The winning manuscript will be published and its author will receive a publication contract including $1,500 and 25 copies. Manuscripts should be at least 100 pages, but there is no maximum length. All forms and styles of full-length fiction manuscripts are welcome, including story collections, novels, novellas, collections of novellas, flash fiction collections, novels in verse, and other hybrid forms.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 1, 2024.

We read manuscripts blind, so please exclude identifying information  from the manuscript itself. All necessary contact information is included in your Submittable record.
 

 Final judge this year is CLANCY MARTIN. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of How to Sell: A Novel and Travels in Central America and has written or edited more than a dozen books on philosophy, including Love and Lies and The Philosophy of Deception. His essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, VICE, and elsewhere. His most recent book, How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind, blends memoir and critical inquiry. Martin teaches at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and Ashoka University.

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