THIRD ANNUAL LITERARY CONTEST:

We’re pleased to announce that Jennifer Haigh (best-selling author of Faith, and three other novels, and a PEN/Hemingway award-winner) will be the judge for our $1,000 fiction/nonfiction prize.  (This award could possibly, but not probably, be divided in half for fiction and nonfiction.)

And we also announce our new annual Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry for $500.  (Stephen Dunn is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of  Different Hours and fifteen other collections of poetry and prose.   W.W. Norton recently published Here and Now.)

Winners and finalists will be published in our Summer Awards Issue due out in early August, and they will be cited in future advertisements.

DEADLINE: April 5, 2012.
CONTEST FEE: $15.00/entry

2010  judges:  Andre Dubus III (fiction) ,  Terrance Hayes (poetry)

2011 judges:  David Huddle (fiction) , A. Van Jordan (poetry)

CONTEST GUIDELINES:
1. Cover sheet required with name, address, telephone number and email. Email and/or phone MUST be included to be considered. Please include cover sheet in the same file as the actual submission. Do not put your name on the manuscript itself. Final judges will be choosing on the basis of the quality of your work.
2. 12-point font. Microsoft Word attachment. Online submissions only for our online journal.
3. Each entry: Fiction: 22-page maximum, double-spaced. Poetry: 3-poem maximum.
4. You may submit more than once but must pay a separate fee for each entry.
5. You may submit simultaneously elsewhere, but please email us immediately if accepted at another journal.
6. We will not accept a work published elsewhere. Solstice has first publication rights, but copyright reverts to you upon publication. We will publish the piece after the Summer Awards Issue in our Archives.
7. We will announce the winners online approximately 4-5 weeks after the contest deadline.
8. After announcing the winners, all contest submissions will be automatically considered for standard publication unless you indicate otherwise.
9. The $15.00 entry fee must be paid through the secure service, PayPal. See instructions below.

And welcome to Solstice, a diverse magazine, devoted to reaching out to all aspects of our society. We look forward to reading your work.
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