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Baby Dabby, born just under a year after Pearl Harbor Day (more)
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New Writer Award: 1st place $1,500 and publication in Issue 98. Deadline: 11/30. (The October Very Short grace period ends on 11/7.)
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This category is open only to emerging writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5000.
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NOTE: 11 of the last 12 first-place winners have been those authors' first print publications!
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The 1st-place winner will be published in Issue 98 and will receive 10 copies of that issue. Second- and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700.
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Winners and finalists will be announced in the February 1 bulletin, and contacted directly the previous week.
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Most submissions run 1,500 - 6,000 words, but stories as long as 12,000 words are fine. Writing Guidelines
- I wrote a lot. And somehow in the course of those weeks I decided—although maybe that's the wrong verb because I don't remember making a decision, but somehow it seemed clear to me—that I was going to write. That that's what I was going to do.—Jennifer Egan, interviewed by Jeremiah Chamberlin
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