The Walker Percy Prize in Short Fiction: $1,000 and publication in the New Orleans Review
Enter previously unpublished original stories up to 7,500 words. Manuscripts should be double-spaced. The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript. Entries may be simultaneous submissions but the entry fee is nonrefundable if the story is accepted elsewhere. Please notify us immediately to withdraw a story that is taken elsewhere. There is no limit on the number of entries you may submit; each entry requires its own entry fee. All finalists will be considered for publication.
Open to all writers in English with the exception of current students or employees or others affiliated with New Orleans Review or Loyola University New Orleans. Writers who have a strong personal or professional relationship with the editorial staff or with the final judge are asked to abstain from entering the contest in order to prevent a conflict of interest. We comply with the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Code of Ethics.
Enter the Walker Percy Short Fiction contest. Deadline October 1, 2010. Winner will be announced in January, and published in spring 2011.
New Orleans Review accepts unsolicited submissions of original poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, and book reviews from August 15 through May 15.
Prose: One piece or several short pieces (up to 7,500 words) at a time only. No previously published work. Simultaneous submissions O. K. if we're notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Send submission (complete legible manuscript, brief cover letter, SASE) to New Orleans Review, Box 195, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118, or submit prose to New Orleans Review online.
Poetry: Thank you for your interest in submitting poems to NOR. We have accepted a great deal of work for future issues, and therefore will read new submissions beginning again in January 2011. We no longer accept poetry submissions by regular mail. Please use our electronic submissions manager.
NOTICE: We have a new electronic submission systems. For prose only, we now require a $3 fee. Here's the how and why: we figure that the cost of postage to mail a manuscript with SASE is between $2 and $3, and there are the additional costs for paper, envelopes, ink, and time going to the post office. The company managing the system gets $1 of this fee for their services and the magazine gets $2. The cost for you, the writer, is about the same as a hard copy submission (which we will still accept with no fee), but instead of the money going to the Postal Service, it goes to help support the very magazine in which you hope to publish. We hope this system will make the process more efficient, decrease our response time, reduce our carbon footprint, and make it easier for you and for us to track your submissions. The fees of course will help us to stay in print. We are interested in responses from writers regarding the system, the fee, mailing vs electronic.
