Contest Guidelines
Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry ~ Judged by Mark Doty
Goldenberg Prize for Fiction ~ Judged by Jane Smiley
Burns Archive Prize for Nonfiction ~ Judged by Mary Roach
Biographies of the 2013 Judges ~~ Past BLR contest winners
Deadline: 7/1/12
BLR Prize Guidelines:
- The BLR Prizes award outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body.
First prize is $1000 (in each genre) and publication in the Spring 2013 issue of BLR.
Honorable mention winners will receive $250 and publication in the Spring 2013 issue of BLR.
Prose should be limited to 5000 words.
Poetry submissions should have no more than 3 poems. Please include all poems in one document.
Submissions that exceed these limits will be disqualified.
Deadline July 1, 2012. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2012.
Entry fee is $15 per submission. For an additional $5, you will receive a one-year subscription to the BLR. (Maximum: four submissions per person).
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document or PDF. Please combine all poems into one document and use first poem as title.
Do not put your name on the manuscript document. (This will be entered separately on our website.) A cover letter is not required.
Work previously published in print or electronically will not be considered. (Please see footnote below for specific definition of “published.”)
Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. We regret that there can be no refunds or substitutions for withdrawn work.
All entries will also be considered for regular publication.
Students/friends/colleagues/relations of a judge are not permitted to enter submissions to that judge's genre.
BLR acquires first-time North American rights. After publication, all rights revert to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made.
PLEASE NOTE: There are separate systems for submission and payment. The account/login information that you set up in one does not automatically transfer to the other system. You will need to register in both. We apologize for the inconvenience.
SUBMITTING YOUR MANUSCRIPT
Submit your manuscript online.
If you have never submitted to BLR before,
you will need to create an author account first.PAYING THE ENTRY FEE
Entry fee may be paid online, by check, or by phone.
- Pay online.
- Call us at 212-263-3973 to pay over the phone.
- Mail a check (made out to Bellevue Literary Review), along
with a copy of the confirmation email you will receive
after submitting, to:Bellevue Literary Review
NYU Department of Medicine
550 First Avenue, OBV-A612
New York, NY 10016
Please feel free to contact us with any questions: info@BLReview.org or 212-263-3973
Some troubleshooting tips:
If you can't upload, please try logging out and back in. If you continue to have trouble, please let us know. Keep file name short and simple (one word, no spaces/symbols). A long file name is what usually causes upload problems. (This is just referring to how the file is saved on your computer. You'll be able to type your full title on the submission page.) *For the BLR, “published work” means published in print in North America, or published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We ask that authors be honest about web postings. (If a work is discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere—and not openly acknowledged by the author in advance—we will remove it from consideration.)
