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Rules This annual award is given to the
manuscript collection of short fiction selected by an independent judge to
be the best submitted. The winning author will receive publication under a
standard book contract that includes a cash prize of $1,500 as an advance
against royalties. The winner and finalists will be announced
in May.
Eligibility Requirements
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Submissions may include short stories, novellas, or a combination
of both (but a single novella is not an eligible submission).
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The competition is open to all writers in English.
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Previously published stories or novellas may
be included in the manuscript.
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Current students and employees of The Ohio State University
are ineligible.
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Manuscripts must be between 150 and 300 typed pages (approx.
40,000 to 80,000 words).
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Individual stories or novellas in the collection may not exceed 125 pages (approx. 35,000 words).
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No translations unless done entirely by the author.
Submission Format
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Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced, on quality white
8 1/2" x 11" paper, 250–300 words per page, one side only, pages numbered consecutively.
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Crisp photocopies are acceptable.
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Your identity is not revealed to the judges, so
your name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. Instead, please include the following
with your submission:
- a cover sheet with name, street and email address, and
phone numbers
- an acknowledgement page with publication history for
any previously published work
- a title page listing title and approx. word count
- a table of contents page listing only the stories and/or
novellas and page numbers
- Include a self-addressed stamped envelope so we can notify
you of the contest results.
- Include a self-addressed stamped postcard if you wish to
receive confirmation of receipt of your manuscript.
- OSU Press assumes no responsibility for lost or damaged manuscripts.
- Do not send your only copy. Manuscripts will not be returned.
Deadline information
Manuscripts must be postmarked in the month of
January and
be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee of $20 (U.S. dollars). Send check
or money order (no cash) made payable to The Ohio State University.
Mail to Fiction Editor
The Ohio State University Press
180 Pressey Hall
1070 Carmack Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1002
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 2010
Winner
Diane Simmons
Little America
Diane Simmons’ short fiction has been published in numerous journals
including Missouri Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Blood Orange Review,
Drunken Boat, Northwest Review, and Fiction. She is also the
author of two novels, Dreams Like Thunder (which won the Oregon Book
Award for Fiction) and Let the Bastards Freeze in the Dark. She has
also published critical biographies of Jamaica Kincaid and Maxine Hong
Kingston, and a study of popular Imperial British fiction, The Narcissism
of Empire. A native of eastern Oregon, she was a reporter for newspapers
in Idaho, Alaska and Washington before moving to New York where she teaches
writing and literature at the Borough of Manhattan campus of the City
University of New York. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the City
College of New York, and a Ph.D. in English literature from the City
University of New York Graduate Center. She lives in New Jersey with her
husband, the poet Burt Kimmelman. Links to recently published work can be
seen on her blog:
freezeinthedark.blogspot.com.
And congratulations to the runners-up for 2010:
Shane Alan Noecker, “Twin Cities: Love Stories”
Robert Morgan Fisher, “Cabaret Nation”
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