2011 Poetry & Fiction
Award Guidelines

Judged by Brenda Shaughnessy (poetry) and David Lipsky (fiction)

We are now accepting submissions for the 2011 Washington Square Award. Entry fee is $10 for both poetry and fiction contests. Winners (one in fiction and one in poetry) receive $500 and publication in a forthcoming issue of Washington Square. Selected runners-up may also receive publication. The judge for this year’s poetry award is Brenda Shaughnessy, author of “Human Dark with Sugar” and winner of the 2008 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the judge for this year’s fiction award is David Lipsky,contributing editor for Rolling Stone and author of the recent non-fiction work “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself.”

* Submit up to three poems (six pages total) or one short story (up to twenty pages). Please visit http://washingtonsquare.submishmash.com/Submit to submit.

Deadline: February 15, 2011

 

 

2011 FLASH FICTION/NON-FICTION AWARD

GUIDELINES

JUDGED BY BARRY YOURGRAU

A prize of $200 and publication in Washington Square Review will be given for a single work of flash fiction or non-fiction of 500 words or less. Submit a single piece with a $5 entry online athttp://washingtonsquare.submishmash.com/Submit. Barry Yourgrau, author of multiple books of short fiction including “Wearing Dad’s Head” and “The Sadness of Sex”, will be judging the contest.

Deadline: February 15, 2011