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The Beacon Street Prize
In honor of our 10th anniversary, we’re thrilled to announce our first ever Beacon Street Prize. Open to both fiction and poetry, we’ll reward our favorite poem and story with $500 each and publication in issue 10.1 in Fall/Winter 2012. The winning story will be selected by Michael Kimball and the winning poem by Todd Boss. Finalists will be acknowledged in issue 10.1, but will not receive publication or a monetary prize.
The entrance fee is $15 and comes with a FREE one-year subscription to Redivider. Each entry should consist of either one story (maximum 8,000 words) or up to three poems.
The contest opens on February 15 and will close on May 30.
We look forward to reading your work. To submit, please click here [poetry] or here [fiction].
Here’s some information on our judges, Todd Boss and Michael Kimball:
Todd Boss’s poetry debut, Yellowrocket, will be followed by Pitch from W. W. Norton in February 2012. Todd’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The London Times, The New Yorker, NPR, Best American Poetry, and Virginia Quarterly Review. VQR called Yellowrocket “one of the year’s 10 best poetry books” and awarded Boss the Emily Clark Balch Prize. Yellowrocket also was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, and was named a Midwest Booksellers’ Honor Book for Poetry.
Michael Kimball is the author of the novels The Way the Family Got Away, Dear Everybody, and Us. Bloomsbury will publish his fourth novel, Big Ray, later this year (September 18, 2012). The Paris Review calls Us ”
General Guidelines
Redivider seeks quality submissions of previously unpublished fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We accept submissions year-round. We suggest you look at a previous issue before submitting (sample copies are available for $8.00).
As of May 1, 2010, we will accept electronic submissions solely through our online submissions manager. Submissions emailed to our editors will not be considered. To submit, please click here.
Hard copy submissions and inquiries may still be sent to the appropriate genre editor at:
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We do not acknowledge receipt of submissions. Each submission should include a cover letter that lists the titles of all work included, as well as the author’s name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. Please note in the letter if it is a simultaneous submission, and contact the appropriate editor by email or withdraw through the online submission site immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
Please send only one submission every six months.
Submission Format
We encourage you to submit your work electronically using our online submission manager; you will get a faster response from us if you do.
Submissions for all genres should include a cover letter and submitted as a Word or .rtf document.
Poetry submissions should include no more than six poems total.
Nonfiction submissions should be no more than 4,000 words.
Fiction submission should be no more than 10,000 words.
Art submissions can be sent as up to six separate attachments or preferably in a single .zip file. We accept only originals or high-quality copies or scans. No slides, please. If you choose to send your work in digital form, either on optical media or as attachments, each piece must be saved as a separate .TIFF file no larger than 6 x 9 inches and at a resolution of 600 dpi for line art and 300 dpi for all others. If your piece is chosen for the cover, you may be contacted for a larger file. Redivider prints in black and white. Color submissions will be considered for the cover, as black-and-white reprints on internal pages, and as color images on the website. We also consider black-and-white images for the cover. Digital submissions which do not adhere to the above guidelines will not be considered. Please query with questions or for alternate submission method.
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Redivider accepts submissions year round.
Redivider pays with two contributor copies of the issue containing your work.
