$200 + 20 copies and standard publishing contract

http://www.spirepress.org/contest.html

This contest is new and offered for the first time. We are looking for a memoir, long short story, a small collection of flash fiction, or other innovative prose for a prose chapbook.

The Prose chapbook, if a collection, should have an original theme binding the pieces together.

Please send manuscripts of 18-28 pages, double-spaced, and a $10 entry fee.

Include your name only on a cover sheet and not on the manuscript. Include the title of the entire collection on the cover sheet and each page of the manuscript.

Deadline is September 30th, 2008.

The editors reserve the right to return all manuscripts and fees if we do not find a manuscript we fall in love with.

This contest will be judged blindly.

Spire Press, Inc.
532 LaGuardia Place, Suite 298,
New York, NY 10012

tel: 646.736.7701

email: info@spirepress.org