CRWROPPS Post: New Ohio Review 2020 Contest

Subject: CRWROPPS — New Ohio Review 2020 Contest (cash prize)

New Ohio Review is now accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for its 2020 contest. The submission deadline is April 15. 

Prize includes $1,500 and publication in issue 28.

Pieces not selected will still be considered for publication.

Contest judges are Lauren Groff (fiction), Ira Sukrungruang (nonfiction), and Ada Limón (poetry). 

Submission guidelines and entry fee can be found at https://newohioreview.submittable.com/submit

New Ohio Review is a national literary journal produced by Ohio University's Creative Writing Program. Now in its thirteenth year, NOR has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and support from the Ohio Arts Council. Work from its pages consistently appears in the Best American series and the annual Pushcart anthology. Visit our website at https://www.ohio.edu/nor/

Our Judges

Lauren Groff

We are happy to welcome Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia which won the Medici Book Club Prize, as our judge for the contest. Groff has written multiple collections of stories and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2018. Her work has appeared in journals including the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Tin House, One Story, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and five editions of the Best American Short Stories. She lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband, two sons, and their dog.

Ira Sukrungruang

We are excited to welcome Ira Sukrungruang, winner of the 2015 American Book Award, as our judge for the contest. Sukrungruang has written memoirs, poetry collections, and two anthologies and has been rewarded with multiple fellowships, including the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection, and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida.

Ada Limón

We are proud to have Ada Limón, author of The Carrying which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, as our judge for the contest. Limón has written four other poetry books and been a finalist in other awards, including the National Book Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.