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$2000 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story
Competition
Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the
2010 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The
competition has a twenty-nine-year history of literary
excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to
enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of
emerging writers of short fiction whose voices have yet
to be heard.
Lorian Hemingway, granddaughter of Nobel laureate Ernest
Hemingway, is the author of three critically acclaimed
books:
Walking into the River,
Walk on Water, and A World Turned Over.
Ms. Hemingway is the
competition’s final judge.
Prizes and
Publication:
The first-place winner will receive $1,000. The second
and third-place winners will receive $500 each.
Honorable mentions will also be awarded to entrants
whose work demonstrates promise.
The
Saturday Evening Post To Publish First-Place Winner:
The Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition is pleased
to announce that each year -- beginning with our 2009
competition -- The Saturday Evening Post will publish
our first-place winner in its pages. And occasionally,
the Post may also choose to publish our runners-up,
either in its pages or on its website.
The Post will pay a fee to winners upon publication of
his or her story, in addition to the $1,000 first-place
prize given by the Lorian Hemingway Short Story
Competition. The Post’s payment will be in keeping with
the magazine’s general rate structure for fiction at the
time of publication. Entrants whose stories are
published will allow the Post first serial rights,
nonexclusive electronic (including online) rights, and
nonexclusive anthology rights. This is a standard
agreement for magazine publication.
For many years it has been our dream to be able to offer
an assured publication for our first-place winner. The
Saturday Evening Post, through its generosity and deep
appreciation for new voices in literary fiction, has
made that dream come true.
Eligibility requirements for our 2010 competition are as
follows:
What
to submit:
• Stories must be original unpublished fiction, typed
and double-spaced, and may not exceed 3,000 words in
length. There are no theme restrictions. Copyright
remains property of the author, with the exception of
the first-place winner, whose work will be published in
The Saturday Evening Post.
Who
may submit:
• The literary competition is open to all U.S. and
international writers whose fiction has not appeared in
a nationally distributed publication with a circulation
of 5,000 or more. Writers who have been published online
or who have self-published will be considered on an
individual basis.
Submission requirements:
• Submissions may be sent via regular mail or submitted
online at:
shortstorykw@gmail.com. Please
visit our online submissions page for complete
instructions regarding online submissions. Writers may
submit multiple entries, but each must be accompanied by
an entry fee and separate cover sheet. We do accept
simultaneous submissions; however, the writer must
notify us if a story is accepted for publication or wins
an award prior to our July announcements. No entry
confirmation will be given unless requested. No SASE is
required.
• The author’s name should not appear on the story. Our
entrants are judged anonymously. Each story must be
accompanied by a separate cover sheet with the writer's
name, complete mailing address, e-mail address, phone
number, the title of the piece, and the word count.
Manuscripts will not be returned. These requirements
apply for online submissions as well.
Deadlines and Entry Fees:
• The entry fee is $12 for each story postmarked by
April 1, 2010. The late entry fee is $17 for each story
postmarked between April 2 and May 15. We encourage you
to enter by April 1 if at all possible, but please know
that your story will still be accepted if you meet the
later deadline. Our dual deadline must be imposed this
year due to information already in print in Writer’s
Market, etc. that states May 15 as our final deadline.
We apologize for this inconvenience. Beginning with our
2011 competition we will have a single deadline. Entries
postmarked after May 15, 2010 will not be accepted.
Entries submitted online after May 15 will not be
accepted. Writers may submit for the 2011 competition
beginning May 16, 2010.
How to pay your entry fee:
• Entry fees submitted by mail with their accompanying
stories may be paid -- in U.S. funds -- via a personal
check, cashier’s check, or money order. Please make
checks payable to LHSSC or The Lorian Hemingway Short
Story Competition. Entry fees for online submissions may
be paid with PayPal.
Announcement of Winners and
Honorable Mentions:
Winners will be announced at the end of July 2010 in Key
West, Florida, and posted on our website soon afterward.
Only the first-place entrant will be notified
personally. All entrants will receive a letter from
Lorian Hemingway and a list of winners, either via
regular mail or e-mail, by October 1, 2010.
All manuscripts and their accompanying entry fees should
be sent to The Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition,
P.O. Box 993, Key West, FL 33041 or submitted online at:
shortstorykw@gmail.com
For more information, please explore this website or
e-mail:
shortstorykw@gmail.com
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