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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 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 Quinn Theobald, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction
Would you please tell us a little about your writing process? I’ve often heard it said that when writing you should get everything down on the page first and worry about rewriting later, but I actually love to edit as I go, moving words around, striking things out, reordering. I usually work in a notebook…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Sarahmarie Specht-Bird, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction
How do you believe a writer improves? Practice? Mentors? Reading everything? Attending festivals? It’s a pretty basic answer, but I think the only way to improve is to write, and then write some more, and even when you think you’ve written enough, keep writing. But I also think that there comes a point, particularly when…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Laura Cococcia, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry
Please tell us a little about your writing process. I see it as a process of gathering and then stripping away. I usually begin with a single idea or image that won’t leave my head and let a narrative unfold. The real work happens in revision, where I peel back the layers of a draft…
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I just wanted to thank The Letter Review Prize for short listing my unpublished book Unimaginable Hardship.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)