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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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Vikram Kapur, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books
I tried very hard not to be a writer. I told myself it was foolish and impractical. A path littered with disappointment and rejection. Yet I could never really convince myself to stay off it. So, one day, I took a deep breath and started writing. Since then. I haven’t stopped. Would you please tell…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Sharon Penna, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books
At the end of the day, if your book doesn’t land where you’d hoped, if your words never get read, if you have to put a manuscript in a drawer, the thing that has to keep you moving forward is the joy of telling a tale. Would you please tell us a little about your…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Nelson Wu, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Books
Hemingway has inspired me the most – his ability to capture hardship, and the human valor in soldiering onwards despite it is the highest expression of human optimism. Would you please tell us a little about your writing process? I like to write first drafts in broad strokes and reflect on them over time. Sometimes…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Christine Harapiak, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry
Once I left the judicial robes behind the things I was permitted to engage with exploded. I regained my intellectual agency, and my words just came back to me one day. I am drifting towards protest poetry and replanting the Greek myths in prairie landscapes at this stage in my long-delayed writing career. Would you…
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I just wanted to thank The Letter Review Prize for short listing my unpublished book Unimaginable Hardship.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)