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.
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As of our Summer 2020 edition, we will now pay a small stipend (wish we could pay more) for accepted work.
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:
