The Iowa Review Awards, a contest offering $1,000 prizes in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, announces that its 2011 judges will be Allan Gurganus, Claudia Rankine, and Patricia Hampl. The deadline is January 31, 2011.
The Iowa Review holds a yearly writing contest in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction. Judges for the 2011 contest will be Claudia Rankine (poetry), Allan Gurganus (fiction), and Patricia Hampl (nonfiction). Winners receive $1,000; first runners-up receive $500. Winners and runners-up are published in our December 2011 issue.
Rules
Judges will select winners from a group of finalists chosen by Iowa Review editors. All manuscripts, whether selected as finalists or not, are considered for publication.
Manuscripts must include a cover page listing your name, address, e-mail address and/or telephone number, and the title of each work, but your name should not appear on the manuscript itself.
Enclose a $20 entry fee (checks payable to The Iowa Review). Enclose an additional $10 for a yearlong subscription to the magazine.
Label your envelope as a contest entry, for example "Contest: Fiction." One entry per envelope.
Postmark submissions between January 1 and January 31, 2011.
Enclose a SASE for final word on your work. Manuscripts will not be returned.
Eligibility and Conflicts of Interest
Judges are instructed not to award the prize to entrants with whom they have had a personal or professional relationship. Despite reading the entries with author names removed, judges may sometimes be able to guess the identity of the entrant. Even if they can’t tell during the judging process, they have the right to change their decision if it turns out that the entrant is someone with whom there is any appearance of conflict of interest. Therefore, we advise entrants not to enter the contest if the judge is someone they know personally or have worked with professionally.