NEO•GRIOT

2012 Literary awards

Contest Guidelines

Please note that we do not accept submissions via email.  Please submit your work through our online Submission Manager or via regular mail. We also do not accept any previously published work, including online publication and "revised" or altered versions of stories, poems, or essays.  

See a list of past winners and runners-up.  

• Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in the Spring 2013 issue of the American Literary Review will be given for a poem, a short story, and an essay.

  For online entries:

• Submit up to three poems, a short story of up to 8,000 words, or an essay of
  up to 6,500 words with a $15 entry fee between June 1 and October 1, 2012 by using our online Submission Manager.
• Please do not put any identifying information in the file itself; include your cover letter in the box provided.
• Short Fiction: One work of fiction per entry ($15), limit 8,000 words per work.
• Creative Nonfiction: One work per entry fee, limit 6,500 words per work.
• Poetry: Entry fee covers up to three poems (i.e. one to three poems would require an entry fee of $15; four to six poems would be $30, and so on).

  For mailed entries:

• Submit up to three poems, a short story of up to 8,000 words, or an essay of up to 6,500 words with a $15 entry fee between June 1 and October 1, 2012. Make checks payable to American Literary Review. Entries submitted before June 1 or after October 1 will be returned unread.
• Include a cover page with author's name, title(s), address, and phone number.
  Do not include any identifying information on subsequent pages except for the
  title of the work.
• Enclose a $15.00 reading fee (includes subscription) and a SASE for contest
  results. Multiple entries are acceptable; however each entry must be accompanied
  by a reading fee. (Note: only the initial entry fee includes a subscription.
  Subsequent entry fees go to contest costs only and will not extend the subscription.) Make checks payable to American Literary Review.
• Short Fiction: One work of fiction per entry ($15), limit 8,000 words per work.
• Creative Nonfiction: One work per entry fee, limit 6,500 words per work.
• Poetry: Entry fee covers up to three poems (i.e. one to three poems would
  require an entry fee of $15; four to six poems would be $30, and so on).
• Label entries according to contest genre and mail to ALR's regular submission address:

  
  For example: American Literary Review Short Fiction Contest
                      P.O. Box 311307
                      University of North Texas
                      Denton, TX 76203-1307