IR's 2010 '1/2 K' Prize Guidelines
$1000 Honorarium and Publication
Final Judge: Alberto Ríos
Alberto Álvaro Ríos, born in 1952 in Nogales, Arizona, is the author of ten books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. His books of poems include, most recently, The Dangerous Shirt, preceded by The Theater of Night, winner of the 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, along with The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, a finalist for the National Book Award, Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses, The Lime Orchard Woman, The Warrington Poems, Five Indiscretions, and Whispering to Fool the Wind. His three collections of short stories are, most recently, The Curtain of Trees, along with Pig Cookies, and The Iguana Killer.
His memoir about growing up on the Mexico-Arizona border—called Capirotada—won the Latino Literary Hall of Fame Award and, most recently, was designated as the One Book Arizona choice for 2009.
Ríos is a Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University, where he has taught for over 27 years and where he holds the further distinction of the Katharine C. Turner Endowed Chair in English.
Contest Rules
POSTMARK DEADLINE: June 15. 2010
Reading Fee:$15 for US entries, $27 for international entries, $22 for Canadian contestants.
Includes a year’s subscription.All entries considered for publication.
All entries considered anonymously.
Send no more than 3 pieces, 500 words maximum per piece. (That's 3 short-shorts or prose-poems max per entry fee.)
- Each piece must be either a prose-poem or short-short. Prose-poems should not have any deliberate line breaks (ie no lineated poems). You may send a combination of short-shorts and prose poem pieces, as long as you have no more than 3 pieces per submission.
- No previously published works, or works forthcoming elsewhere.
- Simultaneous submissions acceptable, but fee is non-refundable.Further, IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University. In addition, IR cannot consider work from anyone who is a current or former student of the prize judge. We also will not consider work from anyone who is a personal friend of the judge.
- Entry entitles entrant to one-year subscription, an extension of a current subscription, or a gift subscription. Please indicate your choice and include complete address information for subscriptions.
- Entrant's name should NOT appear on the prose poems/short shorts.
If submitting electronically:
Please click here. For payment instructions, please click here. Electronic submissions will close on June 15st, 2010 at 8 pm EST.
If submitting by post:
- Please click here for our official entry form
- Entries must be accompanied by SASE for notification.
Manuscripts will not be returned.- We prefer you to pay online. Payment instructions are available here. With your entry, include a print out of the receipt that is e-mailed to you as confirmation of payment.
- If you are unable to pay online please contact us.
Send entries to:
'1/2 K' Prize Indiana Review
Ballantine Hall 465
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN
47405-7103Please note that, while we attempt to contact entrants whose submissions are not in accord with our guidelines, this is a courtesy. It is ultimately and solely the responsibility of entrants to ensure they have followed the guidelines.
Click here for 2009 1/2K prize results.
