It’s a wonderful privilege to spend months reading every entry, and the chief pleasure of our professional lives as publishers to bring you the winning entries listed below. We must begin by sincerely thanking each entrant for entrusting us with their work, and for thinking of us as a suitable home for their writing. It … Read more
The level of bravery, and craft displayed in these pieces of writing has truly moved us, and we remain deeply grateful to those listed below for the impact they have had on our lives during the months that we have spent reading and editing. It has been a privilege and an honor. We wish to … Read more
We find ourselves again in the enviable position of being the ones to open the gate and set free new wondrous works of creative writing. Sometimes we can’t believe our luck. What a joy to have spent time with this writing, submitted by brave, and exciting artists. Our most sincere congratulations are extended to every … Read more
With enormous excitement today we bring to our reading and writing community the winners of The Letter Review Prize January – March 2025. This has been one of the most astonishingly difficult rounds we have judged due to the remarkably high quality of the submissions. We never lose sight of how lucky we are to … Read more
It’s always such an astonishing joy to publish the winning entries of The Letter Review Prize: We spend months with these works before we are able to experience the thrill of sharing them with our community. Today, we release these pieces, and hope they bring to you just as much wonderment as they did to … Read more
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We are enormously excited to announce the winners of The Letter Review Prize (March – April 2024) in the categories of Short Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Unpublished Books. Once again, we were astonished by the extraordinary quality of the submissions received. There is a vast number of talented writers submitting to contests, who submit writing … Read more
As if reading the astonishing entries submitted by our writing community were not enough reward, at the end of the judging process we experience the incomparable joy of publishing new works of literature, and helping to bring these wonderful creations to new readers. We wish to acknowledge our indebtedness and gratitude to our entrants for … Read more
Each round, as we watch the entries arrive, anticipation grows as we move closer to the judging period: We see snippets of creative works which whet our appetite, and an excited buzz begins to thrum from the tips of the toes to the points of our ears. What a thrill! We imagine each entrant putting … Read more
It has been our pleasure to read the wonderful submissions to this round of The Letter Review Prize. We are so encouraged by the astonishing quality of the entries, which makes choosing winners a joyful challenge. Witnessing the ever present desire in writers to express the deepest, most profound, most rewarding experiences via language is … Read more