Winner in each genre receives $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue, Juked #5.

Final Judges: Frederick Barthelme (fiction) and Julia Johnson (poetry)
Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2007
Entry Fee: $10

Fiction: one story per entry, no length requirement

Poetry: up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry

Complete guidelines attached, and at: www.juked.com/prize/

About our judges:
Frederick Barthelme is author of fourteen books, including Moon Deluxe, Second Marriage, Tracer, Two Against One, Natural Selection, The Brothers, Painted Desert, and Bob the Gambler. He is an occasional contributor to The New Yorker and has published in GQ, Kansas Quarterly, Epoch, Playboy, Esquire, TriQuarterly, North American Review, Frank, and elsewhere. His memoir, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, released in November 1999, was co-authored with his brother Steven. A retrospective collection of stories, The Law of Averages, was published by Counterpoint in November 2000 and released in paperback in August 2001. His novel, Elroy Nights, was published in October 2003 by Counterpoint, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was one of five finalists for the 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award.

Julia Johnson, a native of New Orleans, was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she took her M.F.A. in 1995. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Third Coast, Poetry International, 64, and New Orleans Review. Her first book of poems, Naming the Afternoon, was published by the Louisiana State University Press in 2002. She has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize three times and is the winner of the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ 2003 New Writing Award. She has taught as an assistant professor at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and elsewhere.