Fairy Tale Review Awards in Poetry and Prose. Deadline: July 15.

Contests

Fairy Tale Review Awards in Poetry and Prose

2015 Prose & Poetry Contest Guidelines

Fairy Tale Review is thrilled to announce our second annual contest, with awards for poetry and prose—Brian Evenson will serve as our judge for prose, and Joyelle McSweeney will judge poetry. The selected winners of the prose and poetry contests will each receive $1,000, and all submissions will also be considered for publication in The Ochre Issue, which will be released in 2016. Reading fee: $10. Submit online or via post to Fairy Tale Review, c/o Kate Bernheimer, Department of English, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721.

Reading period
April 1, 2015 to July 15th, 2015

Awards
$1,000 each, for prose and poetry

Eligibility & Procedure
All submissions must be original and previously unpublished. For prose, please send works of up to 6,000 words. For poetry, no more than five poems and/or ten pages per entry. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please withdraw your manuscript immediately upon acceptance elsewhere, and note that the reading fee is nonrefundable. Multiple submissions are acceptable, but please note that you will need to pay a reading fee for each submission.

Those who submit to general submissions are welcome to submit to the contests as well. Also, contributors to our most recent issues are welcome to submit to the contest, despite our request to not submit to the general submissions.

Submit to the Poetry Contest
Submit to the Prose Contest

Of course, you may also mail your submissions to our physical office.

Editorial Address:

Kate Bernheimer
Department of English
Modern Languages Building
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721

Reading Fee
Ten percent of your reading fee will be donated to Tucson Youth Poetry Slam as part of Fairy Tale Review’s interdisciplinary outreach efforts. (Fairy Tale Review has no official affiliation with Tucson Youth Poetry Slam.)

CLMP Contest Code of Ethics
CLMP’s community of independent literary publishers believe that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to 1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors; 2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and 3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public. This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.

Fairy Tale Review Annual Contest Selection Process
1st Round of Judging:  Non-Blind Read by Genre Editor and Editor. Finalists (approximately 15 poems, 15 pieces of prose) will then be forwarded to the contest judges for the 2nd Round of Judging.

2nd Round of Judging: Blind Read by Contest Judges.  Judges change on a yearly basis.

Conflicts of Interest: Students, faculty, staff, or administrators currently affiliated with University of Arizona are ineligible for consideration or publication. Anyone with a substantial personal or professional affiliation with a judge is ineligible to enter in that category; if you have questions as to your eligibility, please contact ftreditorial (at) gmail (dot) com, and we will assess the situation together. Upon learning the Judges’ selections, the Editor will assess any potential conflict of interest before finalizing the result. We ask that past winners of our contest refrain from entering until three years after their winning entry was published.

Fairy Tale Review was established in 2005 and is an annual publication of Wayne State University Press.

About the Judges

Brian Evenson is the author of more than a dozen books of fiction, including Immobility and Windeye; a collection of stories, A Collapse of Horses: Stories, is forthcoming in 2015. His other books include Last Days, winner of the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel of 2009, and the short story collection Fugue State, both of which were listed in Time Out New York‘s top books of 2009. His work has been featured in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Conjunctions, The American Reader, Granta, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father She Ate Me, and more. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship and three O. Henry Prizes, he current lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is a professor in Brown University’s Literary Arts Department.

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of multiple collections of poetry, including The Red Bird, winner of the 2001 Fence Modern Poetry Series, and The Commandrine and Other Poems. She has also written the novels Nyland, the Sarcographer and Flet. Her poetry has been published in numerous literary magazines, including Boston Review, Poetry Magazine, Tarpaulin Sky, and has been anthologized in Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing by &NOW Books. With Johannes Göransson, McSweeney founded and edits Action Books, an international press for poetry and translation. After receiving her MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, McSweeney went on to teach at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and now teaches at the University of Notre Dame and acts as the director of the creative writing program.