Southern Indiana Review’s Mary C. Mohr Editors’ Award #seanocarolan.com

Southern Indiana Review will award two prizes of $2000 each and publication for a poem and a work of short fiction.Jericho Brown will select the poetry winner; Adam Johnson will select the fiction winner. All entries are considered for publication. Submit up to ten pages of poetry or forty pages of fiction with a $20 entry fee ($5 for each additional entry) by October 3, 2016.

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Click here to upload your entry. Please avoid using marks of punctuation (ampersands, apostrophes, periods, parentheses, quotation marks, slashes, etc.) in your file name. Additional files (maximum of five) must be attached in a single upload to receive the reduced entry fee(s). Additional entries do not have to be in the same genre...it's OK to upload/enter both fiction and poetry. Feel free to email if you have any questions.

Contest mailing address:

Southern Indiana Review
Mary C. Mohr Award
University of Southern Indiana
8600 University Boulevard
Evansville, IN 47712



2016 Judges

Jericho Brown's first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award, and his second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Buzzfeed, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Best American Poetry. Brown is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Emory University.