IR's 2008 '1/2 K' Prize Guidelines
$1000 Honorarium and Publication
Final Judge: Russell Edson

Russell Edson was born in Connecticut, where he lives and writes today. He won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1974, and has published one book of plays, The Falling Sickness, one novel, The Song of Percival Peacock, and ten books of prose poems, most recently The Rooster's Wife: Poems.

POSTMARK DEADLINE: June 9th, 2008
Reading Fee:$15 for US entries, $27 for international entries
Includes a year’s subscription.

All entries considered for publication.
All entries considered anonymously.
Send no more than 3 pieces, 500 words maximum per piece. (That's 3 short-shorts or prose-poems max per entry fee.)

***Please click here for our official entry form.***

Each piece must be either a prose-poem or short-short. Prose-poems should not have any deliberate line breaks (ie no lineated poems). You may send a combination of short-shorts and prose poem pieces, as long as you have no more than 3 pieces per submission.
No previously published works, or works forthcoming elsewhere.
Simultaneous submissions acceptable, but fee is non-refundable.Further, IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University. In addition, IR cannot consider work from anyone who is a current or former student of the prize judge. We also will not consider work from anyone who is a personal friend of the judge.

Entrant's name should appear ONLY on the entry form.
Entries must be accompanied by SASE for notification.
Manuscripts will not be returned.
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Send entries to:
'1/2 K' Prize/Indiana Review
Ballantine Hall 465
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN
47405-7103

Click here for 2007 1/2K prize results.