Willow Springs Books is pleased to announce the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction!

 

Willow Springs Books invites submissions for the 2019 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction starting January 15, 2019. The winner receives $2,000 plus publication.

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Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2019

Open To: All United States authors, regardless of publication history.

Submission Guidelines: 

To enter, please submit:

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• A book-length manuscript. Manuscripts should be no less than 98 pages (with no maximum page count) and include at least 3 short stories. Manuscripts should be organized with page numbers and a table of contents. Stories may have been previously published in journals, anthologies, or limited edition volumes. However, selected story collections (stories previously published in books) will not be considered. Please do not send novels.

• A SASE for notification (if submission is by mail)

• A cover letter including your name, address, phone number, and email address, as well as a short bio.

• A $27.50 reading fee paid through Submittable or via check made out to “Willow Springs Editions” (check or money order only) for each manuscript entry.

• Entries must be submitted through Submittable or postmarked by June 30, 2019

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Submit online via Submittable:
or send entries by mail to:

Willow Springs Books
c/o Inland Northwest Center for Writers
668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. 2 RPT– #259
Spokane, WA 99202

For questions related to the prize, email willowspringsbooks@gmail.com

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Recent Winners Include: 

2018 Things We’ll Need for the Coming Difficulties by Valerie Vogrin
2017 A Kind of Solitude by Dariel Suarez
2016 Ventriloquisms by Jaclyn Watterson
2015  Suffering Fools by Glori Simmons
2014  Here Among Strangers by Serena Crawford
2013  All the Wrong Places by Molly Giles
2012  The Empty House Stories by Nathan Oates
2011  You are Not Alone by Sherril Jaffe
2010  Love Songs for the Quarantined by K.L. Cook
2009  Strange Weather by Becky Hagenston
2008  This Is Not Your City by Caitlin Horrocks
2007  Forgetting English by Midge Raymond
2006  The High Heart by Joseph Bathanti
2005  Woman in the Woods by Ann Joslin Williams

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Past judges have included Rick Bass, William Kittredge, Jess Walter, John Keeble, Shawn Vestal, and Sharma Shields.