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The winners of our 2011 writing contests are:

Fiction:

1st Place - Gloria Beth Amodeo - "The Repository Emporium"

2nd Place - Mark Brazaitis - "Barbados"

3rd Place - Jacqueline Kharouf - "Seeing Makes Them Happy"

Nonfiction:

Sonja Velez - "Tormenta"

Poetry:

1st Place - Kathleen Hellen - "Autobiography of a Penny," "We do not know the things that mark us" & "The Summer We Were Hungry"


H.O.W. Journal is hosting three writing contests!

Deadline extended to November 1st.

Fiction judged by Mary Gaitskill

Nonfiction judged by John D'Agata

Poetry judged by Honor Moore

Please review the guidelines for each contest below.

Fiction judged by Mary Gaitskill

Guidelines:

  • The contest is open to all writers and all themes
  • The word limit is 12,000.
  • We do consider unpublished novel excerpts if they feel like complete stories.
  • It's fine to submit more than one story.
  • Manuscripts should be submitted with a cover note listing the author's name, address, phone number, and email; names should not appear on the stories themselves.
  • All submissions should be clearly typed manuscripts, double-spaced on 8 1/2 x 11 inch white paper, one side only.
  • Submissions will not be returned.
  • No simultaneous or previously published work.

Awards:

  • 1st Place - $500 and publication in H.O.W. Journal
  • 2nd Place - $200 and publication in H.O.W. Journal
  • 3rd Place - $100 and publication in H.O.W. Journal

Reading Fee per story

  • $20.00

Send your submissions and reading fee (a check payable to H.O.W. Journal) to:

H.O.W. Journal
Fiction Contest
12 Desbrosses Street
New York, NY, 10013

Submissions must be received in the H.O.W. offices by November 1st, 2011.

Nonfiction judged by John D'Agata

Guidelines:

  • The contest is open to all writers and all themes
  • The word limit is 12,000.
  • Memoir excerpts accepted.
  • It's fine to submit more than one story.
  • Manuscripts should be submitted with a cover note listing the author's name, address, phone number, and email; names should not appear on the stories themselves.
  • All submissions should be clearly typed manuscripts, double-spaced on 8 1/2 x 11 inch white paper, one side only.
  • Submissions will not be returned.
  • No simultaneous or previously published work.

Awards:

  • 1st Place - $500 and publication in H.O.W. Journal
  • 2nd Place - $200 and publication in H.O.W. Journal
  • 3rd Place - $100 and publication in H.O.W. Journal

Reading Fee per story

  • $20.00

Send your submissions and reading fee (a check payable to H.O.W. Journal) to:

H.O.W. Journal
Nonfiction Contest
12 Desbrosses Street
New York, NY, 10013

Submissions must be received in the H.O.W. offices by November 1st, 2011.

Poetry judged by Honor Moore

Guidelines:

  • The contest is open to all writers and all themes
  • 10-50 line poems accepted.
  • Up to 10 poems can be submitted by one person.
  • Poems should be submitted with a cover note listing the author's name, address, phone number, and email; names should not appear on the poems themselves.
  • All submissions should be clearly typed manuscripts, double-spaced on 8 1/2 x 11 inch white paper, one side only.
  • Submissions will not be returned.
  • No simultaneous or previously published work.

Awards:

  • 1st Place - $500 and publication in H.O.W. Journal

Reading Fee per poem

  • $5.00

Send your submissions and reading fee (a check payable to H.O.W. Journal) to:

H.O.W. Journal
Poetry Contest
12 Desbrosses Street
New York, NY, 10013

Submissions must be received in the H.O.W. offices by November 1st, 2011.

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