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ANNUAL CONTESTS
Chautauqua Literary Journal sponsors
an annual literary competition, for both poetry and prose. The
two winners each receive $1,500 and publication in Chautauqua
Literary Journal. The postmark deadline is September 30.
Only original, previously unpublished
work is eligible. All manuscripts must be typed with standard
margins. Prose should be double-spaced; poetry, single-spaced.
Include a separate cover sheet with title(s), name, address,
e-mail, and telephone number. The writer’s name should not
appear on the manuscript itself since the editor judges each
entry anonymously. Manuscripts cannot be returned. Winners will
be announced on this website by mid-January. Include a self-addressed,
stamped envelope with your entry if you wish a separate notification
of the winners.
Prose: Submit only one work of fiction or creative nonfiction
per entry. The
manuscript should not exceed 7,000 words. The editor welcomes
both traditional and experimental works.
Poetry: Submit up to six poems or a maximum of 500 lines.
Each entry will be judged for overall artistic excellence; the
poems do not have to be related by theme.
Entry Fees: Each submission must be accompanied
by an entry fee of US $15. Writers may enter both competitions
or submit additional manuscripts to the same competition as long
as each manuscript includes the appropriate fee. Make checks
payable to Chautauqua Literary Journal.
Each entrant will receive a copy
of Chautauqua Literary Journal that contains the prize-winning
entries.
Postmark Deadline: September
30.
Mail contest entries only to:
Chautauqua Literary Journal Annual
Contests
P.O. Box 2039
York Beach, ME 03910
Previous Winners
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Poetry
Mark DeFoe
Mark DeFoe has published six
chapbooks -- Bringing Home Breakfast (Black Willow, 1983), Palmate
(Pringle Tree Press, 1988), AIR (Green Tower Press, 1998), Aviary
(Pringle Tree Press, 2001), The Green Chair (Pringle Tree Press,
2003) and Mark DeFoe’s Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2004).
His poetry has appeared in such magazines as Poetry, The Yale
Review, The Paris Review, New Letters, among many others. He
lives in Buckhannon, West Virginia. |
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Poetry
Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass’s most recent
book is Mules of Love (BOA Editions, 2002), which won the Lambda
Literary Award. Among her other honors are the Elliston Book
Award from the University of Cincinnati, the Pablo Neruda Prize
from Nimrod/Hardman, the Larry Levis Prize from Missouri Review,
and a fellowship from the California Arts Council. She is also
coeditor with Florence Howe of No More Masks! An Anthology of
Poems by Women (Doubleday, 1973). She lives in Santa Cruz, California. |
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Prose
David Feinstein (for
"Enoch")
David Feinstein is a recent graduate
of Oberlin College, where he received a B.A. in Creative Writing
in 2004. “Enoch,” a work of nonfiction, is his first
published piece. Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
he currently lives and writes in New York City. |
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Prose
Gina Ochsner (for "The
Dog-Saint")
Gina Ochsner lives in Keizer,
Oregon, with her husband and four children. Other short works
of hers have appeared in Chelsea, The New Yorker, Nimrod International,
Flyway, and The Kenyon Review. Her first collection of stories,
The Necessary Grace to Fall, won the Flannery O'Connor Award.
In 2005 Houghton Mifflin published a new collection, People I
Wanted to Be. |
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