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We are sponsoring our first annual fiction chapbook competition. Winner will receive twenty-five copies and an award of $200-. Competition runs September 15th to December 31st. Winner will be announced approximately March 1st, with publication date set for summer. The same dedication and care will go into the production of the chapbook as with our journal—quality cardstock cover with photography, linen paper, excellent layout. We will make the publication process as cooperative as possible.

Guidelines

Contest runs September 15-December 31st.
Please include in a 9×12 envelope:

• Up to 10,000 words of fiction. This can be one longer story or multiple shorter pieces. The writer’s name should appear nowhere on the manuscript.
• 2 cover sheets, one with the title of the manuscript, your name, telephone number, and address. The second cover sheet should list only the title of the manuscript.
• A page acknowledging previously published work.
• A self addressed stamped envelope
• A check or money order for $15.00 made out to Burnside Review.

Mail by December 31st to:
Burnside Review Fiction Contest
P.O box 1782
Portland OR 97207

The initial readers of the manuscripts will be Burnside Review staff members. They will choose between five and ten manuscripts as finalists to be passed on to the judge for selection of the winning collection.

We ask that former students or colleagues of the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest’s judge—as well as any writer whose relationship with the judge constitutes an unfair conflict of interest—refrain from entering the contest. The Burnside Review staff reserves the right to disqualify entries deemed conflicts of interest and will return those entry fees.

At no time will the judge have the names of the finalists.

Winner will receive 25 copies of the chapbook printed by Burnside Review Press and a cash prize of $200-.

All questions happily answered by e-mail or post by Sid Miller, P.O. Box 1782, Portland OR 97207 or sid@burnsidereview.org.

Glen David Gold is the author of the novel Carter Beats the Devil, an international bestseller translated into 14 languages. His short stories, essays and memoirs have appeared in Playboy, McSweeney’s and the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and he has written comic books for Dark Horse and DC.