Monstrosities of the Midway: Literary Contest
Step right up! We want to see mysteries, anomalies, and clashing energies. Bring your giant rats, conjoined twins, Fiji mermaids, bearded ladies, and civic dissidents. We invite any writing that complicates issues of performance and identity. Real and unreal. Exposed and concealed.
Submit: March 1st – May 31st
Fee: $15 per entry
Prize: $1000 + publication in Midway Journal for a winning poem (or group of poems), short story, or work of nonfiction.
Judge: Dorianne Laux
Contest Guidelines
Entries and payments must be received through Midway Journal‘s online submission manager under “Monstrosities of the Midway Contest.”
Paste the title of your submission and your contact information (name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address) in the cover letter box. Your name and contact information must not appear anywhere on the manuscript you upload. Friends and students (current and former) of the judge are not eligible; please do not submit if you know the judge personally.
Note: 1.) By students, we mean students who may have worked with the judge for an extended period of time, as in you were a student of hers in a degree earning program and you and worked closely under her advisement. 2.) Virtual friendships, such as “friendships” that exist onlyon social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, are not considered personal friendships and do not interfere with one’s eligibility.
You may submit multiple entries, but a new entry fee must be paid for each new submission. Previously published work will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but must be withdrawn from the contest if accepted elsewhere.
Poetry: up to 5 poems per entry. Not more than one poem per page. Maximum of 20 pages per entry.
Prose (Fiction and Nonfiction): 1 piece per entry, up to 6,000 words.
All submissions will be considered for publication.
About the Judge
Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection, The Book of Men, is currently available from W.W. Norton. Her fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon, is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also author of Awake, What We Carry, finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award, and Smoke, as well as two fine small press editions, Superman: The Chapbook and Dark Charms, both from Red Dragonfly Press. Co-author of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, she’s the recipient of two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Widely anthologized, her work has appeared in the Best of APR, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and The Best of the Net. In 2001, she was invited by late poet laureate Stanley Kunitz to read at the Library of Congress.
Judging Process
The staff of Midway Journal will select a group of finalists from the contest entries. Finalists will be chosen for strong work regardless of genre and announced by the end of September. Dorianne Laux will judge blindly. A winner will be announced by November.
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