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what to send:
Complete MS
looking for:
Short Story
specifically:
Literary
About This Market
First place winners will be published in the Bellingham Review. Second and third place winners and finalists may be considered for publication.
Entry Fees: $18 for the first entry (one short story). Each additional entry is $10. Please make checks payable to: The Bellingham Review. Everyone entering the competition will receive a complimentary two-issue subscription to Bellingham Review.
Submissions must be postmarked between December 1, 2009, and March 15, 2010.
For each entry, submit the following: - 3" x 5" index card stating the title of the work, the category (fiction), the author's name, phone number, address and email. Please make sure the writing is legible on this card. The author's name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript; the index card will serve as the only record of your entry. - A check made out to The Bellingham Review. - A self-addressed stamped envelope for announcement of winners. The author's name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript.
Maximum length: Prose up to 8,000 words. Novel excerpts up to 8,000 words are accepted.
No previously published works, or works accepted for publication, are eligible. Work may be under consideration elsewhere, but must be withdrawn from the competition if accepted for publication. Current students, faculty, or staff of WWU are not eligible to enter the contest.
