PUB: Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction

NEW SECTION - "Writer As Reader" Submission Guidelines

 

Fourth Genre's new section, "Writer As Reader," will feature essays that respond to creative nonfiction, focusing primarily on a single work. Successful "Writer As Reader" essays will be neither jargon-laced nor disinterested, but will find a home in the personal and will tell a story about the author's relationship with one particular work of creative nonfiction.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  • Under essay title, include complete title of your essay's focal work (as book review identifies volume reviewed).
  • Cover letter required, including:
    • Your biographic information—writing qualifications and other pertinent information
    • Description of the work that is the topic of your essay
    • Complete bibliographic information on the work
  • 3,000 word limit

"Writer As Reader" essays are invited as responses to:
  • A personal essay or memoir
  • Literary journalism
  • Personal cultural criticism
  • Another work commonly classified with creative nonfiction

"Writer As Reader" essays may focus on work that:
  • Has influenced the author's own writing
  • The author provides to students as an example of the genre's possibilities
  • The author has reevaluated over time
  • Is widely influential
  • Is challenging due to its form, innovation, content, history, or politics
  • May be contemporary or from another historical period

Queries welcome at 4genre@msu.edu

Send submissions to:
Marcia Aldrich, Editor or Brian Olszewski
Fourth Genre
Writer As Reader Series
Department of English
201 Morrill Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824

—Please do not send submissions to Michigan State University Press—


 

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Michael Steinberg Essay Prize Submission Guidelines


About the Award 

Fourth Genre will seek the best creative nonfiction essay/memoir for its sixth annual Michael Steinberg Essay Prize. Authors of previously unpublished manuscripts are encouraged to enter. 

 

The winning author receives $1,000, and the winning entry will be published in an upcoming issue of Fourth Genre. Runner-up entry will be considered for publication. 


 SUBMISSIONS THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH THESE GUIDELINES WILL BE RECYCLED UNREAD. PLEASE READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY PRIOR TO SUBMISSION.

 

COMPLETE ENTRY FEE CHECKS FULLY AND CORRECTLY; INCLUDE WITH SUBMISSIONS.

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

  •  Reading period: January 5–February 28. Submissions must be postmarked on or before February 28.
  •  Reading fee: $15 (U.S.) per entry
    • Make checks payable to “Michigan State University Press”
    • Multiple submissions accepted; include $15 entry fee for each individual submission 
  • Include in cover letter (one page limit): name, address, phone number, email address, title of piece, and approximate word count
  •  No names should appear anywhere on the manuscript
  • Word limit - 6,000 (Longer submissions will not be read)
  •  Winners will be announced on our website at http://www.msupress.msu.edu/journals/fg; all manuscripts recycled


 

ELIGIBILITY

  • Current Michigan State University students, faculty, and staff are not eligible to enter the Michael Steinberg Essay Prize contest.
  • Electronic submissions will not be considered

 

REPLIES

  • For manuscript receipt confirmation, include a self-addressed stamped postcard
  • Contest status queries will not be accepted
  • Winner and runner-up (if applicable) announced at the end of April

Send submissions to:

Fourth Genre Editors’ Prize

201 Morrill Hall

Department of English

Michigan State University

 

East Lansing, MI 48824-1036

 

 

 

 

 

 

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