PUB: First Annual Saranac Review Writing Contest

First Annual

Saranac Review Writing Contest

 

DEADLINE:
Entries must be postmarked no later than December 15, 2012

The Saranac Review is a literary journal published by the Department of English under the auspices of SUNY Plattsburgh. The Editorial staff of the Saranac Review will review and screen the manuscripts for the judges. The screeners will select ten to 15 manuscripts in each genre for each judge’s final evaluations.

The judges:

Jo-Ann Mapson, Fiction; Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Poetry.

FIRST PRIZE: $500 FOR BEST POEM; $500 FOR BEST STORY,

AND PUBLICATION.

Manuscript Format Guidelines

Fiction manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced on good quality paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, with 1 inch margins all around. Use either Courier or Times Roman, 12 point regular font. Poetry manuscripts may be single-spaced. Photocopies or copies from letter-quality printers are acceptable, but dot matrix is not acceptable. Manuscripts should not be bound or in a folder; they may be clipped but not stapled. Each manuscript must include:

  1. The official Contest entry form, which includes spaces for your name, manuscript title(s), contact information, and an agreement to the terms of the Contest. Please download this form from our website, enter all the information, and attach it to the manuscript as the cover page.

  2. A title page with the manuscript title only. The entry form will be removed so that each submission can be read anonymously. Do not include your name anywhere in the manuscript. If the author's name appears anywhere except the entry form, the manuscript will be disqualified. Do not send acknowledgement of previous publications or a biographical note.

Eligibility Requirements

  1. The contest is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence.

  1. Poems and stories previously published are not eligible for inclusion in submissions. As the series is judged anonymously, no list of acknowledgements should accompany your manuscript.

  1. Stories and poems in translations are not eligible.

  1. To avoid conflict of interest, friends and/or former students of a serving judge in any genre are ineligible to enter the competition.

  1. Staff and friends of staff of Saranac Review, current students and faculty of SUNY Plattsburgh are not eligible to enter.

  1. You may submit your manuscript to other publishers while it is under consideration by the Writing Contest, but you must notify SR immediately in writing if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. No e-mail or phone calls, please. If your manuscript is accepted elsewhere we cannot refund your entry fee.

  1. SR cannot consider manuscript revisions during the course of the contest, but the winning authors will have an opportunity to revise their works before publication. Please read carefully the entry requirements and guidelines before submitting your work.

Entry Requirements

  1. An entry fee of $15. Make your check or money order in U.S. dollars, drawn on a U.S. bank, payable to Saranac Review. All entry fees are nonrefundable.

  2. An official contest entry form, completed with the required information. See the links at the top of this page for the entry form, or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Saranac Review Writing Contest and request the entry form.

  3. Include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for notification that the entry has reached us. Notification will include your log number for the competition. Please use this number in corresponding with Saranac Review regarding your entry. We cannot notify receipt by phone.

  4. Also include a self-addressed, stamped envelope, business size (9 1/2 x 4 inches), if you would like direct notification of contest results. Results will be mailed in May, 2013. Do not include an envelope for the return of your manuscripts. No manuscripts can be returned.

  5. Send one copy of each manuscript entered, prepared according to manuscript format guidelines.

  6. If story or poem is slated for publication before December 2012, whether in another magazine or as part of a book, or if it has been named winner or runner-up in any other contest, it is ineligible. Please withdraw work from our contest immediately if these conditions apply.

Terms

  1. Your submitted manuscript must be an original work of which you are the sole author.

  2. Your manuscript must be submitted in accordance with the eligibility requirements, format guidelines, and entry requirements or it will be disqualified.

  3. No entry fees or manuscripts will be returned.

  4. This competition is void where prohibited or restricted by law.

  5. All manuscripts, whether selected as finalists or not, are considered for publication

Mail submissions to:

 

Writing Contest (Please indicate Fiction or Poetry)
Saranac Review
Department of English
SUNY Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh, N.Y. 12901

 

View and Download the Saranac Review Writing Contest Official Entry Form

via research.plattsburgh.edu