The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Kaveh Akbar
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The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction is awarded annually to one full-length manuscript of literary fiction: short stories, flash fiction, or novellas in any combination. The prize includes $2,000, publication of the work, a standard royalty contract, and an introduction written by the guest judge.
ELIGIBILITY
This contest is open to any short fiction writer of English. Employees and board members of Sarabande are not eligible. Agented manuscripts are not eligible. Submissions may include a collection of short stories, one or more novellas, or a short novel. Individual pieces from the manuscript may have been published previously in magazines, chapbooks of less than 48 pages, or anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Translations and previously published collections are not eligible. To avoid conflicts of interest, close friends of a judge or current students in a degree-granting program with a judge are not eligible.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- Manuscript must be anonymous
- Manuscript must be typed, standard font, 12 pt.
- Manuscript must be between approximately 150 and 250 pages
- Manuscript must be paginated consecutively with a table of contents
- Cover letter or manuscript should include acknowledgements list (a list of publications in which stories in the manuscript have appeared)
- Submission must be accompanied by a $34 submission fee
Multiple submissions are permitted if submitted separately, each with a submission fee. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are permitted, but please withdraw the submission if accepted elsewhere.
Sarabande Books considers all finalists for publication.