January 2, 2018

LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction is now closed

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LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction is now closed.  Winners and finalists will be announced on March 31, 2018.

Below are the guidelines.

First Prize: $3,500, publication in LitMag, and agency review 
Second Prize: $1,000 and agency review

Finalists: Five finalists will receive $100 each.

Agency review by Sobel Weber Associates (clients include: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Richard Russo, Laura Lee Smith)

All finalists will be considered for possible agency review.

All entries will be considered for publication.

Deadline extended to January 2, 2018.

Contest Fee: $20.

Submission Guidelines: Entries must be short stories between 3,000 and 8,000 words. Please use 12pt type, preferably Times New Roman, and submit your short story as either a Word doc or a PDF. Only previously unpublished short stories are eligible. Writers may submit multiple stories, each of which requires a separate submission. Submissions through Submittable only.

Notification: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. The winning short stories and finalists will be announced publicly on our Web site and social media as well as by email to all contestants in March of 2018.

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