Announcing the Les Figues Press NOS* Book Contest
(*NOS = not otherwise specified)

Deadline: September 9, 2011
Judge: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Prize: $1,000 plus publication

Les Figues is accepting submissions for our first annual NOS Book Contest.  Les Figues publishes highly innovative work that often falls between clearly delineated genre-lines.  Eligible submissions include: poetry, novellas, prose poems, innovative novels, anti-novels, short story collections, lyric essays, hybrids, and all forms not otherwise specified. For more information about Les Figues, see: http://www.lesfigues.com.

Guidelines: Submit a manuscript of 64-250 pages with a $25.00 entry fee by September 9th, 2011. Electronic submissions only. All entrants will receive one copy of a Les Figues TrenchArt Series <http://www.lesfigues.com/lfp/265/trenchart-titles>  title of their choice.

The winning manuscript will be announced in December 2011, with a fall 2012 publication date.

*Manuscripts by current and past students of Sarah Shun-lien Bynum will not be considered.

SUBMISSION LINK: http://lesfiguespress.submishmash.com/submit