Aura Estrada Short Story Contest
Deadline: October 1, 2010
Judge: Samuel R. Delany
First Prize: $1,500Complete guidelines:
The winning author will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in Boston Review, the summer of 2011. Stories should not exceed 4,000 words and must be previously unpublished. Mailed manuscripts should be submitted with a cover note listing the author’s name, address, and phone number. No cover note is necessary for online submission. Names should not appear on the stories themselves. Note that simultaneous submissions are not eligible. Any author writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current student, former student, relative, or close personal friend of the judge. A $20 entry fee ($30 for international submissions), payable to Boston Review in the form of a check or money order, must accompany each story entered. Entrants will receive a one-year print subscription to the Review beginning with the summer 2011 issue. Submissions must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2010. Manuscripts will not be returned. The winner will be announced no later than May/June 2011, on the Boston Review Web site.Submit online using our contest entry manager. This requires payment using a credit card or Paypal.
Or mail submissions to:
Short Story Contest, Boston Review
35 Medford St., Suite 302
Somerville, MA 02143Read winning stories from past years:
Adam Sturtevant’s How Do I explain? (2010)
Jessica Treglia’s Canceled (2009)
Patricia Engel’s Desaliento (2008)
Padma Viswanathan’s Transitory Cities (2007)
Tiphanie Yanique’s How to Escape from a Leper Colony (2006)
Lisa Chipongian’s Intramuros (2005)
D.S. Sulaitis’s If It’s Anywhere, It’s Behind Us (2004)
Gale Renee Walden’s Men I Don’t Talk to Anymore (2003)
Manini Nayar’s Home Fires (2002)
Kate Small’s One Night a Year (2001)
Girija Tropp’s The Pretty Ones Have Their Uses (2001)
Pauls Toutonghi’s Regeneration (2000)
Jacob M. Appel’s Shell Game with Organs (1999)
Kris Saknussemm’s Unpracticed Fingers Bungle Sadly Over Tiny Feathered Bodies (1998)
Kiki Delancey’s Jules Jr Michael Jules Jr (1997)
Mary Ann Jannazo’s No Runs, No Hits, No One Left on Base (1996)
Tom Paine’s The Milkman & I (1995)
Michael Dorris’s Layaway (1994)For more fiction in Boston Review, click here.
