Submit a single work of creative nonfiction, with a maximum length of 600 words.

The subject should be a story about love—the presence, absence, complications, hesitations, headlong rush into.  The best essays will focus on a specific event or experience and explore its larger implications and meanings.  Winners will receive publication on the back page of Iris and a two-year subscription.

Due Date: November 11th.

Entry Fee:  $10.

Enquiries:  ls7bf@virginia.edu or rsl4h@virginia.edu.

Check our website, iris.virginia.edu, for full contest details.