Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers
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$1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.
Rules
- All entries must be submitted online by December 31 by midnight CT.
- Entry fee is $18 for each individual story, with no limit per author, and includes a one-year subscription.
- Manuscripts should be typed and double spaced.
- Cover sheets are not necessary.
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but previously accepted or published work is ineligible.
- We accept works up to 8,000 words.
- All entries will be considered for publication and for payment at our regular rates.
- Entries will be judged by the editors of Boulevard.
- No one editorially or financially affiliated with Boulevard can enter the contest.
- The winning story will be first announced on the website, traditionally during June, though occasionally earlier, and then published in the subsequent Fall or Spring issue of Boulevard.