Guidelines for
Crab Creek Review's
2012 Fiction Contest
Entry Dates: Sept. 15, 2012 – Dec. 15, 2012
· Submit up to 3,000 words of previously unpublished fiction, double spaced.
· Entry fee: $10, payable (PayPal button below) to Crab Creek Review.
· Email submissions only.
· Send your cover letter in the body of the email (not in an attachment). It should include your contact information: mailing address, a brief bio, and the name of the fiction piece you are submitting.
· Send your fiction piece in an MS Word Doc attached to your email. Please send your work in New Times Roman and 12 pt. font. Title your attachment with your full name and “Fiction Contest”.
· Name and contact info should not appear on your fiction piece.
· Send contest submission to (after PayPal payment): crabcreekcontest@gmail.com
· Simultaneous submissions acceptable when noted in cover letter, as long as we are notified immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere.
· Deadline for all submissions: Dec. 15, 2012.
· The winning writer will receive $200 and publication in Crab Creek Review.
· All entries will be considered for publication.
· The winner will be determined by our guest judge, Shann Ray (see bio below).
(We ask that friends, associates, and students of the judge not submit to this contest.)· Contest results will be posted on our website in late January/early February.
$10 Contest Submission Fee
Shann Ray’s collection of stories American Masculine (Graywolf Press), named by Esquire as one of Three Books Every Man Should Read and selected by Kirkus Reviews as a Best Book of 2011, won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize and was the winner of an American Book Award in 2012. Sherman Alexie called it “tough, poetic, and beautiful” and Dave Eggers said Ray's work is “lyrical, prophetic, and brutal, yet ultimately hopeful." Ray is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Division. Ray's book of creative nonfiction, leadership and political theory Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity (Rowman & Littlefield), was named an Amazon Hot New Release in War and Peace in Current Events, and engages the question of ultimate forgiveness in the context of ultimate violence. The winner of the Subterrain Poetry Prize, the Crab Creek Review Fiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Inlander Short Story Contest, and the Ruminate Short Story Prize, his work has appeared in some of the nation’s leading literary venues including Poetry, McSweeney‘s, Narrative, Story Quarterly, and Poetry International. Shann grew up in Montana and spent part of his childhood on the Northern Cheyenne reservation. He lives with his wife and three daughters in Spokane, Washington where he teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University.