Applications are now open for the Iowa Short Fiction Award 2019. This competition is for the outside students to spread their ideas in writing. The competition is by the university and the prize for the winner is the publication of his story in the University of Iowa Press under the Press’s standard contract. Any writer who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter the competition.

Previously entered manuscripts that have been revised may be resubmitted. Writers are still eligible if they have published a volume of poetry or any work in a language other than English or if they have self-published a work in a small print run. Writers are still eligible if they are living abroad or are non-US citizens writing in English. Current University of Iowa students is not eligible. There is no reading fee; please do not send cash, checks, or money orders.

Opportunity Focus Areas

• Writing.

Benefit

• Award-winning manuscripts will be published by the University of Iowa Press under the Press’s standard contract.

Eligibility

• Any writer who didn’t publish any volume can enter the competition.
• Previously enter manuscripts that have been revise may be resubmit
• Writers are still eligible if they are living abroad or are non-US citizens writing in English.
• The manuscript must be a collection of short stories in English of at least 150 word-processed, double-spaced pages.
• The manuscript may include a cover page, contents page, etc., but these are not important. The author’s name can be on every page but this is not require.
• There is no reading fee; please do not send cash, checks, or money orders.
• Writers are still eligible if they have published a volume of poetry or any work in a language other than English or if they have self-published a work in a small print run.