$1,000 Contest Option

Fiction * Creative Non-Fiction * Poetry * Drama

Deadline: May 1, 2011

Mason’s Road, sponsored by Fairfield University’s MFA in Creative Writing program, is now accepting submissions for Issue #3, to be published in July 2011. Dedicated to the writing craft, each issue of Mason’s Road focuses on a particular craft theme; the theme for Issue #3 is “arc.”

For submission instructions, go to: http://masonsroad.com/submissions
For more on the theme, go to: http://www.masonsroad.com/about-2/submission-guidelines/

— Contest Details —

All submissions to Mason’s Road will be considered for publication, but only those entered for the contest will be considered for the $1,000 Writing Contest Prize.

Judge: Sarah Manguso, author of “The Two Kinds of Decay” (2008), “Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape” (2007), “Siste Viator” (2006) and “The Captain Lands in Paradise” (2002). More at http://sarahmanguso.com

Reading Fee: $15

Deadline: May 1, 2011

Theme: “Arc – the rise and fall of dramatic tension, whether subtle or steep, upward or downward, singular or recurrent, that draws the reader in (and keeps him or her there).”

The Editors, Mason’s Road
http://masonsroad.com