The Smoking Poet Second Annual Short Story Contest
THE SMOKING POET's SECOND ANNUAL SHORT STORY CONTEST
The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, established in 2006, and published online on a quarterly basis. TSP’s first annual short story contest is open to all writers, whether they have been past contributors to TSP or not, and in any genre.
Prizes will be awarded to the top three stories: first prize, $200; second prize, $100; third prize, $50. All of the winners will be published in the summer issue of The Smoking Poet, online in mid June, 2009.
An entry fee of $10 per submission is required, payment to be made through PayPal. Once you have sent in your submission and we determine it meets our contest guidelines, we will send you the PayPal link for payment with an invoice for your records.
Entries must be submitted as a Word doc file, one per e-mail, in Times New Roman, 12-point font, and double-spaced. The author’s name, address, and telephone number must appear in the upper right hand corner. Word count must not exceed 5,000. Please include a short bio statement, not to exceed 100 words, in the body of your e-mail.
The judges for the contest are Zinta Aistars, managing editor of The Smoking Poet; J. Conrad Guest, fiction editor of The Smoking Poet and author of January’s Paradigm. And, we are thrilled to announce - the honorary judge of TSP's Second Annual Short Story Contest is Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of "American Salvage," hot off the presses this May 2009, and "Q Road," "Woman and Other Animals." Bonnie is also our summer issue feature author.
Submission deadline for the contest is May 31, 2009. Please send your submission with the subject line stating CONTEST/Last Name to thesmokingpoet@gmail.com If the subject line does not state CONTEST, then we will assume it is a submission for the ezine.
We look forward to reading your best work! See also general submission guidelines for the upcoming summer issue.
About Zinta
Zinta Aistars is the published author of three books, founder and editor-in-chief of THE SMOKING POET. She is the creative director at Z Word, LLC, a writing and editing service. Prior to that, Zinta was an editor and writer for LuxEsto, the Kalamazoo College...
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Good to know! Thanks for this info--
I'll forward this to my colleagues and students.
At first, I thought the call said, "The Smoking Pot Second Annual..."
Still, Poet is good, too!
It's exciting to watch the
It's exciting to watch the SMOKING POET'S growing impact on contemporary literature. It's been a while since I've tried my hand at short fiction and these days I'm actually experimenting with some new literary territory but I look forward to seeing and reading responses to your contest.
Aberjhani
Founder of Creative Thinkers International
author of The American Poet Who Went Home Again
and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File)
The Smoking Poet
Thanks for opening up to short stories. On behalf of all short story writers, thanks!