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The Letter Review Prize is an internationally celebrated event, offered every three months in the categories of Short Fiction, Poetry, and Books. We publish our winners, maintain shortlists, submit to The Pushcart, and award over $16,000 USD annually to writers, meaning our prize is among the highest paying literary prizes administered by a literary journal in the world.
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Writers’ Insight: Interviews
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Ashley Williamson, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry
How has your writing process changed over time? In July of 2024, I had a mountain biking accident that left me with a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), which sounds a lot cooler than it actually was. (Note to everyone: the front and back brake levers on a bicycle are reversed in the US and…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with E. Doyle-Gillespie, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry
Would you please tell us a little about your writing process? I write in a journal, daily. I jot down bits and pieces, words and impressions. I take those pieces to my basement office at 4:30 on a few mornings out of the week. With a candle as my only light, I write and write…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Casey Shapack, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction
Would you please tell us a little about your writing process? I usually start with an image or a phrase. Sometimes I get ideas from a dream that really stuck with me. Then I try to write my first draft as quickly as I can. If I start going back to re-read and edit too…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Audrey Andrade, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry
Would you please tell us a little about your writing process? For my writing process, I just open up my blank document and let it rip! Sometimes we put so much pressure on ourselves to write the next best thing, but when I write enough to get past the gunk in my brain, I find…
Community Comments
I just wanted to thank The Letter Review Prize for short listing my unpublished book Unimaginable Hardship. The recognition contributed to having my chapbook Hidden, A sequence of poems addressing the war in Ukraine, recently published by Bottlecap Press. Thank you!
J. A. (John) deSouza (Shortlist of The Prize for Books)
Thank you so much for your positive and thorough notes. After implementing some easy changes and taking wonderful advice where needed, my novel will be published in May, 2024. I will keep The Letter Review posted with the book’s progress. Thank you again for all you do for writers! Update: Feral Maril & Her Little Brother Carol just won a Literary Titan Award, and placed as Finalist in the Chanticleer International Book Awards as well as the Santa Fe Literary Competition! You can purchase it here: https://www.amazon.com/Feral-Maril-Little-Brother-Carol-ebook/dp/B0CZJ8DP4F?ref
Leslie Manning (Longlist of The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books & Feedback Recipient)
The Letter Review emerges as a hallowed space where words bleed, mend, and soar. Within its pages, we find not just tales, but the delicate pulse of memories, interwoven with the age-old craft of storytelling and vulnerability. To have my voice cradled in such a sacred place is a serenade to the moonlit hours where prose meets poetry. A profound honor.
Frederick Joseph: two-time New York Times bestselling author, activist, philanthropist, and poet (First Place in Letter Review Prize for Poetry)