2011ContestResults

 
 2011 Mighty River Short Story Contest Winner and Finalists

     Winner: Scott Kauffman, California "Cat Dance"

Finalists: Tony Burnett, Texas "Coyote"
         Dana Chamblee Carpenter, Tennessee  "Of Lullabies and Lightning Storms"
                      Tony Killinger, Texas  "Any Friend of Jake's"
              E.B. Sanders, New York "Peaches & The Jiggers"
              



2012 Mighty River Short Story Contest


Now Accepting Submissions

Deadline: October 1, 2012

 
   

 

 

About the contest:

 

We're searching for the best short story of any theme.


Semi-finalists will be chosen by a regional team of published writers. The final manuscript will be chosen by Susan Swartwout, publisher of Southeast Missouri State University Press.

 

Winner receives an award of $500 and publication in Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley.

 

Winner will be announced January, 2013.

 

  Visit the Big Muddy homepage

 

 

 

Guidelines:

 

•  Work must not be previously published.

 

•  Send maximum of 30 double-spaced pages, with no identifying name on the pages, and a separate cover sheet with story title, author's name, address, and phone number.

   

•  No e-submissions are accepted.

 

•  Send SASE for notification of results; all manuscripts will be recycled.

 

•  $15 reading fee includes a copy of the issue of Big Muddy in which the winning story appears.

 

 

Mail manuscripts to:

 

MRSS Contest
Southeast Missouri State University Press
One University Plaza, MS 2650
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701