The Nassau Review Writer Awards
Sponsored by The Nassau Community College Foundation
The winners of the May 2011 Writer Awards are
Katie Manning for her poem, “Sleeping Beauty’s Mother,” and
Liz Dolan for her creative non-fiction piece, "What's Like What."
These pieces will appear in our upcoming issue of The Nassau Review.
Submission Information for the Writer Awards
Submission Dates: Feb. 1 to Feb. 20, 2012
- $250 prize for flash fiction
- $250 prize for prose poetry
- Plus publication in the next issue of The Nassau Review
- Writers may submit ONE [flash fiction piece] of 100-500 words
OR THREE prose poems no longer than one page each - If you have already submitted during the open submission period, you may submit to the contest, but please do not submit the same piece.
- No entrance fee
- All pieces will also be considered for publication. While not all pieces will win, some may still be published.
- Electronic submissions only through our Submishmash system at the bottom of this page. Use the CONTEST category. Hard copy submissions will be recycled without review.
Include a cover letter in the Cover Letter/Bio box that includes:
- How you heard about The Nassau Review
- Title(s) of work(s) you are submitting. Include word count if prose.
- Bio of 100 words max.
- Links to your blogs or websites
Creative Prose:
- Send one flash fiction piece from 100 to 3000 words, double space Doc or docx—file name Last NameTitleofStory
Poetry:
- Send three prose poems of no more than one page each, single space Doc or docx—file name LastNamePoems; please use one file for all three poems with page breaks between each.
Members of the Nassau Community College community are not eligible to win these awards. Members of the NCC community include past and current staff, faculty, and administrators as well as current students. Alumni students are eligible. If you have questions about eligibility, email nassaureview@ncc.edu with the email subject line: Contest Eligibility Query
Note: Editors may respond with a conditional acceptance, delineating minor edits that need to be made before publication. As the author, you reserve the right to withdraw your work should you not accept the constructive feedback.
Note: Creative does not mean messy. Please follow the rules of Standard English. Pieces filled with grammatical errors that are not part of the theme or purpose will not be accepted.
Publication Rights: By submitting your work, you agree to have your work published in one issue of The Nassau Review as well as possibly on our website. You grant us first North American serial rights and the right to archive your work online for an indefinite period of time. You retain all other rights, which means you can republish the work in other journals (after one year from the date of publication in our journal), and you can republish it in or as your own book. Any subsequent publication of accepted work should note that you were first published in The Nassau Review.
You are also welcome to create a link to us from your personal website.
If you have any other questions regarding submissions or the journal in general, please email: nassaureview@ncc.edu with the email subject line: Question About The Nassau Review
We reply within three months after the deadline. If you do not hear from us after three months after the deadline, you may and should query after your submission.
Email Subject line: Query About CONTEST Submission
Failure to follow the guidelines will result in your submission not being read and you will not receive a response.
