Contest
Fiction Judge
Ann Pancake is the author of the acclaimed novel Strange As This Weather Has Been, which won the 2007 Weatherford Award and was named one of Kirkus Review's Top Ten Fiction Books of 2007. Pancake's collection of short stories, Given Ground, won the 2000 Bakeless award, and she has also received a Whiting Award, an NEA Grant, a Pushcart Prize, and creative writing fellowships from the states of Washington, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Poetry Judge
Maurice Manning, the author of four collections of poetry, was awarded the 2009 Hanes Poetry Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His first book, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Manning, a former writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, teaches at Indiana University and Warren Wilson College.
Nonfiction Judge
Janisse Ray, a writer, naturalist, and activist, is the author of three books of literary nonfiction, including the critically acclaimed Ecology of A Cracker Childhood. She is on the faculty of Chatham University’s low-residency MFA program, and is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana, and in 2007 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Unity College in Maine.
Contest Guidelines
Still: The Journal announces the first annual Still Writing Contests in Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction. Contest entries should follow our normal submission guidelines, which state that “we want to feature writing that exemplifies the Mountain South or that is written by an author with an established connection to the region.”
Rules:
Submitted entries must be unpublished.
Simultaneous entries are accepted as long as you let us know if your submissions will be published elsewhere before the contest ends.
The contest reading fee is $8 PER ENTRY, payable to Still’s PayPal account, which you can access below. An entry is defined as one short story, or one nonfiction piece, or one poem. You may submit multiple submissions in multiple genres, as long as you pay a separate entry fee for each submission. Contest entry fees cannot be refunded under any circumstances.
Manuscripts should be typed in a standard 12-point font (Times New Roman is preferred) and should have numbered pages. Prose must be double spaced. Poetry must be single spaced. Prose entries must not exceed 6,500 words. Poetry entries should not exceed 100 lines.
Make sure that your name or any other identifying information does not appear anywhere on the manuscript entries.
Deadline for email postmark is 12:00 a.m., August 15, 2010. Any entry that is not sent on or before that date will not be processed and entry fees will not be returned.
Winners will be notified by September 15, 2010. Winning entries will be announced publicly in the 4: Fall 2010 issue of Still: The Journal.
Prizes:
$100 for winners of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and publication in Still: The Journal, 4: Fall 2010. All other contest entrants will be considered for possible publication.
Submissions:
We prefer electronic submissions and fee payment. Submissions should be saved as a word document, rich text file or plain text file only (doc, docx, rtf, or txt ONLY) and attached to an email. Multiple submissions must be sent separately (in other words, if you are submitting a short story, an essay, and three poems, for instance, you would have five different electronic submissions and five different entry fees). The subject line for each entry should include “Still Contest” and the category; for example: Still Contest Fiction, Still Contest Poetry, or Still Contest Nonfiction. Include with each entry a title page which contains this information:
- Title of entry
- Category listed in parentheses next to title
- Name
- Mailing address
- Telephone number
- Email address
Please do NOT include your name or any other identifying information on the contest manuscript. Please number all pages.
All entries must be sent to contest@stilljournal.net. Contest entries will not be processed until the $8 entry fee is also paid. Click below on the PayPal button to pay the entry fees for each submission.
Mail submissions can be accepted, although electronic submissions are preferred. Follow the above guidelines for manuscript and title page preparations, include an $8 fee per entry and mail checks payable to Still to:
Still
P.O. Box 1121
Berea, KY 40403
Mailed entries must be postmarked by August 15, 2010.
Failure to follow any of the above guidelines will result in disqualification.
Inquiries or questions should be directed to contest@stilljournal.net.
