The Southeast Review
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General 2012 Contest Guidelines for The Southeast Review's Writing Contests
THIS JUST IN: Our postmark and online submission deadline has been extended to Thursday, MARCH 22nd, 2012! We welcome contest submissions for a $16 entry fee via this site or U.S. Post. Visit us at www.southeastreview.org for more information about mailed submissions.
Friends and current or former students of the judge and those who have been affiliated with Florida State University within the last five years are ineligible.
Winners will be announced on the website by June 2012. All contestants will receive the issue in which the winning submissions appear.
About Our Judges
World's Best Short-Short Story Contest (WBSSSC):
Robert Olen Butler has published twelve novels and six volumes of short fiction, including two collections of short short stories. His newest book is the novel A Small Hotel. In 1993 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He is the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor holding the Michael Shaara Chair in Creative Writing at Florida State University.
The Southeast Review Gearhart Poetry Contest:
James Kimbrell is the author of two volumes of poems, The Gatehouse Heaven (Sarabande, 1998) and My Psychic (Sarabande, 2006). He has been the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a “Discovery” / The Nation Award, Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Recently, he served as the Renee and John Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He lives in Tallahassee where he teaches in the creative writing program at Florida State University.
The Southeast Review Narrative Nonfiction Contest:
Jennine Capó Crucet is a Miami-born Cuban writer. Her debut story collection, How to Leave Hialeah, won the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize, the 2010 John Gardner Book Award, the 2010 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, and was named a Best Book of the Year by the Miami Herald, the Miami New Times, and the Latinidad List. The title story from the collection won a PEN/O. Henry Prize and appears in the 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Anthology. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Florida State University. Jennine is the recipient of the John Winthrop Prize & Residency for Emerging Writers, scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and her work has been a finalist for both the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize and the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Epoch, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and other magazines. Her book reviews appear in the L Magazine, a New York City bi-weekly.
You can read the winners and finalists from our 2011 contests, listed on our website, in our spring issue, Volume 30.1, set to arrive in January 2012.
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