One of my favorite perks of entering a writing contest is the ability to read on. Submission fees should ideally include an issue or subscription to the journal running the contest. Here's a nice example from @BFictionJournal I received in the mail this week.
Need some good, if small and personal, news right now? OK: my first fiction publication is happening!!! 🥰@BFictionJournal, vol. 34, spring 2021. The story's about sleepwalking, step-relations, and mayhem. Check out vol. 33 in the meantime, fresh off the press!
Volume 33 of the Beloit Fiction Journal has been released! If you're at #AWP20 check it out at booth 559 and talk to some of our editors!
Cover art by Jeremy Geddes
Don't forget, #writers, December 10 is the deadline to submit stories of 7,000 words or less to #litmag Beloit Fiction Journal's (@BFictionJournal) Hamlin Garland Award for the Short Story. $20 fee; $2,000 prize. This year's judge is Jesse Lee Kercheval. ow.ly/XHba50xllRZ
Day three of Hamlin Garland Stories! Today we're releasing "The Resurrection of Rakesh Sharma," by @piaghoshroy, which won the HG award in 2017. We're thrilled to share it with you. LINK IN BIO !
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Congratulations to susanmchoi whose novel Trust Exercise won the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (!) for fiction last night.
Choi was a Mackey Chair Resident at Beloit College (home of BFJ) in 2015, where she taught creative… instagram.com/p/B5Jp0yBhcCY/…
You know what's really spooky? Missing a chance to win $2,000!
If the deadline is a pendulum, and you're Poe's protagonist, then you'd better start finding some rats to chew thru your straps! (The rats being ur submission? Maybe? We'll work on the symbols, u work on submitting)
December 10 is the deadline to submit stories of 7,000 words or less to #litmag Beloit Fiction Journal (@BFictionJournal) Hamlin Garland Award for the Short Story, #writers. $20 fee; $2,000 prize. Judge is Jesse Lee Kercheval. ow.ly/MmvW50wYjP8
I know as writers there is nothing like receiving that acceptance letter, but as an editor, gotta say falling in love with stories and then getting to send acceptance letters to their authors is easily as thrilling, if not more