2006 One Page Short Story Prize

Opens: 1 December 2005
Closing date: 4 March 2006 (Now extended. New closing date 31 March 2006)
Judge - Angela Jane Fountas

A First Prize of €1,000 to the winner plus publication in the 2006 Fish Anthology. Nine runners up will also be selected to appear in the Anthology and will each receive an award of €100 plus five complimentary copies of the Anthology.

All winning authors will be invited to the launch of the 2006 Fish Short Story Prize Anthology. This will take place during the West Cork Literary Festival at Bantry House in July 2006.

The Rules

No entry form is needed.
The title is not included in the word count - within reason!, i.e. 10-word title max.
The Prize is open to writers of any nationality writing in English.
There is no restriction on theme or style.
Maximum 250 words.
The winning stories must be available for the Anthology and, therefore, must not have been published previously.
Copyright remains with the author.
Notification of receipt of entry will normally be by email.
The judges' verdict is final.
No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted.
Stories cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered.

Entry Fees

The cost of an On-line entry is fixed in Euro and the conversion into your local currency will be done automatically by your credit card company according to the current exchange rate. The cost of Postal entry will be at a fixed rate in Euro, Pounds Sterling and US Dollars.

On-Line Entries

On-line entries will only be accepted if entered through our website. Please do not send stories as email attachments.

PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THE STORY. YOUR STORY IS AUTOMATICALLY LINKED TO YOUR NAME.

Enter on line

On-Line Entry €
Per Entry 12.00
Critique (Optional) 25.00
2006 Short Story Anthology (Optional)
(Inc. p. & p.) 10.00

Postal Entries

Stories entered by post must be submitted with a minimum 12pt font, 1.5 spacing and printed on one side of the paper only. PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THE STORY. INCLUDE ALL CONTACT DETAILS ON A SEPARATE SHEET. Include an email where possible. Stories will not be returned unless they are being critiqued.

Include a cheque, made payable to Fish Publishing, in your local currency to cover the cost of all your requirements. We also accept postal orders from Ireland and the UK. Stories will not be returned unless they are being critiqued.

Postal Entry € £ US$
Per Entry 12.00 10.00 15.00
Critique (Optional) 25.00 18.00 38.00
2006 Short Story Anthology(Optional)
(inc p. & p.) 10.00 10.00 15.00

Postal entries should be sent to:

Fish Publishing,
Durrus,
Bantry,
Co. Cork,
Ireland.

(There is no postal or ZIP code). If receipt of entry, notification of results, or response to any other enquiry is required other than by email, then send a Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope if posting from within Ireland, or International Reply Coupons if writing from any other country.

Judge Biog

Angela Jane Fountas writes, teaches, and runs Write Habit in Seattle. Her work has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Diagram, Faultline, Monkeybicycle, Pindeldyboz and Syntax, among others. Her story "Lydia" was nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize. Angela is a 2006 Jack Straw Writers Program Participant. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama and has been teaching since 1997. She is working on a short story collection and is the editor of the anthology Waking Up American (Seal Press, 2005).

Source:
http://www.fishpublishing.com/2006-one-page-story-prize.php