The Dappled Things Short Fiction and Nonfiction Contests 2021 — Pawners Paper

J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction 2021 & The Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction 2021 are contests organized by a Catholic literary Magazine name

Dappled Things : The J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction 2021 & The Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction 2021

 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction 2021 & The Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction 2021 are contests organized by a Catholic  literary Magazine named The Dappled Things.

Below are the sections, prize, deadline and submission deadline for each category of the contests.

The J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction 2021

According to the organizers of the contest:

“One foot in this world and one in the next”: that’s how J.F. Powers described the Midwestern priests he wrote about in his fiction. Having one foot in another world can be awkward, and Powers’ characters are known not for their graceful mysticism, but for the humiliating and mordantly entertaining stumbles they make while trying to live their faith. We’re looking for carefully crafted short stories with vivid characters who encounter grace in everyday settings—we want to see who, in the age we live in, might have one foot in this world and one in the next."

Deadline

Submissions will be open October 1, 2021 until November 30, 2021. Winners will be announced in March 2022.

Prizes For The J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction 2021

1st place: $500 and publication in Dappled Things

2nd place: $250 and publication in Dappled Things

Honorable mentions (up to 8): Publication and a year's subscription to Dappled Thing

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The Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction 2021

Dappled Things honors the best essays published in the journal in a year through the Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction. Maritain was an influential 20th century Thomist philosopher and Catholic convert whose work covered a wide range of topics, including metaphysics and epistemology, ethics and politics, and—significantly for us—literature and art. His book Art and Scholasticism has been a major influence on Dappled Things' own approach to aesthetics. 

Prizes For The Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction

1st place: $500

2nd place: $300

3rd place: $200

There's no prescribed theme for submission in this category. However, it must fit  within the context of Catholic cultural and literary journal.

Submissions deadline

: August 31, 2021.

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