short story
now browsing by tag
acceptance
a day in the life of a writer
a day in the liife of a writer
authenticity
authors
best year ever
book review
books
brainstorming
change
character development
child abuse
children
Contests
Debra Dixon
faith
fiction
GMC
grace
grief
humor
inspiration
love
marriage
memoir
memoirs
missing persons
missing sons
mothers
music
NaNoRebels
National Novel Writing Month
nonfiction
Notes from the universe
plotting
review
rewriting
romance
romance writing
shenpa
silence
story
the blog of missing
video
Writing
Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest (open Feb 1st-28th)
FROM THE KENYON REVIEW website:
Submit Your Entry Now
General Guidelines
Submissions must be 1200 words or less. There is no entry fee. Ron Carlson, celebrated author of four novels and five short story collections, will be the final judge. The Kenyon Review will publish the winning short story in the Winter 2012 issue, and the author will be awarded a scholarship to attend the 2011 Writers Workshop, June 18th-25th, in Gambier, Ohio.
Submission Guidelines
- Writers must be 30 years of age or younger at the time of submission.
- Stories must be no more than 1200 words in length.
- One submission per entrant.
- Please do not simultaneously submit your contest entry to another magazine or contest.
- The submissions link will be active February 1st to February 28th. All work must be submitted through our electronic system. We cannot accept paper submissions.
- Winners will be announced in the late spring. You will receive an e-mail notifying you of any decisions regarding your work.
- For submissions, we accept the following file formats only:
- .PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
- .DOC (Microsoft Word)
- .RTF (Rich Text Format)
- .TXT (Microsoft Wordpad and Notepad, Apple TextEdit .