Contests
Please note: neither e-mailed submissions nor submissions processed via the online submission system will be accepted for any of the contests. Entries must be sent by mail.
Sixteenth Annual Short-Story Contest
"Discovery"/Boston Review 2009 Poetry Contest
Fifteenth Annual Short-Story Contest
Eleventh Annual Poetry Contest
Sixteenth Annual
Short-Story Contest
Deadline:
October 1, 2008
Judge: Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, and The Lazarus Project
First Prize: $1,500
Complete guidelines:
The winning author will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published
in the May/June 2009 issue of Boston Review. Stories should not exceed
4,000 words and must be previously unpublished. Manuscripts should be submitted
with a cover note listing the author's name, address, and phone number; names
should not appear on the stories themselves. Note that simultaneous
submissions are not eligible. Any author writing in English is eligible,
unless he or she is a current student, former student, or close personal friend
of the judge. A $20 entry fee ($30 for international submissions), payable
to Boston Review in the form of a check or money order, must accompany
each story entered. Entrants will receive a one-year print subscription to
the Review beginning with the May/June 2009 issue. Submissions must
be postmarked no later than October 1, 2008. Manuscripts
will not be returned. The winner will be announced no later than May 1, 2009,
on the Boston Review Web site. Send submissions to:
Short-Story Contest, Boston Review, 35 Medford St., Suite 302, Somerville, MA 02143
Read winning stories from past years:
Padma Viswanathan's "Transitory
Cities" (2006)
Tiphanie Yanique's "How to
Escape from a Leper Colony" (2005)
Lisa Chipongian's "Intramuros"
(2004)
D.S. Sulaitis's "If It's Anywhere,
It's Behind Us" (2003)
Gale Renee Walden's "Men
I Don’t Talk to Anymore" (2002)
Manini Nayar’s "Home
Fires" (2001)
Kate Small’s "One
Night a Year" (2000)
Girija Tropp’s "The
Pretty Ones Have Their Uses" (2000)
Pauls Toutonghi’s "Regeneration"
(1999)
Jacob M. Appel’s "Shell
Game with Organs" (1998)
Kris Saknussemm’s "Unpracticed
Fingers Bungle Sadly Over Tiny Feathered Bodies" (1997)
Kiki Delancey’s "Jules
Jr Michael Jules Jr" (1996)
Mary Ann Jannazo’s "No
Runs, No Hits, No One Left on Base" (1995)
Tom Paine’s "The
Milkman & I" (1994)
Michael Dorris’s "Layaway"
(1993)
For more fiction in Boston Review, click here
"Discovery" / Boston Review 2009 Poetry Contest
Deadline: January 16, 2009.
Judges: Mary Jo Bang, Terrance Hayes, and Mark Strand.
Four Prizes: $500
Complete guidelines:
Four winning authors will be awarded a reading at the 92nd Street Y in New
York City (May 11, 2009 at 8:15pm), publication in the May/June 2009 issue
of Boston Review, and $500.
1. The contest is open to poets who have not published a book of poems (chapbooks
and self-published books included). Those who have a book contract at the
time of submission or who are subsequently awarded a book contract are not
eligible for the contest if their book is scheduled for publication before
Fall 2009. Individual poems that have been or will be published in periodicals
or anthologies may be submitted; however, at least two of the submitted
poems must be unpublished and under two pages in length.
2. Submit four identical sets of a typed ten-page manuscript. Each set is to contain the same ten pages in the same order. Include no more than one poem per page. NO personal identification should appear on any of the poems; no copyright attributions for previously published poems should appear on the poems.
3. Photocopied manuscripts are acceptable. However, in the case of previously published poems, do not send photocopied pages of the periodical or book in which the poem(s) originally appeared.
4. Please staple each manuscript; do not use paper clips.
5. Enclose one cover letter including your name,
address and day and evening telephone numbers, as well as a list
of the submitted poems in the order in which they appear, with copyright attributions
for published poems. Do not attach this cover letter to the manuscripts.
6. An entry fee of US$10.00 must accompany the submission. Please make checks (drawn on U.S. banks only) or money orders (in U.S. currency only) payable to the 92nd Street Y, and attach them to your cover letter. DO NOT SEND CASH.
7. All poems must be original and in English (no translations).
8. No contestant may submit more than one entry. No corrections can be accepted after receipt of the contest submission.
9. Entries must be received by January 16, 2009. This is not
a postmark deadline. If you wish to receive confirmation of receipt of your
manuscript, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard (not
envelope) and allow several weeks for its return. Due to the large
number of submission received, manuscripts cannot be returned. Winners
will be contacted by telephone by the end of February; all contest entrants
will be mailed the names of the winners and of the judges shortly thereafter.
10. No phone queries can be taken. If you wish to hear a recording of the guidelines, or to receive another set of these guidelines in the mail, call 212.415.5759.
Mail contest submissions to:
"Discovery"/ Boston Review 2009 Poetry Contest, Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd
Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest
Deadline: June 1, 2009
Judge: TBA
First Prize: $1,500
Complete guidelines:
The winning
poet will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in
the November/December 2009 issue of Boston Review. Submit
up to five unpublished poems, no more than 10 pages total. Any
poet writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current
student, former student, or close personal friend of the judge.
Manuscripts must be submitted in duplicate, with a cover note
listing the author's name, address, and phone number; names should
not be on the poems themselves. Simultaneous submissions are allowed
if we are notified of acceptance elsewhere. Submissions will not
be returned. A $20 entry fee ($30 for international submissions),
payable to Boston Review, must accompany all submissions.
Submissions must be postmarked no later than June 1, 2009.
All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to Boston
Review, beginning with the November/December 2009 issue. The
winner will be announced no later than November 1, 2009, on the
Boston Review Web site. All poems submitted to the contest
will be considered for publication in the Boston Review. Send entries to:
Poetry Contest, Boston Review, 35 Medford St., Suite 302, Somerville, MA 02143
Read winning poems from past years:
Marc Gaba (2006)
Mike Perrow (2005)
Michael
Tod Edgerton [PDF]
(2004)
Susan Wheeler
(2003)
Max Winter
(2002)
D.A. Powell
(2001)
Christopher Edgar (2000)
Stephanie
Strickland (1999)
Daniel Bosch
(1998)
For more poetry in Boston Review, click here.
Fifteenth Annual Short-Story Contest
Boston Review fiction editor Junot Díaz and guest judge Chris Abani are pleased to name Patricia Engel as the winner of our 2008 Short-Story Contest. Her story "Desaliento" appears in our May/June issue, on newsstands now. We are grateful for the many fine entries we received.
Eleventh Annual Poetry Contest
Deadline: The contest is now closed
Judge: John Koethe
First Prize: $1,500
The winner of our 2008 poetry contest will be announced no later than November 1, 2008, on the Boston Review Web site. All poems submitted to the contest are eligible for publication in the Boston Review.
For more poetry in Boston Review, click here.
