Competition Deadline: Plough Short Fiction Contest
September 1
From the competition website:
Plough is thrilled to announce its inaugural annual short fiction contest, open to writers anywhere in the world.
The winning writer will receive a two thousand dollar award and the winning story will be published in Plough. In addition, up to three finalists will receive two hundred and fifty dollars as well as publication in Plough (print and/or online).
Plough is seeking short fiction that honors the mysterious nature of reality and finds transcendence and redemption in unexpected places. We are interested in the skillful use of fictional elements like magical realism and a traditional “tale” voice, but the contest is not limited to stories with these elements. Here are some authors we see as exemplary: Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Susanna Clarke, Toni Morrison, Isak Dinesen, Eugene Vodolazkin, Tim Powers, Karen Russell, and James McBride.
Judging will be blind. Plough editors will select ten to fifteen stories for further consideration, and then the editors will reach a consensus on the winner and finalists.
Enter here.