Writers Wanted April

Bellevue Literary Review Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry

Details: http://www.blreview.org/Contest/contest_guidelines.htm

$1000 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction
$1000 Carter V. Cooper Memorial Prize for Nonfiction
$1000 Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry

Please note that BLR is unable to accept credit cards payments online at this time. See #12 to pay by check or credit card by phone. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Guidelines:

1.	BLR Prize awards outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. First prize is $1000 (in each genre) and publication in the Spring 2010 issue of the BLR.
2.	Prose limited to 5000 words. Up to 3 poems (maximum 5 pages). Submissions that exceed these limits will be disqualified.
3.	Deadline July 1, 2010.
4.	Entry fee is $15 per submission. For an additional $5, you will receive a 1 year subscription to the BLR. (Maximum: two submissions per person).
5.	Manuscripts are submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document. (Save with a *.doc extension). Please combine all poems into one document and use first poem as title.
6.	Do not put your name on the manuscript document. (This will be entered separately on our website.) No cover letter needed.
7.	When entering the title in the website, please prefix with "Contest." (e.g. Contest : The Iliad.) This is extremely important and we appreciate your cooperation!
8.	Work previously published* in print or electronically will not be considered. (Please see footnote below for specific definition of “published.”)
9.	Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. (This will avoid potentially awkward situations.) We regret that there can be no refunds or substitutions for withdrawn work.
10.	Students/friends/colleagues/relations of any of the judges are not permitted to enter submissions to that judge's genre.
11.	BLR acquires first-time North American rights. After publication, all rights revert to the author and may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made. All entries will also be considered for regular publication.
12.	Due to administrative costs, if no entry fee is received, manuscript will be placed with general submissions. Because of a temporary glitch, we are unable to accept credit card purchases over the web (to be fixed soon!) Please send payment by check, or call during business hours to give credit card info. By mail: send check and printout of confirmation email to: Bellevue Literary Review Dept of Medicine, Rm OBV-612 NYU School of Medicine 550 First Avenue New York, NY 10016 By phone: 212-263-3973 We sincerely apologize for the incovenience and appreciate your forbearance.
13.	Submit manuscript here (with Contest in title). Thank you Regular submissions: http://www.BLReview.org/submissions/guidelines Contest submissions (deadline: July 1, 2010): http://www.BLReview.org/submissions/prize-guidelines

Short story submissions now open for Avery 6

Details: http://www.averyanthology.org/

Past issues have included stories by Hannah Tinti, Kevin Canty, Ander Monson, Stephen Dixon and many more.

We accept email submissions only, and all we ask is that you send us your strongest fiction, double-spaced, with all of your contact
information on the first page of your story. One story per reading period, please.

Avery cannot accept paper submissions through the snail mail. Please know: if you send us a paper submission, it will not be read. In fact,
it will be recycled. We truly want to read your stories, so please:submit electronically!

Send your submissions as a Word attachment to:
submissions@averyanthology.org

Please write "submission" in the subject line, followed by your
story's title. Otherwise, we might mistake your submission for spam
and might therefore unintentionally delete it.