A prize of $1,000 plus chapbook publication by Kore Press will be given for a short story written in English.
This competition is open to any woman writing in English, regardless of nationality.
How to Submit
Submit your manuscript and $15 reading fee on-line here.
Comment box should include:
• daytime and evening telephone numbers
• where you heard about the contest
Manuscripts must be:
• anonymous (do not include your name anywhere on the manuscript)
• original fiction written by applicant (translations are not eligible)
• a minimum of 4,000 and a maximum of 12,000 words
• double-spaced and paginated
• unpublished at the time of submission (upon acceptance elsewhere during our deliberation process, please notify us immediately)
For more information email kore@korepress.org, or call 520-327-2127.
The judge
Antonya Nelson was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1961. She attended the University of Kansas and the University of Arizona, where she received an MFA in 1986. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook and other magazines, as wells as in anthologies such as the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and Best American Short Stories. The Expendables won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1990 and Talking in Bed received the 1996 Heartland Award in fiction. Her books have been New York Times notable books in 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002, and she recently was named by The New Yorker as one of the “twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium.” She divides her time between Telluride, Colorado, and Houston Texas, where she shares (with her husband novelist Robert Boswell) the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
More information here.
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