Momaya Press’s Short Story Competition is open to writers of any nationality writing in English and offers the opportunity for winners to be published in the Momaya Annual Review 2012.
Accepting Entries Now through April 30th, 2012
2012 Guidelines
The Prizes:
First Prize: $200 (£110) and one copy of the Momaya Press Annual Review 2012
Second Prize: $100 (£55) and one copy of the Momaya Press Annual Review 2012
Third Prize: $50 (£30) and one copy of the Momaya Press Annual Review 2012
In addition, 7 honourable mentions will be chosen for publication, as well as any stories which placed in our top 30 and fit our chosen theme for the year. All winners will be published in the Momaya Annual Review 2012, which will be available to purchase online in November 2012.
The Theme:
The 2012 theme is “Heat”. Think “Heart of Darkness”, “Wide Sargasso Sea”, “Firestarter”. Hot, steamy, passionate. Pyromaniacs. The Tropics. Mercury. This year’s theme allows for a wide variety of subject matter. We’re looking forward to seeing what you all come up with! While entries for the short story competition can be on any topic, the review gets its cohesion from stories, poems and artwork focusing on a central theme, interspersed amongst the contest winners’ stories.
The Judges:
Alice Shepherd is currently an Assistant Editor at Penguin, where she works on a wide range of commercial fiction. Having started her publishing career at Abner Stein literary agency, she then went on to work at Headline Publishing Group.
Andy Callus is a newswire journalist who works as a Copy Editor for Reuters in London’s Canary Wharf. He began his working life in 1980s Fleet Street, and has reported for Reuters and other newswires in Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore and Hanoi.
Kay Peddle was born in South Africa and moved to the UK in 2006. She has worked at a small South African literary press as a copy-editor, completed an MA in International Publishing at Oxford Brookes University, an internship at The World Bank and has done reading for a leading literary agency based in Oxford. She is currently an Editor at Random House.
Polly Courtney discovered her passion for writing in an unusual way: by starting a career as an investment banker. She was so shocked by what she found there that she quit her high-flying position to write a fictional expose on the square mile, based on her experiences. Golden Handcuffs came out in 2006 and since then, Polly has had five further titles published: Poles Apart, The Day I Died, The Fame Factor, Defying Gravity and It’s a Man’s World. Her novels have are all based loosely on the stories of real people today. For more information, please visit pollycourtney.com.
Rules of Entry:
- Entries may be up to 3,000 words long
- Any subject or style is welcome
- The competition is open to writers from all countries, but entries must be written in English
- We expect entries to have been checked for proper spelling and grammar. Apostrophes and quotation marks are not interchangeable; and titles such as Dr. and Mrs. should have periods.
How to Submit:
- Your short story must be submitted via email and payment must be completed.
- Every short story must be accompanied by an entry fee of £8 via Paypal. Payment by cheque in British Pounds may be sent via mail to our UK mailing address, listed on the “About Momaya” page.
- You may submit more than one short story
- You may submit stories that have been published before, as long as you retain the copyright.
Additional conditions:
Copyright of published stories remains with the author. The judges’ verdict is final. No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted. Stories cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered. Any story submitted may be published in the Momaya Annual Review 2012, whether or not they have won.
Read what the judges and writers have to say about the Momaya Press Awards Ceremony and the Momaya Press Annual Review
Past Momaya Themes:
2011 Greed
2010 Family
2009 Alienation
2008 Passion
2007 Transformation
2006 Escape
2005 Humour
2004 Food
Email your suggestions for future Momaya Themes
