The winner of the First Annual Bevel Summers Prize for Short Short Fiction is “Facsimile in Boots” by Marsha McSpadden of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Other finalists are Amina Gautier, Sharon Hashimoto, Vera Korshunova, John Lassiter, Laura Long, Kelly Luce, John Ruemmler, Leslie Tucker and Paul Weidknecht. The winning story will appear in Shenandoah 61, No. 1 in September; the other finalists will appear in 61, No. 2 in February, 2o12. See below for guidelines for the second annual award.
The Bevel Summers Prize in the Short Short Story is open to stories of up to 1,000 words. Stories for the 2012 prize should be sent to Bevel Summers/Shenandoah, 17 Courthouse Square, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450 and must be received between March 1 and March 31. Send two copies, one with name and contact information, including e-mail address, and a duplicate with no identifying information, along with an sase for notification. The winner will receive a $500 prize and be featured prominently on Shenandoah‘s first online issue. There is no entry fee for the 2012 contest. Entries numbered over 200 in 2011. The prize winner will be announced in early June on the both the Shenandoah and Washington and Lee websites and through news releases.
2nd ANNUAL PRIZE (2012)
The submission window for 2012 is March 1 and March 31, 2012. Word limits is 1000. No entry fee. Writers may submit as many as three stories. The winner will receive $500 and publication in Shenandoah; all finalists will be eligible for publication in Shenandoah. The judge for 2012 will be Chris Gavaler, author of School for Tricksters, and colleagues, friends and students of Gavaler will not be eligible for the 2012 prize.
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