THE GERTRUDE STEIN AWARD IN FICTION
2013 Contest Judge | Rick Moody
Rick Moody is the author of the novels Garden State, which won the Pushcart Press Editors’ Book Award, The Ice Storm, Purple America, and The Diviners; two collections of stories, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven and Demonology; a memoir, The Black Veil, winner of the PEN/ Martha Albrand Award, and The Four Fingers of Death. He has received the Addison Metcalf Award, the Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Awards: $1000 and publication in Eckleburg to first place winner; publication to second and third place winners; listing of titles and names for honorable mentions.
Word Count: No more than 5000 words
Submissions: ONLINE
Deadline: January 1, 2013, Midnight
Entry Fee: $10
Eligibility
All stories in English no more than 5,000 words are eligible. No minimum word count. Stories published previously in print or online venues are eligible if published after January 1, 2011. Stories can be submitted by authors, editors, publishers, and agents. Simultaneous and multiple submissions allowed. Each individual story must be submitted separately, with separate payment regardless of word count. Eckleburg editors, staff, interns and students of The Johns Hopkins University are not eligible for entry.
Manuscript
Stories must be submitted online and in manuscript form (please don’t upload entire anthologies or collections), double-spaced, Times New Roman, one-inch margins. Must be in English. Experimental to mainstream with punch aesthetics welcome. Multimedia (visual that includes text) welcome. No film or audio.
Publication
Award-winning manuscripts will be published by The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. Finalists and Honorable Mentions will be listed with titles and author names. By submitting, submitters verify copyright holding and give Eckleburg rights to publish, republish and use the winning works in promotional efforts and anthology printing both print and online.
Submission
No application forms are necessary. Announcement of the winners will be made April 2013. Submit ONLINE.