ANNOUNCING Hypertext Review’s 2nd ANNUAL SHORT STORY & ESSAY CONTEST
*Hypertext Review is our print journal.
OPEN 10/25/2019—3/18/2020
Fiction & Essay Submission Guidelines
We’re looking for innovative, imaginative, and well-crafted work in all genres and styles. We like short stories, novel excerpts, and essays that weigh in around 3,000-5000 words. That said, we’re open to flash and (very infrequently) longer work, too.
Please read our online and print publications. Consider buying Hypertext Review. Your purchase will not only give you an idea of what kinds of stories we publish but it truly helps us keep our doors open. You can purchase Hypertext Review from your local indie bookstore. Find a local bookseller HERE.
As of our Summer 2020 edition, we will now pay a small stipend (wish we could pay more) for accepted work.
Please note: First-place contest winners—for our Fiction & Essay Contest—will receive $100 cash prize total.
For all other accepted submissions:
Short Stories & Essays: $40 total
Flash Fiction: 10 pages or less (12-pt. type, one-inch margins): $30 total
Poetry: $15 per poem (up to 2 poems) up to $30 total
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Include a brief cover letter (with a publishable bio), email/contact information, and word count on the first page of the manuscript.
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DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME ON THE SUBMISSION. THESE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE READ BLIND.
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SUBMISSION FEE $10.00: We didn’t charge submission fees for 10 years but, because of the rising costs of online security, hosting, and a myriad of other factors too numerous to list, we need to change our tune. Your submission fee helps us keep our nonprofit doors open.
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PLEASE NOTE: Add-on items will only be shipped in the United States. We do not ship abroad.
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The finalists in our 2nd Annual Writing Contest will be published in the Summer 2020 edition of HYPERTEXT REVIEW.
2020 GUEST JUDGES
FICTION: Sahar Mustafah
Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, a richly complex inheritance she explores in her fiction. Her short stories have been awarded the Guild Literary Complex Prize for fiction, a Distinguished Story honor from Best American Short Stories, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and a Best of the Net nomination, among other honors. Her novel, The Beauty of Your Face, will be published by W.W. Norton & Company, April 2020.
ESSAY: Patricia Ann McNair
Patricia Ann McNair writes fiction and nonfiction. The Temple of Air, stories, won Southern Illinois University Devil’s Kitchen Readers Award, Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, and was a finalist for Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award. And These Are The Good Times essays, was a Montaigne Medal finalist. McNair’s work has been published widely, including in Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Good Men Project, Superstition Review, Solstice Lit Mag, Hypertext and other journals and magazines. She is a contributor to The Rumpus, and The Washington Independent Review of Books. She was named to Chicago’s NewCity Lit50 list, and to Guild Complex’s 30 Writers to Watch. Her work has been featured in creative writing textbooks, and she teaches graduate and undergraduate students at Columbia College Chicago where she directs the undergraduate creative writing programs. McNair is artistic director for Mining the Story, a writers’ retreat in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
Here’s a list of the writers we’ve published in Hypertext Review:
Ana Castillo
David Medina
B.L. Makiefsky
Alexis Bowe
Steve Hughes
Miranda Dennis
Jesse Sensibar
Margaret Erhart
Rebecca McClanahan
Shawn Shiflett
Michael Williamson
Meredith Counts
J.A Bernstein
Jamiece Adams
Giano Cromley
Betsy Finesilver Haberl
Jeremy T. Wilwon
Lillie M. Rice
Jackie K. White
Simone Muench
Mike Puican
Fleda Brown
Ana Castillo
billy lombardo
Katey Schultz
Sophie Stein
Emily Roth
Morgan Smith
Martha Stallman
Alison Thompson
Felicia Schneiderhan
Douglas McBride
Bryan Lindsey
Courtney Carliss Young
Christy Stillwell
Tina Jenkins Bell
Kate Gray
Jennifer Steele
Rashaun J. Allen
Pablo Brescia
Bridget Boland
Kristin
Pam Parker
Suzanne Clores
Jessie Ann Foley
Chelsea Laine Wells
Karen Halvorsen Schreck
Juan Martinez
Nancy Ford Dugan
Tara Betts
Nico Amador
Amanda Galvan Huynh
Char Lee Lorraine
Elizabeth Metzger Sampson
Ann-Marie Oomen
Anne Calcagno
Tony Bowers
Ola Faleti
Megan Stielstra
M Lynx Qualey
Bridget Apfeld
Megan Sungyoon
Stella Rae Binion
Ari Wolff
Yvonne B. Robery
Quinn Stifler
Barrie Jean Borich
DeLon Howell
Christine Sneed
Peter Ferry
Yen Ha
Doro Boehme
Gint Aras
Gail Wallace Bozzano
Barnett Kilberg Cohen
Toni Nealie
Scott Atkinson
Kathleen Quigley
Shoshana Akabas
Anya Silver
Natasha Mijares
Nic Custer
Desiree Cooper
Re’Lynn Hansen
Garin Cycholl
Eileen Favorite
Lasher Lane
Tyler Barton
Sahar Mustafah
Richard Hartshorn
Laura Page
Peter Eldritch
Bahiyyih El-Shabbaz
Rick George
Ron Burch
Bud Smith
Alex J. Parton
Donna Miscolta
Amy Dupcak
Ilana Masad
Daniel Lynch
C.K. Flynn
Michael Howard
Cyn Vargas
Ken Rodgers
Brandon Flammang
Peter Kahn
Vann Harris
Michael Seymour Blake
Virginia Bell
Marcia Aldrich
John McNally
Patricia Ann McNair
Brian Alan Ellis
Jan Worth-Nelson
Elle Nash
