Annual Prize Contest
The Arts & Letters Prizes competition offers publication and a $1000 (US) prize for winners in: Fiction (Short Story), Poetry, Drama (One-Act Play), and Creative Nonfiction (Essay). A $15 submission fee, payable in US dollars, includes a two-issue subscription to Arts & Letters. Please make checks or money orders payable to “GCSU” (note “Arts & Letters” in the memo section). All submissions will be considered for publication. (International authors: Please see below for our new policy concerning international submissions.)
Submission Deadline: Submissions should be postmarked January 1 to around March 15 (postmark deadline, with specific date announced each year).
For all submissions: Submit only original, unpublished work in English. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the editors are notified immediately that the work has been accepted elsewhere. Authors may submit more than one manuscript; however, each submission should include the required entry fee of $15, which provides for a one-year subscription (fall and spring issues). Include a cover sheet with your name, address (where you want your subscription/s to be sent), phone/email contact information, and the title of your work. For those submitting more than one manuscript, you may designate a gift subscription to be sent (please provide name and address where you want the subscription sent). Send a no. 10 self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish to receive an announcement of winners (usually in late June/early July). No manuscripts can be returned.
Please note: For this year, we cannot accept online submissions for our prizes competition. We can only accept hard copies.
The author’s name should not appear anywhere in the manuscript, only in the cover letter (for creative nonfiction, if relevant to this policy, please avoid using your full name in the manuscript).
For fiction and creative nonfiction: Submit one story or essay, typed, double-spaced, no more than 25 pages long.
For poetry: Submit up to eight PAGES of poetry, typed, single-spaced, one poem (or part of a poem) per page.
For one-act plays: Submit one work, typed in standard format.
For all submissions: Please mail your submission unfolded and unstapled in a large-size manila envelope and write “Fiction,” “Poetry,” “Nonfiction” or “Drama” on the outside.
Send to:
Arts & Letters Prizes
Campus Box 89
Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, GA 31061Special Information for International Authors: Due to the high cost of international postage (typically ranging from $8 US to over $10 US), we will no longer be able to send both issues (fall and spring) to our international contestants. Instead, we will mail either the fall issue (featuring fiction and poetry winners) OR the spring issue (creative nonfiction and drama winners), depending on the genre in which the author submitted. However, if an author is able to use a US mailing address (or wishes to have a gift subscription mailed to a friend in the US), please tell us so in a cover letter, provide us the appropriate US mailing address, and we will send BOTH fall and spring issues to that US address. Also: International authors do not need to send a SASE or International Postal coupons for notification of winners. If the author will provide an e-mail, we will send the results (usually late June/early July) via e-mail (this information will also be listed on our web site). We’re sorry, but we cannot accept electronic submissions, only hardcopies mailed to us directly, as explained above. Please note: Unless costs are reasonable, we can only provide domestic (US) airfare for our winners to travel to our campus for special prize programs; travel costs will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Publication and prize money, of course, remains the same.