, your bio appears inside the published issue of The Conium Review along with the winning story.
Submissions must be unpublished, original work. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but you must withdraw your story immediately if it is accepted elsewhere.
This contest abides by the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses code of ethics. Thank you for submitting!
About the 2015 Contest Judge
Amelia Gray is the author of three books: AM/PM, Museum of the Weird (Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize), and THREATS (Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction).
Her collection Gutshot (FSG) will arrive April 15, 2015.
She lives in Los Angeles, and she blogs at ameliagray.com.
Praise for Amelia Gray
"To say Amelia Gray belongs in the hilariously inventive hallows of Ann Quin and Rikki Ducornet would be to miss her light. This book is gleaming evidence of the author as a trophy case unto herself, wrought of magic equally surprising, wicked, giddy, and loaded with a megaton of Boom." --Blake Butler, author of Scorch Atlas and Ever
"Amelia Gray is a sharpshooter, precise and deadly. . . Before long, there will be statues of Gray in various corners of the literary world." --Emma Straub, author of Other People We Married
" . . . I couldn’t look away from her dark and curious imagination." --Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody
"Reading Amelia Gray is like reading a pyramid for rocks being built on a cloud. That's to say, it's something fantastical, dreamlike, playful, and very dangerous." --Shane Jones, author of Light Boxes
"The first time I encountered Amelia Gray's fiction, it slugged me in the jaw. The second time too, and the third. Said jaw-slugging has ensued nearly every time I've read something of hers, except for when instead it whispered sad and surprising but undeniable truths about the difficulty of intimacy and sense in the wretched blastoscape of modern life. And then it made me a grilled cheese sandwich to prove that the world can be a kind place, and it waited until I had sated myself and wiped away the crumbs before slugging me in the jaw again." --Doug Dorst, author of The Surf Guru andAlive in Necropolis
"Amelia Gray packs more power in a paragraph than I ever though possible." --Stacey Swann, editor of American Short Fiction
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