Ruminate Magazine is now accepting entries for its annual Short-Fiction Contest.

A prize of $1000 will be awarded to the winner and publication in the Spring 2011 Issue will be awarded to the winning story and runner-up story.

Guidelines:

–The submission extended deadline for the prize is midnight October 31th, 2010.
-The entry fee is $15 (includes a free copy of the Spring 2011 Issue).
-You may submit one short story per entry and it must be 7000 words or less.
-$1000 will be awarded to the winner and publication in the Spring 2011 Issue will be awarded to the winning story and runner-up story.     
-A blind reading of all entries will be conducted by a panel of RUMINATE readers, who will select 8 short stories as finalists.

-Close friends and students (current & former) of the judge Leif Enger, author of Peace Like a River, are not eligible to compete. Nor are close friends or family of the RUMINATE staff.
-All submissions must be submitted via our online submission form below. We will not accept mail or email submissions. We do not accept previously published entries.
-You may pay online below or mail your payment.
-Winners will be announced in the Spring Issue, March 2011.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ruminatemagazine.org/contests/short-story.html.

Founded in 2006, Ruminate is a quarterly magazine of short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art that resonate with the complexity and truth of the Christian faith. Each issue is a themed forum for literature and art that speaks to the existence of our daily lives while nudging us toward a greater hope. Because of this, we strive to publish quality work accounting for the grappling pleas, as well as the quiet assurances of an authentic faith. Ruminate Magazine was created for every person who has paused over a good word, a real story, a perfect brushstroke— longing for the significance they point us toward.