Creative Non-Fiction Contest
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Deadline: midnight Nov 30
Prize: $250 and publication
Length: up to 6,000 words; can be one single story or linked microstories. Multiple submissions accepted.
Judge: Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of the craft text Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice and Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, which The Atlantic says, “Exemplifies a nuanced approach to life with mental illness” and The Paris Review describes as “The wakeup call we need.” She is also the author of the essay collection Halfway from Home, winner of a Nautilus Book Award for lyric prose, the flash collection Abbreviate, and three poetry chapbooks. She is an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University, where she teaches creative writing and disability studies.
We follow CLMP guidelines. Entries are judged anonymously, so please exclude identifying information on the manuscript. All entries are considered for publication, and all domestic entrants get issue #28 (international entrants receive PDFs of issues 27 & 28). The issue will be excellent!
Winners announced spring 2026.