We’re thrilled to announce that the good Tony Tulathimutte—creator of the 2024 Nationwide Guide Award longlisted novel Rejection—will decide the 2025 American Quick(er) Fiction Prize. The prize acknowledges extraordinary quick fiction underneath 1,500 phrases. The primary-place winner will obtain a $1,000 prize and publication. Earlier winners of the Quick(er) Fiction Prize have gone on to be anthologized in locations similar to The Pushcart Prize: Better of the Small Presses. All entries can be thought of for publication.
**Please word we raised the phrase depend from earlier years from 1,000 to 1,500.**
Basic Tips
• Submit your entry on-line between November 12, 2024 – February 1, 2025.
• The primary-place winner will obtain a $1,000 prize and publication in a future situation of ASF. All entries can be thought of for publication.
• Please submit your $18 entry price and your work by way of Submittable. We now not settle for submissions by submit. Worldwide submissions in English are eligible.
• Tales have to be 1,500 phrases or fewer. You’re allowed to incorporate as much as two tales per entry. Please submit all tales in a single doc. Every story should start on a brand new web page and be clearly titled. For the title of your submission record the story titles, separated by a comma. (In the event you’ve submitted up to now, please word that we raised the phrase depend from earlier years from 1,000 to 1,500.)
• DO NOT embrace any figuring out data on the manuscript itself.
• It’s possible you’ll submit a number of entries. We settle for solely beforehand unpublished work. We permit simultaneous submissions, however we ask that you simply notify us promptly of publication elsewhere.
Conflicts of Curiosity
Workers and volunteers at present affiliated with American Quick Fiction are ineligible for consideration or publication. Moreover, college students, former college students, and colleagues of the decide should not eligible to enter. We ask that earlier winners wait three years after their successful entry is revealed earlier than getting into once more.
American Quick Fiction adheres to the CLMP Contest Code of Ethics. You’ll find the CLMP Code of Ethics and our contest procedures right here.
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Tony Tulathimutte is the creator of the novels Non-public Residents and Rejection. A graduate of Stanford College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he’s acquired a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, was longlisted for the Nationwide Guide Award, and has written for The Paris Evaluation, N+1, Playboy, The New York Occasions, The New Republic, and others. He additionally runs CRIT, a writing class in Brooklyn.
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From “Processing: How Tony Tulathimutte Wrote Rejection,” an interview on Lincoln Michel’s Substack Counter Craft.
LM: Any recommendation for a reader going by way of rejection in life and/or literature?
TT: Generally, don’t dispute or haggle. Additionally, whenever you’re not prepared for, appropriate about, or deserving of the factor you need, acceptance is worse than rejection.
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We will’t wait to learn your submissions!
