Category: Awards & Contests

Eckleburg is pleased to announce the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction winners and finalists. Thank you to all who submitted. It is always a difficult task choosing among such talented voices and storytelling.  Gertrude Stein Award: First Place "Frittura" by Judith Goode Second Place "Little Sister" by Jarrett Kaufman Third ... Read More

I've always been interested in books and music, although coming from a working class background, I didn't call it art. I was brought up to believe that artists handled paint brushes. I’m a lyricist and co-write songs with my brother Paul: www.paulmclindenmusic.com —Andrew McLinden Who would you arm wrestle, if you ... Read More

Bird Marathe was last year's third-place recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction.  Submissions to this year's contest are due midnight, New Years Eve. Submit here! Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself (Other than being a writer, what else?)Bird Marathe: Once I tried to clean a shadow off ... Read More

Jill Birdsall was last year's first-place recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction.  Submissions to this year's contest are due midnight, New Years Eve. Submit here! Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself.  Jill Birdsall: I live in a house built from salvaged materials where unlike the narrator ... Read More

PEN/Faulkner is a nonprofit literary organization that believes in deepening readers’ connection to writing through public events, in-school education, and public promotion of exceptional literary achievement ... Read More

Sally Reno | Summer 2011 Prosetry Contest Winner | I have stories to tell, he says, his diamond eye sparkling in the bright sun ... Read More

Summer 2011 Prosetry Contest Winner I have stories to tell, he says, his diamond eye sparkling in the bright sun. I can hardly believe I would get in a car with a man like that man. Blasting along, wind whipping hair, he’s saying words as fast as he can spit ... Read More

Spring 2011 Prosetry Winner These are the tiny wanderings that core the heart in spectacular revelations and inspirations and allusions, and all of it getting up, standing up, leaping up and wanting more than anything to staunch the disjuncts and disparities between the things that our hands can hold and ... Read More

Up on the mountain, we hang out in abandoned buildings, places where stories fill the holes in the walls.  The old teepee was on the bottom of that ridge, before lightning struck.  Now all that’s left is the charred platform.  Harry’s cabin is up the road, but he sometimes returns, ... Read More

She has quick hands. She hangs from the ceiling, holstered, her back supported. The razor is a hair too close, starts at the skin of the belly and shears it smooth. My feet are over my head. I am making it easy while imagining what her life must be, the ... Read More

Turn by Leon Geist Wake. Rotate hand then arm. Stop. Reach for side table with stretched fingertips, touch the gold metal lamp base and turn on the light bulb that flickers, lights, flickers. Bad bulb, or maybe it’s not bad at all. It only behaves badly. Leon Geist lives in ... Read More