Fiction – Manuscripts can be a short story, flash fiction, or excerpt from a longer fiction work. Maximum 8,000 words. Judged by
Lucas Schaefer.Creative Nonfiction – Manuscripts can be personal essay or memoir. Maximum 8,000 words. Judged by
Jaquira Díaz.
Poetry – One poem per entry. Judged by
Caki Wilkinson.
Lucas Schaefer's debut novel,
THE SLIP,
is a national bestseller and the winner of the 2025
Kirkus Prize for fiction, one of the
Washington Post’s 10 Best Books of 2025, and one of the
New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2025. Lucas’s work has appeared in
One Story,
The Baffler, and other publications. He lives with his family in Austin.
Caki Wilkinson is the author of three poetry collections, most recently
The Survival Expo (Persea Books, 2021).
Her poems have appeared in
The Atlantic,
Kenyon Review,
The Nation,
The New Yorker, and other magazines. She lives in Memphis. Caki Wilkinson is the author of the poetry collections
Circles Where the Head Should Be (UNT Press, 2011),
The Wynona Stone Poems (Persea Books, 2015), and
The Survival Expo (Persea Books, 2021). A graduate of Rhodes College, she earned an MFA at Johns Hopkins University and a PhD at the University of Cincinnati. Recent poems have appeared in
The New Yorker,
The Nation, and
Kenyon Review.
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