";s:4:"text";s:5397:" Please note: due to the volume of entries, feedback or critique on the story collection or individual stories is not possible.The winner of the 2020 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction will be announced no later than May 1, 2020, on the Press 53 website, Facebook, Twitter, and via email to our subscribers. We are only concerned with the quality of the stories.September 1– December 31 each year. She is the winner of the 2019 Pinch Award in Fiction and the 2019 John Gardner Memorial Fiction Prize from Harpur Palate; her stories have also won prizes from Salamander, Washington Square, and others. Writers must not have published a book of fiction at the time of submission. Individuals who work for Press 53 or have published a single-author book with Press 53 are not eligible to enter.4. Include a table of contents with page numbers.Writers may enter multiple story collections.
Kevin Morgan Watson, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Press 53, will be the only judge for the competition; the collections will be judged solely on the strength of the stories, and the winning collection will be published by Press 53.
We’re looking for short fiction stories! Press 53 reserves the right to extend the deadline. 5. An acknowledgments page for previous publications is not necessary but may be included.1. Manuscripts should contain a collection of short stories and may include one, and only one, novella (a story that exceeds 12,500 words). The judge’s decision is final.
She is the author of the story collection MANNEQUIN AND WIFE (LSU Press), and her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in journals like One Story, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, and Michigan Quarterly Review. The winner receives publication of a full-length manuscript and $2,500. Think you can write a winning story in 1,500 words or less?
(We define a “published book of fiction” as a novel, novella or short story collection written by you and published by someone other than you in print, on the web, or in ebook format.)