Step right up! We want to see mysteries, anomalies, and clashing energies. Bring your giant rats, conjoined twins, Fiji mermaids, and bearded ladies. We invite any writing that complicates issues of performance and identity. Real and unreal. Exposed and concealed.

Submit: March 5th – May 31st

Fee: $15 per entry

Prize: $1000 + publication in Midway Journal for a winning poem (or group of poems), story, or essay.

Judges: Ana Božičević and Amy King

Contest Guidelines:

Entries and payments must be received through Midway Journal‘s online submission manager under “Monstrosities of the Midway Contest.”

Paste the title of your submission and your contact information (name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address) in the cover letter box. Your name and contact information must not appear anywhere on the manuscript you upload. Friends and students (current and former) of the judges are not eligible; please do not submit if you know the judges personally.

You may submit multiple entries, but a new entry fee must be paid for each new submission. Previously published work will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but must be withdrawn from the contest if accepted elsewhere.

Poetry: up to 5 poems per entry. Not more than one poem per page. Maximum of 20 pages per entry.

Prose (Fiction and Nonfiction): 1 piece per entry, up to 6,000 words.

All submissions will be considered for publication.

For more information, please visit http://www.midwayjournal.com/Contest.html