2012 COLUMBIA: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND ART

WRITING CONTEST NOW OPEN

$500 prizes in each genre: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Plus publication in our landmark 50th issue.

[JUDGES]
Fiction:
Dinaw Mengestu
How to Read the Air
The New Yorker “20 Under 40” 2010

Nonfiction:
Anne Fadiman
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
National Book Critics Circle Award 1997

Poetry:
Eileen Myles
Inferno: a poet’s novel
Lambda Literary Award 2010

Runners-up will be considered for publication on our website.

Guidelines:
Poetry: up to five poems
Fiction and Nonfiction: up to 15 double-spaced pages
Simultaneous submissions are fine; please write us if your piece is accepted elsewhere.

Deadline: February 1, 2012.
Entry fee is $14 and includes a copy of Journal 50.

Submit your work via our —> submission manager.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT PAYMENT:
After your file is uploaded, you will be automatically directed to our payment portal, which will allow you to buy a virtual “ticket” to the contest ($13 plus 75¢ processing fee). This will look like a ticket to a literary event, but never fear, it is merely our way of processing contest fees.

Your submission will not be read by our judges if you do not pay the contest fee, so if you have any trouble, please contact us right away at Publisher.Columbia@gmail.com.

Visit the website: https://columbiajournal.org/