Announcing the Winners of Meridian’s 2010 Editors’ Prize Contest
POETRY
WINNER: Josephine Yu, “Why the Lepidopterist Lives Alone”
FICTION
WINNER: Allis Hammond, “The Faces”Both winners will receive a $1,000 prize, and their pieces will be published in our May 2010 issue.
Thank you to everyone who entered the contest. It was a strong year for poetry and fiction. We hope you’ll submit again in the fall.
Editors’ Prize Contest
The deadline for our 2011 Editors’ Prize is December 17, 2010, midnight EST.
For a $16 entry fee, you receive a chance at a $1,000 prize. The fee will also cover a one-year subscription to Meridian (entries from outside the U.S. will receive only the prize issue due to additional mailing costs.)
We expect to announce winners in March 2011.
All submissions will be considered for publication in Meridian.
Fiction writers may submit one story of 10,000 words or fewer. Poets may submit up to 4 poems.
You may enter more than one time; however, in the past, entering multiple times has not significantly increased a contestant’s odds.
Submit your work through ManuscriptHub.com. Make sure that your account includes a working e-mail (one valid through March of the contest year). It’s the only way for us to contact you.
Best of luck!
Contest Eligibility Rules:
- UVA alumni who graduated after June 2007 are NOT eligible.
- UVA MFA graduates/alumni are NOT eligible.
- Current UVA students, staff, and faculty are NOT eligible.
- Former Meridian staff are not eligible. (If you’ve been on our masthead, don’t enter.)
- Friends, relatives, and former teachers and students of current Meridian staff or its advisor are not eligible.
- Current subscribers may enter the Editors’ Prize Contest for the same $16 fee. Your subscription will be extended by one year (and you will remain, as always, one of our favorite people in the world, even if you get treated like everyone else for the purposes of the contest).
