Want a chance to win $200 and a shot at glory? Consider entering The Coffin Factory’s “Very Short Story Contest.” The deadline is August 15th.
Very Short Story Contest
Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Once a decade, Granta publishes a special “Best of Young American Novelists” issue featuring work from American fiction writers under the age of forty. The latest list includes Millions staffer and City on Fire author Garth Risk Hallberg, as well as Lauren Groff, Yaa Gyasi, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Claire Vaye Watkins, to name just a few. The issue will hit shelves on May 4th.
“And this dancing took many deaths.”
“We envision a library full of blood,” reads the “About” section of the Black Cake Records website. “We want the very best blood, & we want it everywhere.” Intrigued? You should be. The project, begun in 2013, serves as “a forum for producing & disseminating audio archives of contemporary poets reading their work.” For an introduction, you can start with “Trench Mouth” by Danniel Schoonebeek, whose debut collection, American Barricade, was published last month by YesYes Books.
Smith Wins Bailey’s
Ali Smith's How to Be Both has won the Bailey's Prize for women's fiction, placing her in the same ranks as Zadie Smith and Lionel Shriver. If you're not too familiar with Smith's work, Jonathan Russell Clark wrote about her for The Millions last year.
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Interview with Gary Shteyngart
The Rumpus posts an amusing interview with Super Sad True Love Story author Gary Shteyngart: "You have a twenty-five-inch TV and eight million books. What are you, an idiot?"
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No Longer Science Fiction
"Set in the 2020s and 2030s in a collapsing and crashed America, the Parables books have always seemed incredibly and disturbingly prescient—and in the wake of November 8, 2016 they now seem downright spooky, the actual and accurate history of the future." How Octavia Butler predicted the present. See also: our consideration of Butler's novel Kindred.
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I have to say I think this is a bad, bad deal.
You have to pay $10 to enter. If you win, you get $200. Runners-up get the “glory” of publication and a copy of the magazine.
They are fundraising on the hopes of unknown authors, so that they can publish work by people like Joyce Carol Oats and Milan Kundera. In my opinion, this is the WORST way to raise money for a publication.
No wonder comments are closed on their posting.
Sounds like somebody is pissed off because their writing sucks and they can’t get into a good magazine
Contests are usually $20 or $25 to enter, so $10 sounds like a good deal to me.