The Letter Review Prize (September – October)
Is Now Open
The Prize is awarded every two months in the categories of Short Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Unpublished Books, and Art. We offer a yearly Prize pool of $30,000 USD, and publication for our winners.
The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction
Letter Review is offering $1000 USD Prize pool in a competition for short fiction up to 5000 words. No genre or theme restrictions: all stories welcome. Open to writers who live anywhere in the world. Three Winners are announced who are published and share in the Prize money. Twenty writers are longlisted. All entries are considered for publication, submission to the Pushcart Prize, and for further anthologies. The Prize is judged blind to ensure fairness. See our Previous Winners Page here, and our Comments / Testimonials Page here. Enter via Submittable using the button below.
The Letter Review Prize for Poetry
Letter Review is offering $1000 USD total Prize pool in a competition for poems of not more than 70 lines. No subject or style restrictions: all poems welcome. Open to writers who live anywhere in the world. Three Winners are announced who are published and share in the Prize money. Twenty poets will be Longlisted. All entries are considered for publication, submission to the Pushcart Prize, and for further anthologies. The Prize is judged blind to ensure fairness. See our Previous Winners Page here, and our Comments / Testimonials Page here. Enter via Submittable using the button below.
The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction
Letter Review is offering $1000 USD total Prize pool in a competition for nonfiction up to 5000 words in length. The Prize is open to writers who live anywhere in the world. Three Winners are announced who are published and share in the Prize money. Twenty writers will be Longlisted. All entries are considered for publication, submission to the Pushcart Prize, and for further anthologies. The Prize is judged blind to ensure fairness. See our Previous Winners Page here, and our Comments / Testimonials Page here. Enter via Submittable using the button below.
The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books
Letter Review is offering $1000 USD total Prize pool in a competition for unpublished books including Novels, Novellas, Short Story Collections, Poetry Collections, and Nonfiction Books. Open to writers who live anywhere in the world. Three Winners are announced who share in the Prize money. Twenty entrants will be Longlisted. The Prize is judged blind to ensure fairness. See our Previous Winners Page here, and our Comments / Testimonials Page here. Enter via Submittable using the button below.
The Letter Review Prize for Art
Letter Review is offering $1000 USD total Prize pool in a competition for Art. We’re interested in most varieties, especially anything that is crying out for a home in a literary journal: cartoons (political, comedy, or otherwise), drawings / paintings, digital art, photography (including of sculptures + site-specific art etc.), mixed media, graphic novels. Open to artists who live anywhere in the world. Three Winners are announced who share in the Prize money. Twenty entrants will be Longlisted. The Prize is judged blind to ensure fairness. See our Comments / Testimonials Page here.
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Letter Review offers a wealth of information along the full spectrum of writing, from craft to the publication business, while providing a showcase for new fiction and poetry from dedicated authors. I feel very privileged to be a part of it.”
— Laura Carnes Williams (First Place in Letter Review Prize for Short Stories)