This year, we’re doing it big: Our annual Robert and Adele Schiff Prizes in Poetry and Prose will now include an honorarium of $1000. One winning poem and prose piece (fiction or creative nonfiction) will be chosen for publication in our 2013 prize issue. The entry fee of $25 includes a year-long subscription. Submissions will be accepted in June and July; all entries will be considered for publication.
For complete contest guidelines, please go here.
For additional motivation, we’ve put our heads together to think up some things the winner might do once he or she is flush with cash. Our best suggestions:
- Get your check cashed into quarters and use them to fill up your bathtub. Take a photo of yourself with only your head sticking out and declare a caption contest on Facebook. Prize? $1000 in quarters.
- Purchase custom Bobbleheads for you and approximately twelve of your closest friends.
- Buy 1000 things at the Dollar Store (we recommend Charleston Chews and sippy cups).
- Pay your rent (Yawn! Don’t worry: The staff member who made this suggestion was duly pelted with Tootsie Rolls).
- Go in with three of your best friends on a very fancy handbag.
- Subscribe to approximately ten literary magazines a year for the next seven years (we recommend, well, us).
- Purchase 200 Skyline Cheese Coneys by mail.
We look forward to reading your contest entries this summer!
