Isele Magazine Submissions Prizes celebrates the best of short stories, poetry, and essays by writers published in Isele Magazine.
About The Isele Magazine Submissions Prizes
Isele Magazine Submissions Prizes celebrates the best of short stories, poetry, and essays by writers published in Isele Magazine.
The prizes are split into three categories – short stories, poetry, and essays, and each category is judged by a panel of two judges. The longlists of ten stories, ten suites of poems or single poems, and eight essays will be announced in February, while the shortlists of five works per category will be revealed at the end of March. The winners will receive $200 each, presented to them at a ceremony at the end of April.
Only works published in Isele Magazine will be considered for the prizes, and the longlisted works will appear in the annual print project – The Best of Isele Anthology.
At Isele Magazine, we believe that literature and the arts are an integral part of the daily conversations that uplift and shape our thinking. We publish writers and artists who hold a mirror to our society and challenge conventional expectations about ways of being, how to be, and who decides who should be.
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Eligibility Criteria For Isele Magazine Submissions Prizes
The inaugural prizes will consider works published in Isele Magazine from inception (July 2020) to January 2022. Next year, judges will consider works published after January 31, 2022.
The Categories For The Isele Magazine Submissions Prizes
The Isele Short Story Prize
The prize is for a short story (including flash fiction) published in Isele Magazine in the past year.
The judges will publish the longlist of ten stories in February, and a shortlist of five stories in March. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony at the end of April.
The Isele Poetry Prize
The prize is for a suite of poems or single poems published in Isele Magazine in the past year.
The judges will publish the longlist of ten suites of poems or single poems in February, and a shortlist of five in March. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony at the end of April.
The Isele Nonfiction Prize
The prize is for an essay published in Isele Magazine in the past year.
The judges will publish the longlist of ten essays in February, and a shortlist of five essays in March. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony at the end of April.
Important Dates
Longlists Announced: February 21, 2022
Shortlists Announced: March 21, 2022
Winners Announced: April 26, 2022
Isele Magazine General Submissions:
Isele Magazine is seeking submissions of essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and book reviews.
We do not accept multiple submissions, but we do consider simultaneous submissions. Please let us know when your work has been accepted for publication elsewhere.
Please do not submit previously published works (by this, we mean any piece that has appeared on the web or in print, including your personal blog). However, we will consider a translated version of the work if the original language wasn’t in English.
You may submit up to 8, 000 words of prose, and your manuscript must be double-spaced, in Times New Roman, size 12. We discourage authors from submitting novel excerpts.
For book reviews, you may submit up to 1,500 words. Your document must be double-spaced, and in Times New Roman, size 12.
You may submit 6 pages of poetry or one long poem. Please format and submit as a single document.
Every submission must be accompanied by a cover letter.
Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis.
We will respond to every submission no later than 6 months from the date of submission. If you have not heard from us within 6 months, please feel free to send a query to editor@iselemagazine.com.
Isele Magazine requests first serial rights of your published piece. However, all rights will revert to you after publication. And if your work is republished elsewhere, please indicate that it previously appeared in Isele Magazine.
We pay our contributors a modest token.
Please send your fiction (as Word document attachments) to fiction.iselemagazine@gmail.com.
Please send you poetry (as Word document attachments) to poetry.iselemagazine@gmail.com.
Please send your nonfiction (as Word document attachments) to nonfiction.iselemagazine@gmail.com.
Please send your book reviews to submissions.iselemagazine@gmail.com.
All accepted submissions are automatically considered for The Isele Prizes.
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This is great.
ReplyDeleteI would really love to participate in the next contest.
Though I don't quite understand the part where it's mentioned that the Inaugural prizes will consider only works published in Isele Magazine at its inception.