Salamander 2012 Fiction Prize
$1,500 Honorarium and Publication
Final Judge: Carolyn CookeSUBMIT: Online or by mail from May 15 through June 15, 2012; on-line submission available at end of day on May 15th.
Reading fee: $15
- All entries will be considered for publication. All entries will be considered anonymously.
- Send no more than one story per entry. Each story must not exceed 35 double-spaced pages in 12 point font. Multiple entries are acceptable, provided that a separate reading fee is included with each entry.
- Please submit two separate cover sheets with each entry, one with the title of the story only, and the other with the title of the story and your name, address, phone number, and email. Your name should not appear anywhere on the story itself.
- Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but the contest fee is non-refundable if the submission is withdrawn. Please notify the editors as soon as possible if a submitted story is accepted elsewhere.
- Previously published works and works accepted for publication elsewhere cannot be considered. Salamander’s definition of publishing includes electronic publication.
- No handwritten, faxed, emailed, or poorly copied/printed manuscripts will be considered.
- Salamander will not consider work from anyone currently or recently (within the past 4 years) affiliated with Suffolk University or the prize judge.
- If you wish to be notified of the arrival of your manuscript, please enclose a self-addressed stamped postcard. Please also include a self-addressed stamped business-sized envelope for notification of contest results. Manuscripts cannot be returned.
- Contest reading fee includes a one-year subscription. Checks should be made out to Salamander. We will send your subscription to the address on your cover sheet unless instructed otherwise. Overseas addresses, please add $10 for subscription postage ($5 for addresses in Canada). Please note that we cannot accept money orders or checks from foreign banks.
- Online contest submissions and payment will be available starting May 15.
Carolyn Cooke’s short fiction has appeared in AGNI, The Paris Review, Ploughshares and several volumes of Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. Her short-story collection, The Bostons, was a winner of the PEN/Bingham Award and named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Her new novel, Daughters of the Revolution, was short-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and appeared among the New Yorker Magazine Reviewers’ Favorite Books of 2011. She teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.