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Indiana Review's 2009 Fiction Prize Guidelines
$1000 Honorarium and Publication
Final Judge: Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson currently serves as the director of the MFA program in fiction at UC Irvine. He has published four short story collections, three novels, including the recently praised Five Skies (Viking). Carlson’s short stories have been anthologized in dozens of collections, including The Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. He has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award.

POSTMARK DEADLINE: OCT. 15, 2009
Reading Fee: $15
Includes a one-year subscription

  • All entries considered for publication.
  • All entries considered anonymously.
  • Send only one story per entry, 35 double-spaced pages maximum, 12 pt. font.
  • Entry form must include name, address, phone number, and title. Entrant’s name should appear ONLY on the entry form.

Previously published works and works forthcoming elsewhere cannot be considered. Simultaneous submissions okay, but fee is non-refundable if accepted elsewhere. Multiple entries okay, as long as a separate reading fee is included with each entry. Further, IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University or the prize judge.

If desired, include a self-addressed stamped envelope for notification. Manuscripts will not be returned. Make checks payable to Indiana Review.

Each fee entitles entrant to a one-year subscription, an extension of a current subscription, or a gift subscription. Please indicate your choice and enclose complete address information for
subscriptions. Overseas addresses, please add $12 for postage ($7 for addresses in Canada). Please note that we cannot accept money orders or checks from foreign banks.

International contestants are encouraged to pay online here (for more detailed instructions, click here).

For our printable entry form, click here.

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Current Issue: 31.2

Winter 2009

 

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