PUB: Crab Creek Fiction Contest Guidelines

Crab Creek Review

Summer 2010 Issue Now Available

Crab Creek Review Fiction Contest:

Sept. 15th - Dec. 31, 2010

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

  • Original, previously unpublished fiction up to 3,000 words, double spaced.
  • Name and contact info must NOT appear on any pages of the fiction piece.
  • Please include a cover letter with your name, address, telephone number, email address, and the title of your story with a brief bio.
  • Please include a $10 entry fee (check made payable to Crab Creek Review) and a SASE.
  • Postmark deadline is Dec. 31, 2010.
  • Mail submissions to:
    Crab Creek Review Fiction Contest
    c/o 7315 34th Ave NW
    Seattle, WA 98117
  • Winner will receive $150 and publication in Crab Creek Review.
  • All contest submissions will be considered for publication.
  • Simultaneous submissions are permitted as long as Crab Creek Review is notified immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
  • Contest Judge: Kathryn Trueblood
    If you are an associate and/or student of the judge, we ask that you not submit.

Kathryn Trueblood is the author of The Baby Lottery, which was a Book Sense Pick in 2007, and The Sperm Donor's Daughter, which received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize in 2000. She has co-edited two anthologies of multicultural literature, The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards with Ishmael Reed and Shawn Wong, (W.W. Norton, 1992); also Homeground, which won the Jurors' Choice Award at the Seattle’s City Arts Festival. Her stories and articles have been published in Poets & Writers Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, The Seattle Weekly, Glimmer Train, and Zyzzyva, among others. She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University.