Are you a author with a compelling brief story prepared for the world? The Tusculum Overview Fiction Chapbook Prize gives a $1,500 money award, publication, and a superbly designed chapbook that includes unique artwork.
Deadline: June 15, 2025
What You Win
- $1,500 money prize
- Publication in The Tusculum Overview’s twenty first quantity (2025)
- A restricted version chapbook with unique artwork
Submission Particulars
Issues to notice earlier than Submitting for the Tusculum Fiction Chapbook Prize
- Entry Payment: $20 per story (features a one-year subscription to The Tusculum Overview).
- Worldwide Entries: An extra $15 charge applies for delivery outdoors the U.S.
- Choose: Jaime Cortez, writer of Gordo.
Submission Pointers
- Submit a single brief story (between 2,000–7,000 phrases).
- Commonplace 12-pt font (Occasions, Garamond, and so forth.).
- No figuring out info on the manuscript.
- Unpublished tales solely (simultaneous submissions allowed, however notify if accepted elsewhere).
- Submit through Submittable.
What’s a Chapbook?
A chapbook is a brief, superbly designed e book that includes a single work of literature. Though most chapbooks are poetry collections, The Tusculum Overview publishes prose chapbooks as effectively—one brief story or essay at a time.
Annually, we rotate the competition style. In 2025, we’re searching for a brief story, which will probably be paired with customized paintings and launched at a particular occasion in Greeneville, Tennessee, in November.
Ideas for changing into a extra eloquent author
Meet the Choose: Jaime Cortez
Jaime Cortez is a California-based author and artist whose debut brief story assortment, Gordo (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic, 2021), obtained nationwide acclaim from The New York Occasions, San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR. A nominee for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence and Lambda Literary Award, Cortez’s work has additionally appeared in No Straight Traces (Fantagraphics) and Infinite Cities (UC Berkeley Press). Be taught extra at www.jaimecortez.org.
Eligibility & Guidelines For the Tusculum Overview Fiction Chapbook Prize
- Open worldwide to writers 18+.
- No earlier publication required.
- Previous winners are ineligible, however earlier finalists might enter.
- All entries judged blindly (judges won’t see writer names).
The Tusculum Overview reserves the proper to increase the deadline if crucial.
How one can Submit
Submit your brief story through Submittable.
Deadline: June 15, 2025.
For questions, e mail us at assessment@tusculum.edu.
We sit up for studying your work!
